June
Callwood
June Callwood was a writer, journalist, broadcaster, and social activist. She worked energetically to investigate and promote the causes of social justice and humanitarianism, especially on issues affecting children and women. Starting out as an 18 year-old reporter at the Globe and Mail, she published more than 20 books, including The Law is Not for Women and Jim: A Life with AIDS. She founded or co-founded more than 50 Canadian social action organizations including youth and women’s hostels; Casey House, a Toronto hospice for people with AIDS; PEN Canada; and the Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation. In recognition of her tireless volunteerism to support writers, Callwood received the Writers’ Trust Distinguished Contribution Award a month before she died on April 14, 2007.
Program History
1993 Lecturer
Margaret Laurence Lecture Series- Awards
- Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Weston International Award
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
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