Carol Shields Prize

Awards

The Prize That Listens: Julia Elliott and Hellions Win the Carol Shields Award

Julia Elliott wins the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction with Hellions. A searchlight on strange, necessary voices in North American short fiction.

Awards

Genre-Leaping and Unashamed: Julia Elliott's Hellions Wins the Carol Shields Prize

Julia Elliott's short story collection Hellions has won the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, with a jury that placed her in the company of Angela Carter and Kelly Link. It is, to be blunt, the richest literary prize in North America — and it's been waiting for a collection this strange.