Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English by writers from Quebec. They were known from 1988 to 1998 as the QSPELL Awards.
Categories
They are currently presented in seven literary categories:- Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
- Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
- A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
- Concordia University First Book Prize
- QWF Prize for Children's & Young Adult Literature
- Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
- 3Macs Carte Blanche Prize for the best work published in the QWF's online literary journal Carte Blanche.
The awards have been presented annually since 1988.
Winners
Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize, established in 2008, is presented annually for children's and young adult books. Picture books with text and books intended for beginner readers are eligible in even-numbered years, whereas books intended for middle grade or young adult readers are eligible in odd-numbered years. The award was established in 2008, was sponsored by sponsored by Janet and John Blachford beginning in 2014, and has been sponsored in the memory of Janet Savage Blachford since 2018.''carte blanche'' Prize
The carte blanche Prize, established in 2008, is awarded annual "in recognition of an outstanding submission to QWF's online literary journal, carte blanche, by a Quebec writer, artist, or translator. Winners receive a cash prize and a unique trophy—'The Lori'—created by Montreal artist Glen LeMesurier."| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
| 2008 | "Wyoming Is Haunted" | Winner | ||
| 2009 | "Changing Winter Tires" | Winner | ||
| 2010 | "Something Important and Delicate" | Winner | ||
| 2010 | "Picnic" | Second | ||
| 2010 | "Letters Out" | Third | ||
| 2011 | "Like This Together" | Winner | ||
| 2011 | "" | Second | ||
| 2011 | , trans. by Howard Scott | "EXilium" | Third | |
| 2012 | "Aria" | Winner | ||
| 2012 | "" | Second | ||
| 2012 | "William and Robbie" | Third | ||
| 2013 | "Bluefooted" | Winner | ||
| 2013 | "Finding Snow in Wyoming" | Second | ||
| 2013 | "Death in the Midden" | Third | ||
| 2014 | and Sheryl Curtis | "It's Late, Doctor Schweitzer" by Didier Leclair | Winner | |
| 2014 | "Dung Beetle" | Second | ||
| 2014 | "" | Third | ||
| 2015 | "Self-Serve" | Winner | ||
| 2015 | Cathon | "Old Shit I Still Feel Guilty About" | Second | |
| 2015 | "Holy Treasures" | Third | ||
| 2016 | "Rabbits with Red Eyes" | Winner | ||
| 2016 | "" | Second | ||
| 2016 | "Bridges We Build" | Third | ||
| 2017 | "Ferrante in the Cellar: A Vulgar Appreciation" | Winner | ||
| 2017 | "" | Second | ||
| 2017 | "Self-Trolling" | Third | ||
| 2018 | "loss of self" | Winner | ||
| 2018 | "Tracking Animal" | Second | ||
| 2018 | "Bow" | Third | ||
| 2019 | "Aquanauts" | Winner | ||
| 2019 | "On killing a spider" | Second | ||
| 2019 | "My Home Movie" | Third | ||
| 2020 | Winner | |||
| 2020 | "Thin" | Second | ||
| 2020 | "Emote: A Time Capsule" | Third | ||
| 2021 | "Tricks" | Winner | ||
| 2021 | "Sickness in Limbo" | Second | ||
| 2021 | "" | Third | ||
| 2022 | "Some Kind of Light" | Winner | ||
| 2022 | "" | Second | ||
| 2022 | "Gardens of Dirty Laundry" | Third | ||
| 2023 | "Disorientations" | Winner | ||
| 2023 | "Relieved" | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | "The Cows Are Benevolent and Full of Flies" | Shortlist | ||
| 2024 | "Playtime in Carmella's Room" | Winner | ||
| 2024 | "Zoologies" | Shortlist | ||
| 2024 | "Bone-Eating Snot Flower" | Shortlist |
The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation, also known as Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole and established in 1998, is awarded annually to books written by an English-language Quebec writer or an English-language Quebec translator of a book by a French author. English-language Quebec writers are eligible in even-numbered years, whereas English-language Quebec translators are eligible in odd-numbered years.Concordia University First Book Prize
The Concordia University First Book Prize, established in 1996 and sponsored by Concordia University, is awarded annually to the first book of an English-language Quebec writer. The award has been known as the First Book Award, McAuslan First Book Prize, the QWF First Book Prize, and the Concordia University First Book Prize.| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
| 1996 | Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam | Winner | ||
| 1997 | Picking Up Pearls | Winner | ||
| 1997 | Buntys and Pinkies: Chronicles of a New Canadian | Shortlist | ||
| 1997 | and R. Bruce Henry | Half Man, Half Beast: Making a Life in Canadian Theatre | Shortlist | |
