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)
Translation of
Je suis une Maudite sauvagesse; Qu’as-tu fait de mon pays?
(Mémoire d’Encrier)

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)
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Winner

I Am the Big Heart
(Brick Books)

Dream of No One But Myself
(Brick Books)

A Common Name for Everything
(Green Writers Press)
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)

The Danger Model
(McGill-Queen's University Press)

the half-drowned
(Metatron Press)
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Winner

Room for One More
(Kar-Ben Publishing)

Mina
(Simon & Schuster Canada))

The Three Brothers
(Groundwood Books)
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)

Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel
(House of Anansi Press)
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Winner

Prophetess
(Véhicule Press)

Love Like Water, Love Like Fire
(Bellevue Literary Press)

Dominoes at the Crossroads
(Véhicule Press/Esplanade Book)
The QWF Playwriting Prize
The QWF Spoken Word Prize
Winner

“Free Your Mind”

“Not in the Bike Commercial”

“Odiama”
Judy Mappin Community Award
Winner

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

Misremembering
(Dawson College)

A Fisher’s Parade
carte blanche Prize
Winner
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)