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The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories.[1] Founded in 2000 by Newfoundland filmmaker and author Kenneth J. Harvey.[2]

Subtitled Ideas, Not Money the main title of the awards is short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, and Relighting Literature.[3] The awards were conceived by Harvey as an alternative to larger mainstream prizes such as the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Awards.[4] There is no money awarded for the prize; in the first two years, the winners received a nominal prize of one Canadian dollar,[5] but since 2003 the recipients have been presented with a silver ring designed by Newfoundland artisan Christopher Kearney, featuring four inlaid movable dials engraved with all of the letters of the alphabet.[6]

The award went on hiatus in the late 2010s, with no shortlists or winners announced for 2018, 2019 or 2020.

It was announced in January 2021 that management of the award has been taken over by Katherine Alexandra Harvey, with the project expanding to incorporate an online literary journal and a mentorship program for young writers.[7] In April 2021, the shortlists and winners for all of the hiatus years were announced throughout the month.[8]

In September 2023, Harvey announced that the awards will go on hiatus after that year's announcements, due to funding difficulties.[9]

Nominees and winners[edit]

Novel[edit]

ReLit Award for Novel winners and shortlists
Year Author(s) Title Result Ref.
2001 Bonnie Bowman Skin Winner [10][11]
Bill Gaston The Good Body Nominee [10]
Lydia Kwa This Place Called Absence
Ralph Osborne Just for Comfort
Stan Rogal Bafflegab
Cordelia Strube The Barking Dog
2002 Jonathan Goldstein Lenny Bruce Is Dead Winner [12]
2003 Peter Darbyshire Please Winner
France Daigle A Fine Passage Nominee
Mary Swan The Deep
Guillaume Vigneault Necessary Betrayals
2004 Darren Greer Still Life With June Winner
Kim Brunhuber Kameleon Man Nominee
David Homel The Speaking Cure
Kent Nussey A Love Supreme
2005 Sky Gilbert An English Gentleman Winner
Natalee Caple Mackerel Sky Nominee
Bill Gaston Sointula
Cordelia Strube Blind Night
2006 Lisa Moore Alligator Winner
Jim Christy The Redemption of Anna Dupree Nominee
David Gilmour A Perfect Night to Go to China
Gaétan Soucy The Immaculate Conception
2007 Ivan E. Coyote Bow Grip Winner [13]
Andy Brown The Mole Chronicles Nominee
Chris Ewart Miss Lamp
Rawi Hage De Niro's Game
George K. Ilsley ManBug
Sean Johnston All This Town Remembers
Marie Hélène Poitras Suddenly the Minotaur
Rob Ritchie Orphans of Winter
Sylvia Maultash Warsh Season of Iron
2008 Gil Adamson The Outlander Winner [14]
Nadia Bozak Orphan Love Nominee
David Chariandy Soucouyant
Curtis Gillespie Crown Shyness
Claire Mulligan The Reckoning of Boston Jim
Brian Tucker Big White Knuckles
Andrew Wedderburn The Milk Chicken Bomb
2009 Michael Blouin Chase & Haven Winner
Theanna Bischoff Cleavage Nominee
Daniel Allen Cox Shuck
Brian Dedora A Slice of Voice at the Edge of Hearing
Maggie Helwig Girls Fall Down
Harold Johnson Charlie Muskrat
David Manicom Anna's Shadow
2010 Michael Kenyon The Beautiful Children Winner [15][16]
Joey Comeau Overqualified Nominee
Christiane Frenette After the Red Night
Jason Hrivnak The Plight House
