The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English by writers from Quebec. They were known from 1988 to 1998 as the QSPELL Awards.
Categories
They are currently presented in seven literary categories:
- Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
- Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
- A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
- Concordia University First Book Prize
- QWF Prize for Children's & Young Adult Literature
- Cole Foundation Prize for Translation (French and English, with target language alternating each year)
- 3Macs Carte Blanche Prize for the best work published in the QWF's online literary journal Carte Blanche.
A Community Award is also frequently presented to a person who has played a significant role in building and supporting Quebec's anglophone writing community.
The awards have been presented annually since 1988.
Winners
Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize, established in 2008, is presented annually for children's and young adult books. Picture books with text and books intended for beginner readers are eligible in even-numbered years, whereas books intended for middle grade or young adult readers are eligible in odd-numbered years. The award was established in 2008, was sponsored by sponsored by Janet and John Blachford beginning in 2014, and has been sponsored in the memory of Janet Savage Blachford since 2018.
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Raquel Rivera | Orphan Ahwak | Winner | |
| 2009 | Monique Polak | What World Is Left | Winner | |
| Jane Barclay | Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion | Shortlist | ||
| Marie-Louise Gay | When Stella Was Very, Very Small | Shortlist | ||
| 2010 | Caryl Cude Mullin | Rough Magic | Winner | |
| Catherine Austen | Walking Backward | Shortlist | ||
| Monique Polak | The Middle of Everywhere | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | Alan Silberberg | Milo | Winner | |
| Geneviève Coté | Without You | Shortlist | ||
| Alex Epstein | The Circle Cast: The Lost Years of Morgan LeFay | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | Catherine Austen | 26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6 | Winner | |
| Monique Polak | Pyro | Shortlist | ||
| Lori Weber | Yellow Mini | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Paul Blackwell | Undercurrent | Winner | |
| Melinda Cochrane | Desperate Freedom | Shortlist | ||
| Anne Renaud | The Extraordinary Life of Anna Swan | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Monique Polak | Hate Mail | Winner | |
| Marie-Louise Gay | Any Questions? | Shortlist | ||
| Monique Polak | Straight Punch | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | No award was presented in 2015 | |||
| 2016 | Bonnie Farmer, illus. by Marie Lafrance | Oscar Lives Next Door | Winner | |
| Sara O'Leary, illus. by Julie Morstad | This Is Sadie | Shortlist | ||
| Mélanie Watt | Bug in a Vacuum | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Karen Nesbitt | Subject to Change | Winner | |
| Kate Lavut | Chico | Shortlist | ||
| Lori Weber | Lightning Lou | Shortlist | ||
| 2018 | Anne Renaud | Mr. Crum's Potato Predicament | Winner | |
| Bunmi Laditan, illus. by Tom Knight | The Big Bed | Shortlist | ||
| Andrée Poulin, illus. by Félix Girard | That`s Not Hockey | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | Raquel Rivera | Yipee's Gold Mountain | Winner | |
| Louise Carson | In Which | Shortlist | ||
| Monique Polak | I Am a Feminist: Claiming the F-Word in Turbulent Times | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Marie-Louise Gay | The Three Brothers | Winner | |
| Matthew Forsythe | Pokko and the Drum | Shortlist | ||
| Marie-Louise Gay | Fern and Horn | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Monique Polak | Room for One More | Winner | |
| Dani Jansen | The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life | Shortlist | ||
| Nadine Neema | Journal of a Travelling Girl | Shortlist | ||
| Su J. Sokol | Zee | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | Matthew Forsythe | Mina | Winner | |
| Marie-Louise Gay | I'm Not Sydney | Shortlist | ||
| Elise Gravel | Pink, Blue, and You | Shortlist | ||
| Gillian Sze | You Are My Favorite Color | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | Edeet Ravel | A Boy Is Not a Ghost | Winner | |
| Sophie Escabasse | Witches of Brooklyn: S'More Magic | Shortlist | ||
| Jennifer A. Irwin | Captain Skidmark Dances with Destiny | |||
| 2024 | Marie-Louise Gay | Hopscotch | Winner | |
| Marie-Louise Gay | Walking Trees | Shortlist | ||
| Etua Snowball and Emma Crossland | The Wolf Pup | |||
| Yayo | SOS Water | |||
carte blanche Prize
The carte blanche Prize, established in 2008, is awarded annual "in recognition of an outstanding submission to QWF's online literary journal, carte blanche, by a Quebec writer, artist, or translator. Winners receive a cash prize and a unique trophy—'The Lori'—created by Montreal artist Glen LeMesurier."
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | J. R. Carpenter | "Wyoming Is Haunted" | Winner | |
| 2009 | Julie Mahfood | "Changing Winter Tires" | Winner | |
| 2010 | Mark Paterson | "Something Important and Delicate" | Winner | |
| Sarah Gilbert | "Picnic" | Second | ||
| Finn Clarke | "Letters Out" | Third | ||
| 2011 | Gillian Sze | "Like This Together" | Winner | |
| Daniel Ha | "A Sunset" | Second | ||
| Rodica Draghincescu, trans. by Howard Scott | "EX(o)ilium" | Third | ||
| 2012 | Heather Davis | "Aria" | Winner | |
| Chris Chew | "The Warmth of Steel and Snow" | Second | ||
| Ian McGillis | "William and Robbie" | Third | ||
| 2013 | Juliet Waters | "Bluefooted" | Winner | |
| Lindsay Foran | "Finding Snow in Wyoming" | Second | ||
| Caitlin Stall Paquet | "Death in the Midden" | Third | ||
| 2014 | Elaine Kennedy and Sheryl Curtis (trans.) | "It's Late, Doctor Schweitzer" by Didier Leclair | Winner | |
| Larissa Andrusyshyn | "Dung Beetle" | Second | ||
| Mark Paterson | "The Dad Was Drinking" | Third | ||
| 2015 | Deborah Van Slet | "Self-Serve" | Winner | |
| Cathon | "Old Shit I Still Feel Guilty About" | Second | ||
| Deborah Ostrovsky | "Holy Treasures" | Third | ||
| 2016 | Lesley Trites | "Rabbits with Red Eyes" | Winner | |
| Larissa Andrusyshyn | "The Radium Girls" | Second | ||
| André Simoneau | "Bridges We Build" | Third | ||
| 2017 | Domenico Martinello | "Ferrante in the Cellar: A Vulgar Appreciation" | Winner | |
| Kasia Juno | "The House On Carbonate" | Second | ||
| Lauren Turner | "Self-Trolling" | Third | ||
| 2018 | Alisha Dukelow | "loss of (her)self" | Winner | |
| Oana Avasilichioaei | "Tracking Animal" | Second | ||
| Kaie Kellough | "Bow" | Third | ||
| 2019 | Eliza Robertson | "Aquanauts" | Winner | |
| Maria Camila Arias | "On killing a spider" | Second | ||
| Alexei Perry Cox | "My (Your) Home Movie" | Third | ||
| 2020 | Alexei Perry Cox | "It's a Slow Ride" | Winner | |
| Kelly Norah Drukker | "Thin" | Second | ||
| Wang Tong | "Emote: A Time Capsule" | Third | ||
| 2021 | Noa Padawer-Blatt | "Tricks" | Winner | |
| M-X Marin | "Sickness in Limbo" | Second | ||
| Helen Chau Bradley | "The Queue" | Third | ||
| 2022 | Meryem Yildiz | "Some Kind of Light" | Winner | |
| Neil Smith | "The Salad Spinner" | Second | ||
| Simon Brown | "Gardens of Dirty Laundry" | Third | ||
| 2023 | H. Felix Chau Bradley | "Disorientations" | Winner | |
| Katia Grubisic | "Relieved" | Shortlist | ||
| Laura Mota-Juang | "The Cows Are Benevolent and Full of Flies" | |||
| 2024 | Lena Palacios | "Playtime in Carmella's Room" | Winner | |
| Deborah Ostrovsky | "Zoologies" | Shortlist | ||
| Erin Robinsong | "Bone-Eating Snot Flower" |
The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation, also known as Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole and established in 1998, is awarded annually to books written by an English-language Quebec writer or an English-language Quebec translator of a book by a French author. English-language Quebec writers are eligible in even-numbered years, whereas English-language Quebec translators are eligible in odd-numbered years.
