Congrats to the
2017 Award Recipients!
Published NON-FICTION:
The Alvin A. Lee Award for
Creative Non-Fiction
Marilyn Gear Pilling: Her Majesty
Honourable Mentions:
Brent van Staalduinen: You’ll See the Sky
Sally Cooper: Chase and Catch
Published POETRY
The Bryan Prince Bookseller Award for Poetry
Cara Evans: Lexicon
Honourable Mentions:
Marilyn Gear Pilling: Eufrasio Told Me
Ellen S. Jaffe: Colours Of Spirit, States Of Mind
Published FICTION:
The Hamilton Public Library Freda Waldon Award for Fiction
Jen Jones: Autopilot
Honourable Mentions:
Kelly Watt: The Dogs Of San Miguel
Elisha Stam: Or Swim
Unpublished – OFF-THE-RADAR - Poetry
The Mohawk College Awards for Poetry
Anna Borstad Klassen: Untitled
Tamara Brstina: The Haunted House
Honourable Mention:
Meagan Shropshall: Comeuppance
Unpublished – OFF-THE-RADAR -
Creative Non-Fiction:
The Redeemer University College Award
for Creative Non-Fiction
Peter Karuna: 80 Kilburn Square
Honourable Mentions:
Paula Grove: My mother had a ritual
Purnima Rao-Melacini: Untitled
Unpublished – OFF-THE-RADAR - Fiction:
The Redeemer University College Award
for Fiction
Nicole Ankenmann: Wool and Wax
Honourable Mentions:
Ashley Huff: Someone To Sit With
Darrell Doxtdator: A Little Truth
Unpublished – YOUTH
The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM
Young Writers Awards:
Mae Ashley Alfonso Toribio - Fiction: Together
Casey Monkelbaan - Poetry: Atrocities of Yesterday and Today
Kendra Zhang - Poetry: Numbers
Hannah Rosales - Poetry: in the strangest places
Honourable Mentions:
Jade Zhang - Poetry: Untitled
Reema Balousha - Poetry: A Child in War
Jaime Delaney - Poetry: writer’s block
Ayooluwa (Nifemi) Bola – Fiction: The Immunes
Sawyer Berkelaar – Fiction: Pirate’s Life
Herleen Devgan – Fiction: Unit 71
Doa Elganga – Fiction: All Gone
THE GILLETT REMINISCENCE AWARDS
This category was open to Memoir Writing Workshop participants.
Virginia Ashberry: Christmas Eve 1980
Rita Bailey: Criminals and Other Riffraff
Simone Rotstein: My Hair, My Daughter, and Me
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Our thanks to all who participated in SWP 2017!
And thank you to the jurors for all of their hard work: Amanda Leduc, John Terpstra, Jennifer Tan, Denyse Terry, and Jeff Griffiths.
Sincere Thanks to our SWP Sponsors and Community Partners!
Rotary Club of Hamilton AM, McMaster University, the City of Hamilton, Redeemer University College, Mohawk College, Bryan Prince Bookseller, Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine, and the Hamilton Public Library. The Gillett Reminiscence Prizes.
And thanks to HA&L magazine's Community Partner, The Hamilton Spectator: TheSpec.com.
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The Short Works Prize for writing is open to Hamilton Area Authors. Presented in Partnership by Bryan Prince Bookseller, Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine, and the Hamilton Public Library.
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