Nathaniel G. Moore Wrong Bar
Chad Pelley Away From Everywhere
Zoe Whittall Holding Still for As Long As Possible
2011 Craig Francis Power Blood Relatives Winner
Evie Christie The Bourgeois Empire Nominee
Joey Comeau One Bloody Thing After Another
Daniel Allen Cox Krakow Melt
Jerrod Edson The Goon
Jason Heroux Good Evening, Central Laundromat
Christian McPherson The Cube People
Kathy Page The Find
Ken Sparling Book
Steve Weiner Sweet England
2012 Suzette Mayr Monoceros Winner
Edem Awumey Dirty Feet Nominee
Ashley Little Prick
Catherine Mavrikakis Flowers of Spit
Tom Reynolds Break Me
Edward Riche Easy to Like
2013 Lynn Crosbie Life Is About Losing Everything Winner [17]
Tamara Faith Berger Maidenhead Nominee
Kayt Burgess Heidegger Stairwell
Joey Comeau Lockpick Pornography
Claudio Gaudio Texas
Annette Lapointe Whitetail Shooting Gallery
Keir Lowther Dirty Bird
Stephen Marche Love and the Mess We're In
James Marshall Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies
Garry Thomas Morse Minor Episodes Major Ruckus
Susan Musgrave Given
Basil Papademos Mount Royal
Corey Redekop Husk
Barry Webster The Lava in My Bones
2014 Nathaniel G. Moore Savage 1986-2011 Winner
Jeff Beamish Sneaker Wave Nominee
Paul Bowdring The Strangers' Gallery
Stephanie Domet Fallsy Downsies
Susan Downe Juanita Wildrose, My True Life
Stacey May Fowles Infidelity
Joel Thomas Hynes Say Nothing Saw Wood
Shane Joseph Paradise Revisited
Amanda Leduc The Miracle of Ordinary Men
Ashley Little Anatomy of a Girl Gang
Lisa Moore Caught
Garry Thomas Morse Rogue Cells/ Carbon Harbour
Chad Pelley Every Little Thing
Ursula Pflug The Alphabet Stones
Christine Walde Burning from the Inside
2015 Andrew Kaufman The Tiny Wife Winner [18]
Nelly Arcan Hysteric Nominee
Jackie Bateman Savour
Elizabeth Copeland Jazz
Jesse Gilmour The Green Hotel
Beth Goobie The First Principles of Dreaming
Darren Greer Just Beneath My Skin
Bertrand Laverdure Universal Bureau of Copyrights
Lee Maracle Celia's Song
Wendy McGrath North East
Christine Miscione Carafola
Guillaume Morissette New Tab
Ursula Pflug and Dyment Motion Sickness
Alisha Piercy Bunny and Shark
Lisa Pike My Grandmother's Pill
Ken Rivard Motherwild
Chelsea Rooney Pedal
Margaret Sweatman Mr. Jones
Wayne Tefs Barker
Russell Wangersky Walt
Jacob Wren Polyamorous Love Song
2016 Carellin Brooks One Hundred Days of Rain Winner
Michel Basilières A Free Man Nominee
Danila Botha Too Much on the Inside
Matt Cahill The Society of Experience
Libby Creelman Split
Lynn Crosbie Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Pauline Holdstock The Hunter and the Wild Girl
Robert Hough The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan
Alexis von Konigslow The Capacity for Infinite Happiness
Nic Labriola Winnie's Tongue
Anakana Schofield Martin John
Adam Lewis Schroeder All-Day Breakfast
Jon Chan Simpson Chinkstar
Elizabeth Ukrainetz The Theory of Light at Midnight
Patrick Warner One Hit Wonders
Paul Yee A Superior Man
2017 Kyp Harness Wigford Rememberies Winner [19]
Mike Barnes The Adjustment League Nominee
Paul Bowdring Mister Nightingale
David Clerson Brothers
Sanita Fejzic Psychomachia
Christian Guay-Poliquin Running on Fumes
Michelle Butler Hallett This Marlowe
Jane Eaton Hamilton Weekend
Jack Hannan The Poet is a Radio
Terry Jordan Been in the Storm So Long
