Awards / The Gala

2013 Awards Gala

On November 19, 2013, in honour of its 15th Anniversary, the Quebec Writers’ Federation held a literary star-studded cocktail dînatoire, which preceded the Gala. The annual Awards Gala took place at the Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre in Montreal and was sponsored by BMO Financial Group. The event was hosted by playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist Ann-Marie MacDonald. Six literary prizes, the 3Macs carte blanche Prize, and the winners and honorary mentions of the 2013 Quebec Writing Competition were presented.

Award winners

Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation

Winner
The Major Verbs (Véhicule Press) by  Donald Winkler
Translation of
Les Verbes majeurs (Éditions du Noroît) by  Pierre Nepveu

shortlisted

Judith’s Sister (Talon Books) by  Linda Gaboriau
Translation of
La Soeur de Judith (Les Éditions du Boréal) by  Lise Tremblay
Mai at the Predators’ Ball (House of Anansi Press) by  Nigel Spencer
Translation of
Mai au bal des prédateurs (Les Éditions du Boréal) by  Marie-Claire Blais
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The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry

Sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother Robert

Winner
The Civic-Mindedness of Trees (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers) by  Ken Howe

shortlisted

The Sunrise Liturgy: A Poem Sequence (Wipf and Stock Publishers) by  Mia Anderson
Conjure (Rebel Satori Press) by  Peter Dubé

Jury

Mary Dalton
Susan Gillis
Mark Tredinnick

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The Concordia University First Book Prize

Winner
The Barista and I (Insomniac Press: Serotonin/Wayside) by  Andrew Szymanski

shortlisted

The Girls of Piazza d’Amore (Linda Leith Publishing) by  Connie Guzzo-McParland
The Water Here is Never Blue (Viking Canada) by  Shelagh Plunkett

Jury

Brian Brett
Helen Humphreys
David McGimpsey

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The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature

Winner
Undercurrent (Doubleday Canada) by  Paul Blackwell

shortlisted

Desperate Freedom (Brian Wrixon Books) by  Melinda Cochrane
The Extraordinary Life of Anna Swan (Cape Breton University Press) by  Anne Renaud

Jury

JonArno Lawson
Horace I. Goddard
Alice Kuipers
Maya Munro Byers

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The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction

Winner
The Book of Immortality (Doubleday Canada) by  Adam Leith Gollner

shortlisted

Slouching Towards Sirte (Baraka Books) by  Maximillian Forte
The Water Here is Never Blue (Viking Canada) by  Shelagh Plunkett

Jury

Maya Khankhoje
Ken McGoogan
Larry Scanlan

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The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction

Sponsored by Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore

Winner
Bone and Bread (House of Anansi Press) by  Saleema Nawaz

shortlisted

World of Glass (Quattro Books Inc.) by  Jocelyne Dubois
Beach Reading (Acorn Press) by  Lorne Elliott

Jury

Katherine Govier
Edeet Ravel
Guy Sprung

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carte blanche Prize

Winner

Bluefooted (Issue 19) by  Juliet Waters

shortlisted

2nd place Finding Snow in Wyoming (Issue 18) by  Lindsay Foran
3rd place Death in the Midden by Nicolas Chalifour (Issue 17) Translated by Caitlin Stall Paquet

Jury

Nina Bunjevac

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QWC Reader's Choice Prize

Winner

The Drought of Eighty-Seven by  Louisa Sage
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Quebec Writing Competition prizes

Winner

Agnosis by  Steven Manners

Shortlisted

Corporate Citizen by  Cora Siré
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Gala video

Video footage of the 2013 QWF Awards by carefulMEDIA

Gala gallery

Photo credit: Joseph Ste. Maie

Man wearing glasses reads at a microphone

Rawi Hage

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Four women and two men on stage

QWF Founders

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Young woman reading at a podium

Saleema Nawaz

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Audience cheering

Derek Webster and Daniel Allen Cox

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Breaded man reading at a podium

Paul Bracegirdle

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Purple and green balloons
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Woman making a funny face at the podium

Ann Marie MacDonald

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