The 2022 QWF Literary Awards Gala was held on November 14, 2022.
Click here to watch the QWF Awards Gala.
Click here to read the winners announcement.
Award winners
Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
Sponsored by the Cole FoundationWinner
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)
shortlisted
Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales
(Mémoire d’encrier)
Translation of
The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate
(Mémoire d’encrier)
Fils d’un tout petit héros
(Éditions Boréal)
Translation of
Son of a Smaller Hero
(Penguin Random House Canada)
Jury
Asselin Charles
Marc Charron
Sufia Duez
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Sponsored by Byron RempelWinner
Dream of No One But Myself
(Brick Books)
shortlisted
Horrible Dance
(Brick Books)
Emanations
(Wolsak & Wynn Publishers)
Quiet Night Think
(ECW Press)
Jury
Jordan Abel
Susan Gillis
Zoe Imani Sharpe
The Concordia University First Book Prize
Sponsored by Concordia UniversityWinner
the half-drowned
(Metatron Press)
shortlisted
We Have Never Lived On Earth
(University of Alberta Press)
Dream of No One But Myself
(Brick Books)
Jury
Kess Mohammadi
Emily Raine
Hal Wake
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Sponsored in memory of Janet Savage BlachfordWinner
Mina
(Simon & Schuster Canada))
shortlisted
I’m Not Sydney
(Groundwood Books)
Pink, Blue, and You
(Anne Schwartz Books)
You Are My Favorite Color
(Philomel Books)
Jury
Sean Dixon
Nadia Lakhdari
Lauren Soloy
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner
Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel
(House of Anansi Press)
shortlisted
Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Fernwood Publishing)
The Rebel Scribe: Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America
(Hamilton Books, Rowman & Littlefield))
Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf
(Coach House Books)
Jury
Victor Swoboda
Stephen Trumper
Evelyn C. White
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Sponsored by Librairie Paragraphe BookstoreWinner
Prophetess
(Véhicule Press)
shortlisted
A Convergence of Solitudes
(Book*hug Press)
Stray Dogs
(Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
Jones
(Random House Canada)
Jury
Michelle Butler Hallett
Chelene Knight
Alejandro Saravia
The QWF Playwriting Prize
Sponsored by Gabriel Safdie in conjunction with InfinithéâtreWinner
The Millennial Malcontent
(Playwrights Canada Press)
shortlisted
The Silent Woman
(The White Bear Theatre)
Beloved
(The Road Theatre Company)
Beautiful Man
(Playwrights Canada Press)
Jury
Yvette Nolan
Jeff Ho
Sabrina Reeves
The QWF Spoken Word Prize
Winner
“Odiama”
“Not in the Bike Commercial”
“Free Your Mind”
shortlisted
“I Was Always There”
“Nineteen”
“Rat’s Nest”
“Another Cup of Tea”
“See You Tomorrow?”
Jury
Ivan Coyote
Clifton Joseph
Kama La Mackerel
Judy Mappin Community Award
Winner
for his lifelong commitment to leading, supporting, and inspiring writers and artists in Montreal and beyond.
The QWF College Writers Award
Sponsored by Cegep Heritage College, Champlain Regional College, Dawson College, John Abbott College, Marianopolis College, Vanier CollegeWinner
Misremembering
(Dawson College)
Jury
Ruby Kato Atwood
Alex Leslie
T. Liem
carte blanche Prize
Sponsored by Mark GallopWinner
Some Kind of Light
(published in Carte Blanche, Issue 43)
shortlisted
2nd place
The Salad Spinner
(published in Carte Blanche, Issue 43)
3rd place
Gardens of Dirty Laundry
(published in Carte Blanche, Issue 43)
Jury
Kasia Van Schaik
Gala video
Videography by the staff at Cabaret Lion d’Or.
Gala gallery
Photography by Alain Photography.
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