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ReLit Award nominees include Ken Babstock, Lee Maracle

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The shortlist for the 2015 ReLit Awards, recognizing the best novels and poetry and short fiction collections released by independent Canadian publishers in a given year, was released on New Year’s Eve.

Novel

  • Nelly Arcan; David Homel and Jacob Homel, trans., Hysteric (Anvil Press)
  • Jackie Bateman, Savour (Anvil)
  • Elizabeth Copeland, Jazz (Quattro Books)
  • Jesse Gilmour, The Green Hotel (Quattro)
  • Beth Goobie, The First Principles of Dreaming (Second Story Press)
  • Darren Greer, Just Beneath My Skin (Cormorant Books)
  • Andrew Kaufman, The Tiny Wife (Cormorant)
  • Bertrand Laerdure, Universal Bureau of Copyrights (BookThug)
  • Lee Maracle, Celia’s Song (Cormorant)
  • Wendy McGrath, North East (NeWest Press)
  • Christine Miscione, Carafola (Mansfield Press)
  • Guillaume Morissette, New Tab (Véhicule Press)
  • Alisha Piercy, Bunny and Shark (BookThug)
  • Ursula Pflug; S.K. Dyment, illus., Motion Sickness (Inanna Publications)
  • Lisa Pike, My Grandmother’s Pill (Guernica Editions)
  • Ken Rivard, Motherwild (Thistledown Press)
  • Chelsea Rooney, Pedal (Caitlin Press)
  • Margaret Sweatman, Mr. Jones (Goose Lane Publications)
  • Wayne Tefs, Barker (Turnstone Press)
  • Russell Wangersky, Walt (House of Anansi Press)
  • Jacob Wren, Polyamorous Love Song (BookThug)

Poetry

  • Ken Babstock, On Malice (Coach House Books)
  • Dani Couture, Yaw (Mansfield)
  • Jen Currin, School (Coach House)
  • Frank Davey, Poems Suited to Current Material Conditions (Mansfield)
  • Brecken Hancock, Broom Broom (Coach House)
  • Aisha Sasha John, Thou (BookThug)
  • Michael Lista, The Scarborough (Signal Editions/Véhicule)
  • Susan Paddon, Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths (Brick Books)
  • Stan Rogel, After Words (Guernica)
  • Rolli, Mavor’s Bones (8th House Publishing)
  • Sina Queyras, M x T (Coach House)
  • Jeffrey Round, In the Museum of Leonardo Da Vinci (Tightrope Books)
  • Blair Trewartha, Easy Fix (Palimpsest Press)
  • Peter Unwin, When We Were Old (Cormorant)
  • Sheri-D Wilson, Against Women (Frontenac House Press)
  • Deanna Young, House Dreams (Brick)

Short fiction

Winners of this year’s ReLit Rings will be announced in January.

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January 4th, 2016

5:41 pm

Category: Awards

Tagged with: ReLit Awards