[Update] Brett Popplewell wins inaugural $10,000 Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism at The Walrus

[Update] The winner of the inaugural $10,000 Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism at The Walrus magazine is 

• “Head Games” by Brett Popplewell (September 2017)

[This post has been updated] On January 17, one fortunate writer for The Walrus magazine will receive the $10,000 Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism. It is for the  most outstanding article published in The Walrus in 2017. The prize will support journalists in pursuing compelling stories of social import. The shortlisted stories are:

• “Peace be Upon You” by Nadim Roberts (January 2017)
• “Dating While Black” by Hadiya Roderique (March 2017)
• “Forced Confessions” by Ben Travers (May 2017)
• “Pleasure Principal” by Sarah Barmak (June 2017)
• “The Grifter” by Michael Lista (June 2017)
• “Head Games” by Brett Popplewell (September 2017)
• “Second Coming” by Joel Barde (November 2017)
• “Overhauled” by Sharon J. Riley (December 2017)
• “Old Masters” by Emily Urquhart (December 2017)
• “Finding the Right Words” by Derek Webster (December 2017)

The prize is funded by the Slaight Family Foundation, which was established in 2008, in honour of Allan Slaight, a philanthropist who created Canada’s largest privately owned multi-media company, Standard Broadcasting, and was instrumental in bringing the Raptors (and the Air Canada Centre) to Toronto. Community works include having served as the chair of the United Way of Greater Toronto and the Shaw Festival.