Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature—virtual ceremony video

Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Vine Awards

The Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature is an annual national awards program that honours both the best Canadian Jewish writers and non-Jewish Canadian authors who deal with Jewish subjects in Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult/Children’s literature, and Poetry. Each winning author receives a prize of $10,000. Awards in all categories are given annually, with the exception of poetry that is awarded every three years. The 2021 Jury—comprised of authors Zelda AbramsonNathan Adler and Naomi K. Lewis—reviewed 42 entries to the Fiction, History, Non-Fiction and Young Adult/Children’s categories.

The Vine Awards winners will be announced this year at an online Awards Ceremony on November 23, 2021. In addition to the ceremony, the Koffler is presenting three virtual panels featuring shortlisted Vine Awards authors on November 16November 17 and November 18, 2021.

All online events are free and open to the public; registration required at the Koffler Cente of the Arts.

Fiction:

History:

Nonfiction:

YA/children’s literature: