ReLit Awards

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

Subtitled Ideas, Not Money the main title of the awards is short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, and Relighting Literature. The awards were conceived by Harvey as an alternative to larger mainstream prizes such as the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Awards. There is no money awarded for the prize. Instead recipients receive a simple gold ring.

Nominees and winners

Year Novel Short fiction Poetry

2001[2]

  • Blue ribbon S. D. Johnson, Hymns to Phenomena
  • Mark Cochrane, Change Room
  • Susan Gillis, Swimming Among the Ruins
  • Adeena Karasick, Dyssemia Sleaze
  • John Reibetanz, Mining for Sun
  • Matt Robinson, A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking

2002

2003

  • Blue ribbon Sean Johnston, A Day Does Not Go By
  • Richard Cumyn, The Obstacle Course
  • Corey Frost, My Own Devices
  • Emily Schultz, Black Coffee Night

2004

2005

  • Blue ribbon James Grainger, The Long Slide
  • Lance Blomgren, Corner Pieces
  • Corey Frost, The Worthwhile Flux
  • James Marshall, Let's Not Let a Little Thing Like the End of the World Come Between Us

2006

  • Blue ribbon Leon Rooke, Hot Poppies
  • B. W. Powe, The Unsaid Passing
  • Donato Mancini, Ligatures
  • Eric Miller, In the Scaffolding

2007

2008

  • Blue ribbon Gil Adamson, The Outlander
  • Nadia Bozak, Orphan Love
  • 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
  • Blue ribbon Roberta Rees, Long After Fathers
  • Salvatore Difalco, Black Rabbit
  • 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

  • Blue ribbon Lisa Foad, The Night Is a Mouth
  • Arjun Basu, Squishy
  • 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

  • Blue ribbon Stuart Ross, Buying Cigarettes for the Dog
  • David Derry, Sentimental Exorcisms
  • 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
  • Blue ribbon Gillian Jerome, Red Nest
  • Gregory Betts, The Others Raisd in Me
  • 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

  • Blue ribbon Tony Burgess, Ravenna Gets
  • Michelle Berry, I Still Don’t Even Know You
  • Darryl Joel Berger, Punishing Ugly Children
  • 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

  • Blue ribbon Greg Kearney, Pretty
  • Carolyn Black, The Odious Child
  • Matthew Firth, Shag Carpet Action
  • Daniel Griffin, Stopping for Strangers
  • Jesus Hardwell, Easy Living
  • Mike Spry, Distillery Songs

2013[3]

  • Blue ribbon Ian Rogers, Every House Is Haunted
  • Wade Bell, Tracie's Revenge & Other Stories
  • 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
  • Blue ribbon Steven Price, Omens in the Year of the Ox
  • Ronna Bloom, Cloudy with a Fire in the Basement
  • Cliff Burns, New and Selected Poems
  • Jason Heroux, Natural Capital
  • Leah Horlick, Riot Lung
  • Grant Loveys, Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed
  • Christine McNair, Conflict
  • Erin Mouré, The Unmentionable
  • Catherine Owen, Trobairitz
  • Ian Williams, Personals

2014[4]

  • Blue ribbon Nathaniel G. Moore, Savage 1986-2011
  • Jeff Beamish, Sneaker Wave
  • 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
  • Blue ribbon Christine Miscione, Auxiliary Skins
  • Astrid Blodgett, You Haven't Changed a Bit
  • 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 Simpson, Islands of Decolonial Love
  • Andrew F. Sullivan, All We Want is Everything
  • Peter Unwin, Life Without Death
  • Blue ribbon Charmaine Cadeau, Placeholder
  • Stephen Brockwell, Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books
  • 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
  • David Seymour, For Display Purposes Only
  • Ann Shin, The Family China
  • Jacqueline Turner, The Ends of the Earth
  • Stuart Ross, Our Days in Vaudeville

2015

  • Blue ribbon Megan Gail Coles, Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome
  • Greg Bechtel, Boundary Problems
  • 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
  • Rolli, I Am Currently Working on a Novel
  • Shawn Syms, Nothing Looks Familiar
  • Blue ribbon Sina Queyras, MxT
  • 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
  • Rolli, Mavor's Bones
  • 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

References

  1. "Shortlists announced for ReLit Awards". National Post, August 31, 2010.
  2. "Diary of an accidental judge". Vancouver Sun, May 12, 2001.
  3. "And the winners of the 2013 ReLit Awards are....". The Province, December 20, 2013.
  4. "The 2014 ReLit Shortlists". The Relit Awards, December 24, 2014.

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