The Indigenous Voices Awards are a

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literary award program, created in 2017 to honour indigenous literatures in Canada."New literary prize for Indigenous writers to offer $25K in awards"

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, October 19, 2017. It is administered by the Indigenous Literary Studies Association, a non-profit organization that promotes the production, study and teaching of Indigenous literatures. The awards grew out of a 2017 controversy, when a group of Canadian writers were criticized for campaigning on

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in favour of a prize supporting

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. In response, Toronto lawyer Robin Parker launched a

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campaign to create a new prize for

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and

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

writers in Canada. The crowdfunding campaign was set with a goal of $10,000, but ultimately attracted over $140,000 in donations. The awards honour both published and unpublished work by Indigenous writers in Indigenous languages, English and French. The first winners were announced in May 2018."Billy-Ray Belcourt, Aviaq Johnston among winners of 2018 Indigenous Voices Awards"

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, May 31, 2018. On

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, June 21, 2022, IVA announced that an anthology of selected works by the finalists will be published by Penguin Random House Canada in 2023 to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the award.

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Canadian fiction awards First Nations literature 2017 establishments in Canada Awards established in 2017 Inuit literature Literary awards honoring indigenous people Canadian poetry awards

External links

*{{Official website, https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/home-page

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