Congratulations to Dr. James Maskalyk! His book, Life on the Ground Floor continues to garner praise with this latest announcement. The novel is one of five shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize, a prestigious $30,000 award recognizing the best in Canadian literary nonfiction. The book also won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2017.

Read more about the Taylor Prize and Life on the Ground Floor here.

The winner of the Taylor Prize is to be announced February 26, 2018.