The Carol Shields Foundation provides scholarships, mentoring programs, and workshops to promote the production of literary works.
The prize, created to honor fiction by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the United States, was named for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, who died of breast cancer in 2003. Susan Swan, Don Oravec and Janice Zawerbny, who co-founded the award, noted that the five shortlisted novels "made up one of the strongest literary prize shortlists we've seen in recent years." Each of these authors will receive $12,500 as finalists for the prize. The shortlist for the prize included Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades, What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr, and Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin. and a deep play and joy embedded in the craft. is Fatimah’s unique voice, insistence on creating alternate possibilities of identity, relationships and humanity. They are the writer and co-producer of the Emmy-nominated web series, Brown Girls, which highlights friendships between women of color. Asghar’s debut lyrical novel, When We Were Sisters, explores sisterhood, orphaning, and alternate family building.
NPR's Book of the Day 'When We Were Sisters' details the pain and perseverance of orphanhoodĪsghar is the author of the poetry collection If They Come for Us, as well as a filmmaker, educator, and performer.
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