Finalists for 2011 Trillium Book Award and Trillium Book Award for Poetry from the MFA in Creative Writing Program

Congratulations to the finalists for this year's Trillium Book Award:

Paul Vermeersch, graduate of the second MFA in Creative Writing cohort, for his poetry collection, The Reinvention of the Human Hand (M & S)

Michael Winter, instructor, for The Death of Donna Whalen (Penguin)

Congratulations to the finalists in the separate Trillium Book Award for Poetry:

Jeff Latosik, graduate of the first MFA in Creative Writing cohort, for Tiny, Frantic, Stronger (Insomniac Press)

Shane Nelson, entering MFA Creative Writing Program in the Fall 2011, for Complete Physical (The Porcupine's Quill)

Further information on the awards and short lists can be obtained here at www.omdc.on.ca/Page6018.aspx