To quote today’s press release: “The Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers was reeled in this year by David Andrews for his short story collection West Orange.” With a $4,000 prize, an engraved plaque, and $1,000 in editorial services, The Fresh Fish Award has established itself as one of the most lucrative awards in Canada for unpublished, emerging writers. As such, it is one that publishers should take note of. Poets Danielle Devereaux’s The Chrome Chair and Andreae Prozesky’s Sparks, Sparrows were shortlisted for the award.
The award, co-presented by the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, was established by Brian O’Dea and funded this year by John and Jan O’Dea. From the judges’ adjudication of David Andrews’ West Orange: “Throughout this short story collection, the reader is struck by the intensity of the present moment, and how specific occurrences in one character’s life resonate both with the participant and those on the periphery … Certain images are rendered with such tenderness and precision that they make the reader stop and reread for the pleasure of it.”
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