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Dundurn Press is excited to announce that Sadia by Colleen Nelson has won the High Plains Book Award in the YA category!

Sadia follows 15-year-old Sadia Ahmed as she struggles to navigate high school, her passion for basketball, and her Muslim faith, as well as finding the courage to stand up for herself in the face of discrimination. Booklist called Sadia “compelling and relevant,” and in 2019 the book was both nominated for the Forest of Reading’s 2019 Red Maple Award and won the 2019 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award.

My fascination with coyotes and inspiration for the book Street Shadows all began late one night when I was biking home from a friend’s house.  I was almost home, passing through a dark cemetery with my dog Baker running easily by my side.  I had done this route many times and was pedaling on autopilot, lost in thought.

Dundurn Press has hired Whitney French, Julie Mannell, and Russell Smith as Acquisitions Editors. 

Whitney French is a writer and editor based in Toronto. She has received a B.A. in Creative Writing from Concordia University and is the editor of Black Lives Matter, a creative nonfiction anthology (University of Regina Press, 2019). She is passionate about grassroots community building and capturing unlikely stories. In her spare time, Whitney enjoys tree climbing, growing her own food, and spending time with her loud and rambunctious family.