| 1998 | Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution | Winner | ||
| 1998 | More Than Life Itself | Shortlist | ||
| 1998 | Stories to Hide From Your Mother | Shortlist | ||
| 1999 | Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby? | Winner | ||
| 1999 | Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain | Shortlist | ||
| 1999 | Charlevoix County, 1930 | Shortlist | ||
| 2000 | Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec | Winner | ||
| 2000 | Wardlife, the Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk | Shortlist | ||
| 2000 | Social Discredit, Anti-Semitism, Social Credit and the Jewish Response | Shortlist | ||
| 2001 | ' | Winner | ||
| 2001 | If Looks Could Kill | Shortlist | ||
| 2001 | Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art | Shortlist | ||
| 2002 | Blues from the Malabar Coast | Winner | ||
| 2002 | Empress of Ireland: The Story of an Edwardian Liner | Shortlist | ||
| 2002 | Like Everyone Else…But Different: The Paradoxical Success of Canadian Jews | Shortlist | ||
| 2003 | One Day Even Trevi Will Crumble | Winner | ||
| 2003 | Shortlist | |||
| 2003 | My Own Devices | Shortlist | ||
| 2004 | Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir | Winner | ||
| 2004 | Shortlist | |||
| 2004 | Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | ' | Winner | ||
| 2005 | Blackbodying | Winner | ||
| 2005 | Cities of Weather | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | De Niro's Game | Winner | ||
| 2006 | I, Nadja, and Other Poems | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | Dreadful Paris | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | Bang Crunch | Winner | ||
| 2007 | Ropewalk | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | Shortlist | |||
| 2008 | ' | Winner | ||
| 2008 | Seven Openings of the Head | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | Mother Superior | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | ' | Winner | ||
| 2009 | Fish Bones | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | Ruins and Relics | Shortlist | ||
| 2010 | ' | Winner | ||
| 2010 | Mammoth | Shortlist | ||
| 2010 | YOU Comma Idiot | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | ' | Winner | ||
| 2011 | Shortlist | |||
| 2011 | Spat the Dummy | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | All The Voices Cry | Winner | ||
| 2012 | Pollen | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | Waking in the Tree House | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | ' | Winner | ||
| 2013 | Shortlist | |||
| 2013 | Shortlist | |||
| 2014 | Sweet Affliction | Winner | ||
| 2014 | Us Conductors | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Palawan Story | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | Swing in the House and Other Stories | Winner | ||
| 2015 | Giving Up | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | Shortlist | |||
| 2016 | Small Fires | Winner | ||
| 2016 | Sleeping Giants | Shortlist | ||
| 2016 | Indigenous Writes | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Uncertain Weights and Measures | Winner | ||
| 2017 | Arabic for Beginners | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Shortlist | |||
| 2018 | Zolitude | Winner | ||
| 2018 | Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present | Shortlist | ||
| 2018 | Excitement Tax | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | nîtisânak | Winner | ||
| 2019 | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | Seeker: A Sea Odyssey | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | We Were Like Everyone Else | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | ' | Winner | ||
| 2020 | ZOM-FAM | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Pluviophile | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Fighting for a Hand to Hold | Winner | ||
| 2021 | Knot Body | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Ten Thousand Crossroads: The Path As I Remember It | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | We, Jane | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | Winner | |||
| 2022 | Prophetess | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | Dream of No One But Myself | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | We Have Never Lived on Earth | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | , Douglas Sanderson | Valley of the Birdtail | Winner | |
| 2023 | Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | The House You Were Born In | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | End Times | Shortlist | ||
| 2024 | Little Crosses | Winner | ||
| 2024 | spoken | Shortlist | ||
| 2024 | Here Is Still Here | Shortlist |