Winners:
2013 Open Season Awards |
- Lisa Martin-DeMoor, “Believing is not the same as Being Saved” (poetry)
Carmelinda Scian, “The Butterfly First” (fiction)
Susan Buis, “The Falling House” (creative nonfiction)
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Poetry |
- Stephanie Bolster, “Muguet” and “Witch Hazel”
- Lorna Crozier, “The Afterlife,” “Quirks,” “Blackberry Pickers,” “Book of Small Mistakes,” “Like a Body Falling,” and “Moose Nose”
- Read “A Longing for our Life on Earth: John Barton in Conversation with Lorna Crozier” here.
- Read “Blackberry Pickers” in full here.
- Rocco de Giacomo, “The Visible World”
- Don Domanski, “Unborn” and “A Feral Trance”
- Allison LaSorda, “Ricochet” and “Bonnechere Caves”
- Jeff Latosik, “The Shortcut,” “Meter,” “Iron,” and “Foley Artistry”
- Joanna Lilley, “The Bather”
- David Pimm, “Wishing It Otherwise”
- Peter Sanger, “Fireships”
- Brittney Scott, “a message from Humboldt county” and “Low Pressure Systems”
- Maureen Scott Harris, “Joe Fafard’s Cows: ‘The Pasture'” and “Joe Fafard’s Cows: ‘Elinore, Valadon, Potter'”
- Kenneth Sherman, “Jogging with the Great Ray Charles”
- Priscila Uppal, “The Happy Genius of Our Household”
- Gillian Wigmore, “if you ever falter and stop loving”
- David Zieroth, “Albrecht Dürer and me” and “sun-filled photo”
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Fiction |
- Adrick Brock, “Nina in the Body of a Clown”
- Cody Klippenstein, “Dainty, Pretty Things”
- Read “Walk the Line of Sense and Comfort: PJ Grace in Conversation with Cody Klippenstein” here.
- Read “Dainty, Pretty Things” in full here.
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Creative Nonfiction |
- Kirsteen MacLeod, “The Animal Game”
- Anna Maxymiw, “The Shipping Platform”
- Read “Backdrop for the Experience: Molly McFaul in Conversation with Anna Maxymiw” here.
- Read “The Shipping Platform” in full here.
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Reviews |
- Poetry
- Rodney DeCroo, Allegheny, BC (Gibsons: Nightwood, 2012) and Brenda Schmidt, Grid (Regina: Hagios, 2012). (Reviewed by Emily McGiffin)
- Marcus McCann, The Hard Return (London: Insomniac, 2012), Moez Surani, Floating Life (Hamilton: Wolsak & Wynn, 2012), and Gillian Wigmore, Dirt of Ages (Gibsons: Nightwood, 2012). (Reviewed by Vanessa Herman)
- Fiction
- C. P. Boyko, Psychology and Other Stories (Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2012). (Reviewed by Tim Rogers)
- Anne Fleming, Gay Dwarves of America (Toronto: Pedlar, 2012). (Reviewed by Shane Neilson)
- Raminder Sidhu, Tears of Mehndi (Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin, 2012). (Reviewed by Lauren Diemer)
- Nonfiction
- Luanne Armstrong and Zoe Landale (Eds.), Slice me some truth: An anthology of Canadian creative nonfiction (Hamilton: Wolsak & Wynn, 2012). (Reviewed by Rob Wipond)
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Cover |
- Jessy Pesce
- A cow in Joe Fafard’s The Pasture, Toronto-Dominion Centre
- Photograph of the sculpture
- February 2013
- Collection of the artist
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