Intertribal Life Newspaper -

WATERLOO, ON-WLU Press author Neal McLeod has won the 2014 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English section) for his edited collection, Indigenous Poetics in Canada. In addition, Larissa Lai, also a WLU Press author, was one of four finalists for the prize with her book, Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Association of Canadian and Quebec Literature awarded the prize at a reception May 30 in Ottawa.

"We're very pleased by this well-deserved recognition accorded to our authors," said Brian Henderson, director of WLU Press. "The Press has a strong tradi...