The Canadian Author Association recently released their 2011 awards shortlist at their CanWrite! 2011 conference in Grand Bend, Ontario. We're very pleased to see that the poetry award is an LPG member publisher sweep!

• Don Coles for Where We Might Have Been, published by Véhicule Press
• Garry Gottfriedson for Skin Like Mine, published by Ronsdale Press
• Julia McCarthy for Return from Erebus, published by Brick Books

Winners will be announced at the CAA Literary Awards banquet at the Leacock Summer Festival on July 23rd in Orillia, Ontario. For a complete list of the nominees, please visit the CAA website.