The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction: Centering Women’s Voices in the Literary World
By Laura DeMarco on March 17, 2021
“There are chapters in every life which are seldom read, and certainly not aloud.”
So wrote Carol Shields in her award-winning novel, The Stone Diaries. And like many great authors, she was right in more ways than one. Specifically, the “seldom read” chapters are often those written by women. Throughout her long and lauded career, Shields had an unmatched commitment to highlighting the voices and work of women writers. In her memory the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has been created to acknowledge, celebrate and promote women writers from America and Canada
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