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Turnstone Press is thrilled to congratulate Manitoba Book Award winners Kristian Enright and Chadwick Ginther, and Lifetime Achievement Award winner Dennis Cooley. The Manitoba Book Awards Gala, which took place on Sunday evening at the West End Cultural Centre, hosted a robust turnout of Winnipeg's vibrant literary community, and Turnstone would like to congratulate all the excellent 2013 Book Awards nominees.We are pleased to announce the following award winners:
Turnstone Press is thrilled to announce that Sarah Klassen's poetry collection Monstrance has been shortlisted for the 2013 Word Guild Awards, which honours the best in Christian writing. The award will be be presented at a black tie awards gala at the World Vision headquarters, 1 World Drive, Mississauga, Ontario, on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. The event is open to the general public.
Turnstone Press imprint Ravenstone Books is thrilled to announce that Food for the Gods: An Epikurean Epic by Karen Dudley has been shortlisted for the 2013 Bloody Words Light Mystery Award, otherwise known as the Bony Blithe Award. The Bony Blithe Award celebrates traditional, feel-good, humorous mysteries that "make us smile." The award will be be presented at the Bony Blithe Gala Reception at the National Club, 303 Bay Street, in Toronto on May 29,…
WINNIPEG-Turnstone Press is thrilled that many of our titles have been shortlisted for the Manitoba Book Awards this year. Monstrance by Sarah Klassen and Dating by Dave Williamson were nominated for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, as well as for other categories. Kristian Enright, whose debut sonar was published by Turnstone Press in September of 2012, was nominated for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. Thunder Road by Chadwick…
Turnstone Press declares the 2012 expansion of its Ravenstone imprint to include speculative fiction and urban fantasy a success. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Turnstone Press imprint Ravenstone, known until now for its mysteries and thrillers, expanded in fall 2012 to include speculative fiction. Ravenstone released two new novels of speculative fiction and urban fanstasy to great acclaim with the talented up-and-coming fantasy writer, Chadwick Ginther, and the much-loved mystery-maven-turned-speculative-fictionista, Karen Dudley. Ginther’s urban fantasy titled Thunder…
Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:28

Turnstone Authors at Thin Air 2012

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Turnstone Press is pleased to announce the participation of five of our authors in this year's Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers Festival. Chadwick Ginther, Mike Grandmaison, Patti Grayson, Sarah Klassen, and Dave Williamson will all be appearing at the festival this September. The annual festival, which runs September 21-29 2012, hosts a series of readings, lectures, interviews and book launches, among other events, and offers programming for adults and children, in English and French. Click…
Friesens, the printer for Turnstone Press, has received a 2012 PIA Certificate of Merit in the Art Books category at The Premier Print Award Competition for Mike Grandmaison's Prairie and Beyond. The competition recognizes high-quality printed works in various categories from around the world.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WINNIPEG: Turnstone Press is pleased to announce that Autumn, One Spring by Patti Grayson has been shortlisted for Manitoba Reads 2012. Manitoba Reads is a contest presented by CBC in partnership with McNally Robinson Booksellers and the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, and is modelled after Canada Reads, Canada’s “biggest battle of the books.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WINNIPEG: Alert to Glory by Sally Ito received an Award of Merit from the Canadian Christian Writing Awards. The annual writing awards, sponsored by The Word Guild, celebrate the best in Canadian writing in periodicals, anthologies, and books by authors who write from a Christian worldview.
Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:42

Valgardson's What the Bear Said wins INL Reads!

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Turnstone Press is pleased to announce that What the Bear Said: Skald Tales from New Iceland by W.D. Valgardson is the winner of the INL Reads! Book for 2012. What the Bear Said was voted in by the INL (Icelandic National League) convention during this year’s Icelandic National League of North America’s Annual conference, “Embracing Icelandic Culture,” held in Brandon, Manitoba, May 3-6, 2012.
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