| Year | Translator | Author | Title | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Hélène Rioux | Yann Martel | Self | Winner | |
| 1999 | Sheila Fischman | Marie-Claire Blais | These Festive Nights | Winner | |
| Patricia Claxton | François Girard | Gabrielle Roy: A Life / Gabrielle Roy: Une Vie | Shortlist | ||
| Donald Winkler | Pierre Nepveu | Romans-fleuves | Shortlist | ||
| 2000 | Claire Dé | Robert Majzels | Montréal barbare / City of Forgetting | Winner | |
| Marie Évangeline Arsenault | Carolyn Marie Souaid | Fille au bord de l'eau / Swimming Into the Light | Shortlist | ||
| Ivan Steenhout | Trevor Ferguson | Le Kinkajou /The Kinkajou | Shortlist | ||
| 2001 | Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott | Gilles Havard | The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701: French-Native Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century / La Grand Paix de Montréal de 1701: les voies de la diplomatie franco-amérindienne | Winner | |
| Linda Leith | Louis Gauthier | Travels with an Umbrella: An Irish Journey / Voyage en Irelande avec un parapluie | Shortlist | ||
| Fred A. Reed | Aki Shimazaki | Tsubaki | Shortlist | ||
| 2002 | Pan Bouyoucas | Sheila Arnopoulos | Dans l'ombre de Maggie / Jackrabbit Moon | Winner | |
| Michel Saint-Germain | Mary Soderstrom | L'autre ennemi / Finding the Enemy | Shortlist | ||
| Ivan Steenhout | Elyse Gasco | Bye-Bye, bébé / Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? | Shortlist | ||
| 2003 | Fred A. Reed and David Homel | Monique Proulx | The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle / Le Coeur est un muscle involuntaire | Winner | |
| Robert Majzels | France Daigle | A Fine Passage / Un fin passage | Shortlist | ||
| Gail Scott | Michael Delisle | Helen with a Secret / Helen avec un secret | Shortlist | ||
| 2004 | Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné | Neil Bissoondath | Un baume pour le cœur / Doing the Heart Good | Winner | |
| Nicole and Émile Martel | Yann Martel | L'histoire de Pi / Life of Pi | Shortlist | ||
| Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné | David Homel | L'analyste / The Speaking Cure | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | Fred A. Reed | Thierry Hentsch | Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition / Raconter et mourir | Winner | |
| Fred A. Reed and David Homel | Martine Desjardins | ll That Glitters / L'élu du hazard | Shortlist | ||
| Daniel Sloate | Hélène Dorion | No End to the World / Sans bord, sans bout du monde | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné | Neil Bissoondath | La Clameur des ténèbres / The Unyielding Clamour of the Night | Winner | |
| Paule Champoux | Louisa Blair | Les Anglos: La face cachée de Québec, Tome 1, 1608–1850 / The Anglos: The Hidden Face of Quebec City (Volume 1) | Shortlist | ||
| Dominique Fortier | Mark Abley | Parlez-vous Boro? /Spoken Here | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | Lazer Lederhendler | Gaétan Soucy | The Immaculate Conception / L'immaculée conception | Winner | |
| Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott | Madeleine Gagnon | My Name Is Bosnia / Je m'appelle Bosnia | Shortlist | ||
| Robert Majzels and Erín Moure | Nicole Brossard | Notebook of Roses and Civilization / Cahier de roses & de civilisation | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné | Neil Smith | Big Bang / Bang Crunch | Winner | |
| Hélène Rioux | Jeffrey Moore | Les artistes de la mémoire / The Memory Artists | Shortlist | ||
| Sophie Voillot | Rawi Hage | Parfum de poussière / De Niro's Game | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | Lazer Lederhendler | Nicolas Dickner | Nikolski | Winner | |
| Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood | Nicole Brossard | Fences in Breathing / La Capture du sombre | Shortlist | ||
| David Homel and Fred A. Reed | Monique Proulx | Wildlives / Champagne | Shortlist | ||
| 2010 | Paule Champoux | David Mendel | Québec, ville du patrimoine mondial / Quebec, World Heritage City | Winner | |
| Hélène Rioux | Taras Grescoe | Notre Mer Nourricière / Bottomfeeder | Shortlist | ||
| Michelle Tisseyre | Byron Rempel | Sans limites: la vie exceptionelle des jumelles Rhona et Rhoda Wurtele, olympiennes et pionnières du ski au Canada / No Limits: The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele–Canada's Olympian Skiing Pioneers | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | Lazer Lederhendler | Nicolas Dickner | Apocalypse for Beginners / Tarmac | Winner | |
| Judith Cowan | Paul Bélanger | Meridian Line / Origine des méridiens | Shortlist | ||
| Donald Winkler | Georges Leroux | Partita for Glenn Gould / Partita pour Glenn Gould | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | Éric Fontaine | Doug Harris | T'es con, point /YOU Comma Idiot | Winner | |
| Marie Frankland | David Solway | Passage de Franklin / Franklin's Passage | Shortlist | ||
| Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné | Colin McAdam | Fall | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Donald Winkler | Pierre Nepveu | The Major Verbs / Les Verbes majeurs | Winner | |
| Linda Gaboriau | Lise Tremblay | Judith's Sister / La Soeur de Judith | Shortlist | ||
| Nigel Spencer | Marie-Claire Blais | Mai at the Predators' Ball / Mai au bal des prédateurs | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | No award was presented in 2014 | ||||
| 2015 | Debbie Blythe | Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier | Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide / La Turquie et le fantôme arménien: sur les traces du genocide | Winner | |
| Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott | Madeleine Gagnon | As Always / Depuis Toujours | Shortlist | ||
| Sheila Fischman | Kim Thúy | Mãn | Shortlist | ||
| 2016 | Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné | Mordecai Richler | Solomon Gursky / Solomon Gursky Was Here | Winner | |
| Daniel Canty | Erín Moure | Petits Théâtres / Little Theatres | Shortlist | ||
| Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné | Mordecai Richler | Joshua / Joshua Then and Now | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Peter Feldstein | Jean-Marie Fecteau | The Pauper's Freedom: Crime and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Quebec / La liberté pauvre | Winner | |
| Karen Ocana | Louise Dupre | Rooms / Chambres | Shortlist | ||
| Claire Holden Rothman | David Bouchet | Sun of a Distant Land / Soleil | Shortlist | ||
| Donald Winkler | Josephine Bacon | A Tea in the Tundra: Nipishapui Nete Mushuat / Un the dans la toundra: Nipishapui Nete Mushuat | Shortlist | ||
