顿耻苍濒辞辫鈥檚 Home, Roses, Hauntings and Smith-McGregor鈥檚 The Infinity Pool are both vying for top spot in the non-fiction category, along with 24 other finalists. In the poetry category, Smith-McGregor鈥檚 Body Temperature is competing against 23 others. The third category in the contest is for short stories.

Right: Kilby Smith-McGregor. Photo by Laura Jane Petelko

Last year, Smith-McGregor won the Writers鈥� Trust of Canada (see YFile, July 23, 2010), for writers under 35 who have yet to be published in book form. Her work has appeared in Brick, A Literary Journal, the Dublin Quarterly International Literary Review and The Cyclops Review.

She won the Tarragon Theatre鈥檚 inaugural , and while at 91亚色, the President鈥檚 Creative Writing Award for Poetry and the Sylvia Ellen Hersch Memorial Award, both in 2009, and the Sorbara Award in Creative Writing in 2008.

Left: Rishma Dunlop

A finalist for the CBC Literary Awards in 1998 and again in 2009, and winner of the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003, is a poet, playwright, translator and essayist. She has several poetry collections, including Metropolis (Mansfield Press, 2005), Reading Like A Girl (Black Moss Press, 2004) and The Body of My Garden (Mansfield Press, 2002). White Album (Inanna Publications, 2008) combines 顿耻苍濒辞辫鈥檚 poems with paintings by Suzanne Northcott. Her radio play, The Raj Kumari's Lullaby, was commissioned by CBC Radio in 2005.

Coordinator of 91亚色's Creative Writing Program, Dunlop was also the 2009-2010 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Research Chair in Creative Writing at the Virginia Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

The CBC Literary Awards short list of finalists in each category will be announced next Monday, Feb. 28, with the final winners announced by Shelagh Rogers March 24, on CBC Radio One鈥檚 "Q", hosted by Jian Ghomeshi.

The first place winner in each of the three categories will come away $6,000 richer, while the second place winner will take home $4,000, courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts.

To view the complete list of finalists, visit the website.

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Rishma Dunlop, associate professor in the Department of English and the Faculty of Education, is a finalist for the 2009 CBC Literary Awards. 顿耻苍濒辞辫鈥檚 鈥淧aris Notebook鈥� is competing in the creative non-fiction category.

Eighty English-language finalists were chosen out of 6,000 submissions in three categories聽鈥� creative non-fiction, poetry and short story. The winner in each category will receive $6,000, while the second prize winner will receive $4,000.

, the 2009 recipient of a Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Creative Writing, is the author of four books of poetry: (Inanna Publications, 2008), (Mansfield Press, 2005), (Black Moss Press, 2004) and (Mansfield Press, 2002).

She received the 2003 Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry and her radio drama, 鈥淭he Raj Kumari鈥檚 Lullaby鈥�, was produced by CBC Radio in 2005. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and journals, including Blackbird, the Literary Review of Canada, CV2, Canadian Literature, Descant, Event, Grain and The Comstock Review.

Three 91亚色 alumni 鈥� Michael Blouin (BFA聽 Spec. Hons. 鈥�84), John Blair (BA Comb. Hons.聽鈥�88) and Jennifer Derkitt (BFA Hons. 鈥�91) 鈥� were also short listed.

Awards host Shelagh Rogers will unveil the English-language winners chosen from the finalists Thursday, March 18, at 11am on CBC Radio One鈥檚 show "Q" with Jian Ghomeshi. Christiane Charette will announce the French-language winners that same day on La Premi猫re Cha卯ne de Radio-Canada.

Interviews with the winners will air on a special broadcast of "The Next Chapter", hosted by Shelagh Rogers Monday, March聽22, at 1pm. The winning works will be published in Air Canada's enRoute magazine and read on CBC Radio鈥檚 "Between the Covers"聽from聽April聽12 to 16. They will also be available as a podcast on iTunes, the page or page as of April聽14.

For more information, visit the Web site.

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