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Gurjinder Basran (TWS 2006) Shortlisted for Publication Prize

Gurjinder Basran’s (TWS 2006) novel Everything Was Goodbye was shorted listed for Mother Tongue Publishing of Salt Spring Island’s  Search for the Great BC Novel Contest.

The shortlist judges,  Vancouver novelist, Karen X Tulchinsky, and Salt Spring novelist Kathy Page, who have sorted through the sixty-four submissions tthat were received in May.  Currently five manuscripts have been chosen for the final judge, B.C. novelist Jack Hodgins to read.

Jack Hodgins will read the short listed manuscripts and choose a winner to be published in the fall of 2010. The winner will be announced in December.

The writer of the winning manuscript will receive: a publishing contract with Mother Tongue Publishing, $1,000 advance,  a regional book tour, publication of the winning novel in a beautiful trade paper edition.

The other novels that were short-listed include: The River Rat by Gillean Chase, A Wake by Kuya Minogue Bamfield by DC Reid, and Grayling by Gillian Wigmore.

Gurjinder Basran’s novel deals with a forbidden relationship that crosses cultural barriers. Crisply written and well-observed, it centres on the struggles and choices facing Meena as she comes of age in the Punjabi-Sikh community of Greater Vancouver during the 1970s and 80s.