JORDAN ABEL’S NISHGA WINS THE VMI BETSY WARLAND BETWEEN GENRES AWARD

Jordan Abel has won the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award for NISGHA. The award is “for a book published in Canada in 2021 that is a hybrid genre, or straddles two or more genres. The winner will receive $500 at a ceremony at The Vancouver Writers Fest in Fall 2021, presented by judge Wayde Compton with Betsy Warland, special guest of honour. Two Honourable Mentions (no cash prize) will also be awarded.”

The award judge Wayde Compton says:

“Jordan Abel, through a variety of methods and procedures, produces in Nishga a heart-rending but also thought-provoking book about the intergenerational trauma caused by residential schools in Canada. This conceptual memoir is a book that will reward multiple readings, and it is a text I will return to again and again.”