| 2018 | Dominique Fortier | Heather O'Neill | Hôtel Lonely Hearts / The Hotel Lonely Hearts | Winner | |
| Rachel Martinez | Peter Kirby | Vague d'effroi / The Dead of Winter | Shortlist | ||
| Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné | Kelly Norah Drukker | Petits feux / Small Fires | Shortlist | ||
| Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné | Louise Penny | Un Outrage Mortel / A Great Reckoning | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | Oana Avasilichioaei | Catherine Lalonde | The Faerie Devouring / La dévoration des fées | Winner | |
| Helge Dascher and Aleshia Jensen | Julie Delporte | This Woman's Work / Moi aussi je voulais l'emporter | Shortlist | ||
| Aleshia Jensen | Mathieu Poulin | Explosions / Des explosions | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Benoît Laflamme | Melissa Bull | Éclipse électrique / The Knockoff Eclipse | Winner | |
| Catherine Ego | Robyn Maynard | NoirEs sous surveillance. Esclavage, répression et violence d'État au Canada / Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present | Shortlist | ||
| Catherine Ego | Paige Cooper | Zolitude | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Sarah Henzi | An Antane-Kapesh | I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Je suis une maudite sauvagesse/Eukuan nin matshimanitu innu-iskueu and Tante nana etutamin mitassi? / Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays?) | Winner | |
| Sheila Fischman | Kim Thúy | Em | Shortlist | ||
| Donald Winkler | Frédérick Lavoie | Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro's Twilight / Avant l'Après | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | Nicolas Calvé | Samir Shaheen-Hussain | Plus aucun enfant autochtone arraché / Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada | Winner | |
| Jonathan Lamy | Rachel McCrum | Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales / The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate | Shortlist | ||
| Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné | Mordecai Richler | Fils d'un tout petit héros / Son of a Smaller Hero | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | Katia Grubisic | David Clerson | To See Out the Night (Dormir sans tête) | Winner | |
| Aleshia Jensen, Bronwyn Haslam | Mirion Malle | This Is How I Disappear (C'est comme ça que je disparais) | Shortlist | ||
| Alex Manley | Daphné B. | Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism (Maquillée) | |||
| Peter McCambridge | Éric Dupont | Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (La Logueuse) | |||
| 2024 | Stéphane Martelly | Kaie Kellough | Équateur magnétique (Magnetic Equator) | Winner | |
| Paul Gagné | Ann-Marie MacDonald | Fayne: L'histoire fantastique de C. Bell (Fayne) | Shortlist | ||
| Émilie Laramée | Su J. Sokol | Les lignes invisibles (Cycling to Asylum) | |||
| Luba Markovskaia | Gillian Sze | Peler les ramboutans (Peeling Rambutan) | |||
| Sophie Voillot | Sean Michaels | Te souviens-tu de ta naissance? (Do You Remember Being Born?) | |||
Concordia University First Book Prize
The Concordia University First Book Prize, established in 1996 and sponsored by Concordia University, is awarded annually to the first book of an English-language Quebec writer. The award has been known as the First Book Award (1996–1998), McAuslan First Book Prize (1999–2009), the QWF First Book Prize (2010), and the Concordia University First Book Prize (2011–present).
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Blema Steinberg | Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam | Winner | |
| 1997 | Irene Burstyn | Picking Up Pearls | Winner | |
| Ashok Chandwani | Buntys and Pinkies: Chronicles of a New Canadian | Shortlist | ||
| Maurice Podbrey and R. Bruce Henry | Half Man, Half Beast: Making a Life in Canadian Theatre | Shortlist | ||
| 1998 | Matthew Friedman | Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution | Winner | |
| Judith Cowan | More Than Life Itself | Shortlist | ||
| Tess Fragoulis | Stories to Hide From Your Mother | Shortlist | ||
| 1999 | Elyse Gasco | Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby? | Winner | |
| Jeffrey Moore | Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain | Shortlist | ||
| Jori Smith | Charlevoix County, 1930 | Shortlist | ||
| 2000 | Taras Grescoe | Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec | Winner | |
| Andrew Steinmetz | Wardlife, the Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk | Shortlist | ||
| Janine Stingel | Social Discredit, Anti-Semitism, Social Credit and the Jewish Response | Shortlist | ||
| 2001 | Jack Todd | A Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story | Winner | |
| Michael Blair | If Looks Could Kill | Shortlist | ||
| Monika Kin Gagnon | Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art | Shortlist | ||
| 2002 | Nalini Warriar | Blues from the Malabar Coast | Winner | |
| Derek Grout | Empress of Ireland: The Story of an Edwardian Liner | Shortlist | ||
| Morton Weinfeld | Like Everyone Else…But Different: The Paradoxical Success of Canadian Jews | Shortlist | ||
| 2003 | Neale McDevitt | One Day Even Trevi Will Crumble | Winner | |
| Ian McGillis | A Tourist's Guide to Glengarry | Shortlist | ||
| Corey Frost | My Own Devices | Shortlist | ||
| 2004 | Jaspreet Singh | Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir | Winner | |
| Clayton Bailey | The Expedition | Shortlist | ||
| Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire | Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | Marci Denesiuk | The Far Away Home | Winner | |
| Dimitri Nasrallah | Blackbodying | Winner | ||
| Matthew Fox | Cities of Weather | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | Rawi Hage | De Niro's Game | Winner | |
| Susan Elmslie | I, Nadja, and Other Poems | Shortlist | ||
| Melissa A. Thompson | Dreadful Paris | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | Neil Smith | Bang Crunch | Winner | |
| Angela Carr | Ropewalk | Shortlist | ||
| Nairne Holtz | The Skin Beneath | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | Adam Leith Gollner | The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession | Winner | |
| Liane Keightley | Seven Openings of the Head | Shortlist | ||
| Saleema Nawaz | Mother Superior | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | Eric Siblin | The Cello Suites | Winner | |
| Gillian Sze | Fish Bones | Shortlist | ||
| Alice Zorn | Ruins and Relics | Shortlist | ||
| 2010 | Sean Mills | The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal | Winner | |
