Save the date!
The 2025 QWF Literary Awards Gala will be held the evening of Monday, November 10, 2025, at the Cabaret Lion d’Or in Montreal.
Award winners
Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
Sponsored by the Cole FoundationWinner
shortlisted
Jury
Avery Lake
Tim Niedermann
Anne-Marie Wheeler
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Sponsored by Byron RempelWinner
An Orange, A Syllable
(ECW Press)
shortlisted
No One Knows Us There
(Book*hug Press)
Post-Mortem of the Event
(Palimpsest Press)
Gone Gone
(Duke University Press)
UNMET
(Biblioasis)
Jury
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
Carolyne Van Der Meer
Matthew James Weigel
The Concordia University First Book Prize
Sponsored by Concordia UniversityWinner
The Mind Mappers: Friendship, Betrayal and the Obsessive Quest to Chart the Brain
(Random House Canada)
shortlisted
Eyes Have Seen: From Mississippi to Montreal
(Baraka Books)
No One Knows Us There
(Book*hug Press)
Hope Is a Woman’s Name: My Journey as a Bedouin Palestinian Activist in Israel
(Sutherland House Books)
Jury
Paul MacKay
Kaie Kellough
Gail Scott
The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize
Winner
If Haitian Blood Were Oil
Math
The Itch
shortlisted
Innocence
Before He Was a Park
Snails
I Need to Write
The Stepmother (excerpt)
Jury
Joseph Dandurand
John David Hickey
El Jones
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Sponsored in memory of Janet Savage BlachfordWinner
The New Girl
(Graphix / Scholastic Inc.)
shortlisted
Outta Here
(James Lorimer & Company Ltd.)
The Bearing
(Mouton Noir Acadie)
Miss Matty
(Linda Leith Publishing)
Jury
Robert Bittner
Wayne Ng
Kennedy Rooke
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Sponsored by the Lilly and Joshua Ronn FoundationWinner
shortlisted
Hope Is a Woman’s Name: My Journey as a Bedouin Palestinian Activist in Israel
(Sutherland House Books)
The Mind Mappers: Friendship, Betrayal and the Obsessive Quest to Chart the Brain
(Random House Canada)
Jury
Fitsum Areguy
Toula Drimonis
Claire Mulligan
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Sponsored by Librairie Paragraphe BookstoreWinner
The Book of Records
(Knopf Canada)
shortlisted
The Reeds
(ECW Press)
Cannon
(Drawn & Quarterly)
My Thievery of the People
(Baraka Books)
Valentine in Montreal
(HarperCollins Publishers)
Jury
Carmella Grey-Cosgrove
Linda Morra
William Ping
Judy Mappin Community Award
Winner
for her unwavering dedication to expandinf inclusive literary spaces and her commitment to nurturing new voices in the Eastern Townships and beyond
The QWF College Writers Award
Sponsored by Cegep Heritage College, Champlain Regional College, Dawson College, John Abbott College, Marianopolis College, Vanier CollegeWinner
“Née Godwin”
(Dawson College)
Jury
Gloriah Amondi
Tamara Nazywalskyj
Coltrane Seesequasis
carte blanche Prize
Sponsored by Mark GallopWinner
“heart made of bees”
(published in carte blanche, Issue 51)
shortlisted
2nd place
“The Stars of Saint-Léonard”
(published in carte blanche, Issue 52)
3rd place
“Trulie, Toronto, and the Southwest Swale”
(published in carte blanche, Issue 52)
Jury
Maria Schamis Turner