Shelagh
Plunkett
Plunket is the Montreal-based author of the childhood memoir The Water Here Is Never Blue. At Berton House during her January to March winter residency she worked on Caught by All That’s Come Before, an examination of “ways that our identities are shaped by how we respond to events that we participate in or that we witness.”
Program History
Writer in Residence
2016
Berton House Writers’ Residency- 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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