The 25th QWF Literary Awards Gala:
Celebrating 25 Years of Writing Matters
The 2023 QWF Gala was held on Monday, November 13 at the Cabaret Lion d’Or.
Watch the 2023 Awards Gala
Press & Media Kit
Announcements & Links:
- The Winners of the 2023 QWF Literary Awards
- QWF Announces Book Prize Shortlists for the 25th QWF Literary Awards
- QWF Announces the 2023 Spoken Word Prize Finalists
- Writing Matters: A Campaign to Celebrate Writers’ Contributions to Our Culture, Society, and Economy
- QWF Honours Elise Moser as the Winner of the 2023 Judy Mappin Community Award
- QWF Announces 2023 College Writers Award Finalists
- QWF Announces 2023 carte blanche Prize Finalists
- Press Release: Lawyers’ Account of Racism and Reconciliation in Canada Wins Two Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards
Award winners
Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
Sponsored by the Cole FoundationWinner
To See Out the Night
(QC Fiction/Baraka Books)
Translation of
Dormir sans tête
(Éditions Héliotrope)
shortlisted
This is How I Disappear
(Drawn & Quarterly)
Translation of
C’est comme ça que je disparais
(Éditions Pow Pow)
Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism
(Coach House Books)
Translation of
Maquillée
(Éditions Marchand de feuilles)
Rosa’s Very Own Personal Revolution
(QC Fiction/Baraka Books)
Translation of
La Logeuse
(Éditions Marchand de feuilles)
Jury
Sarah Brideau
Gene Morrow
Alexander St-Laurent
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Sponsored by Byron RempelWinner
Wet Dream
(Brick Books)
shortlisted
Dream Rooms
(Book*hug Press)
Slows: Twice
(Coach House Books)
Jury
Jason Purcell
Rohan Quinby
Sennah Yee
The Concordia University First Book Prize
Sponsored by Concordia UniversityWinner
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
(HarperCollins Publishers)
shortlisted
Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America
(Viking Canada)
The House You Were Born In
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
End Times
(Freehand Books)
Jury
Alan Bourassa
Helen Humphreys
Molly Swain
The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize
Winner
“Laughter in the Rain”
“All the Screams”
“Survival Mechanisms”
shortlisted
“Stalling”
“when the shame smokes”
“Ouff – The Land”
“Buying History”
“Out of Space”
Jury
Jillian Christmas
Kym Dominique-Ferguson
Sheri-D Wilson
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Sponsored in memory of Janet Savage BlachfordWinner
A Boy Is Not a Ghost
(Groundwood Books)
shortlisted
Witches of Brooklyn: S’More Magic
(Random House Graphic)
Captain Skidmark Dances with Destiny
(Charlesbridge)
Jury
Danielle Daniel
Pamela Mordecai
Hannah Morrow
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Sponsored by Librairie Paragraphe BookstoreWinner
Fayne
(Knopf Canada)
shortlisted
Full Fadom Five
(Baraka Books)
Do You Remember Being Born?
(Random House Canada)
The Gathering
(Equinox Publishing)
Catinat Boulevard
(Guernica Editions)
Jury
Joe Ollmann
Chanel Sutherland
Timothy Taylor
Judy Mappin Community Award
Winner
for her vast contributions and unwavering dedication to the literary arts in Quebec
The QWF College Writers Award
Sponsored by Cegep Heritage College, Champlain Regional College, Dawson College, John Abbott College, Marianopolis College, Vanier CollegeWinner
Effloresce
Jury
Josh Quirion
Maya Rolbin-Ghanie
Raphaëlla Vaillancourt
carte blanche Prize
Sponsored by Mark GallopWinner
“Three Disorientations”
(published in carte blanche, Issue 45, 2023)
shortlisted
2nd place
“Relieved”
(published in carte blanche, Issue 45, 2023)
3rd place
“the cows are benevolent and full of flies”
(published in carte blanche, Issue 44, 2023)
Jury
Mirabel
Gala video
Video by Cabaret Lion d’Or
Gala gallery
Photos by Kevin Calixte
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