The Announcement of the Winners of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Canada and the Caribbean region takes place on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 6 pm at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts.

The event will see the dramatic staging of “Hurricane Stories” from “Gardening in the Tropics” by Olive Senior, 1987 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize Winner, and Readings from the best book and best first book.

The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize is organized and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation with the support of the Macquarie Group Foundation across all four regions.

The university community is invited.