| Larissa Andrusyshyn | Mammoth | Shortlist | ||
| Doug Harris | YOU Comma Idiot | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | Ann Scowcroft | The Truth of Houses | Winner | |
| Gabe Foreman | A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People | Shortlist | ||
| Ed Macdonald | Spat the Dummy | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | Alice Petersen | All The Voices Cry | Winner | |
| Tom Abray | Pollen | Shortlist | ||
| Michael Lithgow | Waking in the Tree House | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Andrew Szymanski | The Barista and I | Winner | |
| Connie Guzzo-McParland | The Girls of Piazza d'Amore | Shortlist | ||
| Shelagh Plunkett | The Water Here is Never Blue | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Anna Leventhal | Sweet Affliction | Winner | |
| Sean Michaels | Us Conductors | Shortlist | ||
| Caroline Vu | Palawan Story | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | Anita Anand | Swing in the House and Other Stories | Winner | |
| Mike Steeves | Giving Up | Shortlist | ||
| Joel Wapnick | The View North from Liberal Cemetery | Shortlist | ||
| 2016 | Kelly Norah Drukker | Small Fires | Winner | |
| Sylvain Neuvel | Sleeping Giants | Shortlist | ||
| Chelsea Vowel | Indigenous Writes | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Jocelyn Parr | Uncertain Weights and Measures | Winner | |
| Ariela Freedman | Arabic for Beginners | Shortlist | ||
| J. Jacob Potashnik | The Golem of Hampstead and Other Stories | Shortlist | ||
| 2018 | Paige Cooper | Zolitude | Winner | |
| Robyn Maynard | Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present | Shortlist | ||
| John Emil Vincent | Excitement Tax | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | Lindsay Nixon | nîtisânak | Winner | |
| Ann Lambert | The Birds That Stay | Shortlist | ||
| Rita Pomade | Seeker: A Sea Odyssey | Shortlist | ||
| Ken Victor | We Were Like Everyone Else | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Madelaine Caritas Longman | The Danger Model | Winner | |
| Kama La Mackerel | ZOM-FAM | Shortlist | ||
| Yusuf Saadi | Pluviophile | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Samir Shaheen-Hussain | Fighting for a Hand to Hold | Winner | |
| Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch | Knot Body | Shortlist | ||
| Balfour M. Mount | Ten Thousand Crossroads: The Path As I Remember It | Shortlist | ||
| Aimee Wall | We, Jane | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | Trynne Delaney | the half-drowned | Winner | |
| Baharan Baniahmadi | Prophetess | Shortlist | ||
| D. M. Bradford | Dream of No One But Myself | Shortlist | ||
| Kasia Van Schaik | We Have Never Lived on Earth | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | Andrew Stobo Sniderman, Douglas Sanderson | Valley of the Birdtail | Winner | |
| Sheima Benembarek | Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America | Shortlist | ||
| Tanya Standish McIntyre | The House You Were Born In | |||
| Michelle Syba | End Times | |||
| 2024 | Sabrina Reeves | Little Crosses | Winner | |
| Marjorie Silverman | (Un)spoken | Shortlist | ||
| Sivan Slapak | Here Is Still Here |
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, established in 1988, is awarded annually to an English-language non-fiction book written by a Quebec author. The award was original named the Non-fiction Prize, though it changed in 1999.
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Witold Rybczynski | Home: A Short History of an Idea | Winner | |
| 1989 | Witold Rybczynski | The Most Beautiful House in the World | Winner | |
| Louise Abbott | The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence | Shortlist | ||
| Dominique Clift | The Secret Kingdom: Interpretations of the Canadian Character | Shortlist | ||
| 1990 | David Solway | Education Lost: Reflections on Contemporary Pedogogical Practice | Winner | |
| Marc Raboy | Missed Opportunities: The Story of Canada's Broadcasting Policy | Shortlist | ||
| Charles Taylor | Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity | Shortlist | ||
| 1991 | Donald MacKay | Flight from Famine | Winner | |
| Reid Scowen | A Different Vision: The English in Quebec in the 90s | Shortlist | ||
| Margaret Westley | Remembrance of Grandeur: The Anglo-Protestant Elite of Montreal | Shortlist | ||
| 1992 | Mary Meigs | In the Company of Strangers | Winner | |
| Charles Foran | Sketches in Winter | Shortlist | ||
| Charles Taylor | The Malaise of Modernity | Shortlist | ||
| 1993 | Zhimei Zhang | Foxspirit: A Woman in Mao's China | Winner | |
| John Laffey | Civilization and its Discontented | Shortlist | ||
| Ruth Wisse | If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews | Shortlist | ||
| 1994 | Laura S. Groening | E.K. Brown: A Study in Conflict | Winner | |
| Ghitta Caiserman-Roth and Rhoda Cohen | Insights, Discoveries, Surprises | Shortlist | ||
| Laura Smith Groening | E. K. Brown: A Study in Conflict | Shortlist | ||
| 1995 | Charles Foran | The Last House of Ulster: A Family in Belfast | Winner | |
| Sharon Batt | Patient No More: The Politics of Breast Cancer | Shortlist | ||
| Michael Malus | Before the End of the Day: Stories from a Doctor's Journal | Shortlist | ||
| 1996 | T. F. Rigelhof | A Blue Boy in a Black Dress: A Memoir | Winner | |
| Ann Charney | Defiance in Their Eyes | Shortlist | ||
| André Picard | The Gift of Death | Shortlist | ||
| 1997 | William Weintraub | City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 40s and 50s | Winner | |
| Joe Fiorito | Tango on the Main | Shortlist | ||
| Elaine Kalman Naves | Journey to Vaja | Shortlist | ||
| 1998 | David Manicom | Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire | Winner | |
| Alan Hustak | Saint Patrick's of Montreal: The Biography of a Basilica | Shortlist | ||
| W. Gillies Ross | This Distant and Unsurveyed Country | Shortlist | ||
| 1999 | Elaine Kalman Naves | Putting Down Roots | Winner | |
| Robert Hill | Voice of the Vanishing Minority | Shortlist | ||
| Jori Smith | Charlevoix County, 1930 | Shortlist | ||
| 2000 | Taras Grescoe | Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec | Winner | |
| Nicholas Regush | The Virus Within, A Coming Epidemic | Shortlist | ||
| Andrew Steinmetz | Wardlife, the Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk | Shortlist | ||
| 2001 | Jack Todd | A Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story | Winner | |
| Phil Jenkins | River Song: Sailing the History of the St. Lawrence | Shortlist | ||
| William Weintraub | Getting Started: A Memoir of the 1950s | Shortlist | ||
| 2002 | Henry T. Aubin | The Rescue of Jerusalem | Winner | |
