Each month we'll feature award winning National and Alberta Magazine Award writing from some of the country's best writers and storytellers. This month we feature the 2015 AMPA Gold winning article Game Changer, by Arno Kopeky and the 2014 NMA Gold winner for best short feature, My hitchhiker, the Parliament Hill gunman by Michael Friscolanti.AMPA Award WinnerYear: 2015Award: Gold, Alberta StoryWriter: Arno KopeckyBio: Arno Kopecky is an environmental journalist and author based in Vancouver. His first book, The Devil's Curve, a literary travelogue based on his year-long journey through Peru and Colombia, made Amazon's top-100 list for 2012. His second book, The Oil Man And The Sea, chronicles Kopecky's sailing expedition into British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, a legendary wilderness with the knife of Big Oil at its throat.Winner: Game Changer - Alberta ViewsIn Game Changer, Kopecky tells the story of the Beaver Lake Cree's court battle to challenge oil sands development. Can they protect their constitutional right to hunt and fish? NMA Award WinnerYear: 2014Award: Gold - Short FeatureWriter: Michael FriscolantiBio: Michael Friscolanti is a senior political writer for Maclean's, and author of Friendly Fire: The Untold Story of the U.S. Bombing that Killed Four Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan.Winner: My hitchhiker, the Parliament Hill gunman - Maclean'sOn his way from Vancouver to Calgary, Harry Bekkering decided to pick up a clean-shaven man looking for a lift. One month later, Bekkering would watch in horror as the RCMP released footage of the man who took Parliament Hill by storm.
