Redeemer was front and centre at this year’s Short Works Prize for Writing (SWP), a partnership of Bryan Prince Bookseller, Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine and the Hamilton Public Library to promote Hamilton authors. It sponsored the Redeemer University College Prizes for Writing, given to two emerging unpublished writers. Richard Van Holst ’86 (who received the Short Works Prize for Fiction last year) was a juror for this year’s awards, and Brent van Staalduinen ’01 won the City of Hamilton Ward 1 Fiction Prize for his short story “Mum 2 Mum.” Brent also received an honourable mention in the non-fiction category for a piece called “Finding Iraq.”<\/p>\n