Award winners
Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
Winner
To See Out the Night
(QC Fiction/Baraka Books)
Translation of
Dormir sans tête
(Éditions Héliotrope)
Plus aucun enfant autochtone arraché
(Lux Éditeur)
Translation of
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country?
(Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Translation of
Je suis une Maudite sauvagesse; Qu’as-tu fait de mon pays?
(Mémoire d’Encrier)
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Winner
An Orange, A Syllable
(ECW Press)
National Animal
(Véhicule Press/Signal Editions)
Wet Dream
(Brick Books)
Dream of No One But Myself
(Brick Books)
I Am the Big Heart
(Brick Books)
A Common Name for Everything
(Green Writers Press)
The Concordia University First Book Prize
Winner
The Mind Mappers: Friendship, Betrayal and the Obsessive Quest to Chart the Brain
(Random House Canada)
Little Crosses
(House of Anansi Press)
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
(HarperCollins Publishers)
the half-drowned
(Metatron Press)
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)
The Danger Model
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize
Winner
If Haitian Blood Were Oil
Math
The Itch
“committing a dream / pawâkan Palestine”
“Congratulations”
“Memory Justice”
“Laughter in the Rain”
“All the Screams”
“Survival Mechanisms”
“Odiama”
“Not in the Bike Commercial”
“Free Your Mind”
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Winner
The New Girl
(Graphix / Scholastic Inc.)
Hopscotch
(Groundwood Books Ltd.)
A Boy Is Not a Ghost
(Groundwood Books)
Mina
(Simon & Schuster Canada))
Room for One More
(Kar-Ben Publishing)
The Three Brothers
(Groundwood Books)
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner
Furniture Music
(Wave Books)
Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel
(House of Anansi Press)
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Winner
The Book of Records
(Knopf Canada)
Fayne
(Knopf Canada)
Prophetess
(Véhicule Press)
Love Like Water, Love Like Fire
(Bellevue Literary Press)
Dominoes at the Crossroads
(Véhicule Press/Esplanade Book)
The QWF Prize for Playwriting
Winner
Salesman in China
(Stratford Festival)
The Millennial Malcontent
(Playwrights Canada Press)
Albumen
(Arts Court Theatre)
Judy Mappin Community Award
Winner
for her unwavering dedication to expandinf inclusive literary spaces and her commitment to nurturing new voices in the Eastern Townships and beyond
for his enduring commitment to nurturing the literary arts and literary communities in Quebec
for her vast contributions and unwavering dedication to the literary arts in Quebec
for his lifelong commitment to leading, supporting, and inspiring writers and artists in Montreal and beyond.
for offering advice and opportunity to scores of students and writers, always with generosity, humility, and good humour
for dedicating almost 50 years of his life to serving readers, promoting books, and supporting the English-language writing community
for her hard work, leadership, and longstanding personal commitment to community in all its forms
The QWF College Writers Award
Winner
“Née Godwin”
(Dawson College)
“Echoes of Leïla”
(Champlain College Saint-Lambert)
Effloresce
Misremembering
(Dawson College)
A Fisher’s Parade
carte blanche Prize
Winner
“heart made of bees”
(published in carte blanche, Issue 51)
“Playtime in Carmella’s Room: A Memoir
(published in carte blanche, Issue 49, 2024)
“Three Disorientations”
(published in carte blanche, Issue 45, 2023)
Some Kind of Light
(published in Carte Blanche, Issue 43)
Tricks
(published in carte blanche issue 41 (Fiction) )
First Prize: “It’s a Slow Ride”
(Issue 39)
Second Prize: “Thin”
(Issue 39)
Third Prize: “Emote: A Time Capsule”
(Issue 39)