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2011 ReLit Awards Winners

2011 ReLit Award Winners Announced:

Novel: Blood Relatives, Craig Francis Power (Pedlar Press)

Poetry: Sweet, Dani Couture (Pedlar Press)

Short Story: Ravenna Gets, Tony Burgess (Anvil Press)

The End of the ReLit Ring

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The ReLit Ring

Designed by Christopher Kearney of Newfoundland.

Winners receive the ReLit Ring, which features four moveable dials, each one struck with the entire alphabet, for spelling words.

2011 ReLit Shortlists

NOVEL

The Cube People, Christian McPherson (Nightwood)

Book, Ken Sparling (Pedlar)

Blood Relatives, Craig Francis Power (Pedlar)

The Find, Kathy Page (McArthur & Co)

Krakow Melt, Daniel Allen Cox (Arsenal Pulp)

The Goon, Jerrod Edson (Oberon)

The Bourgeois Empire, Evie Christie (ECW)

One Bloody Thing After Another, Joey Comeau (ECW)

Good Evening, Central Laundromat, Jason Heroux (Quattro)

Sweet England, Steve Weiner (New Star)

SHORT FICTION

The Devil You Know, Jenn Farrell (Anvil)

Ravenna Gets, Tony Burgess (Anvil)

I’m a Registered Nurse Not a Whore, Anne Perdue (Insomniac)

Bats or Swallows, Teri Vlassopoulos (Invisible)

There is No Other, Jonathan Papernick (Exile)

Punishing Ugly Children, Darryl Joel Berger (Killick)

I Still Don’t Even Know You, Michelle Berry (Turnstone)

Missed Her, Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)

Ronald Reagan, My Father, Brian Joseph Davis (ECW)

POETRY

The Inquisition Years, Jen Currin (Coach House)

Sweet, Dani Couture (Pedlar)

Every Day in the Morning (Slow), Adam Seelig (New Star)

A Good Time Had by All, Meaghan Strimas (Exile)

The Good News About Armageddon, Steve McOrmond (Brick)

You Know Who You Are, Ian Williams (Wolsak & Wynn)

Marimba Forever, Jim Christy (Guernica)

2011 ReLit Longlists

NOVEL

Sandra Beck, John Lavery (Anansi)

Etienne’s Alphabet, James King (Cormorant)

Isobel & Emile, Alan Reed (Coach House)

The Cube People, Christian McPherson (Nightwood)

Glenn Piano by Gladys Priddis, Jason Dickson (Book Thug)

The Obituary, Gail Scott (Coach House)

How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti (Anansi)

A Thoroughly Wicked Woman, Betty Keller (Caitlin)

When Fenelon Falls, Dorothy Ellen Palmer (Coach House)

Lethal Rage, Brent Pilkey (ECW)

Hope Burned, Brent LaPorte (ECW)

The Matter of Sylvie, Lee Kvern (Brindle & Glass)

A Likely Story, Eric Wright (Cormorant)

Follow Me Down, Marc Strange (ECW)

New Under the Sun, Kevin Major (Cormorant)

The Bourgeois Empire, Evie Christie (ECW)

One Bloody Thing After Another, Joey Comeau (ECW)

Far to Go, Alison Pick (Anansi)

Annabel, Kathleen Winter (Anansi)

Baldur’s Song, David Arnason (Turnstone)

In Plain Sight, Mike Knowles (ECW)

Flight, Darren Hynes (Killick)

Cupids, Paul Butler (Flanker)

Book, Ken Sparling (Pedlar)

Flyways, Devin Krukoff (Thistledown)

Spaz, Bonnie Bowman (Anvil)

Of Water and Rock, Thomas Armstrong (DC Books)

Something Remains, Hassan Ghedi Santur (Dundurn)

The Evolution of Inanimate Objects, Harry Karlinsky (Insomniac)

Solitaria, Genni Gunn (Signature)

Waiting for Ricky Tantrum, Jules Lewis (Dundurn)

Letters to Omar, Rachel Wyatt (Coteau)

The Goon, Jerrod Edson (Oberon)

Raising Orion, Lesley Choyce (Thistledown)

The Master of Happy Endings, Jack Hodgins (Thomas Allen)

In the Fabled East, Adam Lewis Schroeder (Douglas & McIntyre)

Blood Relatives, Craig Francis Power (Pedlar)

The Glass Harmonica, Russell Wangersky (Thomas Allen)

This Book Will Not Save Your Life, Michelle Berry (Enfield & Wizenty)

Anderson, Michael Boyce (Pedlar)

Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed, Jacob Wren (Pedlar)

Drive-By Saviours, Chris Benjamin (Roseway)

Gaze, Keith Cadieux (Quattro)

Sheilagh’s Brush, Maura Hanrahan (Inanna)

Combat Camera, A.J. Somerset (Biblioasis)

Victim Rights, Norah McClintock (Red Deer)

Good Evening, Central Laundromat, Jason Heroux (Quattro)

Black Alley, Dawn M. Cornelio (Biblioasis)

