Leacock Medal Long List Announced
By John Swartz
The annual long list of nominees for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour was announced today. The list is developed by a Canada-wide reading panel. Those in contention for the 72nd award are:
Ali Bryan for The Figgs
Mark Critch for Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir
Aminder Dhaliwal for Woman World
Hadley Dyer for Here So Far Away
Uzma Jalauddin for Ayesha At Last
Cathal Kelly for Boy Wonders
Rick Mercer for Final Report
Martin Myers for The NeverMind of Brian Hildebrand
Eden Robinson for Trickster Drift
Lindsay Wong for The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
The award will be made June 8 at the annual Leacock Dinner held this year at the Mariposa Inn. Tickets ($75) are on sale now at the Leacock Museum, 705-329-1908. You can reserve tickets at jmartynyshyn@orillia.ca The host for the dinner, back by popular demand, is former medal winner Ian Ferguson. Last year Dan Needles announced his forced retirement from the post of Mayor of Mariposa (he forced himself) and the Leacock Associates, who manage the medal contest, were informed the new mayor is Drew Hayden Taylor – but only if he could call himself Grand Chief of Mariposa. Everyone thought that was a good idea, mainly because no one else wanted to be mayor.
The Meet the Authors event is June 7 at 7 p.m. at the Mariposa Inn. Tickets are $20 and are available by the same method as above.
