CBC/Radio-Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and Air Canada’s enRoute magazine are proud to announce the 80 English finalists of the CBC Literary Awards/les Prix littéraires Radio-Canada. They were chosen from more than 6,000 submissions in French and English from across the country, in the Creative Nonfiction, Poetry and Short Story categories.

Literary Awards host Shelagh Rogers will unveil the English-language winners chosen from the 80 finalists at 11 a.m. EST on CBC Radio One’s Q with Jian Ghomeshi. Christiane Charette will announce the French-language winners that same day on La Première Chaîne de Radio-Canada.

Interviews with the winners will air on a special broadcast of The Next Chapter, hosted by Shelagh Rogers on March 22 at 1 p.m. The winning works will be published in Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and read on CBC Radio’s Between the Covers on Sirius Satellite Radio April 12 – 16. They will also be available as a podcast on itunes, the cbc.ca/podcasting page or cbc.ca/books as of April 14.

The CBC Literary Awards / Prix littéraires Radio-Canada are the most significant prizes awarded to unpublished literary work in Canada. They provide visibility for new authors and also help further the careers of more established Canadian writers.

For all information on the Awards / Prix, please visit www.cbc.ca/literaryawards or go to the Awards’ Facebook page.