Josiah Neufeld, 2021 Book and 2014 Magazine Award

A Canadian, Josiah grew up in the West African country of Burkina Faso the son of evangelical Christian missionaries and his experience there created an interest in telling stories of people who meet injustice with creativity, conviction and compassion.

Josiah's winning 2021 submission was for his book The Temple at the End of the Universe due to be published by House of Anansi Press in 2023. Alarmed and awakened to the ecological crisis humanity faces, Josiah journeys on a quest for a spirituality that he hopes will transcend the religious binaries of his childhood faith and rise to meet the crisis of his time.

Based in Winnipeg, Josiah is a freelance writer who has contributed to The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Hazlitt, Utne Reader, Eighteen Bridges, Broadview, The Vancouver Sun and the Ottawa Citizen. He studied journalism and communications at Red River College and the University of Winnipeg and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. He was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2013. He received an award from Amnesty International Canada for his work and has contributed a monthly column to Broadview on spirituality and the climate crisis.

Josiah also won the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Magazine Award in 2014 for his article, A Quiet Slaughter published in Hazlitt.

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