Harrison Mooney is a Canadian journalist and writer, who won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for non-fiction in 2023 for his memoir Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery. [1]
A journalist for the Vancouver Sun, Mooney wrote the book about his experiences growing up as a Black Canadian in an adoptive white Christian family, and subsequently meeting and reconnecting with his birth mother in his early 20s. [2]
The book was also shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2023 Governor General's Awards. [3]
References
- ^ Bridget Raymundo, "Erica McKeen, Harrison Mooney and K.S. Covert win $10K Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". CBC Books, June 28, 2023.
- ^ Jackie Wong, "Dismantling White Supremacy with Harrison Mooney". The Tyee, September 20, 2022.
- ^ "Suzette Mayr, Iain Reid among finalists for Governor General's Literary Awards". Burnaby Now, October 25, 2023.
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Harrison Mooney is a Canadian journalist and writer, who won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for non-fiction in 2023 for his memoir Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery. [1]
A journalist for the Vancouver Sun, Mooney wrote the book about his experiences growing up as a Black Canadian in an adoptive white Christian family, and subsequently meeting and reconnecting with his birth mother in his early 20s. [2]
The book was also shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2023 Governor General's Awards. [3]
References
- ^ Bridget Raymundo, "Erica McKeen, Harrison Mooney and K.S. Covert win $10K Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". CBC Books, June 28, 2023.
- ^ Jackie Wong, "Dismantling White Supremacy with Harrison Mooney". The Tyee, September 20, 2022.
- ^ "Suzette Mayr, Iain Reid among finalists for Governor General's Literary Awards". Burnaby Now, October 25, 2023.
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| This article about a Canadian writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 21st-century Canadian journalists
- 21st-century Canadian memoirists
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents
- Canadian male journalists
- Canadian male non-fiction writers
- Journalists from British Columbia
- Writers from British Columbia
- Black Canadian writers
- Living people
- Canadian adoptees
- Black Canadian journalists
- Canadian writer stubs