Winners:
2012 Open Season Awards |
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| Poetry |
- Patricia Young, "Daughter at Thirteen"
- Susan Gillis, "View with Teenage Girl" and View with Portrait of Frida Kahlo"
- Rachel Rose, "Maternal Sapphics," "Uncut Wood," and "Aubade: Grendel's Mother"
- Russell Thornton, "Blade"
- Jean-Mark Sens, "Corkscrew"
- Tammy Armstrong, “Forked”
- Jordan Mounteer, "Liminal"
- Daryl Hine, "A Reliquary"
- David Reibetanz, "Haida box filled with sand"
- Kerry-Lee Powell, "Seals"
- Kate Edwards, “Mischief in Remarriage,” "Prayer for a Prairie Town," and "Simplicity Ball Gown Pattern, 1954"
- Carla Hartsfield, "Afterlight"
- Matthew Tierney, "Re the Individual Wellbeing"
- Jill McDonough, "Transplant" and "In Which I Start to Get a Migraine and Think of Hildegard Von Bingen"
- Marilyn Gear Pilling, "That Father" and "Discovering the Soul of Walmart in Quintana Roo"
- Medrie Purdham, "Elisabeth"
- Karen Enns, "Getting the Chimney Repaired" and "Talking to the Artist At The Show"
- Anne Pierson Wiese, "Goddamn Man"
- Ted Gilley, “Late Show"
- Maurice Mierau, "Her Name" and "The Eloquent Fans, The Painful Moon"
- Darren Bifford, "O Lord of Secret & Subtle Shifts"
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| Fiction |
- Steven Heighton, “OutTrip”
- Mark Rogers, “Straw”
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| Creative Nonfiction |
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| Reviews |
- Poetry
- Calvin Wharton, The Song Collides (Vancouver: Anvil, 2011) and Stephanie Bolster, A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth (London: Brick, 2011). (Both reviewed by Shane Rhodes)
- Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst, Apologetic for Joy (Fredericton: Goose Lane, 2011). (Reviewed by Tanya Lester)
- Chris Banks, Winter Cranes (Toronto: ECW, 2011) and Amanda Jernigan, Groundwork (Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2011). (Both reviewed by Chris Jennings)
- Fiction
- Laura Boudreau, Suitable Precautions (Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2011) and Cathy Stonehouse, Something About the Animal (Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2011). (Both reviewed by Sandra McIntyre)
- Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (Toronto: Thomas Allen & Son, 2011). (Reviewed by Susan Braley)
- Nonfiction
- Theresa Kishkan, Mnemonic (Fredericton: Goose Lane, 2011). (Reviewed by Susan Olding)
- Shane Neilson, Gunmetal Blue: A Memoir (Kingsville: Palimsest, 2011). (Reviewed by Roger Knox)
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