2020 WINNERS

In the poetry category, the winner is Cassandra Blanchard for Fresh Pack of Smokes published by Nightwood Editions.

In the short fiction category, the winner is Tracey Waddleton for Send More Tourists… The Last Ones Were Delicious, published by Breakwater Books.

In the novel category, the winner is Michael Blouin for Skin House, published by Anvil Press.

LONG SHORTLIST

Poetry

  • The Suicide’s Son, James Arthur (Signal Editions)

  • Winter’s Cold Girls, Lisa Baird (Dagger Editions)

  • The National Gallery, Jonathan Ball (Coach House)

  • Renaissance Normcore, Adèle Barclay (Nightwood Editions)

  • NDN Coping Mechanisms, Billy-Ray Belcourt (Anansi)

  • Boom Time, Lindsay Bird (Gaspereau Press)

  • Fresh Pack Of Smokes, Cassandra Blanchard (Nightwood Editions)

  • New And Collected Poems, Tom Dawe (Breakwater)

  • Our Latest In Folktales, Matthew Gwathmey (Brick Books)

  • Bounce House, Jennica Harper (Anvil Press)

  • Breakfast With A Heron, James Hawes (Mansfield Press)

  • The Inflatable Life, Mark Laba (Anvil Press)

  • This Is The Emergency Present, Vincent Pagé (Coach House)

  • Motel Of The Opposable Thumbs, Stuart Ross (Anvil Press)

Short Fiction

  • Use Your Imagination!, Kris Bertin (Vagrant Press)

  • Lost Boys, Darci Bysouth (Thistledown Press)

  • Moccasin Square Gardens, Richard Van Camp (Douglas and McIntyre)

  • A Dark House And Other Stories, Ian Colford (Vagrant Press)

  • Dig, Terry Doyle (Breakwater)

  • Dead Flowers, Alexander Laidlaw (Nightwood Editions)

  • Swallows Playing Chicken, David Menear (Mansfield Press)

  • Cracker Jacks For Misfits, Christine Ottoni (Exile Editions)

  • Meteorites, Julie Paul (Touchwood Editions)

  • Half-Sisters, Ryan Turner (Gaspereau Press)

  • Send More Tourists… The Last Ones Were Delicious, Tracey Waddleton (Breakwater)  

Novel

  • Proof I Was Here, Becky Blake (Wolsack and Wynn)

  • Skin House, Michael Blouin (Anvil Press)

  • Crocuses Hatch From Snow, Jaime Burnet (Vagrant Press)

  • The Western Alienation Merit Badge, Nancy Jo Cullen (Wolsack and Wynn)

  • The Lost Sisters, Andrea Gunraj (Vagrant Press)

  • The Ticking Heart, Andrew Kaufman (Coach House)

  • There Has to Be a Knife, Adnan Khan (Arsenal Pulp) 

  • Itzel I: A Tlatelolco Awakening, Sarah Xerar Murphy (Guernica Editions)

  • This Is Agatha Falling, Heather Nolan (Pedlar Press)

  • Dual Citizens, Alix Ohlin (Anansi)

  • Provisionally Yours, Antanas Sileika (Biblioasis)

  • Crow, Amy Spurway (Goose Lane)

  • We All Will Be Received, Leslie Vryenhoek (Breakwater)