Professor Sarah Brouillette and PhD candidate Dessa Bayrock, both from the Department of English, recently co-authored an essay published in the British literary journal Wasafiri. “Who Wins? The Politics of Prize Culture in Canada’s CODE Burt Awards” discusses a book prize administered by the Canadian Organization for Development through Education (CODE) – the CODE Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Literature, created to prize books aimed at young adult readers. They examine CODE’s statements about the prize, which solicited funding by associating the cultivation of leisure reading with socio-economic development for Indigenous communities in Canada. The authors link this to a broader development industry rhetoric that treats illiteracy as the cause of underdevelopment, rather than capitalist colonial and neocolonial regimes of expropriation and dispossession.