Once again, Newfoundland author Kenneth J. Harvey has waded through a year’s worth of small-press offerings to come up with the longlists for his annual ReLit Awards. The (oh so many) nominees are as follows:

SHORT FICTION:

• The Lizard and Other Stories, Michael Bryson (Chaudiere)
• In the Wake of Loss, Sheila James (Ronsdale)
• Men of Salt, Men of Earth, Matt Lennox (Oberon)
• Ruins & Relics, Alice Zorn (NeWest)
• Scrabble Lessons, Leslie Vryenhoek (Oolichan)
• Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, Stuart Ross (Freehand)
• The Moon of Letting Go, Richard Van Camp (Enfield & Wizenty)
• What Boys Like, Amy Jones (Biblioasis)
• The Only Thing I Have, Rhonda Waterfall (Arsenal Pulp)
• The Last Shot, Leon Rooke (Thomas Allen)
• Fatted Calf Blues, Steven Mayoff (Turnstone)
• What We’re Made Of, Ryan Turner (Oberon)
• Wax Boats, Sarah Roberts (Caitlin)
• Sentimental Exorcisms, David Derry (Coach House)

NOVEL:

• Away From Everywhere, Chad Pelley (Breakwater)
• Fishing for Bacon, Michael Davie (NeWest)
• The Trestler House, Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (Guernica)
• Hero, Paul Butler (Vagrant)
• Wrong Bar, Nathaniel G. Moore (Tightrope)
• The Finger’s Twist, Lee Lamothe (Raven Stone)
• Dog Eat Rat, Tom Walmsley (Mansfield)
• Overqualified, Joey Comeau (ECW)
• Stripmalling, Jon Paul Fiorentino (ECW)
• The Beautiful Children, Michael Kenyon (Thistledown)
• Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom, Marie-Claire Blais (Anansi)
• The Chief Factor’s Daughter, Vanessa Winn (Touchwood)
• Grinder, Mike Knowles (ECW)
• Swap, John McFetridge (ECW)
• Scammed, Ron Chudley (Touchwood)
• The Incident Report, Martha Baillie (Pedlar)
• The Prescription Errors, Charles Demers (Insomniac)
• The Cousin, John Calabro (Quattro)
• Sundre, Christopher Willard (Esplanade)
• Holding Still for as Long as Possible, Zoe Whittall (Anansi)
• My Sweet Curiosity, Amanda Hale (Thistledown)
• Ten Thousand Miles Between Us, Rocco de Giacomo (Quattro)
• Turtle, Gerard Beirne (Oberon)
• February, Lisa Moore (Anansi)
• The Plight House, Jason Hrivnak (Pedlar)
• The Honey Locust, Jeffrey Round (Cormorant)
• Harbour View, Binnie Brennan (Quattro)
• The Wolsenburg Clock, Jay Ruzesky (Thistledown)
• The Carnivore, Mark Sinnett (ECW)
• Of All The Ways To Die, Brenda Niskala (Quattro)
• Savage Adoration, Gale Zoe Garnett (Exile)
• Thought You Were Dead, Terry Griggs (Biblioasis)
• Octopus Intelligence, Timothy Quinn (Guernica)
• No Place Strange, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden (Key Porter)
• Wednesday Night at the End of the World, Helene Rioux (Cormorant)
• After the Red Night, Christiane Frenette (Cormorant)
• The Practice of Perfection, Mary Frances Coady (Coteau)
• Going Fast, Elaine McCluskey (Goose Lane)
• Lovesongs of Emmanuel Taggart, Syr Ruus (Breakwater)
• Kaspoit! Dennis E. Bolen (Anvil)
• The Factory Voice, Jeanette Lynes (Coteau)
• The Heart Specialist, Claire Holden Rothman (Cormorant)
• Lemon, Cordelia Strube (Coach House)
• Broken Road, Melissa Hardy (Exile)

POETRY:

• Animals of My Own Kind, Harry Thurston (Signal)
• Ivan’s Birches, Barry Dempster (Pedlar)
• Exploding into Night, Sandy Pool (Guernica)
• Magenta Soul Whip, Lisa Robertson (Coach House)
• A Nice Place to Visit, Sky Gilbert (ECW)
• The Others Raisd in Me, Gregory Betts (Pedlar)
• Always Die Before Your Mother, Patrick Woodcock (ECW)
• Paper Radio, Damian Rogers (ECW)
• Red Nest, Gillian Jerome (Nightwood)
• The Last House, Michael Kenyon (Brick)
• The Certainty Dream, Kate Hall (Coach House)
• The Benjamin Sonnets, Clint Burnham (BookThug)
• Pigeon, Karen Solie (Anansi)
• The Horse Knows the Way, Dave Margoshes (BuschekBooks)
• Contents of a Mermaid’s Purse, Phoebe Tsang (Tightrope)
• 14 Tractors, Gerald Hill (NeWest)
• Orioles in the Oranges, Melanie Janisse (Guernica)
• The Craving of Knives, Blaine Marchand (BuschekBooks)
• Wait Until Late Afternoon, David Bateman/Hiromi Goto (Frontenac)
• Automaton Biographies, Larissa Lai (Arsenal Pulp)
• Reticent Bodies, Moez Surani (Wolsak & Wynn)
• The Exile’s Papers, Wayne Clifford (Porcupine’s Quill)
• Witness, Robert Currie (Hagios)
• Figuring Ground, Robert Moore (Wolsak & Wynn)
• Declining America, Rob Budde (BookThug)
• God of Missed Connections, Elizabeth Bachinsky (Nightwood)
• One, Serge Patrice Thibodeau (Goose Lane)
• Boxing the Compass, Richard Greene (Signal)
• Obituary of Light, Susan Musgrave (Leaf Press)
• Selected Poems, Robert Bringhurst (Gaspereau)
• Track & Trace, Zachariah Wells (Biblioasis)
• White Light Primitive, Andrew Stubbs (Hagios)
• Frenzy, Catherine Owen (Anvil)
• Slender Human Weight, Sue Chenette (Guernica)
• Next to Nothing, Christina McRae (Wolsak & Wynn)
• The Essential Don Coles, Don Coles (Porcupine’s Quill)
• Expeditions of a Chimaera, Erin Moure/Oana Avasilichioaei (BookThug)
• Lousy Explorers, Laisha Rosnau (Nightwood)
• Fish Bones, Gillian Sze (DC Books)
• I & I, George Elliott Clarke (Goose Lane)
• Other People’s Lives, Chris Hutchinson (Brick)
• The Essential James Reaney, James Reaney (Porcupine’s Quill)
• Never More There, Stephen Rowe (Nightwood)
• Coal and Roses, P.K. Page (Porcupine’s Quill)
• The Fly in Autumn, David Zieroth (Harbour)
• The Dead Can’t Dance, Pam Calabrese MacLean (Ronsdale)
• Pastels Are Pretty Much the Polar Opposite of Chalk, Nathaniel G. Moore (DC Books)
• Hooked, Carolyn Smart (Brick)
• McPoems, Billeh Nickerson (Arsenal Pulp)
• Bone Dream, Moira MacDougall (Tightrope)
• Somewhere to Run From, Tara-Michelle Ziniuk (Tightrope)
• Fifth World Drum, Anna Marie Sewell (Frontenac)
• Precipitous Signs: A Rain Journal, Leanne Boschman (Leaf Press)
• The Bones of the World Begin to Show, Marilyn Gear Pilling (Black Moss)
• Cantilevered Songs, John Lent (Thistledown)