Michael Crummey has been awarded the Timothy Findley Award, a $15,000 prize given to a male writer in mid career for a body of work.
Jury Assessment: "Death haunts Crummey's books. But so do love and desire, the human ferment that supplies his work with a fundamental generosity, a glowing, wistful hopefulness."
Jury: Joan Barfoot, Douglas Glover, Jack Hodgins
To read the complete list of Writers' Trust winners, click here.
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Michael Crummey's poetry collection, Hard Light: 32 Little Stories, is available as an audiobook from Rattling Books--narrated by Michael Crummey, Ron Hynes and Deidre Gillard-Rowlings.