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Saskatchewan’s Cassie Stocks wins Leacock Medal for ‘Dance, Gladys, Dance’
TORONTO – Cassie Stocks of Eston, Sask., has won the $15,000 Leacock Medal for humour for her debut novel, “Dance, Gladys, Dance.”
The book, published by NeWest Press, is about a 27-year-old failed painter whose perspective on life changes after she makes a connection with a ghost.
The Edmonton-born Stocks beat out a group of nominees that included previous winner Terry Fallis, up this time for his book “Up and Down.”
Other nominees included Jonathan Goldstein’s “I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow,” Andrew Kaufman’s “Born Weird” and William Whitehead’s “Words to Live By.”
Stocks’ book is also up for a Saskatchewan Book Award.
Her win will be celebrated at a gala dinner on June 8 at Geneva Conference Centre near Orillia, Ont.
The Leacock Medal, established in honour of the late author Stephen Leacock, is awarded annually for the best book of humour by a Canadian.
Harry Symons won the inaugural award in 1947 for “Ojibway Melody,” and it’s been awarded every year since with the exception of 1959.
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