Pierre-Luc Landry Listening for Jupiter
Ashley Little Niagara Motel
Lydia Perovic All That Sang
Eric Plamondon Hungary-Hollywood Express
Daniel Poliquin The Angel’s Jig
Adam Pottle The Bus
Jacques Poulin English Is Not a Magic Language
Craig Francis Power The Hope
Edward Riche Today I Learned It Was You
Leon Rooke Fabulous Fictions & Peculiar Practices
Laura Swart Blackbird Calling
Jamie Tennant The Captain of Kinnoull Hill
Zoe Whittall The Best Kind of People
Jared Young Into the Current
2018 Martin West Long Ride Yellow Winner [20]
Michelle Berry The Prisoner and the Chaplain Nominee [21]
Kristyn Dunnion Tarry This Night
Marty Elkins Leave Us in Peace
Jamie Fitzpatrick The End of Music
Jon R. Flieger You Are Among Monsters
Kevin Hardcastle In the Cage
Andrew Kaufman Small Claims
Marc Labriola Dying Behaviour of Cats
Stacey Madden Touching Strangers
Stephen Michell Only the Devil Is Here
Craig Francis Power Skeet Love
Charles Quimper In Every Wave
Greg Rhyno To Me You Seem Giant
2019 Andrew Battershill Marry, Bang, Kill Winner [22]
Tamara Faith Berger Queen Solomon Nominee [23]
Alex Boyd Army of the Brave and Accidental
Grant Buday Atomic Road
Anne-Renee Caille The Embalmer
Louise Carson In Which
Julie Demers Little Beast
Kyp Harness The Abandoned
Jason Heroux Amusement Park of Constant Sorrow
John Jantunen No Quarter
Fran Kimmel No Good Asking
Devin Krukoff Hummingbird
Rabindranath Maharaj Adjacentland
Keith Maillard Twin Studies
Maureen Medved Black Star
Pamela Mulloy The Deserters
Dean Serravalle Chameleon
2020 Michael Blouin Skin House Winner [24][25]
Becky Blake Proof I Was Here Nominee [26]
Jaime Burnet Crocuses Hatch from Snow
Nancy Jo Cullen The Western Alienation Merit Badge
Andrea Gunraj The Lost Sisters
Andrew Kaufman The Ticking Heart
Adnan Khan There Has to Be a Knife
Sarah Xerar Murphy Itzel I: A Tlatelolco Awakening
Heather Nolan This Is Agatha Falling
Alix Ohlin Dual Citizens
Antanas Sileika Provisionally Yours
Amy Spurway Crow
Leslie Vryenhoek We All Will Be Received
2021 Susan Sanford Blades Fake It So Real Winner [27]
Katie Bickell Always Brave Nominee [28]
Eva Crocker All I Ask
Su Croll Seeing Martin
Francesca Ekwuyasi Butter Honey Pig Bread
Deborah Hemming Throw Down Your Shadows
Morgan Murray Dirty Birds
Lisa Robertson The Baudelaire Fractal
Ed Seaward Fair
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Noopiming
Eddy Boudel Tan After Elias
Christine Vadnais Fauna
2022 Conor Kerr Avenue of Champions Winner [29]
Renée Belliveau The Sound of Fire Nominee [30]
MP Boisvert The Fifth: A Love(s) Story
Randy Boyagoda Dante's Indiana
Nic Brewer Suture
Beth Follett Instructor
Tara Gereaux Saltus
Sky Gilbert I, Gloria Grahame
Rahela Nayebzadah Monster Child
John Passfield Saturday Morning
Richard Scarsbrook The Troupers
Aimee Wall We, Jane
Andrew Wedderburn The Crash Palace
2023 Kevin Lambert Querelle of Roberval Winner [31]
Jowita Bydlowska Possessed Nominee [32]
K.R. Byggdin Wonder World
Terry Doyle The Wards
Anna Fitzpatrick Good Girl
Joseph Kakwinokanasum My Indian Summer
Chris Kelly A Kid Called Chatter
Chelene Knight Junie
Anne Lardeux The Second Substance
Jim McEwen Fearnoch
Erica McKeen Tear
Dimitri Nasrallah Hotline

Poetry[edit]

ReLit Award for Poetry winners and shortlists
Year Author(s) Title Result Ref.
