User:Geo Swan/Simone Dalton
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Simone Dalton is a Canadian writer of Trinidadian descent.[1] Her first book, a memoir, was picked for the 2019 RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award.[2] Mark Bourrie won the RBC Taylor Prize for 2019.[3] Among his duties and responsibilities are to choose the receipient of the Emerging Writer Award, and then to mentor the protege they chose. Bourrie called Dalton "a vibrant new voice".
In 2017 Dalton was one of the presenters at the Festival of Authors.[4]
Dalton earned a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Guelph.[5][6] She was supported by two research scholarships during her work on her Masters.
Dalton's first play, VOWS, was produced at Soulpepper Theatre, while she was still at Grad School.[7]
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Stephen Weir (2020-03-20). "Simone Dalton has emerged and yesterday captured a top writing award". Newz 4 U. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
Writer and Pan Player Simone Dalton is keeping a Trinidadian Canadian tradition alive. The young writer has just won the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author Award making her the 5th Trinidadian Canadian to win a major Canadian writing prize in the past decade.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Samraweet Yohannes (2020-03-18). "Simone Dalton wins $10K RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award". CBC Books. Archived from the original on 2020-03-19. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
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"Mark Bourrie Names Simone Dalton to the 2020 RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award". The Charles Taylor Foundation. Toronto. 2020-03-18. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
Mark Bourrie, winner of the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize for his book Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson named Dalton as the recipient for this year's Emerging Writer Award. Dalton had been a participant in the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize Mentorship Program, with Mr. Bourrie as her mentor. The Prize consists of a $10,000 cash prize and mentorship by Bourrie.
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"Trinidad born Simone Dalton is up for a non-fiction Taylor Prize". The Caribbean Camera. 2020-01-24. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
She holds an MFA from the University of Guelph, where she received the Constance Rooke and Board of Graduate Studies Research Scholarships.
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"CBC Literary Prizes: Meet the 2019 CBC Nonfiction Prize readers". CBC Books. 2019-09-17. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
Her work has been published in the anthologies The Unpublished City: Volume I and 2018 Toronto Book Awards finalist, Black Writers Matter.
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"Simone Dalton at Soulpepper". University of Guelph. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
My piece, entitled Vows, is one of nine short plays in the production. Each play is distinct, yet connected by their purpose to examine the "shadow self": what do we leave unsaid, undone, and who/what remains as a result of the silence?
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