Book Launch, Seeing You Home
Catherine Hunter’s first collection of short fiction, Seeing You Home, will be launched on Thursday, September 18, 2025, 7 pm at McNally Robinson Booksellers (1120 Grant Ave, Winnipeg). Join Catherine for the launch of Seeing You Home, with in-conversation host Margaret Sweatman.
2020 National Magazine Awards
Catherine’s short story “Calling You,” published in Prairie Fire (41.1), won Gold in the National Magazine Awards for 2020.
2020 Lansdown Poetry Prize
St. Boniface Elegies has won the Lansdown Poetry Prize in the Manitoba Book Awards for 2020.
2020 Manitoba Book Awards
St. Boniface Elegies has been shortlisted for the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year.
Governor General’s Award shortlist
St. Boniface Elegies has been shortlisted for the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Awards in the poetry category.
2019 High Plains Book Awards
St. Boniface Elegies is a finalist in the Poetry category of the High Plains Book Awards for 2019.
St. Boniface Elegies now available
St. Boniface Elegies, a new book of poetry, is now available in stores and online.
Reading in Billings, Montana
Catherine will read from After Light at the High Plains Book Festival in Billings, Montana, on Saturday, Oct 8, 2016.
High Plains Book Awards finalist
After Light is a finalist in the Best Women Writer category of the High Plains Book Awards for 2016.
Manitoba Book Award nominations
After Light has been nominated for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Carol Shields City of Winnipeg Book Award, the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, and McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year for 2016.
Poetry news: Best Canadian Poems
The poem “Disappointment,” published earlier this year by Matrix, appeared in the anthology Best Canadian Poems in English 2015.
After Light now available
Catherine Hunter’s latest novel After Light is now available in stores and online. Both paperback and ebook copies are available.
Book launch: After Light
Friday Oct 23 2015 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, McNally Robinson, Grant Park, in the Atrium. This book tells the sumptuously rendered tale of four generations of the Garrison family, whose story begins when young Deirdre flees Ireland in 1920, seeking a better life in Brooklyn. The secrets she carries with her will bend the fates of not only Deirdre, but all who come after her, including her son Frank, whose dream of becoming an artist is ended by WW2, Frank’s daughters Rosheen and Von, who are each damaged in their own way, and Rosheen’s son Kyle, who has never known his mother.
Reading: Winnipeg International Writers Festival
Mainstage – Everyday Treacheries. Monday, September 21, 2015 at 7:30 pm. Shaw Performing Arts Centre (MTYP), The Forks, Winnipeg. With Elizabeth Hay, Greg Hollingshead, Guy Vanderhaeghe and Mike Steeves.
Poetry news: Oodena
The long poem “Oodena,” published by Matrix in 2013, appeared this year in the anthology Best Canadian Poems in English 2013.
Poetry news: Magazine awards
A suite of poems published by CV2 in 2010 won a Manitoba Magazine Award, 2010 and were short-listed for the National Magazine Awards, 2010.