Krakow Melt, Daniel Allen Cox (Arsenal Pulp)

The Hungry Mirror, Lisa de Nikolits (Inanna)

Firmament, Bruce Johnson (Gaspereau)

Pitouie, Derek Winkler (Workhorsery)

The Lucky Child, Marianne Apostolides (Mansfield)

The Case of Owen Williams, Allan Donaldson (Vagrant)

L (And Things Come Apart), Ian Orti (Invisible)

Retina Green, Reinhard Filter (Quattro)

Sweet England, Steve Weiner (New Star)

Real Gone, Jim Christy (Quattro)

The Find, Kathy Page (McArthur & Co)

Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar, Myna Wallin (Tightrope)

Tobacco Wars, Paul Seesequasis (Quattro)

POETRY

Floating Bodies, Julie Roorda (Guernica)

Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon, Ray Hsy (Nightwood)

Children of Ararat, Keith Garebian (Frontenac)

Indexical Elegies, Jon Paul Fiorentino (Coach House)

Falling Blues, Jannie Edwards (Frontenac)

Marimba Forever, Jim Christy (Guernica)

The Porcupinity if the Stars, Gary Barwin (Coach House)

Patient Frame, Steven Heighton (Anansi)

Seeing Lessons, Catherine Owen (Wolsak & Wynn)

Against the Hard Angle, Matt Robinson (ECW)

You Know Who You Are, Ian Williams (Wolsak & Wynn)

Fieldnotes, Kate Eichhorn (Book Thug)

Watermelon Kindness, David Donnell (ECW)

The Inquisition Years, Jen Currin (Coach House)

O Resplandor, Erin Moure (Anansi)

Light and Time, Michael Mirolla (Gurnica)

Bloom, Michael Lista (Anansi)

Nature, Mark Truscott (Book Thug)

Casanova in Venice, Kildare Dobbs (Porcupine’s Quill)

Update, Bill Kennedy/ Darren Wershler (Snare)

Living Under Plastic, Evelyn Lau (Ooolican)

The Little Seamstress, Phil Hall (Pedlar)

Winterkill, Catherine Graham (Insomniac)

Tiny, Frantic, Stronger, Jeff Latosik (Insomniac)

The Walnut-Cracking Machine, Julie Berry (BuschekBooks)

Ghost Music, Mark D. Dunn (BuschekBooks)

Return from Erebus, Julia McCarthy (Brick)

The Scare in the Crow, Tammy Armstrong (Goose Lane)

The Emperor’s Sofa, Greg Santos (Dc Books)

Why Are You So Long and Sweet?, David W. McFadden (Insomniac)

Mammoth, Larissa Andrusyshyn (DC Books)

A Pirouette and Gone, E.D. Blodgett (BuschekBooks)

Swimming Ginger, Gary Geddes (Goose Lane)

Sweet, Dani Couture (Pedlar)

Here is Where we Disembark, Clea Roberts (Freehand)

Every Day in the Morning (Slow), Adam Seelig (New Star)

Hump, Ariel Gordon (Palimpsest)

The Unsettled, Mona Fertig (Kalamalka)

Soul on Standby, Antony Di Nardo (Exile)

Hold the Note, Domenico Capilongo (Quattro)

Traumatology, Prisicila Uppal (Exile)

Sew Him Up, Beatriz Hausner (Quattro)

Hard Feelings, Sheryda Warrener (Snare)

A Good Time Had by All, Meaghan Strimas (Exile)

The Lateral, Jake Kennedy (Snare)

The Sylvia Hotel, George Fetherling (Quattro)

The Good News About Armageddon, Steve McOrmond (Brick)

Psychic Geographies and Other Topics, Gregory Betts (Quattro)

Alien, Correspondent, Antony Di Nardo (Brick)

The Stream Exposed with All its Stones, D.G. Jones (Signal)

An Open Door in the Landscape, Elisabeth Harvor (Palimpsest)

The Philosophy of as if, Fraser Sutherland (Bookland Press)

Circus, Michael Harris (Signal)

Syrinx and Systole, Matthew Remski (Quattro)

The Day is a Cold Grey Stone, Allan Safarik (Hagios)

The Crow’s Vow, Susan Briscoe (Signal)

The Mourner’s Book of Albums, Daniel Scott Tysdal (Tightrope)

The Nights Also, Anna Swanson (Tightrope)

Don’t Get Lonely Don’t Get Lost, Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)

Fallout, Sandra Ridley (Hagios)

Stray Dog Embassy, Natasha Nuhanovic (Mansfield)

At the Gates of the Theme Park, Peter Norman (Mansfield)

Cathedral, Pamela Porter (Ronsdale)

Goodbye, Ukulele, Leigh Nash (Mansfield)

Come Closer, Leanne Averbach (Tightrope)

The Stonehaven Poems, R.D. Patrick (Your Scrivener)

I Do Not Think that I Could Love a Human Being, Johanna Skibsrud (Gaspereau)

