The Sally Manning Award honours the memory of Sally Manning, an adventurer, traveller and author who was enchanted by the people and places of Nunavut, the NWT and the Yukon during her lifetime.
Founded in 2014, this award supports Indigenous Northern writers and their efforts to share their stories.
Deadline for Entries: March 31, 2025
Judging & Prizes
All entries are evaluated by a panel of established Northern writers and donor advisors. The panel who will recommend a winner and two runners up to the Yellowknife Community Foundation, which administers the award.
The foundation will award a cash prize of $1,000 to the first-place entry. The second place and third place entrants will receive $750 and $250, respectively.
The winning entry will also be published in the print edition of Up Here magazine. All three entries are published on the Up Here website.
To enter, email your submission to cooper@uphere.ca
Publication Agreement: All winners agree to have their story published.
Eligibility
The Sally Manning Award is open to writers of First Nation, Metis or Inuit background who are current or former residents of the NWT, Nunavut or Yukon.
Submissions are to be 2,500-word (approx..) works of creative non-fiction.
Previous Winners
2021
Steven Lonsdale (https://uphere.ca/articles/nutaralaaq-life-within-name)
Charity Tambour
Catherine Cockney
2020
Peter Autut (https://uphere.ca/articles/winter-chesterfield-inlet)
Shelly Wiart (https://uphere.ca/articles/my-northern-healing)
Carol Daniels
2019
Cullen Crozier (https://uphere.ca/articles/duck-caller)
AmberLee Kolson
Michel Labine (https://uphere.ca/articles/bison-whisperer)
2018
Dennis Allen (https://uphere.ca/articles/timothy)
Jamiesie Fournier
Antoine Mountain (https://uphere.ca/articles/perverse-need-order)
Catherine Lafferty (https://uphere.ca/articles/full-circle)
2016
Tanya Roach (https://uphere.ca/articles/larga-love)
Thomsen D’Hont (https://uphere.ca/articles/cranberry-jelly)
Dennis Allen (https://uphere.ca/articles/toboggan-story)
2015
Roxanne Livingstone
Adina Tarralik Duffy