2001 S. D. Johnson Hymns to Phenomena Winner [11]
Mark Cochrane Change Room Nominee [10]
Susan Gillis Swimming Among the Ruins
Adeena Karasick Dyssemia Sleaze
John Reibetanz Mining for Sun
Matt Robinson A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking
2002 Lisa Robertson The Weather Winner [12]
Christian Bök Eunoia Nominee
Karen Solie Pigeon
2003 Margaret Christakos Excessive Love Prostheses Winner
Lise Downe Disturbances of Progress Nominee
Steve McCaffery Seven Pages Missing (Vol. 2)
Jay Millar Mycological Studies
2004 Souvankham Thammavongsa Small Arguments Winner
Gil Adamson Ashland Nominee
David O'Meara The Vicinity
Russell Thornton House Built of Rain
2005 A. F. Moritz Night Street Repairs Winner
Aislinn Hunter The Possible Past Nominee
Pierre Nepveu Mirabel
Mark Truscott Said Like Reeds or Things
2006 Leon Rooke Hot Poppies Winner
Donato Mancini Ligatures Nominee
Eric Miller In the Scaffolding
B. W. Powe The Unsaid Passing
2007 Daniel Scott Tysdal Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method Winner [13]
George Elliott Clarke Black Nominee
Susan Elmslie I, Nadja
Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry Apostrophe
Esther Mazakian All the Lifters
K. I. Press Types of Canadian Women
Ali Riley Tear Down
Michael V. Smith What You Can't Have
Sharon Thesen The Good Bacteria
2008 Gillian Wigmore Soft Geography Winner [14]
Colin Browne The Shovel Nominee
Marita Dachsel All Things Said & Done
Donato Mancini Æthel
David McGimpsey Sitcom
Nadine McInnis Two Hemispheres
Stuart Ross I Cut My Finger
2009 Maurice Mierau Fear Not Winner
David O'Meara Noble Gas, Penny Black Nominee
Philip Kevin Paul Little Hunger
Stuart Ross Dead Cars in Managua
Shannon Stewart Penny Dreadful
R. M. Vaughan Troubled
Fred Wah Sentenced to Light
2010 Gillian Jerome Red Nest Winner [15][16]
Gregory Betts The Others Raisd in Me Nominee
Sky Gilbert A Nice Place to Visit
Michael Kenyon The Last House
Lisa Robertson Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip
Damian Rogers Paper Radio
Patrick Woodcock Always Die Before Your Mother
2011 Dani Couture Sweet Winner
Jim Christy Marimba Forever Nominee
Jen Currin The Inquisition Yours
Steve McOrmond The Good News About Armageddon
Adam Seelig Every Day in the Morning (Slow)
Meaghan Strimas A Good Time Had by All
Ian Williams You Know Who You Are
2012 Patrick Friesen Jumping in the Asylum Winner
Cornelia Hoogland Woods Wolf Girl Nominee
Joel Thomas Hynes Straight Razor Days
Sean Johnston The Ditch was Lit Like This
Robin Richardson Grunt of the Minotaur
Sandra Ridley Post-Apothecary
2013 Steven Price Omens in the Year of the Ox Winner [17]
Ronna Bloom Cloudy with a Fire in the Basement Nominee
Cliff Burns New and Selected Poems
Jason Heroux Natural Capital
Leah Horlick Riot Lung
Grant Loveys Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed
Christine McNair Conflict
Erín Moure The Unmentionable
Catherine Owen Trobairitz
Ian Williams Personals
2014 Charmaine Cadeau Placeholder Winner
Stephen Brockwell Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books Nominee
Jason Camlot What the World Said
Kate Cayley How This World Comes to an End
Margaret Christakos Multitudes
Jim Christy This Cockeyed World
Amber Dawn How Poetry Saved My Life
Dina Del Bucchia Coping With Emotions and Otters
Adam Dickinson The Polymers
Glen Downie Monkey Soap
Kevin McPherson Eckhoff Forge
Catherine Greenwood The Lost Letters
Niki Koulouris The Sea With No One in It
Daphne Marlatt Liquidities
Sharon McCartney Hard Ass
David O'Meara A Pretty Sight