Welling, Margaret Christakos (Your Scrivener)

The Annotated Bee & Me, Tim Bowling (Gaspereau)

The Art of Breathing Underwater, Cathy Ford (Mother Tongue)

SHORT FICTION

Ravenna Gets, Tony Burgess (Anvil)

Ronald Reagan, My Father, Brian Joseph Davis (ECW)

This Ramshackle Tabernacle, Samuel Thomas Martin (Breakwater)

All Those Drawn to Me, Christian Peterson (Caitlin)

World News Story, Michael Woods (Book Thug)

Three Deaths, Josip Novakovich (Snare)

I Still Don’t Even Know You, Michelle Berry (Turnstone)

Recipes From the Red Planet, Meredith Quartermain (Book Thug)

Punishing Ugly Children, Darryl Joel Berger (Killick)

Mystery Stories, David Helwig (Porcupine’s Quill)

The Mountie at Niagara Falls, Salvatore Difalco (Anvil)

I’m a Registered Nurse Not a Whore, Anne Perdue (Insomniac)

The Devil You Know, Jenn Farrell (Anvil)

Mennonites Don’t Dance, Darcie Friesen Hossack (Thistledown)

Sex in Russia, Kenneth Radu (DC Books)

The Young in their Country, Richard Cumyn (Enfield & Wizenty)

High Speed Crow, Sheila McClarty (Oberon)

Bird Eat Bird, Katrina Best (Insomniac)

The Doctrine of Affections, Paul Headrick (Freehand)

The Meaning of Children, Beverly Akerman (Exile)

Faded Love, Robert N. Friedland (Libros Libertad)

Bats or Swallows, Teri Vlassopoulas (Invisible)

There is No Other, Jonathan Papernick (Exile)

Missed Her, Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)

Light Lifting, Alexander MacLeod (Biblioasis)

Icebreaker/ Auricle, Alisha Piercy (Conundrum)

2010 ReLit Award Winners

The Beautiful Children
Michael Kenyon









Buying Cigarettes for the Dog
Stuart Ross









Red Nest
Gillian Jerome

2010 ReLit Shortlists

NOVEL

Away From Everywhere, Chad Pelley (Breakwater)
Wrong Bar, Nathaniel G. Moore (Tightrope)
Overqualified, Joey Comeau (ECW)
The Beautiful Children, Michael Kenyon (Thistledown)
Holding Still For As Long As Possible, Zoe Whittall (Anansi)
The Plight House, Jason Hrivnak (Pedlar)
After the Red Night, Christiane Frenette (Cormorant)


POETRY

Lisa Robertson's 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)


SHORT FICTION

Men of Salt, Men of Earth, Matt Lennox (Oberon)
Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, Stuart Ross (Freehand)
The Moon of Letting Go, Richard Van Camp (Enfield & Wizenty)
What Boys Like, Amy Jones (Biblioasis)
Fatted Calf Blues, Steven Mayoff (Turnstone)
What We’re Made Of, Ryan Turner (Oberon)
Sentimental Exorcisms, David Derry (Coach House)

2010 ReLit Longlists

SHORT FICTION

The Lizard and Other Stories, Michael Bryson (Chaudiere)
The Practice of Perfection, Mary Frances Coady (Coteau)
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 (Gurnica)
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)
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)
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)
Ten Thousand Miles Between Us, Rocco de Giacomo (Quattro)
Lisa Robertson's 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)
Trace & 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)

2009 ReLit Winners

POETRY

Fear Not by Maurice Mierau
(Turnstone)








SHORT FICTION

The Night is a Mouth by Lisa Foad
(Exile Editions)








NOVEL

Chase & Haven By Michael Blouin
(Coach House)

2009 ReLit Shortlists

Winners will be presented with their ReLit rings

at the Ottawa International Writers Festival in October.

SHORT FICTION

Squishy, Arjun Basu (DC Books)
The Butcher of Penetang, Betsy Trumpener (Caitlin)
In the Quiet After Slaughter, Don McLellan (Libros Libertad)
Elysium, Pamela Stewart (Anvil)
My White Planet, Mark Anthony Jarman (Thomas Allen)
The Night is a Mouth, Lisa Foad (Exile)
Evidence, Ian Colford (Porcupine’s Quill)


POETRY

Troubled, RM Vaughan (Coach House)
Noble Gas, Penny Black, David O’Meara (Brick)
Penny Dreadful, Shannon Stewart (Signal)
Dead Cars in Managua, Stuart Ross (DC Books)
Little Hunger, Philip Kevin Paul (Nightwood)
Fear Not, Maurice Mierau (Turnstone)
Sentenced to Light, Fred Wah (Talon)

NOVEL

Girls Fall Down, Maggie Helwig (Coach House)
Cleavage, Theanna Bischoff (NeWest)
A Slice of Voice at the Edge of Hearing, Brian Dedora (Mercury)
Anna’s Shadow, David Manicom (Esplanade)
Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox (Arsenal Pulp)
Charlie Muskrat, Harold Johnson (Thistledown)
Chase & Haven, Michael Blouin (Coach House)

