ReLit Awards

The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories.[1] Founded in 2000 by Newfoundland filmmaker and author Kenneth J. Harvey,[2] they are considered the preeminent literary prize in independent Canadian publishing.[1]

Subtitled Ideas, Not Money the main title of the awards is short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, and Relighting Literature.[3] The awards were conceived by Harvey as an alternative to larger mainstream prizes such as the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Awards.[4] There is no money awarded for the prize; in the first two years, the winners received a nominal prize of one Canadian dollar,[5] but since 2003 the recipients have been presented with a silver ring designed by Newfoundland artisan Christopher Kearney.[6]

It was announced in January 2021 that management of the award has been taken over by Harvey's daughter Katherine, with the project expanding to incorporate an online literary journal and a mentorship program for young writers.[7]

Nominees and winners

Year Novel Short fiction Poetry

2001[8]

2002

  • Bill Gaston, Mount Appetite[10]
  • Richard Cumyn, Viking Brides
  • Kristi-Ly Green, Nits

2003

  • Sean Johnston, A Day Does Not Go By
  • Richard Cumyn, The Obstacle Course
  • Corey Frost, My Own Devices
  • Emily Schultz, Black Coffee Night

2004

2005

  • James Grainger, The Long Slide
  • Lance Blomgren, Corner Pieces
  • Corey Frost, The Worthwhile Flux
  • James Marshall, Let's Not Let a Little Thing Like the End of the World Come Between Us

2006

2007

2008

  • Roberta Rees, Long After Fathers[3]
  • Salvatore Difalco, Black Rabbit
  • Elyse Friedman, Long Story Short
  • Liane Keightley, Seven Openings of the Head
  • Dave Margoshes, Bix's Trumpet
  • Christian McPherson, Six Ways to Sunday
  • P. K. Page, Up on the Roof

2009

  • Lisa Foad, The Night Is a Mouth
  • Arjun Basu, Squishy
  • Ian Colford, Evidence
  • Mark Anthony Jarman, My White Planet
  • Don McLellan, In the Quiet After Slaughter
  • Pamela Stewart, Elysium
  • Betsy Trumpener, The Butcher of Penetang

2010

2011

2012

  • Greg Kearney, Pretty
  • Carolyn Black, The Odious Child
  • Matthew Firth, Shag Carpet Action
  • Daniel Griffin, Stopping for Strangers
  • Jesus Hardwell, Easy Living
  • Mike Spry, Distillery Songs

2013[12]

  • Ian Rogers, Every House Is Haunted
  • Wade Bell, Tracie's Revenge & Other Stories
  • Domenico Capilongo, Subtitles
  • Trevor Clark, Escape and Other Stories
  • Elisabeth de Mariaffi, How to Get Along with Women
  • Alex Leslie, People Who Disappear
  • Sean Virgo, Dibidalen
  • Donald Ward, The Weeping Chair
  • Julie Wilson, Seen Reading
  • Steven Price, Omens in the Year of the Ox
  • Ronna Bloom, Cloudy with a Fire in the Basement
  • Cliff Burns, New and Selected Poems
  • Jason Heroux, Natural Capital
  • Leah Horlick, Riot Lung
  • Grant Loveys, Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed
  • Christine McNair, Conflict
  • Erin Mouré, The Unmentionable
  • Catherine Owen, Trobairitz
  • Ian Williams, Personals

2014[13]

  • Nathaniel G. Moore, Savage 1986-2011
  • Jeff Beamish, Sneaker Wave
  • Paul Bowdring, The Strangers' Gallery
  • Stephanie Domet, Fallsy Downsies
  • Susan Downe, Juanita Wildrose My True Life
  • Stacey May Fowles, Infidelity
  • Joel Thomas Hynes, Say Nothing Saw Wood
  • Shane Joseph, Paradise Revisited
  • Amanda Leduc, The Miracle of Ordinary Men
  • Ashley Little, Anatomy of a Girl Gang
  • Lisa Moore, Caught
  • Garry Thomas Morse, Rogue Cells/ Carbon Harbour
  • Chad Pelley, Every Little Thing
  • Ursula Pflug, The Alphabet Stones
  • Christine Walde, Burning from the Inside
  • Christine Miscione, Auxiliary Skins
  • Astrid Blodgett, You Haven't Changed a Bit
  • Cliff Burns, Exceptions & Deceptions
  • Austin Clarke, They Never Told Me
  • Kelli Deeth, The Other Side of Youth
  • Cynthia Flood, Red Girl Rat Boy
  • Bill Haugland, After it Rains
  • Sara Heinonen, Dear Leaves I Miss You
  • Martin Hunter, The Critic and Other Stories
  • Colette Maitland, Keeping the Peace
  • Dana Mills, Someone Somewhere
  • Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Islands of Decolonial Love
  • Andrew F. Sullivan, All We Want is Everything
  • Peter Unwin, Life Without Death
  • Charmaine Cadeau, Placeholder
  • Stephen Brockwell, Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books
  • Jason Camlot, What the World Said
  • Kate Cayley, How This World Comes to an End
  • Margaret Christakos, Multitudes
  • Jim Christy, This Cockeyed World
  • Amber Dawn, How Poetry Saved My Life
  • Dina Del Bucchia, Coping With Emotions and Otters
  • Adam Dickinson, The Polymers
  • Glen Downie, Monkey Soap
  • Kevin McPherson Eckhoff, Forge
  • Catherine Greenwood, The Lost Letters
  • Niki Koulouris, The Sea With No One in It
  • Daphne Marlatt, Liquidities
  • Sharon McCartney, Hard Ass
  • David O'Meara, A Pretty Sight
  • Robin Richardson, Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis
  • Stan Rogal, Love's Not the Way To
  • David Seymour, For Display Purposes Only
  • Ann Shin, The Family China
  • Jacqueline Turner, The Ends of the Earth
  • Stuart Ross, Our Days in Vaudeville

