In conjunction with Asian Heritage month, Tong Ge’s historical epic, The House Filler is a 2025 Maxy Award Winner
Ironically and in conjunction with Asian Heritage Month, critically acclaimed author Tong Ge’s debut novel, The House Filler, was the recipient of the prestigious 2025 Maxy Award in the Historical & Adventure category.
This recognition of acknowledgement in a contest of this magnitude complements her latest accomplishments including award wins at the 2024 Independent Press Award for new fiction, the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE) Award for Literary Fiction, as well as being a finalist at the 2023 Eyelands Book Awards, the 2024 Canadian Book Club Awards for fiction, and second place for 2025 BookFest Award for literary-historical fiction.
About The Maxy Awards
The Maxy Awards were designed to not only support writing and reading, but also to help those who may not have been fortunate enough to hold an iconic book in their hand and read it from cover to cover a hundred times
More information can be found at: Maxy Awards
About Tong Ge

Born and raised in China, Tong Ge moved to Canada in the late 1980s as an international student, earning a Master of Science degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1992. Since 2012, she has written under both her real name and the pen name Tong Ge, publishing poetry, prose, and short stories in English and Chinese across North America, England, and Taiwan. A recipient of six literary awards and a finalist for five others. Her debut novel, “The House Filler,” was published in Canada in 2023. It is a finalist for the 2023 Eyelands Book Awards and the 2024 Canadian Book Club Awards for fiction and won the 2024 Independent Press Award for new fiction and National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE) Award for Literary Fiction and second place for 2025 BookFest Award for literary -historical fiction. To learn more about her work, please visit her website at tong-ge.com.



















