Paul Karchut chats with Rona Altrows, the 2025 winner of the Prairie Grindstone Prize.

Announcing the third year of The Prairie Grindstone Prize — a $50,000 literary award that acknowledges a hardworking, engaged prairie writer. 

Nominations for The Prairie Grindstone Prize open on April 1 and will close on May 15, 2025 at midnight.

Announcing the third year of The Prairie Grindstone Prize — a $50,000 literary award that acknowledges a hardworking, engaged prairie writer.

Listen to this interview with Sylvia Legris and Shauna Powers.

Join Sylvia Legris, recipient of the 2024/2025 Prairie Grindstone Prize, and special guest Sherri Benning for a celebratory reading and discussion.

Members of the writing and reading community are encouraged to nominate a deserving Saskatchewan writer

Nominations open for Prairie Grindstone Prize, which will go to a Saskatchewan writer this year.

We had the chance to catch up with Wendy on Zoom to see what she has been up to and how the prize has impacted her career so far.

A new literary prize honouring the work of Prairie writers goes to Edmonton's Wendy McGrath. We speak with her about the difference this will make in her writing and the mysterious benefactor behind the prize

Edmonton author Wendy McGrath is the first winner of a new literary award. She and jury chair Lisa Murphy Lamb join us to discuss.

Edmonton writer Wendy McGrath wins first-ever Prairie Grindstone Prize.

Ted speaks with Marketing and Design Manager, Stacey Walyuchow about the launch of the prize.

March 3, 2023

Nominations are Open

Announcing the launch of The Prairie Grindstone Prize — a literary prize aimed at acknowledging hardworking and perhaps under-appreciated writers of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction in the prairies.

New literary prize available for Alberta authors

Mar 5, 2023 | 3:00 PM

A new prize to help Prairie-based writers is launching this month

New literary prize available for Alberta authors

Mar 5, 2023 | 3:00 PM

A new prize to help Prairie-based writers is launching this month.

An Alberta writer is going to win a new huge cash prize this year

Written by Kevin Wallace Wednesday, Mar 08 2023, 4:15 AM

A new prize to help Prairie-based writers is launching this month.

The Prairie Grindstone Prize is worth $50,000 and will go to writers in Alberta and Saskatchewan, alternating from year to year — starting with Alberta in 2023

Written by Kevin Wallace Wednesday, Mar 08 2023, 4:15 AM

Local writers rejoice, there's a new cash prize up for grabs.

A new literary prize is up for grabs this year for one Alberta writer.

Nominate A Deserving Writer

In this inaugural year, The Prairie Grindstone Prize invites members of the writing community to nominate a deserving Alberta writer.

Nominate a Deserving Alberta Writer

What writer does not dream of a gift of time? Wrap up that gift in a $50,000 cheque and you are beginning to understand one of the motives behind The Prairie Grindstone Prize.