Ariel Gordon’s Stowaways has been shortlisted for the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry from the Manitoba Book Awards! Ariel also won this award in 2011 for her collection Hump. Both Stowaways and Hump are available at www.palimpsestpress.ca. Congratulations Ariel!

Maurice Mierau, who is launching Autobiographical Fictions this fall with Palimpsest, is also shortlisted for the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction for his book Detachment: An Adoption Memoir (Freehand Books). Congratulations Maurice!