| Tod Hoffman | LeCarré's Landscape | Shortlist | ||
| Margaret Lock | Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Re-invention of Death | Shortlist | ||
| 2003 | Elaine Kalman Naves | Shoshanna's Story | Winner | |
| Tod Adams | A Love of Reading: The Second Collection | Shortlist | ||
| Taras Grescoe | The End of Elsewhere | Shortlist | ||
| 2004 | Joel Yanofsky | Mordecai and Me: An Appreciation of a Kind | Winner | |
| Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire | Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda | Shortlist | ||
| Julian Sher and William Marsden | The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs Are Conquering Canada | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | Fred Bruemmer | Survival: A Refugee Life | Winner | |
| Alan Hustak | Sir William Hingston (1829–1907): Montreal Mayor, Surgeon and Banker | Shortlist | ||
| Carmine Starnino | A Lover's Quarrel | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | Sherry Simon | Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City | Winner | |
| William Marsden and Julian Sher | Angels of Death | Shortlist | ||
| Byron Rempel | Truth Is Naked, All Others Pay Cash | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau | The Story of French | Winner | |
| Margaret Somerville | The Ethical Imagination | Shortlist | ||
| Vikki Stark | My Sister, My Self: Understanding the Relationship That Shapes Our Lives, Our Loves, and Ourselves | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | Taras Grescoe | Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood | Winner | |
| Adam Gollner | The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession | Shortlist | ||
| Byron Rempel | No Limits: The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, Canada's Olympian Skiing Pioneers | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | Eric Siblin | The Cello Suites | Winner | |
| Yves Engler | The Black Book of Canadian | Shortlist | ||
| Patrick McDonagh | Idiocy: A Cultural History | Shortlist | ||
| 2010 | Cleo Paskal | Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map | Winner | |
| Avi Friedman | A Place in Mind: the Search for Authenticity | Shortlist | ||
| Frank Mackey | Done with Slavery | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | Joel Yanofsky | Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism | Winner | |
| Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire | They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children | Shortlist | ||
| Merrily Weisbord | The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | Taras Grescoe | Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile | Winner | |
| William Marsden | Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change | Shortlist | ||
| Julija Šukys | Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Adam Leith Gollner | The Book of Immortality | Winner | |
| Maximilian Forte | Slouching Towards Sirte | Shortlist | ||
| Shelagh Plunkett | The Water Here is Never Blue | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Chantal Hébert | The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was | Winner | |
| Issa J. Boullata | The Bells of Memory | Shortlist | ||
| Margaret Lock | The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | Carlos Fraenkel | Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World | Winner | |
| Judith Cowan | The Permanent Nature of Everything: A Memoir | Shortlist | ||
| Kathleen Winter | Boundless | Shortlist | ||
| 2016 | Daniel J. Levitin | A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age | Winner | |
| Taras Grescoe | Shanghai Grand | Shortlist | ||
| Chelsea Vowel | Indigenous Writes | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Sandra Perron | Out Standing in the Field: A Memoir by Canada's First Female Infantry Officer | Winner | |
| E. A. Heaman | Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867–1917 | Shortlist | ||
| Laila Parsons | The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914–1948 | Shortlist | ||
| 2018 | Judi Rever | In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front | Winner | |
| Robyn Maynard | Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present | Shortlist | ||
| Erín Moure | Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by 'Toots' | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | Susan Doherty | The Ghost Garden | Winner | |
| Mark Abley | The Organist | Shortlist | ||
| Jas M. Morgan | nîtisânak | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Taras Grescoe | Possess the Air: Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome | Winner | |
| Danielle Bobker | The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy | Shortlist | ||
| M. Max Hamon | The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840–1875 | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Samir Shaheen-Hussain | Fighting for a Hand to Hold | Winner | |
| Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt | Peacekeeper's Daughter: A Middle-East Memoir | Shortlist | ||
| Karen Messing | Bent Out of Shape | Shortlist | ||
| André Picard | Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic | Shortlist | ||
| Robyn Sarah | Music, Late and Soon | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | Taras Raboy | Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel | Winner | |
| Nora Loreto | Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic | Shortlist | ||
| Christopher Neal | The Rebel Scribe: Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America | Shortlist | ||
| Sina Queyras | Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | Andrew Stobo Sniderman, Douglas Sanderson | Valley of the Birdtail | Winner | |
| Alex Manley | The New Masculinity: A Roadmap for a 21st-Century Definition of Manhood | Shortlist | ||
| Julian Sher | The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln | |||
| Debra Thompson | The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging | |||
| 2024 | Gail Scott | Furniture Music | Winner | |
| Judith Adamson | Ghost Stories: On Writing Biography | Shortlist | ||
| Taras Grescoe | The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Tastes of the Past | |||
| Don Weekes | Picturing the Game: An Illustrated Story of Hockey |
Judy Mappin Community Award
The Judy Mappin Community Award, established in 1995 and first awarded to Judith Mappin, is awarded annually "to a member of the extended literary community who has made a significant and longstanding contribution to the development and/or dissemination of English-language literature in Quebec."