Robin Richardson Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis
Stan Rogal Love's Not the Way To
Stuart Ross Our Days in Vaudeville
David Seymour For Display Purposes Only
Ann Shin The Family China
Jacqueline Turner The Ends of the Earth
2015 Sina Queyras MxT Winner
Rolli Mavor's Bones Nominee [33]
Ken Babstock On Malice
Dani Couture Yaw
Jen Currin School
Frank Davey Poems Suitable to Current Material Conditions
Brecken Hancock Broom Broom
Aisha Sasha John Thou
Michael Lista The Scarborough
Susan Paddon Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths
Stan Rogal After Words
Jeffrey Round In the Museum of Leonardo Da Vinci
Blair Trewartha Easy Fix
Peter Unwin When We Were Old
Sheri-D Wilson Open Letter: Woman Against Violence Against Women
Deanna Young House Dreams
2016 Susan Goyette The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl Winner
Tara Azzopardi Last Stop, Lonesome Town Nominee
Méira Cook Monologue Dogs
Raoul Fernandes Transmitter and Receiver
Eva H.D. Rotten Perfect Mouth
David McGimpsey Asbestos Heights
Nick Papaxanthos Love Me Tender
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Bodymap
Al Pittman Collected Poems
K. I. Press Exquisite Monsters
Damian Rogers Dear Leader
Carolyn Marie Souaid This World We Invented
Jeff Steudel Foreign Park
Harry Thurston Keeping Watch at the End of the World
Daniel Scott Tysdal Fauxccasional Poems
Liz Worth No Work Finished Here
2017 Katherine Leyton All the Gold Hurts My Mouth Winner [19]
Jordan Abel Injun Nominee
Adele Barclay If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach out For You
Stephen Brockwell All of Us Reticent, Here, Together
Sarah Burgoyne Saint Twin
Clint Burnham Pound @ Guantanamo
George Elliott Clarke Canticles I
Wayne Clifford The Exile Papers, Part Four
Michael Crummey Little Dogs
Rocco de Giacomo Every Night of Our Lives
Beth Everest Silent Sister
M. A. C. Farrant The Days
David Fraser After All the Scissor Work Is Done
Kerry Gilbert Tight Wire
Christopher Gudgeon Assdeep in Wonder
Eva H.D. Shiner
Jason Heroux Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines
Jessica Hiemstra The Holy Nothing
JonArno Lawson The Hobo’s Crowbar
Sharon McCartney Metanoia
Jim McLean Nineteen Fifty-Seven
Jim Nason Touch Anywhere to Begin
Monty Reid Meditatio Placentae
Lisa Robertson 3 Summers
Stuart Ross A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent
Angeline Schellenberg Tell Them It Was Mozart
Kilby Smith-McGregor Kids in Triage
Meaghan Strimas Yes or Nope
Aritha Van Herk Stampede and the Westness of West
Margo Wheaton The Unlit Path Behind the House
2018 Rhonda Ganz Frequent, Small Loads of Laundry Winner [20]
Shirley Camia Children Shouldn’t Use Knives and Other Tales Nominee [21]
Allan Cooper Everything We’ve Loved Comes Back to Find Us
Lynn Crosbie The Corpses of the Future
Michael Dennis Bad Engine
Susan Elmslie Museum of Kindness
Jim Johnstone The Chemical Life
Shane Neilson Dysphoria
Jamie Sharpe Dazzle Ships
Kai Cheng Thom A Place Called No Homeland
Steve Venright The Least You Can Do Is Be Magnificent
John Emil Vincent Excitement Tax
Liz Worth The Truth Is Told Better This Way
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk Whatever, Iceberg
2019 Robin Richardson Sit How You Want Winner [22]
bpNichol Night on Prose Mountain Nominee
Chris Bailey What Your Hands Have Done
Michelle Brown Safe Words
Lori Cayer Mrs. Romanov
Dani Couture Listen Before Transmit
Degan Davis What Kind of Men Are You
Adam Dickinson Anatomic
Joe Fiorito City Poems
Linda Frank Divided
Eve Joseph Quarrels
