We are pleased to announce that Jessie Wu has won the Avie Bennett Prize in Canadian Literature for the best essay entitled "Resonant Realities: Sound, Empathy, and Political Justice in Elizabeth Hay’s Late Nights on Air." This award is given to an undergraduate student who has submitted the top essay in Canadian Literature.
The essay discusses sound in all its multiplicities—as voice and radio, as tape recordings of the Barrens (a vast tundra region stretching from Nunavut to the Northwest Territories), as a cohesive ecological soundscape, and as open-ended dialogue—and how these configurations of sound ultimately catalyze political justice and societal transformation in the Canadian North.
Congratulations, Jessie, on this outstanding achievement!
Jessie Wu has won the Avie Bennett Prize in Canadian Literature
June 26, 2024 by
The Department of English