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	Arthur Ellis Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Arthur Ellis Awards are a group of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Crime Writers of Canada for the best Canadian crime and mystery writing.
		The awards are named for Arthur Ellis, the pseudonym of Canada's official hangman.
		This is a special achievement award for contributions to the genre of crime and mystery writing, awarded at the discretion of the president of the Crime Writers of Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Ellis_Awards (627 words)

	Arthur Ellis Awards
		Awards are presented in six categories for works in the crime genre published for the first time in the previous year by authors living in Canada, regardless of their nationality, or by Canadian writers living outside of Canada.
		The award itself, the Arthur, is hand-carved by Canadian artisan Barry Lambeck and based on a design and prototype by artist Peter Blais.
		The Arthurs were presented on June 8, 2006, in Toronto at the 23rd annual Arthur Ellis Awards dinner, which attracts a wide range of authors, publishers, and fans of mysteries and crime writing.
	www.crimewriterscanada.com /cwc/pages/awards.html (287 words)

	Capital punishment in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur Ellis was the pseudonym of Arthur B. English, a British man who became Canada's official hangman in 1913.
		The Crime Writers of Canada present annual literary awards – the Arthur Ellis Awards – named for this pseudonym.
		The last two people executed in Canada were Ronald Turpin, 29, and Arthur Lucas, 54, convicted in separate murders, at 12:02 am on 11 December 1962 at the Don Jail in Toronto.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Canada (656 words)

	ashgroveaudiobook.com - the Grove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The awards, presented at the MALICE convention in April, are teapots with MALICE skull and crossbones on the side.
		The Arthur C Clarke Award is the most prestigious award for science fiction in the UK and was established in 1986.
		Arthur Ellis Awards are given by the Crime Writers of Canada.
	www.ashgroveaudiobook.com /grove/grove_resource_awards.html (1000 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Backgrounder: Science Fiction Awards
		The Arthur Ellis Awards are juried awards given each year since 1983 by the Crime Writers of Canada, a professional association of mystery-fiction and true-crime writers.
		The award trophy is a Lucite block with polished stone planets and a galaxy of glitter embedded in it.
		Awards are given for Japanese and foreign novels and short stories.
	www.sfwriter.com /bgawards.htm (1605 words)

	AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information and Photographs -- http://www.awardweb.info
		Awarded annually for distinguished SF published as a paperback original in the U.S. To the International Fantasy Awards.
		The award is adminstered by the Permanent Trustee Co Ltd of Sydney.
		Sponsored by Vogel's Bread, it is awarded to a writer under 35 years of age for an original unpublished manuscript of fiction or Australian history or biography.
	dpsinfo.com /awardweb/index.html (1471 words)

	Arthur Ellis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur Ellis, the pseudonym of Canada's official hangman
		Arthur Ellis Awards, are Canadian awards presented to writers of crime fiction and true crime
		This human name article is a disambiguation page – a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Ellis (105 words)

	The Association of Book Publishers
		Each winning author is awarded $2,000 in each category, except for the Bookseller's Choice award in which the $2,000 is divided equally between the publisher and the author.
		Awards of $15,000 each are given annually to the best English-language and the best French-language book in each of the seven categories: fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature (text), children's literature (illustration) and translation books (from French to English).
		Established in 1996, the annual award is worth $30,000 U.S. with half given to the author of the winning fiction title and half given to the author of the winning non-fiction title.
	www.books.bc.ca /awards.php (2599 words)

	Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
		The awards are administered by a steering committee composed of representatives from the Halifax Regional Library, the Halifax Regional Municipality and members of the community.
		The Journey Prize itself is the most significant monetary award given in Canada to a writer at the beginning of his or her career for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work in progress.
		The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is given for a book of poetry by a Canadian woman published in the preceding year, and is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975.
	www.nwpassages.com /awards.asp (2768 words)

	Browse Award-winning Books and Authors
		Awards given in several categories by the Commonwealth Foundation and administered by Booktrust to encourage and reward writers of prose fiction writing in English and who are citizens of the Commonwealth English
		Awarded in honour of Phyllis Gotlieb for excellence in writing, the Sunburst Award is given annually to a Canadian writer of a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection published in the previous calendar year
		A national award given annually to a writer who has produced an outstanding body of work, has acted during his or her career as a "caring mentor" for writers, and has published a work of fiction or had a new stage play produced during the three-year period specified for each competition
	www.penguin.ca /static/cs/cn/0/nf_browseawards.html (1685 words)