Julie McIsaac We Like Feelings. We Are Serious
Nathaniel G. Moore Goodbye Horses
Helen Fogwill Porter Full Circle
Shannon Quinn Nightlight for Children of Insomniacs
Matthew Tierney Midday at the Super-Kamiokande
2020 Cassandra Blanchard Fresh Pack of Smokes Winner [24][25]
James Arthur The Suicide's Son Nominee [26]
Lisa Baird Winter's Cold Girls
Jonathan Ball The National Gallery
Adèle Barclay Renaissance Normcore
Billy-Ray Belcourt NDN Coping Mechanisms
Lindsay Bird Boom Time
Tom Dawe New and Collected Poems
Matthew Gwathmey Our Latest in Folktales
Jennica Harper Bounce House
James Hawes Breakfast with a Heron
Mark Laba The Inflatable Life
Vincent Pagé This Is the Emergency Present
Stuart Ross Motel of the Opposable Thumbs
2021 Simina Banu Pop Winner [27]
Ken Babstock Swivelmount Nominee [28]
Conyer Clayton We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite
Peter Dubé The Headless Man
Susan Goyette Anthesis
Phil Hall Niagara & Government
Mathew Henderson Roguelike
Amy LeBlanc I Know Something You Don't Know
David Ly Mythical Man
Kyeren Regehr Cult Life
Ray Robertson The Old Man in the Mirror Isn't Me
jaye simpson it was never going to be okay
Emily Skov-Nielsen The Knowing Animals
Sarah Venart I Am the Big Heart
Ian Williams Word Problems
2022 Charlie Petch Why I Was Late Winner [34]
Andrea Actis Grey All Over Nominee [35]
George Elliott Clarke J'Accuse...!
Molly Cross-Blanchard Exhibitionist
Brianna Ferguson A Nihilist Walks Into a Bar
Rayanne Haines Tell the Birds Your Body Is Not A Gun
Susan Holbrook Ink Earl
Dallas Hunt Creeland
Nathaniel G. Moore Constrictor
Marguerite Pigeon The Endless Garment
Charles C. Smith Searching for Eastman
Jeremy Stewart In Singing, He Composed a Song
Dane Swan Love and Other Failed Religions
Assiyah Jamilla Touré Autowar
Peter Unwin The Infinite Park
2023 Sarah Ens Flyway Winner [31]
Carellin Brooks Learned Nominee [32]
Conyer Clayton But the Sun, and the Ships, and the Fish, and the Waves
Sophie Crocker Brat
Adebe DeRango-Adem Vox Humana
Candace de Taeye Pronounced/Workable
Michael Fraser The Day-Breakers
Luke Hathaway The Affirmations
Jim Johnstone Infinity Network
David Ly Dream Of Me As Water
Tyler Pennock Blood
Daniel Scott Tysdal The End Is in the Middle
Jennifer Zilm First-Time Listener

Short fiction[edit]

ReLit Award Short Fiction winners and shortlists
Year Author(s) Title Result Ref.
2001 Mark Anthony Jarman 19 Knives Winner [10]
Paul Glennon How Did You Sleep? Nominee [10]
Steven Hayward Buddha Stevens
Don Kerr Love and the Bottle
Annabel Lyon Oxygen
Jan Thornhill Drought
2002 Bill Gaston Mount Appetite Winner [12]
Richard Cumyn Viking Brides Nominee
Kristi-Ly Green Nits
2003 Sean Johnston A Day Does Not Go By Winner
Richard Cumyn The Obstacle Course Nominee
Corey Frost My Own Devices
Emily Schultz Black Coffee Night
2004 Tony Burgess Fiction for Lovers Winner
Phlip Arima Broken Accidents Nominee
Dana Bath Universal Recipients
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer Way Up
2005 James Grainger The Long Slide Winner
Lance Blomgren Corner Pieces Nominee
Corey Frost The Worthwhile Flux
James Marshall Let's Not Let a Little Thing Like the End of the World Come Between Us
2006 Barry Webster The Sound of All Flesh Winner
Ami Sands Brodoff Bloodknots Nominee
Keath Fraser 13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger
Goran Simić Yesterday's People
2007 Bill Gaston Gargoyles Winner [13]
Ryan Arnold The Coward Files Nominee
Krista Bridge The Virgin Spy
Tim Conley Whatever Happens
Sharon English Zero Gravity
