2019 WINNERS

In the poetry category, the winner is Robin Richardson for Sit How You Want, published by Signal Editions.

In the short fiction category, the winner is Barry Callaghan for All the Lonely People, published by Exile Editions.

In the novel category, the winner is Andrew Battershill for Marry Bang Kill, published by Goose Lane.

LONG SHORTLIST

Poetry

  • What Your Hands Have Done, Chris Bailey (Nightwood Editions)

  • Safe Words, Michelle Brown (Palimpsest)

  • Mrs. Romanov, Lori Cayer (Porcupine’s Quill)

  • Listen Before Transmit, Dani Couture (Buckrider Books)

  • What Kind of Men Are You, Degan Davis (Brick Books)

  • Anatomic, Adam Dickinson (Coach House)

  • City Poems, Joe Fiorito (Exile Editions)

  • Divided, Linda Frank (Wolsak and Wynn)

  • Quarrels, Eve Joseph (Anvil Press)

  • We Like Feelings. We Are Serious, Julie McIsaac (Buckrider Books)

  • Goodbye Horses, Nathaniel G. Moore (Mansfield)

  • Night on Prose Mountain, bp Nichol (Coach House)

  • Full Circle, Helen Fogwill Porter (Breakwater)

  • Nightlight for Children of Insomniacs, Shannon Quinn (Mansfield)

  • Sit How You Want, Robin Richardson (Signal)

  • Midday at the Super-Kamiokande, Matthew Tierney (Coach House)

 Short Fiction 

  • The Knockoff Eclipse, Melissa Bull (Anvil Press)

  • All the Lonely People, Barry Callaghan (Exile Editions)

  • The High-Rise in Fort Fierce, Paul Carlucci (Goose Lane)

  • Hider/Seeker, Jen Currin (Anvil Press)

  • Tread & Other Stories, Barry Dempster (Tightrope Books)

  • You and Me, Belonging, Aaron Kreuter (Tightrope Books)

  • Difficult People, Catriona Wright (Nightwood Editions)

Novel   

  • Marry Bang Kill, Andrew Battershill (Goose Lane)

  • Queen Solomon, Tamara Faith Berger (Coach House)

  • Army of the Brave and Accidental, Alex Boyd (Nightwood Editions)

  • Atomic Road, Grant Buday (Anvil Press)

  • The Embalmer, Anne-Renee Caille (Coach House)

  • In Which, Louise Carson (Broken Rules Press)

  • Little Beast, Julie Demers (Coach House)

  • The Abandoned, Kyp Harness (Nightwood Editions)

  • Amusement Park of Constant Sorrow, Jason Heroux (Mansfield)

  • No Quarter, John Jantunen (ECW)

  • No Good Asking, Fran Kimmel (ECW)

  • Hummingbird, Devin Krukoff (Freehand Books)

  • Adjacentland, Rabindranath Maharaj (Buckrider Books)

  • Twin Studies, Keith Maillard (Freehand Books)

  • Black Star, Maureen Medved (Anvil Press)

  • The Deserters, Pamela Mulloy (Esplanade Books)

  • Chameleon [Days], Dean Serravalle (Now or Never)