2020s Awards Gala

Award winners

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


Winner

I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) by  Sarah Henzi
Translation of
Je suis une Maudite sauvagesse; Qu’as-tu fait de mon pays? (Mémoire d’Encrier) by  An Antane Kapesh
Éclipse électrique (Éditions du Boréal) by  Benoît Laflamme
Translation of
The Knockoff Eclipse (Anvil Press) by  Melissa Bull

The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry


Winner

I Am the Big Heart (Brick Books) by  Sarah Venart
A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press) by  Sarah Wolfson

The Concordia University First Book Prize


Winner

Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press) by  Samir Shaheen-Hussain
The Danger Model (McGill-Queen's University Press) by  Madelaine Caritas Longman
the half-drowned (Metatron Press) by  Trynne Delaney

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


Winner

Room for One More (Kar-Ben Publishing) by  Monique Polak
Mina (Simon & Schuster Canada)) by  Matthew Forsythe
The Three Brothers (Groundwood Books) by  Marie-Louise Gay

The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction


Winner

Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press) by  Samir Shaheen-Hussain

The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction


Winner

Prophetess (Véhicule Press) by  Baharan Baniahmadi
Love Like Water, Love Like Fire (Bellevue Literary Press) by  Mikhail Iossel
Dominoes at the Crossroads (Véhicule Press/Esplanade Book) by  Kaie Kellough

The QWF Playwriting Prize


Winner

The Millennial Malcontent (Playwrights Canada Press) by  Erin Shields
Albumen (Arts Court Theatre) by  Mishka Lavigne

The QWF Spoken Word Prize


Winner

“Free Your Mind” by  Roen Higgins
“Not in the Bike Commercial” by  Lucia De Luca
“Odiama” by  Erín Moure

Judy Mappin Community Award


Winner

Ian Ferrier for his lifelong commitment to leading, supporting, and inspiring writers and artists in Montreal and beyond.
H. Nigel Thomas for offering advice and opportunity to scores of students and writers, always with generosity, humility, and good humour
Richard King for dedicating almost 50 years of his life to serving readers, promoting books, and supporting the English-language writing community
Jan Jorgensen for her hard work, leadership, and longstanding personal commitment to community in all its forms

The QWF College Writers Award


Winner

Misremembering (Dawson College) by  Eden Andrews
A Fisher’s Parade by  Julian Button-Nadon

carte blanche Prize


Winner

Some Kind of Light (published in Carte Blanche, Issue 43) by  Meryem Yildiz
Tricks (published in carte blanche issue 41 (Fiction) ) by  Noa Padawer-Blatt
First Prize: “It’s a Slow Ride” (Issue 39) by  Alexei Perry Cox
Second Prize: “Thin” (Issue 39) by  Kelly Norah Drukker
Third Prize: “Emote: A Time Capsule” (Issue 39) by  Tong Wang