2009 ReLit Longlists

POETRY

The Invisibility Exhibit, Sachiko Murakami (Talon)
What It Feels Like for a Girl, Jennica Harper (Anvil)
Water Strider, Karen Hofmann (Frontenac)
Sentenced to Light, Fred Wah (Talon)
The Delicate Line, Robert Colman (Exile)
Butcher’s Block, Deanna Fong (Pistol Press)
Fear Not, Maurice Mierau (Turnstone)
We Will be Fish, JP King (Pistol Press)
Bush Camp, Marvin Francis (Turnstone)
Augustine in Carthage, Alessandro Porco (ECW)
Troubled, RM Vaughan (Coach House)
The Velocity of Escape, Jim Johnstone (Guernica)
The Sentinel, AF Moritz (Anansi)
The Laundromat Essay, Kyle Buckley (Coach House)
Little Hunger, Philip Kevin Paul (Nightwood)
All our Grandfathers are Ghosts, Pasha Malla (Snare)
Into the Drowned World, Ryan Kamstra (Insomniac)
Dead Cars in Managua, Stuart Ross (DC Books)
Penny Dreadful, Shannon Stewart (Signal)
What Stirs, Margaret Christakos (Coach House)
Noble Gas, Penny Black, David O’Meara (Brick)
Feral Domicile, Boyd Warren Chubbs (Breakwater)
The Sway of Otherwise, David Helwig (Oberon)
You, Gary Hyland (Hagios)
Mongrel Love, Judith Krause (Hagios)
Ragtime for Beginners, Moberley Luger (Killick)
Love of Mirrors, Gary Hyland (Coteau)
Precordial Thump, Zoe Whittall (Exile)
One Crow Sorrow, Lisa Martin-DeMoor (Brindle & Glass)
Night Work, Randall Maggs (Brick)
The North End Poems, Michael Knox (ECW)
The Watchmaker’s Table, Brian Bartlett (Goose Lane)
This is a Small Northern Town, Rosanna Deerchild (The Muses ‘ Company)
Sky Atlas, Alan R. Wilson (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Breathe Now, Phlip Arima (BuschekBooks)
The Debaucher, Jason Camlot (Insomniac)
Taking Shape, Edward Carson (Porcupine’s Quill)
The Red Element, Catherine Graham (Insomniac)
Sublingual, Bill Bissett (Talon)
Autopsy of a Turvy World, Sheri-D Wilson (Frontenac)
36 Cornelian Avenue, Christopher Wiseman (Signal)
Living in Gravity, Valerie Stetson (Palimpsest)
Rue the Day, Tanis MacDonald (Turnstone)
Cypress, Barbara Klar (Brick)
Poems that Swim From my Brain Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship,
Christian McPherson (Bayeux)



SHORT FICTION

The Withdrawal Method, Pasha Malla (Anansi)
The Cult of Quick Repair, Dede Crane (Coteau)
The Old Familiar, Alix Hawley (Thistledown)
All Things Considered, Patricia A. Stone (Hidden Brook)
The Night is a Mouth, Lisa Foad (Exile)
Evidence, Ian Colford (Porcupine’s Quill)
Mother Superior, Saleema Nawaz (Freehand)
The Slow Fix, Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)
Fly on the Wall, Jason Brink (ECW)
My White Planet, Mark Anthony Jarman (Thomas Allen)
Playing Basra, Edward Brown (Exile)
When I Always Wanted Something, Carole Glasser Langille (Mercury)
Flirt, Lorna Jackson (Biblioasis)
Squishy, Arjun Basu (DC Books)
An Unrehearsed Desire, Lauren B. Davis (Exile)
Elysium, Pamela Stewart (Anvil)
The Butcher of Penetang, Betsy Trumpener (Caitlin)
Once, Rebecca Rosenblum (Biblioasis)
In the Quiet After Slaughter, Don McLellan (Libros Libertad)
The Sherpa, Nila Gupta (Sumach)