Nathan Sellyn Indigenous Beasts
Damian Tarnopolsky Lanzmann and Other Stories
Russell Wangersky The Hour of Bad Decisions
Cathleen With Skids
2008 Roberta Rees Long After Fathers Winner [14]
Salvatore Difalco Black Rabbit Nominee
Elyse Friedman Long Story Short
Liane Keightley Seven Openings of the Head
Dave Margoshes Bix's Trumpet
Christian McPherson Six Ways to Sunday
P. K. Page Up on the Roof
2009 Lisa Foad The Night Is a Mouth Winner
Arjun Basu Squishy Nominee
Ian Colford Evidence
Mark Anthony Jarman My White Planet
Don McLellan In the Quiet After Slaughter
Pamela Stewart Elysium
Betsy Trumpener The Butcher of Penetang
2010 Stuart Ross Buying Cigarettes for the Dog Winner [15][16]
David Derry Sentimental Exorcisms Nominee
Amy Jones What Boys Like
Matt Lennox Men of Salt, Men of Earth
Steven Mayoff Fatted Calf Blues
Ryan Turner What We're Made Of
Richard Van Camp The Moon of Letting Go
2011 Tony Burgess Ravenna Gets Winner
Darryl Joel Berger Punishing Ugly Children Nominee
Michelle Berry I Still Don’t Even Know You
Ivan E. Coyote Missed Her
Brian Joseph Davis Ronald Reagan, My Father
Jenn Farrell The Devil You Know
Jonathan Papernick There Is No Other
Anne Perdue I’m a Registered Nurse Not a Whore
Teri Vlassopoulos Bats or Swallows
2012 Greg Kearney Pretty Winner
Carolyn Black The Odious Child Nominee
Matthew Firth Shag Carpet Action
Daniel Griffin Stopping for Strangers
Jesus Hardwell Easy Living
Mike Spry Distillery Songs
2013 Ian Rogers Every House Is Haunted Winner [17]
Wade Bell Tracie's Revenge & Other Stories Nominee
Domenico Capilongo Subtitles
Trevor Clark Escape and Other Stories
Elisabeth de Mariaffi How to Get Along with Women
Alex Leslie People Who Disappear
Sean Virgo Dibidalen
Donald Ward The Weeping Chair
Julie Wilson Seen Reading
2014 Christine Miscione Auxiliary Skins Winner
Astrid Blodgett You Haven't Changed a Bit Nominee
Cliff Burns Exceptions & Deceptions
Austin Clarke They Never Told Me
Kelli Deeth The Other Side of Youth
Cynthia Flood Red Girl Rat Boy
Bill Haugland After it Rains
Sara Heinonen Dear Leaves I Miss You
Martin Hunter The Critic and Other Stories
Colette Maitland Keeping the Peace
Dana Mills Someone Somewhere
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Islands of Decolonial Love
Andrew F. Sullivan All We Want is Everything
Peter Unwin Life Without Death
2015 Megan Gail Coles Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome Winner
Greg Bechtel Boundary Problems Nominee [33]
Kate Cayley How You Were Born
Jon Paul Fiorentino I'm Not Scared of You or Anything
Sean Johnston We Don't Listen to Them
Doretta Lau How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun
Helen Marshall Gifts for the One Who Comes After
Elaine McCluskey Hello, Sweetheart
George McWhirter The Gift of Women
Kathy Page Paradise & Elsewhere
Marguerite Pigeon Some Extremely Boring Drives
Matt Rader What I Want to Tell Goes Like This
Shawn Syms Nothing Looks Familiar
Rolli I Am Currently Working on a Novel
2016 Kevin Hardcastle Debris Winner
Anita Anand Swing in the House Nominee
Donna Besel Lessons from a Nude Man
Jim Christy Bad Day for Ralphie
Tim Conley Dance Moves of the Near Future
Cherie Dimaline A Gentle Habit
Rhonda Douglas Welcome to the Circus
Katherine Fawcett The Little Washer of Sorrows
Hugh Graham Last Words
Mark Anthony Jarman Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
Carole Glasser Langille I Am What I Am Because You Are What You Are
Lana Pesch Moving Parts
Ian Roy Meticulous, Sad and Lonely
Russell Smith Confidence
Jess Taylor Pauls
