Marcello Di Cintio, Sharon Butala and Jenna Butler to judge 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize

UPDATE: CBC Books previously announced that Tomson Highway would be on the 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize jury. Highwayhas had to withdraw as a juror due to medical reasons. Marcello Di Cintiohas joined Sharon Butala and Jenna Butler on the jury.

Sharon Butala, Jenna Butler and Marcello Di Cintio will judge the 2022CBC Nonfiction Prize.

The CBC Nonfiction Prize recognizes original, unpublished works of nonfictionup to 2,000 words. Memoir, biography, humour writing, essay, personal essay, travel writing or afeature article are all accepted.

The winner will receive $6,000 from theCanada Council for the Arts, have the opportunity to attend a two-week writing residency at theBanff Centre for Arts and Creativityand have their work published onCBC Books.

Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from theCanada Council for the Artsand have their work published onCBC Books.

SharonButala is theauthor of 21novels and nonfiction books, includingThe Perfection of the Morning,Where I Live Now,Zara's Dead,FeverandWild Rose. Her most recent book, a collection of essayscalled This Strange Visible Air: Aging and the Writing Life, was published fall 2021. She is a three-time Governor General's Literary Award nominee and received the Marian Engel Award in 1998. She has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize,the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and theCrime Writers of Canada Best Crime Novel award. Butala was born in Nipawin, Sask. She became an officer of the Order of Canada in 2002.

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JennaButler is a writer, environmentalist and professor currently living in Alberta. She has written six books, mostrecentlya collection of essays titled Revery: A Year of Bees, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction.Her other books include the poetry collectionsSeldom Seen Road, WellsandAphelion;the essay collectionA Profession of Hopeand the travelogueMagnetic North. She teaches writing atRed Deer College.

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Marcello Di Cintio is the author of five booksof creative nonfiction, includingWalls: Travels Along the Barricadeswhich won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing andPay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense, winner of the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize.Di Cintio has served as a writer-in-residence at the Calgary Public Library, the University of Calgary and the Palestine Writing Workshop. Di Cintio's newest book isDriven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers, whichCBC Booksnamed one of the best Canadian nonfiction books of 2021and was on the2022 Canada Reads longlist.

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Submissions are read by a panel of established writers and editors from across the country.The jury will select the shortlist and winner.

• Check out the past CBC Literary Prizes winners

Last year's winner wasMontreal writer Chanel M. Sutherlandfor herstoryUmbrella.

TheCBC Literary Prizes have been recognizing Canadian writers since 1979.

Past winners include Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Michael Winter and Frances Itani.

The 2023CBC Short Story Prize will open in September.