NOVEL

The Order of Good Cheer, Bill Gaston (Anansi)
1892, Paul Butler (Pennywell)
The Darren Effect, Libby Creelman (Goose Lane)
Ordinary Lives, Josef Skvorecky (Key Porter)
More, Austin Clarke (Thomas Allen)
Here After, Sean Costello (Your Scrivener Press)
Seaweed on the Rocks, Stanley Evans (Touchwood)
Angels of Maradona, Glen Carter (Breakwater)
Operation Rimbaud, Jacques Godbout (Cormorant)
Chef, Jaspreet Singh (Esplanade)
Quintet, Douglas Arthur Brown (Key Porter)
A Week of This, Nathan Whitlock (ECW)
The Year of Numbers, Paulina Wyrzykowski (Seraphim)
The Mountain Clinic, Harold Hoefle (Oberon)
Blasted, Kate Story (Killick)
The Frog Lake Massacre, Bill Gallaher (Touchwood)
The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis, Aaron Peck (Pedlar)
Skin Room, Sara Tilley (Pedlar)
Chase & Haven, Michael Blouin (Coach House)
Charlie Muskrat, Harold Johnson (Thistledown)
Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox (Arsenal Pulp)
Sailor Girl, Sheree-Lee Olson (Porcupine’s Quill)
The Reverend’s Apprentice, David N. Odhiambo (Arsenal Pulp)
Cockroach, Rawi Hage (Anansi)
The Seary Line, Nicole Lundrigan (Breakwater)
Stunt, Claudia Dey (Coach House)
Niceman Cometh, David Carpenter (Porcupine’s Quill)
Good to a Fault, Marina Endicott (Freehand)
Anna’s Shadow, David Manicom (Esplanade)
The Red Dress, Paul Nicholas Mason (Turnstone)
The Steve Machine, Mike Hoolboom (Coach House)
A Slice of Voice at the Edge of Hearing, Brian Dedora (Mercury)
Cleavage, Theanna Bischoff (NeWest)
In the Garden of Men, John Kupferschmidt (3-Day Books)
Girls Fall Down, Maggie Helwig (Coach House)
Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot, Nicole Markotic (Arsenal Pulp)
The Frankenstein Murders, Kathlyn Bradshaw (Cormorant)
The Entropy of Aaron Rosclatt, James Sandham (Clark-Nova)
Taking the Stairs, John Stiles (Nightwood)
Eva’s Threepenny Theatre, Andrew Steinmetz (Gaspereau)
The Show that Smells, Derek McCormack (ECW)
Entitlement, Jonathan Bennett (ECW)

Submissions for the 10th Annual ReLit Awards

Only Canadian authors are eligible. Books must have been written by Canadian authors while living in Canada.

There is no cap on the number of books that might be submitted by any one publisher.

Three categories: Novel; Poetry; and Short Fiction.

Self-published books will not be eligible.

Books must have been published between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009.

There is no entry fee.

Submission deadline is January 30, 2010. Books received after this date will be returned.

Send four copies of each book to:

The ReLit Awards
Burnt Head, Cupids,
Newfoundland,
A0A 2B0

2008 ReLit Winners

2008 ReLit Shortlists

Winners will be presented with their ReLit rings

at the Ottawa International Writers Festival in October.

SHORT FICTION

Up on the Roof, P.K. Page (Porcupine’s Quill)

Bix’s Trumpet, Dave Margoshes (NeWest)

Six Ways to Sunday, Christian McPherson (Nightwood)

Long After Fathers, Roberta Rees (Coteau)

Black Rabbit, Salvatore Difalco (Anvil)

Seven Openings of the Head, Liane Keightley (conundrum)

Long Story Short, Elyse Friedman (Anansi)

POETRY

I Cut My Finger, Stuart Ross (Anvil)

Soft Geography, Gillian Wigmore (Caitlin)

The Shovel, Colin Browne (Talonbooks)

All Things Said & Done, Marita Dachsel (Caitlin)

Two Hemispheres, Nadine McInnis (Brick)

AEthel, Donato Mancini (New Star)

Sitcom, David McGimpsey (Coach House)

NOVEL

The Outlander, Gil Adamson (Anansi)

Orphan Love, Nadia Bozak (Key Porter)

The Milk Chicken Bomb, Andrew Wedderburn (Coach House)

Big White Knuckles, Brian Tucker (Vagrant)

Crown Shyness, Curtis Gillespie (Brindle & Glass)

Soucouyant, David Chariandy (Arsenal Pulp)

The Reckoning of Boston Jim, Claire Mulligan (Brindle & Glass)

2008 ReLit Longlists

SHORT FICTION


Up on the Roof, P.K. Page (Porcupine’s Quill)

The Goldfish Dancer, Patricia Robertson (Biblioasis)
Seven Openings of the Head, Liane Keightley (conundrum)
What Belongs, F.B. Andre (Ronsdale)
The Breakdown So Far, M.A.C Farrant (Talonbooks)
The Penance Drummer, Lois Braun (Turnstone)
Black Rabbit, Salvatore Difalco (Anvil)
Bix’s Trumpet, Dave Margoshes (NeWest)
Boys, Kathleen Winter (Biblioasis)
In a Mist, Devon Code (Invisible)
At the Bottom of the Sky, Peter Dube (DC Books)
Six Ways to Sunday, Christian McPherson (Nightwood)
One Day it Happens, Mary Lou Dickinson (Inanna)
A Feat of Longing, Sarah Klassen (Coteau)
Long Story Short, Elyse Friedman (Anansi)
The Woman Who Walks on Glass, Christiane Frenette (Cormorant)
All in Together Girls, Kate Sutherland (Thistledown)
Long After Fathers, Roberta Rees (Coteau)



NOVEL

The Reckoning of Boston Jim, Claire Mulligan (Brindle & Glass)
I, Tania, Brian Joseph Davis (ECW)
The Outlander, Gil Adamson (Anansi)

