Book about Chedoke Creek wins big at this year’s Hamilton Literary Awards
- Craig Clark
- 10 Dec 2019
A prescient book about Chedoke Creek, the location of #sewergate that has been making the new in a big way recently, won big at the annual Hamilton Literary Awards last night.
Congratulations to John Terpstra who just won the Kerry Schooley Award at the 26th Annual @HamArtsCouncil Literary Awards @theatreaquarius for his timely and topical book Daylighting Chedoke: Escaping Hamilton’s Hidden Creek. 👏📚🏆 pic.twitter.com/haufDhm0vi
— Lyla Miklos (@lylamiklos) December 10, 2019
The non-fiction book Daylighting Chedoke by local author John Terpstra won the Kerry Schooley Award at the annual gala, which took place on Monday night, December 9th at Theatre Aquarius. The book artfully analyzes the source of the creek and exposes its natural course which was developed over many decades.
When Terpstra started writing the book, he couldn’t have imagined the narrative that has developed in the media about the millions of litres of sewage that has been leaking into the area, and the city’s subsequent attempts at covering up.
Published by Hamilton’s independent publishing company Wolsak & Wynn, Terpstra hopes the book will help people reconnect with the natural landscape in order to take better care of it.
Other notable winners at last night’s awards gala include poet Darrell Epp for his book Sinners Dance, author Sylvia McNicoll for her book Body Swap and poet & playwright Sky Gilbert for his book Small Things: A Selection of Anti-Essays.
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