My first novel Nondescript Rambunctious won the SFU Writer's Studio First Book Competition 2010. It was published by Anvil Press, April 2011. "Nondescript Rambunctious is a genre-busting thriller with a beating, human heart. More than a simple story of a killer and his victims, the novel takes the reader into the life of a family, the days of a community, and the very real possibility that evil is everywhere - maybe even inside us."
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Reviews
"Jackie Bateman's debut novel is very impressive. The writing is taut, controlled and relentless. Nondescript Rambunctious is a dark, murderous thriller, a winner with a variety of narrators, surprising turns and shifts, and some hard, hard corners."- Mark Anthony Jarman, author of My White Planet and 19 Knives"Crime novels, whether thrillers, police procedurals, or hard-boiled
detective stories, are about order. A catastrophic event, usually an act
of violence, shatters the peace of a community, and the rest of the
story is about turning that community inside out to restore a state of
normality. Nondescript Rambunctious, for which Jackie Bateman
won the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University’s First Book
Competition in the fiction category, is a thriller that succeeds by
nodding politely to the formula, then turning it on its head... Bateman hasn’t imagined a world of dogged cops, rumpled detectives, or amateur sleuths. Nondescript Rambunctious
is about the heartbreaking consequences of human depravity, not tying
up loose ends or piecing together clues. It wouldn’t be wrong to label
this novel a thriller, but it also confounds the expectations of that
label, to great effect."
- August C. Bourre, reviewing in Quill & Quire July 2011
Litopia were kind enough to announce the win on their home page, December 2010. You can read the article here
Winners in the fiction, non-fiction and poetry
categories were announced during the 'Emerge' event at the Vancouver
International Writer's Festival 2010. 
Above: John Mavin (Creative Writing Instructor at SFU), Jackie Bateman (me), Myrl Coulter (non-fiction winner), Rachel Thompson (poetry winner) and Betsy Warland (Director of SFU Writer's Studio)