Shelf Monkey, Corey Redekop (ECW)
Orphan Love, Nadia Bozak (Key Porter)
The Milk Chicken Bomb, Andrew Wedderburn (Coach House)
Glass Voices, Carol Bruneau (Cormorant)
Macdonald, Roy MacSkimming (Thomas Allen)
Dirtbags, Teresa McWhirter (Anvil)
Homing, Stephanie Domet (Invisible)
The Flannigans, M.T. Dohaney (Flanker)
The Silent Time, Paul Rowe (Killick)
The Convictions of Leonard McKinley, Brendan McLeod (3-Day Books)
A Place of Pretty Flowers, Jerrod Edson (Oberon)
Brother Dumb, Sky Gilbert (ECW)
Big White Knuckles, Brian Tucker (Vagrant)
As Good as Dead, Stan Rogal (Pedlar)
Be Good, Stacey May Fowles (Tightrope)
Coureurs de Bois, Bruce MacDonald (Cormorant)
Bottle Rocket Hearts, Zoe Whittall (Cormorant)
The Book of Beasts, Bernice Friesen (Coteau)
Where White Horses Gallop, Beatrice MacNeil (Key Porter)
Correction Road, Glen Dresser (Oberon)
Smuggling Donkeys, David Helwig (Porcupine’s Quill)
74 Miles Away, J.D. Carpenter (Dundurn)
Post, Arley McNeney (Thistledown)
White, Rob Mclennan (Mercury)
The Skin Beneath, Nairne Holtz (Insomniac)
Room Tone, Gale Zoe Garnett (Quattro)
Soucouyant, David Chariandy (Arsenal Pulp)
Be Wolf, Wayne Tefs (Turnstone)
Snow Candy, Terry Carroll (Mercury)
Stealing Nasreen, Farzana Doctor (Inanna)
The Housekeeping Journals, Jim Mason (Turnstone)
Planet Reese, Cordelia Strube (Dundurn)
The Prison Tangram, Claire Huot (Mercury)
Crown Shyness, Curtis Gillespie (Brindle & Glass)
The Flush of Victory, Ray Smith (Biblioasis)
Delible, Anne Stone (Insomniac)
Pulpy & Midge, Jessica Westhead (Coach House)
The Hole Show, Maya Merrick (Conundrum)



POETRY

Made Beautiful by Use, Sean Horlor (Signature)
The Bindery, Shane Rhodes (NeWest)
Natural Disasters, Andrea MacPherson (Palimpsest)
My Mother Agrees with the Dead, Susan Stenson (Wolsak & Wynn)
ths is erth thees ar peopul, bill bissett (Talonbooks)
Falsework, Gary Geddes (Goose Lane)
Vermeer’s Light, George Bowering (Talonbooks)
Going Around with Bachelors, Agnes Walsh (Brick)
Full Depth, Micheline Maylor (Wolsak & Wynn)
My Etruscan Face, Gianna Patriarca (Quattro)
The Stone Skippers, Ian Burgham (Tightrope)
Erratic, Donna Kane (Hagios)
Accidental Animals, Michael Trussler (Hagios)
The Shovel, Colin Browne (Talonbooks)
Loyalty Management, Glen Downie (Wolsak & Wynn)
All Things Said & Done, Marita Dachsel (Caitlin)
Sitcom, David McGimpsey (Coach House)
Two Hemispheres, Nadine McInnis (Brick)
Selected Portraits, Ron Charach (Wolsak & Wynn)
Thin Moon Psalm, Sheri Benning (Brick)
Rental Van, Clint Burnham (Anvil)
Muybridge’s Horse, Rob Winger (Nightwood)
High Speed Through Shoaling Water, Tom Wayman (Harbour)
Songs for the Dancing Chicken, Emily Schultz (ECW)
Impersonating Flowers, David Bateman (Frontenac House)
The Discipline of Undressing, K. Louise Vincent (Leaf Press)
Combustion, Lorri Neilsen Glenn ((Brick)
Quotidian Fever, Endre Farkas (The Muses’ Company)
Domain, Barbara Nickel (Anansi)
Torch River, Elizabeth Philips (Brick)
O, Clytaemnestra!, Judith Fitzgerald (Oberon)
Soft Geography, Gillian Wigmore (Caitlin)
I Cut My Finger, Stuart Ross (Anvil)
Earth’s Crude Gravities, Patrick Friesen (Harbour)
Adagio for the Pressured Surround, Steven Ross Smith (NeWest)
Red Bird, Ian Roy (BuschekBooks)
I’m Not Going to Lie to You, Michael Blouin (Pedlar)
Beatitudes, Hermenegilde Chiasson (Goose Lane)
Making Bones Walk, Alex Boyd (Luna)
Cleavage: A Life in Breasts, Marilyn Gear Pilling (Black Moss)
The Sweet Fuels, Erin Knight (Goose Lane)
Found, Souvankham Thammavongsa (Pedlar)
More to Keep Us Warm, Jacob Scheier (ECW)
Woodshedding, S.E. Venart (Brick)
Broken Vessel, Harry Thurston (Gaspereau)
Old Winter, Anne Le Dressay (Chaudiere)
The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sharon McCartney (Nightwood)
The Tablecloth Trick, Rick Crilly (ECW)
Last Water Song, Patrick Lane (Harbour)
AEthel, Donato Mancini (New Star)
All Our Wonder Unavenged, Don Domanski (Brick)
The Bone Broker, Lillian Necakov (Mansfield)
Why Are You So Sad?, David W. McFadden (Insomniac)
Last Scattering Surfaces, Gil McElroy (Talonbooks)
Hands Reaching in Water, Gary Hyland (Hagios)
Floors of Enduring Beauty, Steve Venright (Mansfield)