| Year | Author | Description | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Judith Mappin | Her role in founding QSPELL and its prizes, her tireless work as a bookseller who promoted local authors, and her visionary role in the creation of a genuine Canadian literature in both the French and English languages | |
| 1996 | Bryan Demchinsky | His work promoting local authors as Books editor of the Montreal Gazette | |
| 1997 | Shelley Pomerance | Her work promoting literature and writers at CBC Radio | |
| 1998 | Simon Dardick and Nancy Marrelli | Their work at Véhicule Press | |
| 1999 | Mireille Goulet | The commitment and professionalism she displayed in her work for the Electronic Rights Defence Committee | |
| 2000 | Patricia Pleszcynska | Her work at CBC Radio | |
| 2001 | Germain Lefebvre | His work as Cultural Advisor of CACUM: Conseil des Arts de la CUM | |
| 2002 | Linda Shohet | Her work as the Director of The Centre of Literacy of Quebec | |
| 2003 | Linda Leith | Her work as the Founder and Artistic Director of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival and as a teacher, author, literary translator, editor, and community activist | |
| 2004 | Margaret Goldik and Ian McGillis | The professionalism and judgment they brought to their work as co-editors of the Montreal Review of Books | |
| 2005 | Guy Rodgers | His role in the founding and flourishing of many major arts organizations, including the Federation of English-language Writers of Quebec, the Quebec Drama Federation, the Quebec Writers' Federation, and the English-Language Arts Network | |
| 2006 | Julie Keith | Her good judgment, graciousness, and unwavering commitment to advancing the cause of English-language literature in Quebec | |
| 2007 | André Vanasse | The inclusiveness and power of his vision of Quebec literature | |
| 2008 | Mary Soderstrom | Her indefatigable service to the writing community as an organizer, writer, and advocate | |
| 2009 | Luci and Adrian King-Edwards | Their work at The Word bookstore, Montreal | |
| 2010 | Ilona Martonfi | Her tireless work promoting writers through The Yellow Door and the Visual Arts Centre reading series | |
| 2011 | Endre Farkas | His work as a producer, editor, and publisher, and for the inclusiveness and power of his vision for Quebec literature | |
| 2012 | Steve Luxton | His invaluable contributions as a teacher, mentor, editor, publisher, and writer | |
| 2013 | No award was presented in 2013 | ||
| 2014 | Elizabeth Macdonnell | Her longstanding dedication to fostering a love of learning, literacy, and the English language during her work with the Montreal Children's Library | |
| 2015 | Maya Munro Byers | The invaluable care and advice she has given to book lovers and writers, and for her role in instilling a love of literature in throngs of children | |
| 2016 | Rana Bose | The unflagging focus, determination, and modesty with which he built and maintained Serai and Montreal Serai | |
| 2017 | Philip Lanthier | His work with Matrix and the Knowlton Literary Association | |
| 2018 | Lynn Verge | Her work with Atwater Library and Computer Centre | |
| 2019 | Louis Rastelli | His work championing underground publishing and dedicated service to Montreal's independent writing community | |
| 2020 | Jan Jorgensen | Her hard work, leadership, and longstanding personal commitment to community in all its forms | |
| 2021 | H. Nigel Thomas | Offering advice and opportunity to scores of students and writers, always with generosity, humility, and good humour | |
| Richard King | Dedicating almost 50 years of his life to serving readers, promoting books, and supporting the English-language writing community | ||
| 2022 | Ian Ferrier | His lifelong commitment to leading, supporting, and inspiring writers and artists in Montreal and beyond. | |
| 2023 | Elise Moser | Contribution and dedication to literary arts in Quebec | |
| 2024 | Christopher DiRaddo | ||
A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry, established in 1988, is awarded annually to a book of English-language poetry written by a Quebec poet. The prize was known as the Poetry Prize from 1988 to 1922. From 2011 to 2015, the prize was sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother Robert, and in 2022, it was sponsored by Byron Rempel.
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | David Solway | Modern Marriage | Winner | |
| 1989 | D. G. Jones | Balthazar and Other Poems | Winner | |
| Mark Abley | Blue Sand, Blue Moon | Shortlist | ||
| Louis Dudek | Infinite Worlds: The Poetry of Louis Dudek | Shortlist | ||
| 1990 | Bruce Taylor | Cold Rubber Feet | Winner | |
| Erín Moure | WSW (West South West) | Winner | ||
| 1991 | Eric Ormsby | Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems | Winner | |
| Charlotte Hussey | Rue Sainte Famille | Shortlist | ||
| Paddy Webb | Woman Listening | Shortlist | ||
| 1992 | Naomi Guttman | Reasons for Winter | Winner | |
| Louis Dudek | Small Perfect Things | Shortlist | ||
| Sharon Nelson | The Work of Our Hands | Shortlist | ||
| 1993 | Ralph Gustafson | Configurations at Midnight | Winner | |
| Anne Carson | Short Talks | Shortlist | ||
| Eric Ormsby | Coastlines | Shortlist | ||
| 1994 | Julie Bruck | The Woman Downstairs | Winner | |
| Raymond Filip | Flowers in Magnetic Fields | Winner | ||
| Erín Moure | Sheepish Beauty, Civilian Love | Shortlist | ||
| Ruth Taylor | The Dragon Papers | Shortlist | ||
| 1995 | D. G. Jones | The Floating Garden | Winner | |
| Mark Abley | Glasburyon | Shortlist | ||
| 1996 | Anne Carson | Glass, Irony and God | Winner | |
| Erín Moure | Search Procedures | Shortlist | ||
| Carolyn Marie Souaid | Swimming into the Light | Shortlist | ||
| 1997 | Ralph Gustafson | Visions Fugitive | Winner | |
| Stephen Schecter | David and Jonathan | Shortlist | ||
| Carmine Starnino | The New World | Shortlist | ||
| 1998 | Anne Carson | Autobiography of Red | Winner | |
| Mary di Michele | Debriefing the Rose | Shortlist | ||
| David Manicom | The Older Graces | Shortlist | ||
| 1999 | Bruce Taylor | Facts | Winner | |
| D. G. Jones | Grounding Sight | Shortlist | ||
| Erín Moure | A Frame of the Book | Shortlist | ||
| 2000 | Rachel Rose | Giving My Body to Science | Winner | |
| Faizal Deen | Land Without Chocolate | Shortlist | ||
| Carolyn Marie Souaid | October | Shortlist | ||
| 2001 | Anne Carson | The Beauty of the Husband | Winner | |
| Jason Camlot | The Animal Library | Shortlist | ||
| Andrew Steinmetz | Histories | Shortlist | ||
| 2002 | Norm Sibum | Girls and Handsome Dogs | Winner | |
| Portlin Cochise | A Bulldog's Guide to Small Engine Repair | Shortlist | ||
| Erín Moure | O'Cidadán | Shortlist | ||
| 2003 | Susan Gillis | Volta | Winner | |
| Carolyn Marie Souaid | Snow Formations | Shortlist | ||
| Carolyn Zonailo | The Goddess in the Garden | Shortlist | ||
| 2004 | Carmine Starnino | With English Subtitles | Winner | |
| Robyn Sarah | A Day's Grace: Poems 1997–2002 | Shortlist | ||