	Pennsylvania Center for the Book : Book News
		Awarded since 1946, the Fellowship's $25,000 stipend is granted to one poet per year in recognition of distinguished poetic achievement.
		The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States.
		This prize is awarded each year for a single-authored, unpublished essay in the history of technology that explicitly examines in some detail a technology or technological device/process within the framework of social or intellectual history.
	www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /booknews/awards.html (3183 words)

	Definition of Capital punishment in Canada
		The Crime Writers of Canada present annual literary awards, the Arthur Ellis Awards, named for this pseudonym.
		In 1967, a moratorium was placed on use of the death penalty, except for murders of police and corrections officers.
		The last two people executed in Canada were Arthur Lucas and Robert Turpin on 10 December 1962.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Capital_punishment_in_Canada (486 words)

	Awards
		Consequently, for all of these awards, the focus is on the quality of the contribution and the linkages made between diverse fields of psychological theory and research.
		For the George A. Miller Award, nominations packets should include four copies of the article being considered (which can be of any length but must be in print and have a post-2000 publication date), vita of the author(s), and a statement detailing the strength of the candidate article as an outstanding contribution to General Psychology.
		The 2008 Arthur W. Staats Lecture for Unifying Psychology is to be awarded in 2007 and given at APA's 2008 annual convention in Boston, MA.
	www.apa.org /divisions/div1/awards.html (664 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Press Release: Arthur Nominations (1998)
		The Arthur Ellis Awards, often called "The Canadian Edgars," are juried awards given annually since 1983 by Canada's national association of mystery-fiction writers.
		Sawyer's Illegal Alien is one of six finalists for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel of the Year, and his "The Hand You're Dealt" — the same story that's up for the Hugo — is one of five finalists for the Arthur for Best Short Story of the Year.
		Sawyer previously won the Arthur for Best Short Story of 1993 for his SF crime story "Just Like Old Times," first published in On Spec and reprinted in the Tor anthology Northern Stars (David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant, editors, 1994).
	www.sfwriter.com /praeno98.htm (622 words)

	Book Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
		currently awarded every two years to one author and one illustrator in recognition of his or her entire body of work.
		It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
	www.lansing.lib.il.us /RA/bookawards.htm (1033 words)

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		It was short-listed for the John Creasey Award in the UK and Crime Writers of Canada best first novel award.
		Innocent Graves was also nominated for a Hammett Award for "literary excellence in the field of crime writing" by the International Association of Crime Writers, and won the author his second Arthur Ellis Award for best novel.
		In 2002, Robinson was awarded the "Dagger in the Library" by the CWA.
	www.inspectorbanks.com /bio.html (623 words)

	RendezVous Crime: Mary Jane Maffini Biography
		Mary Jane Maffini was a 1999 double-nominee for the Crime Writers’ of Canada Arthur Ellis awards.
		Prior to that, she was the 1995 winner of the Arthur Ellis award for best short story, “Cotton Armour” in The Ladies Killing Circle, and in 1994 she won the Ottawa Citizen’s Short Story Contest for “Death Before Doughnuts”.
		A native of Sydney, Nova Scotia and a graduate of Dalhousie University, she is a lapsed librarian and former bookstore owner and CBA board member.
	www.transmedia95.com /RVCrimePages/RVC.Maffini.html (213 words)

	ARTHUR ELLIS AWARDS - BOOK HELP WEB
		Description: The Arthur Ellis award recognizes books in the crime genre published first in Canada or by Canadian writers living outside of Canada.
		It was first awarded in 1984 and is granted by the Crime Writers of Canada.
		The award name is taken from the pseudonym of Canada’s last official hangman.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /awards/arthurellis/winners.htm (65 words)

	CVCO - Overbooked: a resource for readers - Mystery
		The Arthur Ellis Awards are presented at the Canadian Crime Writers meeting.
		The Lamda Mystery awards are part of literary awards given in a a variety of areas to recognize gay/lesbian writers.
		The Shamus Awards are presented by the Private Eye Writers of America to honor writers of P.I. novels.
	www.overbooked.org /genres/mystery/noms/mystnoms97.html (3946 words)

	krimiblog.de » Preise: Gewinner der Arthur Ellis Awards - Fundstücke eines Krimilesers
		Mal haben die Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) in diesem Jahr ihre Arthur Ellis Awards vergeben.
		Mit den Auszeichnungen in insgesamt sechs Kategorien werden Kriminalromane und -erzählungen aus Kanada gewürdigt.
		Arthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar (and one of Deverell’s most amiable — and crafty — protagonists), is enjoying his retirement as a hobbyist farmer on B.C.’s Garibaldi Island when he is dragged back to court to defend an old client.
	www.krimiblog.de /502/preise-gewinner-der-arthur-ellis-awards.html (1022 words)

