Emerging Writer

2023-2024

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

Gold Award

Gold Award

Revisiting a Loaded History provides excellent, detailed background information. Written in an engaging style, the quotes worked well to move the story forward. This is a satisfying read.

Silver Award

Silver Award

This one checks all the boxes. The author weaves a good foodie and business story seamlessly with an excellent overview of the community’s response.

Finalists

Preservation or Exploitation? New Film Explores Musicologist’s Motivation in Recording First Nations Chief

Preservation or Exploitation? New Film Explores Musicologist’s Motivation in Recording First Nations Chief

WRITER: Odette Auger

Windspeaker.com

Hengameh E. Rice is Two People

Hengameh E. Rice is Two People

WRITER: Liam Newbigging

EDify

Powering the Pedals on Alison Jackson

Powering the Pedals on Alison Jackson

WRITER: Emily Meyer

EDITOR: Elaine Kupser

IMPACT Magazine

Past Winners

Life in Blue & Yellow

Gold 2023 | Life in Blue & Yellow

WRITER : Margarita Wilson

nfo Edmonton

And, We're Rollin'

Silver 2023 | And, We're Rollin'

WRITER : Kendall Bistretzan

Avenue

2022 GOLD | Mentorship as Social Sculpture

Gold 2022 | 2022 GOLD | Mentorship as Social Sculpture

WRITER: Megan Klak

Galleries West

2022 SILVER | A Moving Story

Silver 2022 | 2022 SILVER | A Moving Story

WRITER: Katrina Turchin

EDify

Giving Back Better

Gold 2021 | Giving Back Better

WRITER Travis Klemp EDITOR Käthe Lemon

Avenue Calgary

2020 GOLD | Only Skin Deep

Gold 2020 | 2020 GOLD | Only Skin Deep

WRITER Alexa Hrycun EDITOR Matthew Stepanic

Glass Buffalo

2020 SILVER | Full Circle

Silver 2020 | 2020 SILVER | Full Circle

WRITER Stephanie Joe EDITOR Käthe Lemon

Avenue Calgary

2019 GOLD | Bear With Us

Gold 2019 | 2019 GOLD | Bear With Us

Fabian Mayer

Avenue Calgary

2019 SILVER | Threshold

Silver 2019 | 2019 SILVER | Threshold

Scott Jackshaw

Glass Buffalo

2018 GOLD | May It All Be Poetry

Gold 2018 | 2018 GOLD | May It All Be Poetry

Maya Gupta

Glass Buffalo

2018 SILVER | Design For Everyone

Silver 2018 | 2018 SILVER | Design For Everyone

Madiso Farkas

Madiso Farkas

2017 GOLD | Taking Names

Gold 2017 | 2017 GOLD | Taking Names

Chris Cassis

Glass Buffalo

2017 SILVER | Those Who Love the World and Their Animals Madly

Silver 2017 | 2017 SILVER | Those Who Love the World and Their Animals Madly

Kevin Holowack

Glass Buffalo

2016 GOLD | The Next Campus

Gold 2016 | 2016 GOLD | The Next Campus

Mack Lamoureux

The Yards

2016 SILVER | The Human Touch

Silver 2016 | 2016 SILVER | The Human Touch

Allison Voisin

The Yards

2015 GOLD | A Tale of Two Forms

Gold 2015 | 2015 GOLD | A Tale of Two Forms

Peter Takach

Glass Buffalo

2015 SILVER | A Paragraph

Silver 2015 | 2015 SILVER | A Paragraph

Josh Greschner

Glass Buffalo

2014 GOLD | Please Do Not

Gold 2014 | 2014 GOLD | Please Do Not

Lisa Bush

FreeFall

2014 SILVER | Living the Dream

Silver 2014 | 2014 SILVER | Living the Dream

Sara Samson

Avenue Calgary

2013 GOLD | The Accuser and Us

Gold 2013 | 2013 GOLD | The Accuser and Us

Melissa Molloy

Profiles West

2013 SILVER | Ten Tree Sees the Fores and the Trees

Silver 2013 | 2013 SILVER | Ten Tree Sees the Fores and the Trees

Racquel Fletcher

Degrees Magazine