2018 WINNERS

In the poetry category, the winner is Rhonda Ganz for Frequent, Small Loads of Laundry, published by Mother Tongue.

In the short fiction category, the winner is Daniel Zomparelli for Everything is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person, published by Arsenal Pulp.

In the novel category, the winner is Martin West for Long Ride Yellow, published by Anvil Press.

LONG SHORTLIST

Poetry

  • Children Shouldn’t Use Knives and Other Tales, Shirley Camia (At Bay Press)

  • Everything We’ve Loved Comes Back to Find Us, Allan Cooper (Gaspereau Press)

  • The Corpses of the Future, Lynn Crosbie (Anansi)

  • Bad Engine, Michael Dennis (Anvil Press)

  • Museum of Kindness, Susan Elmslie (Brick Books)

  • Frequent, Small Loads of Laundry, Rhonda Ganz (Mother Tongue)

  • The Chemical Life, Jim Johnstone (Véhicule Press)

  • Dysphoria, Shane Neilson (Porcupine’s Quill)

  • Dazzle Ships, Jamie Sharpe (ECW)

  • A Place Called No Homeland, Kai Cheng Thom (Arsenal Pulp)

  • The Least You Can Do Is Be Magnificent, Steve Venright (Anvil Press)

  • Excitement Tax, John Emil Vincent (DC Books)

  • The Truth is Told Better This Way, Liz Worth (Bookthug)

  • Whatever, Iceberg, Tara-Michelle Ziniuk (Mansfield Press)

Short Fiction

  • A Plea for Constant Motion, Paul Carlucci (Astoria)

  • Smells Like Heaven, Sally Cooper (ARP)

  • I Never Talk About It, Veronique Cote & Steve Gagnon (QC Fiction)

  • Barrelling Forward, Eva Crocker (Astoria)

  • Has the World Ended Yet, Peter Darbyshire (Buckrider Books)

  • Annie Muktuk and Other Stories, Norma Dunning (University of Alberta Press)

  • A Mariner’s Guide to Self Sabotage, Bill Gaston (Douglas & McIntyre)

  • The Encyclopedia of Lies, Christopher Gudgeon (Anvil Press)

  • Peninsula Sinking, David Huebert (Biblioasis)

  • You are Not Needed Now, Annette Lapointe (Anvil)

  • Life on Mars, Lori McNulty (Goose Lane)

  • Normalwhat’snormal, Stan Rogal (Insomniac)

  • Things Don’t Break, Richard Rosenbaum (Tightrope Books)

  • This Accident of Being Lost, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Astoria)

  • Everything is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person, Daniel Zomparelli (Arsenal Pulp)

 Novel

  • The Prisoner and the Chaplain, Michelle Berry (Buckrider)

  • Tarry This Night, Kristyn Dunnion (Arsenal Pulp)

  • Leave Us In Peace, Marty Elkins (Ginger Press)

  • The End of Music, Jamie Fitzpatrick (Breakwater)

  • You Are Among Monsters, Jon R. Flieger (Palimpsest Press)

  • In the Cage, Kevin Hardcastle (Biblioasis)

  • Small Claims, Andrew Kaufman (Invisible)

  • Dying Behaviour of Cats, Marc Labriola (Quattro Books)

  • Touching Strangers, Stacey Madden (Now Or Never)

  • Only the Devil Is Here, Stephen Michell (Chizine)

  • Skeet Love, Craig Francis Power (Breakwater)

  • In Every Wave, Charles Quimper (QC Fiction)

  • To Me You Seem Giant, Greg Rhyno (NeWest Press)

  • Long Ride Yellow, Martin West (Anvil Press)