	EPL.ca: Awards for Non Fiction - Canadian
		New Award to be offered for the first time in 2005, open to writers across Canada.
		One of the six Arthur Ellis categories awarded is for true crime.
		First annual awards in 2005, to recognize outstanding achievement in the literary arts, the performing arts, the visual arts, cinematic arts, design, and architecture.
	www.epl.ca /EPLMaster.cfm?id=NONFICTIONAW0001 (265 words)

	Rich Burridge's Blog : Weblog
		Awarded by the North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers, for a work of literary excellence (fiction or non-fiction) in the field of crime writing, by a US or Canadian author.
		The Edgar Awards, as awarded by the Mystery Writers of America, in honor of Edgar Allan Poe.
		The Nero Wolfe Awards, presented annually by The Wolfe Pack (the official Nero Wolfe Society) for the best American Mystery.
	blogs.sun.com /richb/entry/awards_for_mystery_writing (366 words)

	Toronto Public Library > Recommended Reading > Awards
		The award recognized excellence in Canadian fiction – long format or short stories – and endowed a cash prize annually.
		It is the first ever co-sponsorship for Canada's richest literary award for fiction.
		The winner is awarded $40,000, and $2,500 is given to each of the four finalists.
	www.tpl.toronto.on.ca /rec_awa_index.jsp (389 words)

	bookawards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Awards, valued at $15,000 each, are given annually to the best English-language and the best French-language work in each of the seven categories of Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature (text), Children's Literature (illustration) and Translation.
		A general directory of the winning authors and books of the award given by the community of national critics.
		A resource for the nation's preeminent literary awards featuring info on the foundation, guidelines, and a list of current and past winners.
	www.swlauriersb.qc.ca /schools/lrhs/library/bookawards.htm (493 words)

	The ShatterColors Literary Review: Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
		It is set amidst the war on terrorism as an American warrior falls in love with a Sufi Muslim and learns from her an alternative to the military mentality.
		She immigrated to mid-Canada from the U.S. as a teenager with her family, and won a major award in a national student writing contest in her last year of high school.
		In her twenties and thirties, she wrote doggedly for small, leftist and feminist publications before writing a volume of lesbian fiction which was published by a one-woman press in 1988.
	www.shattercolors.com /contributors.htm (1273 words)

	Siemens: Canadian Literary Awards and Prizes, from The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		First awarded in 1976, and suspended as of 1995, this prize ($3,000 and a 4-week author's tour of the other country) is intended to familiarize the reading audience of each sponsoring country with the writers of the other.
		Launched by the Canadian Authors Association and administered by the CAA until 1971, the awards were at first non-monetary prizes; the prestige of the prizes was complemented by a small cash award of $250 in 1951, to be increased in 1966 to $2,500, in 1975 to $5,000, and in 1989 to $10,000.
		Awarded, variously, for excellence in poetry, prose, and drama, as well as for young writers; the last year of presentation was 1995.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/english/awards.htm (8100 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Deverell wins Arthur Ellis Award for 'April Fool'
		The Arthur Ellis Awards, named for the nom de travail of Canada's official hangman, were awarded Thursday night in Toronto.
		It is the 23rd year for the awards, which honour excellence in Canadian crime writing.
		The Arthur Ellis Award for best non-fiction book went to Rebecca Godfrey for Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk, about the murder of a B.C. teen by a group of other teenagers.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2006/06/08/arthur-awards.html?print (1301 words)

	RJ Harlick - Writer's Blog: June 2005
		The next day, I exchanged the excitement of the Arthur Ellis awards for the frenetic pace of Bloody Words, Canada's premier mystery conference.
		And while we commisserated with Mel we were nonetheless proud of his nomination for the award for his wonderful historical novel 'Death in the Age of Steam'.
		I should perhaps mention that Michael read from his third, soon to be published book, 'Overexposed', Liz from her Arthur Ellis shortlisted short story 'When Laura Laughs' and I, of course, from 'Death's Golden Whisper'.
	www.rjharlick.ca /blog/archive/2005_06_01_archive.html (2730 words)

	RJ Harlick - Writer's Blog: The Silly Season has begun
		This year it runs from June 1 to June 8, when the Arthur Ellis awards are given out in Toronto.
		And although only Barbara and Mary Jane use Ottawa as their setting, Peter admitted that many of the locations he uses in his northern New York State based novels are drawn from his childhood growing up in the Ottawa Valley, namely Perth.
		On Thursday, June 8th, in Toronto, the Arthur Ellis Awards will be announced and we have four Ottawa works in the running.
	www.rjharlick.ca /blog/2006/06/silly-season-has-begun.html (947 words)

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