2007 Winners

SHORT FICTION

Gargoyles

-Bill Gaston (Anansi)

POETRY

Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method

-Daniel Scott Tysdal (Coteau)

NOVEL

Bow Grip

-Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)

2007 ReLit
Shortlists 9



SHORT FICTION:

1. Skids, Cathleen With (Arsenal Pulp)
2. The Virgin Spy, Krista Bridge (Douglas & McIntyre)
3. Zero Gravity, Sharon English (Porcupine’s Quill)
4. Gargoyles, Bill Gaston (Anansi)
5. The Hour of Bad Decisions, Russell Wangersky (Coteau)
6. The Coward Files, Ryan Arnold (conundrum)
7. Lanzmann and other stories, Damian Tarnopolsky (Exile)
8. Whatever Happens, Tim Conley (Insomniac)
9. Indigenous Beasts, Nathan Sellyn (Raincoast)


POETRY:

1. What You Can’t Have, Michael V. Smith (Signature)
2. Apostrophe, Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry (ECW)
3. Black, George Elliott Clarke (Polestar)
4. All the Lifters, Esther Mazakian (Signature)
5. I, Nadja, and Other Poems, Susan Elmslie (Brick)
6. Tear Down, Ali Riley (Frontenac House)
7. Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, Daniel Scott Tysdal (Coteau)
8. The Good Bacteria, Sharon Thesen (Anansi)
9. Types of Canadian Women, K.I. Press (Gaspereau)


NOVEL:

1. Season of Iron, Sylvia Maultash Warsh (Dundurn)
2. De Niro’s Game, Rawi Hage (Anansi)
3. Suddenly the Minotaur, Marie Helene Poitras (DC Books)
4. Bow Grip, Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)
5. Orphans of Winter, Rob Ritchie (Seraphim)
6. All This Town Remembers, Sean Johnston (Gaspereau)
7. Miss Lamp, Chris Ewart (Coach House)
8. ManBug, George K. Ilsley (Arsenal Pulp)
9. The Mole Chronicles, Andy Brown (Insomniac)

2007 ReLit Shortlists Soon

2007 ReLit Award Shortlists will be announced in late May

2007 ReLit Longlists

SHORT STORIES:

1. Gargoyles, Bill Gaston (Anansi)
2. The Work of Mercy, Stephen Guppy (Thomas Allen)
3. The Five Hole Stories, Dave Bidini (Brindle & Glass)
4. Sugar Bush, Jenn Farrell (Anvil)
5. Home Schooling, Carol Windley (Cormorant)
6. Zero Gravity, Sharon English (Porcupine’s Quill)
7. Lanzmann and other stories, Damian Tarnopolsky (Exile)
8. Encounters, Michael Trussler (NeWest)
9. Whatever Happens, Tim Conley (Insomniac)
10. The Virgin Spy, Krista Bridge (Douglas & McIntyre)
11. Skids, Cathleen With (Arsenal Pulp)
12. Last Chance to Renew, Scott Randall (Signature)
13. Optique, Clayton Bailey (Vehicule)
14. Your Love is Murder, Paul Hong (Tightrope)
15. Tales of Two Cities, George Fetherling (Subway)
16. The Hour of Bad Decisions, Russell Wangersky (Coteau)
17. Other Times, Other Places, Colin Hayward (Your Scrivener Press)
18. Indigenous Beasts, Nathan Sellyn (Raincoast)
19. World Body, Clark Blaise (Porcupine’s Quill)
20. Destiny’s Telescope, Richard Scarsbrook (Turnstone)
21. The Coward Files, Ryan Arnold (conundrum)
22. Begging Questions, Sean Virgo (Exile)
23. Hitting the Charts, Leon Rooke (Biblioasis)

NOVELS:

