WINNER BEST PHOTO, FOR “COLLECTED ANTICIPATION” Photo: COLLECTED ANTICIPATION © Lara O’Keefe Photo: BEST FOOT FORWARD © Lara O’Keefe About Lara O’Keefe Lara O’Keefe is a freelance writer/photographer with a love for urban landscapes. A born and raised country girl, she is consistently delighted and surprised by all of the diverse…
NOMINEE, BEST PHOTO Photo: RED DANCE © Sunny Arora Photo: STREET-NO-CAR © Sunny Arora Photo: INDEPENDENCE DAY © Sunny Arora About Sunny Arora I moved to Canada from the cool city of Ludhiana in India. I am a Web Developer student who fell in love with concept of capturing light…
NOMINEE, BEST NON-FICTION STORY Story: TANGERINE SUN “Funnel down straight through the clouds Like an ever flowing stream Like an ever flowing stream Take a bite of the fruit of life Cause the fruit of life is sweet Cause the fruit of life is sweet” I was walking along Gerrard Street listening to the song…
NOMINEE, BEST NON-FICTION STORY Story: MY NICEST BAZAAR MEMORY Being an older, white male working in an immigrant women’s centre in the Gerrard India Bazaar was never part of my life plan. It just sort of happened when I was my 40s back in the 1990s. It was the most enriching few years of my…
WINNER, BEST NON-FICTION STORY Story: OLD CREATION It was always the summer. At least, that’s how I remember it. On that street, all I can recall is the heat, the green leaves overhead, and the whirring of the streetcar as it blurred everything outside on its path to the bazaar. I hated it. The heat…