ReLit winners Craig Francis Power (novel) Tony Burgess (short fiction) and Dani Couture (poetry) with ReLit Founder and Jack of all Talents, Kenneth J. Harvey
Craig Francis Power’s debut novel, Blood Relatives, won the ReLit award last night at the Ottawa International Writers Festival.
Prior to bagging this national award, he’d cleaned up in Newfoundland by winning the Fresh Fish Award, The Percy Janes First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Winterset Award for Excellence in Writing. But this national win with the ReLit crown’s his mufti-award-winning debut the best Canadian novel published by an independent press in 2010. Well earned. Especially nice to see a Pedlar Press book they so heartily believed in earn its due.
Blood Relatives is a novel about the sudden death of a father Charlie didn’t love and the slow death of a relationship with a woman he did love. And a hooker. I love his style, right from the opening. A good book, a good writer, a good read: support independent press. Buy it. Click here to read Salty Ink’s review of Blood Relatives.
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