Award winners
Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
Sponsored by the Cole FoundationWinner
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)
shortlisted
Em
(Random House Canada)
Translation of
Em
(Groupe Librex)
Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro’s Twilight
(Talonbooks)
Translation of
Avant l’Après
(La Peuplade Récit)
Jury
David Bradford
Janice Flavien
David Warriner
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Winner
I Am the Big Heart
(Brick Books)
shortlisted
Because the Sun
(Coach House Books)
Hell Light Flesh
(Palimpsest Press)
The Fool
(Goose Lane Editions)
Jury
Gloria Macher
Nolan Natasha
Michael Prior
The Concordia University First Book Prize
Sponsored by Concordia UniversityWinner
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)
shortlisted
Knot Body
(Metatron Press)
Ten Thousand Crossroads: The Path As I Remember It
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)
We, Jane
(Book*hug Press)
Jury
Nilambri Ghai
Seyward Goodhand
Shannon Webb-Campbell
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Sponsored in memory of Janet Savage BlachfordWinner
Room for One More
(Kar-Ben Publishing)
shortlisted
The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life
(Second Story Press)
Journal of a Travelling Girl
(Wandering Fox (Heritage House))
Zee
(Bouton d’or Acadie)
Jury
Natasha Deen
Darren Groth
Curran Jacobs
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)
shortlisted
Peacekeeper’s Daughter: A Middle-East Memoir
(Thistledown Press)
Bent Out of Shape
(Between the Lines)
Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada’s Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic
(Random House Canada)
Music, Late and Soon
(Biblioasis)
Jury
William Dere
Ruth DyckFehderau
John Goddard
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Sponsored by Librairie Paragraphe BookstoreWinner
Love Like Water, Love Like Fire
(Bellevue Literary Press)
shortlisted
Songs for the End of the World
(McClelland & Stewart)
We, Jane
(Book*hug Press)
Undersong
(Knopf Canada)
Jury
Heather Jessup
Ameen Merchant
Denis Sampson
Judy Mappin Community Award
Winner
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
The QWF College Writers Award
Sponsored by Cegep Heritage College, Champlain Regional College, Dawson College, John Abbott CEGEP/College, Marianopolis College, Vanier CEGEP/CollegeWinner
A Fisher’s Parade
Jury
Brad Donaldson
néné myriam konaté
Arizona O’Neill
carte blanche Prize
Winner
Tricks
(published in carte blanche issue 41 (Fiction) )
shortlisted
2nd place
Sickness in Limbo
(published in carte blanche issue 42 (Creative Nonfiction) )
3rd place
The Queue
(published in carte blanche issue 40 (Fiction) )
Jury
Gillian Sze
Gala gallery
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Special Thanks
