Harrison Mooney is a Canadian journalist and writer, who won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for non-fiction in 2023 for his memoir Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery.Bridget Raymundo, "Erica McKeen, Harrison Mooney and K.S. Covert win $10K Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". CBC Books, June 28, 2023.
A journalist for the Vancouver Sun, Mooney wrote the book about his experiences growing up as a Black Canadian in an adoptive white Christian family, and subsequently meeting and reconnecting with his birth mother in his early 20s.Jackie Wong, "Dismantling White Supremacy with Harrison Mooney". The Tyee, September 20, 2022.
The book was also shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2023 Governor General's Awards,"Suzette Mayr, Iain Reid among finalists for Governor General's Literary Awards" . Burnaby Now, October 25, 2023. and for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes.Gail Johnson, "BC and Yukon Book Prizes announce 2023 shortlists". Stir, April 13, 2023.
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