title: Shandi Mitchell
text: # Shandi Mitchell
  
  Shandi Mitchell is a Canadian novelist and filmmaker. Her first novel Under This Unbroken Sky won a 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and other awards. She graduated from Dalhousie University.
  
  Her newest novel, The Waiting Hours, is slated for publication in 2019.
  
  ## Awards and honors
  
  * 2012: Kobzar Literary Award, Under This Unbroken Sky
  * 2010: Commonwealth Writers' Prize (first novel, Canada and the Caribbean), Under This Unbroken Sky
  * 2010: Thomas Head Raddall Award, Under This Unbroken Sky
  * 2008: Victor Martin-Lynch Staunton Endowment in Media Arts, Canada Council
  
  ## Works
  
  Literary
  
  * 2011 - Under This Unbroken Sky (ISBN 978-0-06-177402-7)
  * 2019 - The Waiting Hours
  
  Film
  
  * 2002 Baba's House (short)
  * 2005 Tell Me (short)
  * 2012 The Disappeared
  