Van Camp wins literary award

Richard Van Camp, of the Dogrib (Tlicho) Nation from Fort Smith, NWT, is the winner of the R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature. Van Camp’s book Little You was nominated along with You’re Just Right, by Victor Lethbridge, a member of Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation. Also nominated in that category of the 2015 Alberta Literary Awards was Leanne Shirtliffe, of Calgary, for The Change Your Name Store. The awards were presented at a gala on May 23 in Edmonton. There were more than 150 submissions to select 24 finalists from in eight categories.