Most of Me shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal

Greystone Books is delighted to announce that Robyn Michele Levy’s Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Breakdown has been selected as a finalist for the 2012 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Writing.

The Leacock Memorial Medal is a prestigious annual honour, accompanied by a $15,000 prize, awarded for the best in Canadian humour writing. The award has attained an international reputation and is the only award of its kind for Canadian humour writing. The winner will be announced at a luncheon in Orillia on Thursday, April 26 at the Mariposa Inn on Memorila Avenue.

The other four short-listed titles are The Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt (House of Anansi Press Inc.); On the Outside Looking Indian by Rupinder Gill (McClelland & Stewart); The Woefield Poultry Collective by Susan Juby (Harper Collins Publishing); and Happiness Economics by Shari Lapena (Brindle & Glass).