2015

  • Megan Gail Coles, Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome
  • Greg Bechtel, Boundary Problems
  • Kate Cayley, How You Were Born
  • Jon Paul Fiorentino, I'm Not Scared of You or Anything
  • Sean Johnston, We Don't Listen to Them
  • Doretta Lau, How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun
  • Helen Marshall, Gifts for the One Who Comes After
  • Elaine McCluskey, Hello, Sweetheart
  • George McWhirter, The Gift of Women
  • Kathy Page, Paradise & Elsewhere
  • Marguerite Pigeon, Some Extremely Boring Drives
  • Matt Rader, What I Want to Tell Goes Like This
  • Rolli, I Am Currently Working on a Novel
  • Shawn Syms, Nothing Looks Familiar

2016

  • Kevin Hardcastle, Debris[14]
  • Anita Anand, Swing in the House
  • Donna Besel, Lessons from a Nude Man
  • Jim Christy, Bad Day for Ralphie
  • Tim Conley, Dance Moves of the Near Future
  • Cherie Dimaline, A Gentle Habit
  • Rhonda Douglas, Welcome to the Circus
  • Katherine Fawcett, The Little Washer of Sorrows
  • Hugh Graham, Last Words
  • Mark Anthony Jarman, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
  • Carole Glasser Langille, I Am What I Am Because You Are What You Are
  • Lana Pesch, Moving Parts
  • Ian Roy, Meticulous, Sad and Lonely
  • Russell Smith, Confidence
  • Jess Taylor, Pauls
  • Richard Van Camp, Night Moves

2017

  • Kris Bertin, Bad Things Happen
  • Kelley Aitken, Canadian Shield
  • Danila Botha, For All the Men and For All the Women I’ve Known
  • Diane Bracuk, Middle-Aged Boys & Girls
  • Robert Chafe, Two Man Tent
  • Leesa Dean, Waiting for the Cyclone
  • Alban Goulden, As If
  • John Metcalf, The Museum at the End of the World
  • Nathaniel G. Moore, Jettison
  • Catherine Owen, The Day of the Dead
  • Chad Pelley, Four-Letter Words
  • Alice Petersen, Worldly Goods
  • Leon Rooke, Swinging Through Dixie
  • Rea Tarvydas, How to Pick Up a Maid in Statue Square
  • Laura Trunkey, Double Dutch
  • Gisele Villeneuve, Rising Abruptly
  • Russell Wangersky, The Path of Most Resistance
  • Martin West, Cretacea & Other Stories from the Badlands
  • Katherine Leyton, All the Gold Hurts My Mouth
  • Jordan Abel, Injun
  • Adele Barclay, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach out For You
  • Stephen Brockwell, All of Us Reticent, Here, Together
  • Sarah Burgoyne, Saint Twin
  • Clint Burnham, Pound @ Guantanamo
  • George Elliott Clarke, Canticles I
  • Wayne Clifford, The Exile Papers, Part Four
  • Michael Crummey, Little Dogs
  • Rocco de Giacomo, Every Night of Our Lives
  • Beth Everest, Silent Sister
  • M. A. C. Farrant, The Days
  • David Fraser, After All the Scissor Work is Done
  • Kerry Gilbert, Tight Wire
  • Christopher Gudgeon, Assdeep in Wonder
  • Eva H.D., Shiner
  • Jason Heroux, Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines
  • Jessica Hiemstra, The Holy Nothing
  • JonArno Lawson, The Hobo’s Crowbar
  • Sharon McCartney, Metanoia
  • Jim McLean, Nineteen Fifty-Seven
  • Jim Nason, Touch Anywhere to Begin
  • Monty Reid, Meditatio Placentae
  • Lisa Robertson, 3 Summers
  • Stuart Ross, A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent
  • Angeline Schellenberg, Tell Them It Was Mozart
  • Kilby Smith-McGregor, Kids in Triage
  • Meaghan Strimas, Yes or Nope
  • Aritha Van Herk, Stampede and the Westness of West
  • Margo Wheaton, The Unlit Path Behind the House

References

  1. "Three indie writers honoured by ReLit Awards". The Globe and Mail, July 19, 2007.
  2. "Shortlists announced for ReLit Awards". National Post, August 31, 2010.
  3. "ReLit award winners named". Ottawa Citizen, July 27, 2008.
  4. "Canada's newest literary prize is for independent presses". National Post, November 8, 2000.
  5. "It's in the mail; wear the prize". Vancouver Sun, June 14, 2003.
  6. "Manitoba publishers nab four Relit nods". Winnipeg Free Press, February 11, 2017.
  7. Ryan Porter, "ReLit Awards launches literary journal, teen mentorship under new executive director". Quill & Quire, January 7, 2021.
  8. "Diary of an accidental judge". Vancouver Sun, May 12, 2001.
  9. "New literary prize recognizes smaller success stories". Calgary Herald, June 18, 2001.
  10. Mark Cochrane, "Bonfire of the vanities: At the second annual ReLit Awards, the small world of Canadian poetry felt suffocatingly close". Vancouver Sun, June 22, 2002.
  11. "Winners of ReLit Awards announced". The Globe and Mail, October 22, 2010.
  12. "And the winners of the 2013 ReLit Awards are...." Archived 2014-01-31 at the Wayback Machine. The Province, December 20, 2013.
  13. "The 2014 ReLit Shortlists". The Relit Awards, December 24, 2014.
  14. "Carellin Brooks, Kevin Hardcastle and Sue Goyette win 2016 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, March 9, 2017.
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