| David Solway | Franklin's Passage | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | Erín Moure | Little Theatres | Winner | |
| Mark Abley | The Silver Palace Restaurant | Shortlist | ||
| Sherwin Tjia | The World is a Heartbreaker | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | Susan Elmslie | I, Nadja and Other Poems | Winner | |
| Jon Paul Fiorentino | The Theory of the Loser Class | Shortlist | ||
| Lazar Sarna | He Claims He Is the Direct Heir | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | Erín Moure | O Cadoiro | Winner | |
| David Solway | Reaching for Clear: The Poetry of Rhys Savarin | Shortlist | ||
| David McGimpsey | Sitcom | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | Peter Richardson | Sympathy for the Couriers | Winner | |
| Joshua Auerbach | Radius of Light | Shortlist | ||
| Katia Grubisic | What if red ran out | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | Carmine Starnino | This Way Out | Winner | |
| Norm Sibum | The Pangborn Defence | Shortlist | ||
| Mike Spry | Jack | Shortlist | ||
| 2010 | Kate Hall | The Certainty Dream | Winner | |
| Michael Harris | Circus | Shortlist | ||
| Erín Moure | O Resplandor | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | Gabe Foreman | A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People | Winner | |
| Asa Boxer | Skullduggery | Shortlist | ||
| Jack Hannan | Some Frames | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | Oana Avasilichioaei | We, Beasts | Winner | |
| Mary di Michele | The Flower of Youth | Shortlist | ||
| Susan Gillis | The Rapids | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Ken Howe | The Civic-Mindedness of Trees | Winner | |
| Mia Anderson | The Sunrise Liturgy: A Poem Sequence | Shortlist | ||
| Peter Dubé | Conjure | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Sina Queyras | MxT | Winner | |
| Angela Carr | Here in There | Shortlist | ||
| Jon Paul Fiorentino | Needs Improvement | Shortlist | ||
| Gillian Sze | Peeling Rambutan | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | David McGimpsey | Asbestos Heights | Winner | |
| Catherine Kidd | Hyena Subpoena | Shortlist | ||
| Erín Moure | Kapusta | Shortlist | ||
| 2016 | Kelly Norah Drukker | Small Fires | Winner | |
| Sarah Burgoyne | Saint Twin | Shortlist | ||
| Alison Strumberger and Gillian Sze | Redrafting Winter | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Erin Robinsong | Rag Cosmology | Winner | |
| Linda Besner | Feel Happier in Nine Seconds | Shortlist | ||
| Rebecca Papucaru | The Panic Room | Shortlist | ||
| 2018 | Sina Queyras | My Ariel | Winner | |
| Susan Elmslie | Museum of Kindness | Shortlist | ||
| Gillian Sze | Panicle | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | T. Liem | Obits | Winner | |
| Kaie Kellough | Magnetic Equator | Shortlist | ||
| Shannon Webb-Campbell | I am a Body of Land | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Sarah Wolfson | A Common Name for Everything | Winner | |
| Oana Avasilichioaei | Eight Track | Shortlist | ||
| Simina Banu | POP | Shortlist | ||
| Peter Dubé | The Headless Man | Shortlist | ||
| stephanie roberts | rushes from the river disappointment | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Sarah Venart | I Am the Big Heart | Winner | |
| Sarah Burgoyne | Because the Sun | Shortlist | ||
| Klara du Plessis | Hell Light Flesh | Shortlist | ||
| Jessie Jones | The Fool | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | D. M. Bradford | Dream of No One But Myself | Winner | |
| Avery Lake | Horrible Dance | Shortlist | ||
| Prathna Lor | Emanations | Shortlist | ||
| Gillian Sze | Quiet Night Think | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | Erin Robinsong | Wet Dream | Winner | |
| River Halen | Dream Rooms | Shortlist | ||
| T. Liem | Slows: Twice | |||
| 2024 | Derek Webster | National Animal | Winner | |
| D. M. Bradford | Bottom Rail on Top | Shortlist | ||
| Mary Dean Lee | Tidal | |||
| Jay Ritchie | Listening in Many Publics |
Max Margles Fiction Prize
The Max Margles Fiction Prize, established in 2022, is presented to a new English-language Quebec writer "to allow a writer to work uninterruptedly on a manuscript for four months." It is "the largest such prize to be awarded by any Canadian provincial writers' organization."
| Year | Author |
|---|---|
| 2022 | June Park |
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, established in 1988, is presented annually to an English-language Quebec writer of fiction.
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Hugh Hood | The Motor Boys in Ottawa | Winner | |
| 1989 | Kenneth Radu | Distant Relations | Winner | |
| Roma Gelblum Bross | To Samerkand and Back | Shortlist | ||
| David Homel | Electrical Storms | Shortlist | ||
| 1990 | Mordecai Richler | Solomon Gursky Was Here | Winner | |
| Ludmilla Beresko | The Parcel from Chicken Street | Shortlist | ||
| Nino Ricci | Lives of the Saints | Shortlist | ||
| 1991 | Kenneth Radu | A Private Performance | Winner | |
| Keith Harrison | Eyemouth | Shortlist | ||
| Claudia Morrison | From the Foot of the Mountain | Shortlist | ||
| 1992 | Ray Smith | A Night at the Opera | Winner | |
| Dennis Denisoff | Dog Years | Shortlist | ||
| Yeshim Ternar | Orphaned by Halley's Comet | Shortlist | ||
| 1993 | P. Scott Lawrence | Missing Fred Astaire | Winner | |
| T. F. Rigelhof | Je t'aime Cowboy | Shortlist | ||
| Gail Scott | Main Brides | Shortlist | ||
| 1994 | Ann Diamond | Evil Eye | Winner | |
| Jean-Guy Carrier | The End of War | Shortlist | ||
| H. Nigel Thomas | Spirits in the Dark | Shortlist | ||
| 1995 | George Szanto | Friends & Marriages | Winner | |
| Akhtar Naraghi | The Big Green House | Shortlist | ||
| Mary Soderstrom | Endangered Species | Shortlist | ||
| 1996 | Trevor Ferguson | The Time Keeper | Winner | |
| Benet Davetian | The Seventh Circle | Shortlist | ||
| Yeshim Ternar | True Romance with a Sailor | Shortlist | ||
| 1997 | Charles Foran | Butterfly Lovers | Winner | |
| Connie Barnes Rose | Getting Out of Town | Shortlist | ||
| Mary Soderstrom | Finding the Enemy | Shortlist | ||
| 1998 | Mordecai Richler | Barney's Version | Winner | |
| Robert Majzels | City of Forgetting | Shortlist | ||
| Robyn Sarah | Promise of Shelter | Shortlist | ||
| 1999 | Elyse Gasco | Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby? | Winner | |
| Neil Bissoondath | The Worlds Within Her | Shortlist | ||
| John Farrow | City of Ice | Shortlist | ||
| 2000 | Julie Keith | The Devil Out There | Winner | |
| Will Aitken | Realia | Shortlist | ||
| John Lavery | Very Good Butter | Shortlist | ||
| 2001 | Yann Martel | Life of Pi | Winner | |
| John Farrow | Ice Lake | Shortlist | ||
| Kate Sterns | Down There By the Train | Shortlist | ||
| 2002 | Neil Bissoondath | Doing the Heart Good | Winner | |
| John Brooke | All Pure Souls | Shortlist | ||
| Steven Manners | Wound Ballistics | Shortlist | ||
| 2003 | David Homel | The Speaking Cure | Winner | |
