Tammy Armstrong wins the 2022 UBC HarperCollins Canada and CookeMcDermid Prize for Best New Fiction
We are thrilled to announce that University of British Columbia alumna Tammy Armstrong has won the 2022 UBC HarperCollins Canada and CookeMcDermid Prize for Best New Fiction, for her novel, URSULA.
The winning author, chosen by CookeMcDermid and the editorial team of HarperCollinsCanada, gains representation by CookeMcDermid and a standard contract to publish from HarperCollins, with a negotiated advance. HarperCollinsCanada has secured World Rights to Ursula and will publish in Spring 2024.
Ursula is a historical novel set in a New Brunswick logging camp in the 1920s. Ursula is a young girl growing up in the camp with her family and her “brother” Bruno, a bear who has been raised by her family and is accepted in the close-knit community of lumberjacks. When their malicious camp supervisor is found dead in a ditch, Bruno is blamed and then kidnapped and sold to an animal trader, leaving Ursula no choice but to embark on a hazardous solo journey through the forest to rescue him.
“Everyone at our agency loves Ursula—the novel and the character—and we are head-over-heels in love with her ‘brother’ bear, Bruno. We are excited to see the great things that will come from Tammy and her team at HarperCollins, CookeMcDermid, and UBC,” says Rachel Letofsky, Literary Agent for CookeMcDermid Literary Agency.
Read more about the award here.