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Emerging Writer
This award is open to non-fiction work written by current post-secondary students, recent grads or interns with a maximum three years’ professional experience. This award goes to the writer whose early work in magazines shows the highest degree of craft and promise.
Sponsored by the Amber Webb-Bowerman Memorial Foundation
2023 Winners and Finalists
2023 GOLD | Life in Blue & Yellow
WRITER Margarita Wilson
Info Edmonton
2023 SILVER | And, We're Rollin'
WRITER Kendall Bistretzan
Avenue
An Eco-Friendly Guide to Summer in the City
WRITER Paris Hofer
WHERE Calgary
Gailan Ngan
WRITER Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Galleries West
Previous Winners
2022 GOLD | Mentorship as Social Sculpture
WRITER Megan Klak
Galleries West
2022 SILVER | A Moving Story
WRITER Katrina Turchin
EDify
Giving Back Better
WRITER Travis Klemp
EDITOR Käthe LemonAvenue Calgary
2020 GOLD | Only Skin Deep
WRITER Alexa Hrycun EDITOR Matthew Stepanic
Glass Buffalo
2020 SILVER | Full Circle
WRITER Stephanie Joe EDITOR Käthe Lemon
Avenue Calgary
2019 GOLD | Bear With Us
Fabian Mayer
Avenue Calgary
2019 SILVER | Threshold
Scott Jackshaw
Glass Buffalo
2018 GOLD | May It All Be Poetry
Maya Gupta
Glass Buffalo
2018 SILVER | Design For Everyone
Madiso Farkas
Avenue Calgary
2017 GOLD | Taking Names
Chris Cassis
Glass Buffalo
2017 SILVER | Those Who Love the World and Their Animals Madly
Kevin Holowack
Glass Buffalo
2016 GOLD | The Next Campus
Mack Lamoureux
The Yards
2016 SILVER | The Human Touch
Allison Voisin
The Yards
2015 GOLD | A Tale of Two Forms
Peter Takach
Glass Buffalo
2015 SILVER | A Paragraph
Josh Greschner
Glass Buffalo
2014 GOLD | Please Do Not
Lisa Bush
FreeFall
2014 SILVER | Living the Dream
Sara Samson
Avenue Calgary
2013 GOLD | The Accuser and Us
Melissa Molloy
Profiles West
2013 SILVER | Ten Tree Sees the Fores and the Trees
Racquel Fletcher
Degrees Magazine
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