2021 WINNERS

In the poetry category, the winner is Simina Banu for Pop, published by Coach House.

In the short fiction category, the winner is Kristyn Dunnion for Stoop City, published by Biblioasis. 

In the novel category, the winner is Susan Sanford Blades for Fake It So Real, published by Nightwood Editions.

LONG SHORTLIST

Poetry

  • Swivelmount, Ken Babstock (Coach House)

  • Pop, Simina Banu (Coach House)

  • We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite, Conyer Clayton (Guernica Editions)

  • The Headless Man, Peter Dubé (Anvil Press)

  • Anthesis: A Memoir, Sue Goyette (Gaspereau Press)

  • Niagara & Government, Phil Hall (Pedlar Press)

  • Roguelike, Matthew Henderson (Anansi)

  • I Know Something You Don’t Know, Amy LeBlanc (Gordon Hill Press)

  • Mythical Man, David Ly (Palimpsest Press)

  • The Knowing Animals, Emily Skov-Nielsen (Brick Books)

  • Cult Life, Kyeren Regehr (Pedlar Press)

  • The Old Man In The Mirror Isn’t Me, Ray Robertson (Exile Editions)

  • it was never going to be okay, jaye simpson (Nightwood Editions)

  • I Am The Big Heart, Sarah Venart (Brick Books)

  • Word Problems, Ian Williams (Coach House)

Short Fiction

  • Here The Dark, David Bergen (Biblioasis) 

  • Seeking Shade, Frances Boyle (Porcupine's Quill)

  • Stoop City, Kristyn Dunnion (Biblioasis)

  • The Swan Suit, Katherine Fawcett (Douglas & McIntyre)

  • The End Of Me, John Gould (Freehand)

  • Swimmers in Winter, Faye Guenther (Invisible)

  • Permanent Tourist, Genni Gunn (Signature Editions)

  • Czech Techno, Mark Anthony Jarman (Anvil Press)

  • Dominoes At The Crossroads, Kaie Kellough (Esplanade)

  • Paradise Island and Other Galaxies, Micheal Mirolla (Exile Editions)

  • Goth Girls Of Banff, John O’Neill (NeWest Press)

Novel

  • Always Brave, Sometimes Kind, Katie Bickell (Brindle & Glass)

  • Fake It So Real, Susan Sanford Blades (Nightwood Editions)

  • All I Ask, Eva Crocker (Anansi)

  • Seeing Martin, Su Croll (Pedlar Press)

  • Honey Butter Pig Bread, Francesca Ekwuyasi (Arsenal Pulp)

  • Throw Down You Shadows, Deborah Hemming (Vagrant Press)

  • Dirty Birds, Morgan Murray (Breakwater)

  • The Baudelaire Fractal, Lisa Robertson (Coach House)

  • Fair, Ed Seaward (Porcupine’s Quill)

  • Noopiming: The Cure For White Ladies, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Anansi)

  • After Elias, Eddy Boudel Tan (Dundurn)

  • Fauna, Christiane Vadnais (Coach House)