Baraka Books is thrilled to share the Quebec Writers’ Federation announcement of the shortlist for the
2025 QWF Literary Awards.
Winners will be revealed at the annual QWF Awards Gala on November 10 at the Lion d’Or in Montreal.
Best of luck to all nominees!
EYES HAVE SEEN: FROM MISSISSIPPI TO MONTREAL is Fred Anderson’s memoir of the turbulent years of the civil rights movement in the United States of the 1960s. After experiencing white violence, incarceration, terror and corruption, he fled the draft and found himself in Montreal, making a new life out of exile and loneliness.
MY THIEVERY OF THE PEOPLE is Leila Marshy’s follow-up to the much acclaimed The Philistine. A collection of stories that is being described as “incisive,” “provocative,” “tightly-woven,” and “electric.”
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