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- Chukwudubem Ukaigwe
Labyrinth 8 (detail), 2021
Photographic contrivance, gel image transfer & oil paint on panel, wood, aluminum, corrugated iron
64 x 61 x 10cm
Courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Photo: Steven Cottingham
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Winner:
2025
Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction |
- Gladwell Pamba, "Little Paradiso"
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| Poetry |
- Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri, "Brinepulse," "Tesselation," "Petals of the Unsayable," and "Bottle Shards in Shoe Soles"
- Ambrose Albert, "choosing the bear" and "top surgery and it's completely different but also still top surgery"
- Isobel Burke, "what is gold and what is silver"
- George Elliott Clarke, "À Tempio Malatestiano by W.E.B. Du Bois," "Venezia Ancora (III)," and "About the Rubinstein Staccato Etude"
- Marlene Cookshaw, "Beasts Stabled," "Botanical" and "Charm"
- Guy Elston, "Plenty" and "Purge"
- John Lent, "Conjugating Love"
- Edward Luetkehoelter, "Thesaurus Head Wound" and "flying back home for the cancer party"
- Ismail Yusuf Olumoh, "surah [form]"
- Elizabeth Philips, "Field Notes: River's Edge"
- Ben Robinson, "Your Current Provider"
- Mark Truscott, "Real," "Stanza," and "An Essay, A Fable"
- Jade Wallace, "Grape" and "Desert Fauna"
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| Fiction |
- Daryl Bruce, "Somewhere between Now and Then"
- Brett Nelson, "Man Camp"
- Jean-Christophe Réhel, "The Molehill"
(translated from the French by Neil Smith)
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| Creative Nonfiction |
- Paul Dhillon, "Five Lessons"
- Karine Hack, "a girl is—"
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| Reviews |
Poetry
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Michael Chang, Things a Bright Boy Can Do
(Toronto: Coach House Books, 2025)
(Reviewed by Lillian Liao)
Manahil Bandukwala, Heliotropia
(Kingston: Brick, 2024)
(Reviewed by Rosalie Morris) Fiction
Bill Gaston, Tunnel Island
(Saskatoon: Thistledown, 2025)
(Reviewed by Marisa Grizenko) Clea Young, Welcome to the Neighbourhood
(Toronto: House of Anansi, 2025)
(Reviewed by Susan Sanford Blades) Meredith Hambrock, She's a Lamb!
(Toronto: ECW Press, 2025)
(Reviewed by Carol Matthews) Susan Juby, Contemplation of a Crime
(Toronto: HarperCollins, 2025)
(Reviewed by Laura G. Stephenson) Nonfiction
Mavis Gallant, Montreal Standard Time: The Early Journalism of Mavis Gallant, edited by Neil Besner and Marta Dvoràk and Bill Richardson
(Montréal: Véhicule, 2024)
(Reviewed by Lynne Van Luven) Mentionables
Karen Solie, Wellwater
(Toronto: Anansi, 2025) Kathy Page, In This Faulty Machine: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation
(Toronto: Viking, 2025) Tree Abraham, elseship: an unrequited affair
(Toronto: Book*hug, 2025) Karolina Ramqvist, Bread and Milk, translated by Saskia Vogel
(Toronto: Coach House, 2024) (All reviewed by Book Reviews Editor Jay Ruzesky)
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| Contributor Notes |
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