Editing Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (ACWW) (section)

== Emerging Writer's Award ==

The winner of our first EWA award, in 1999, was Rita Wong’s ''Monkeypuzzle'', published by Press Gang. The second Emerging Writer Award went to Madeleine Thien in 2001 for her short fiction, ''Simple Recipes''. Madeleine’s manuscript impressed M & S so much that they offered her a two book deal. Simple Recipes went on to win the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the City of Vancouver Book Prize and was a finalist in the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best first book. Her second book, Certainty (2006) won the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada Award, the Ovid Festival Prize and was a finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel, ''Dogs at the Perimeter'' (2010) continues to be published by M & S.  Interestingly, Madeline was a former editor of ''Ricepaper Magazine''. <br><br>

* ACWW tried in the successive years to work with the other genres including children’s fiction but had little success but with persistence, finally in 2010, ACWW in cooperation with Tradewind Books produced a new young adult anthology ''Henry Chow and other stories''.<br><br>

* Following the ''Many-Mouthed Birds anthology'', ACWW produced two additional anthologies ''Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese Canadian Writing'' by Arsenal Pulp Press (1999) and ''Strike the Wok: an anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Writing'' (2003). <br><br>