| Edeet Ravel | Ten Thousand Lovers | Shortlist | ||
| Ian McGillis | A Tourist's Guide to Glengarry | Shortlist | ||
| 2004 | Edeet Ravel | Look for Me | Winner | |
| Jeffrey Moore | The Memory Artists | Shortlist | ||
| Gordon Sheppard | Ha! A Self-Murder Mystery | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | Neil Bissoondath | The Unyielding Clamour of the Night | Winner | |
| Denise Roig | Any Day Now | Shortlist | ||
| William Weintraub | Crazy About Lily | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | Rawi Hage | De Niro's Game | Winner | |
| Anita Rau Badami | Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? | Shortlist | ||
| Barry Webster | The Sound of All Flesh | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | Heather O'Neill | Lullabies for Little Criminals | Winner | |
| Liam Durcan | Garcìa's Heart | Shortlist | ||
| Neil Smith | Bang Crunch | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | Rawi Hage | Cockroach | Winner | |
| Andrew Hood | Pardon Our Monsters | Shortlist | ||
| Jaspreet Singh | Chef | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | Colin McAdam | Fall | Winner | |
| Jon Paul Fiorentino | Stripmalling | Shortlist | ||
| Harold Hoefle | The Mountain Clinic | Shortlist | ||
| 2010 | Miguel Syjuco | Illustrado | Winner | |
| Jeffrey Moore | The Extinction Club | Shortlist | ||
| Doug Harris | YOU Comma Idiot | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | Dimitri Nasrallah | Niko | Winner | |
| David Homel | Midway | Shortlist | ||
| Madeleine Thien | Dogs at the Perimeter | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | Rawi Hage | Carnival | Winner | |
| Tom Abray | Pollen | Shortlist | ||
| Anita Rau Badami | Tell It to the Trees | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Saleema Nawaz | Bone and Bread | Winner | |
| Jocelyne Dubois | World of Glass | Shortlist | ||
| Lorne Elliott | Beach Reading | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Sean Michaels | Us Conductors | Winner | |
| Jon Paul Fiorentino | I'm Not Scared of You or Anything | Shortlist | ||
| Guillaume Morissette | New Tab | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | Neil Smith | Boo | Winner | |
| Heather O'Neill | Daydreams of Angels | Shortlist | ||
| H. Nigel Thomas | No Safeguards | Shortlist | ||
| 2016 | Liam Durcan | The Measure of Darkness | Winner | |
| Jack Hannan | The Poet is a Radio | Shortlist | ||
| Madeleine Thien | Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Shortlist | ||
| Jacob Wren | Rich and Poor | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Heather O'Neill | The Lonely Hearts Hotel | Winner | |
| Cora Sire | Behold Things Beautiful | Shortlist | ||
| Kathleen Winter | Lost in September | Shortlist | ||
| 2018 | Eliza Robertson | Demi-Gods | Winner | |
| Paige Cooper | Zolitude | Shortlist | ||
| Rawi Hage | Beirut Hellfire Society | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | David Homel | The Teardown | Winner | |
| Michael Carin | Churchill at Munich | Shortlist | ||
| Ariela Freedman | A Joy To Be Hidden | Shortlist | ||
| Catherine McKenzie | I'll Never Tell | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Kaie Kellough | Dominoes at the Crossroads | Winner | |
| Endre Farkas | Home Game | Shortlist | ||
| Sean Michaels | The Wagers | Shortlist | ||
| Ceilidh Michelle | Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Mikhail Iossel | Love Like Water, Love Like Fire | Winner | |
| Saleema Nawaz | Songs for the End of the World | Shortlist | ||
| Aimee Wall | We, Jane | Shortlist | ||
| Kathleen Winter | Undersong | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | Baharan Baniahmadi | Prophetess | Winner | |
| Anita Anand | A Convergence of Solitudes | Shortlist | ||
| Rawi Hage | Stray Dogs | Shortlist | ||
| Neil Smith | Jones | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | Ann-Marie MacDonald | Fayne | Winner | |
| David C. C. Bourgeois | Full Fadom Five | Shortlist | ||
| Sean Michaels | Do You Remember Being Born? | |||
| Vanessa R. Sasson | The Gathering | |||
| Caroline Vu | Catinat Boulevard | |||
| 2024 | Sabrina Reeves | Little Crosses | Winner | |
| Susan Doherty | Monday Rent Boy | Shortlist | ||
| Irena Karafilly | Arrested Song | |||
| Heather O'Neill | The Capital of Dreams | |||
| Jacob Wren | Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim |
QWF Playwriting Prize
The QWF Playwriting Prize, established in 2018, is award every other year in even-numbered years. Typically, plays published "published or produced during the two previous years" are eligible. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on theatre, plays have been eligible for the award if they have been published or produced since 2018, "provided that the play was not already submitted for the 2020 prize."
The QWF Playwriting Prize winner received a $3,000 prize, as well as "a reading as part of Infinithéâtre's Pipeline Reading Series."
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Erin Shields | Paradise Lost | Winner | |
| Stephen Orlov | "Sperm Count" (in Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas) | Shortlist | ||
| Paul Van Dyck | When Memories Have Us (Based on the original script co-written by Paul Van Dyck and Caitlin Murphy) | Shortlist | ||
| Rahul Varma | Truth and Treason | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Mishka Lavigne | Albumen | Winner | |
| Alexandria Haber | Alice and the World We Live In | Shortlist | ||
| Mona'a Malik | Sania the Destroyer | Shortlist | ||
| Erin Shields | Instant | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | Erin Shields | The Millennial Malcontent | Winner | |
| Alexandria Haber and Ned Cox | The Silent Woman | Shortlist | ||
| Arthur Holden | Beloved | Shortlist | ||
| Erin Shields | Beautiful Man | Shortlist | ||
| 2024 | Leanna Brodie, Jovanni Sy | Salesman in China | Winner | |
| Jessica B. Hill | The Dark Lady | Shortlist | ||
| Mishka Lavigne | Shorelines | |||
| Julie Tamiko Manning | Mizushōbai (The Water Trade) | |||
| Rachel Mutombo | Vierge |
Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize
The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize, established in 2022 as the QWF Spoken Word Prize and renamed in 2023 in honor of Ian Ferrier, "is open to Quebec-based spoken word artists, storytelling artists, and literary performance artists working primarily in English in any form of performative writing."
| Year | Author | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Lucia De Luca | "Not in the Bike Commercial" | |
| Roen Higgins | “Free Your Mind" | ||
| Erín Moure | "Odiama" | ||
| 2023 | Deb Vanslet | "Laughter in the Rain" | |
| Caitlin Murphy | "All the Screams" | ||
| BeWyrd | "Survival Mechanisms" | ||
| 2024 | Moe Clark | “committing a dream / pâwakan Palestine" | |
| Lucia De Luca | “Congratulations" | ||
| Mac van den Hoeven | “Memory Justice" |
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