Richard Van Camp Night Moves
2017 Kris Bertin Bad Things Happen Winner [19]
Kelley Aitken Canadian Shield Nominee
Danila Botha For All the Men and For All the Women I’ve Known
Diane Bracuk Middle-Aged Boys & Girls
Robert Chafe Two Man Tent
Leesa Dean Waiting for the Cyclone
Alban Goulden As If
John Metcalf The Museum at the End of the World
Nathaniel G. Moore Jettison
Catherine Owen The Day of the Dead
Chad Pelley Four-Letter Words
Alice Petersen Worldly Goods
Leon Rooke Swinging Through Dixie
Rea Tarvydas How to Pick Up a Maid in Statue Square
Laura Trunkey Double Dutch
Gisele Villeneuve Rising Abruptly
Russell Wangersky The Path of Most Resistance
Martin West Cretacea & Other Stories from the Badlands
2018 Daniel Zomparelli Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person Winner [20]
Paul Carlucci A Plea for Constant Motion Nominee [21]
Sally Cooper Smells Like Heaven
Veronique Cote and Steve Gagnon I Never Talk About It
Eva Crocker Barrelling Forward
Peter Darbyshire Has the World Ended Yet
Norma Dunning Annie Muktuk and Other Stories
Bill Gaston A Mariner’s Guide to Self Sabotage
Christopher Gudgeon The Encyclopedia of Lies
David Huebert Peninsula Sinking
Annette Lapointe You Are Not Needed Now
Lori McNulty Life on Mars
Stan Rogal Normalwhat’snormal
Richard Rosenbaum Things Don’t Break
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson This Accident of Being Lost
2019 Barry Callaghan All the Lonely People Winner [22]
Melissa Bull The Knockoff Eclipse Nominee
Paul Carlucci The High-Rise in Fort Fierce
Jen Currin Hider/Seeker
Barry Dempster Tread & Other Stories
Aaron Kreuter You and Me, Belonging
Catriona Wright Difficult People
2020 Tracey Waddleton Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious Winner [24][25]
Kris Bertin Use Your Imagination! Nominee
Darci Bysouth Lost Boys
Ian Colford A Dark House and Other Stories
Terry Doyle Dig
Alexander Laidlaw Dead Flowers
David Menear Swallows Playing Chicken
Christine Ottoni Cracker Jacks for Misfits
Julie Paul Meteorites
Ryan Turner Half-Sisters
Richard Van Camp Moccasin Square Gardens
2021 Kristyn Dunnion Stoop City Winner [36]
David Bergen Here the Dark Nominee [28]
Frances Boyle Seeking Shade
Katherine Fawcett The Swan Suit
John Gould The End of Me
Faye Guenther Swimmers in Winter
Genni Gunn Permanent Tourist
Mark Anthony Jarman Czech Techno
Kaie Kellough Dominoes at the Crossroads
Michael Mirolla Paradise Island and Other Galaxies
John O'Neill Goth Girls of Banff
2022 Sydney Hegele The Pump Winner [37]
Meghan Bell Erase and Rewind Nominee [38]
Clint Burnham White Lie
Doug Diaczuk Just Like a Real Person
Norma Dunning Tainna
David Huebert Chemical Valley
D. A. Lockhart Breaking Right
Bruce McDougall Urban Disturbances
Sarah Mintz Handwringers
Alix Ohlin We Want What We Want
Sofi Papamarko Radium Girl
Marion Quednau Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road
Meg Todd Exit Strategies
Daniel Scott Tysdal Wave Forms and Doom Scrolls
Katie Zdybel Equipoise
2023 Francine Cunningham God Isn't Here Today Winner [31]
Peter Abbot Gaiety Nominee [32]
Diane Carley Bodies in Trouble
Rod Carley Grin Reaping
Lisa Fishman World Naked Bike Ride
Kathy Friedman All the Shining People
Elaine McCluskey Rafael Has Pretty Eyes
Alex Pugsley Shimmer
Stuart Ross I Am Claude François and You Are a Bathtub
Kate Story Ferry Back the Gifts
Darcy Tamayose Ezra's Ghost
Kasia Van Schaik We Have Never Lived on Earth
Brent Van Staalduinen Cut Road
Dan K. Woo Taobao

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