UBC Creative Writing Program graduates Lynn Coady and Zsuzsi Gartner are two of the six finalists of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Coady was shortlisted for her novel The Antagonist and Gartner for her short story collection Better Living Through Plastic Explosives.
Annabel Lyon, adjunct instructor in the Creative Writing Program and a 2009 Giller Prize finalist, will be on the jury panel.
The Giller prize awards $50,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English and $5,000 to each of the finalists.
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