1. The Biggest Animals, Michael Kenyon (Thistledown)
2. Winter in Hollywood, Richard Teleky (Thomas Allen)
3. ManBug, George K. Ilsley (Arsenal Pulp)
4. Cathedral Women, Carol Malyon (Mercury)
5. Miss Lamp, Chris Ewart (Coach House)
6. The Mole Chronicles, Andy Brown (Insomniac)
7. Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit, Tom Osborne (Anvil)
8. Looking Good, Keith Maillard (Brindle & Glass)
9. The Violin Lover, Susan Glickman (Goose Lane)
10. Season of Iron, Sylvia Maultash Warsh (Dundurn)
11. A Sharp Intake of Breath, John Miller (Dundurn)
12. Beyond the Pale, Elizabeth Rhett Woods (Ekstasis)
13. The Law of Dreams, Peter Behrens (Anansi)
14. Houdini’s Shadow, Leo Brent Robillard (Turnstone)
15. Rootbound, Grant Buday (ECW)
16. Dead Man’s Float, Nicholas Maes (Vehicule)
17. The Uninvited Guest, John Degen (Nightwood)
18. Joyland, Emily Schultz (ECW)
19. Released, Margaret Macpherson (Signature)
20. Saltsea, David Helwig (Biblioasis)
21. Beauty is a Liar, Valerie Joy Kalynchuk (conundrum)
22. Body Contact, Terry Carroll (Mercury)
23. King, Tanya Chapman (Coach House)
24. Empress of Asia, Adam Lewis Schroeder (Raincoast)
25. Where the Rocks Say Your Name, Brenda Hasiuk (Thistledown)
26. The Perfect Circle, Pascale Quiviger (Cormorant)
27. Orphans of Winter, Rob Ritchie (Seraphim)
28. Bow Grip, Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)
29. De Niro’s Game, Rawi Hage (Anansi)
30. Suddenly the Minotaur, Marie Helene Poitras (DC Books)
31. All This Town Remembers, Sean Johnston (Gaspereau)

POETRY:
1. Liar, Lynn Crosbie (Anansi)
2. Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists, A. Rawlings (Coach House)
3. Technicolored, Jason Guriel (Exile)
4. Avatar, Sharon Harris (Mercury)
5. There, Roy Miki (New Star)
6. Backup to Babylon, Maxine Gadd (New Star)
7. The Theory of Loser Class, Jon Paul Fiorentino (Coach House)
8. Cusp/detritus, Catherine Owen (Anvil)
9. Hand Luggage, P.K. Page (Porcupine’s Quill)
10. Whiskey Bullets, Garry Gottfriedson (Ronsdale)
11. Hannus, Rachael Lebowitz (Pedlar)
12. Airstream Land Yacht, Ken Babstock (Anansi)
13. Passport, Angela Hibbs (DC Books)
14. Fathom, Tim Bowling (Gaspereau)
15. Types of Canadian Women, K.I. Press (Gaspereau)
16. Transformations, John Reibetanz (Goose Lane)
17. The Good Bacteria, Sharon Thesen (Anansi)
18. The Octopus, Jennica Harper (Signature)
19. Nocturnal Tonglen, Derek Hanebury (Ekstasis)
20. What You Can’t Have, Michael V. Smith (Signature)
21. I, Nadja, and Other Poems, Susan Elmslie (Brick)
22. Red Ledger, Mary Dalton (Signal)
23. The Human Shore, Russell Thornton (Harbour)
24. Bye Bye Blackbird, Richard Stevenson (Ekstasis)
25. Home of Sudden Service, Elizabeth Bachinsky (Nightwood)
26. The Village of Sliding Time, David Zieroth (Harbour)
27. Aubade, Rob McLennan (Broken Jaw)
28. Bipolar Bear, Catherine Kidd (conundrum)
29. Play Out the Match, Michael Knox (ECW)
30. Shall: ghazals, Catherine Owen (Wolsak and Wynn)
31. The Encantadas, Robert Allen (conundrum)
32. Flesh, A Naked Dress, Susan Andrews Grace (Hagios)
33. The Cold Panes of Surfaces, Chris Banks (Nightwood)
34. Midnight Stroll, Janice Kulyk Keefer (Exile)
35. Black, George Elliott Clarke (Polestar)
36. Primer on the Hereafter, Steve McOrmond (Wolsak and Wynn)
37. Seven into Even, Jacqueline Turner (ECW)
38. Ontological Necessities, Priscila Uppal (Exile)
39. Hitch, Matthew Holmes (Nightwood)
40. Apostrophe, Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry
41. Pas de Deux, Nina Berkhout (Turnstone)
42. All the Lifters, Esther Mazakian (Signature)
43. Museum Absconditum, Robert Moore (Wolsak and Wynn)
44. For Love of the City, Alan Reed (BuschekBooks)
45. Travelling Light, Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes (Seraphim)
46. A Curious Beatitude, Sarah Klassen (The Muses’ Company)
47. The Visible World, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (Mansfield)
48. Personal Peripherals, Jan Allen (BuschekBooks)
49. Tear Down, Ali Riley (Frontenac House)
50. A Bad Year for Journalists, Lisa Pasold (Frontenac House)
51. The Way Boys Sometimes Are, Clarise Foster (The Muses’ Company)
52. The Milk of Birds, Gary Michael Dault (Mansfield)
53. Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, Daniel Scott Tysdal (Coteau)
54. Anatomy of Keys, Steven Price (Brick)

55. The Language of Sparrows, Andreas Gripp (Harmonia)