Poetry Awards and Contests
2021 Book Awards: Longlists
The League of Canadian Poets is thrilled to announce the 2021 Book Awards longlists for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. Please join us in celebrating the incredible poetry of 2021! Learn more about the 2021 awards and celebrate the poetry of 2020: 2021 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLIST Awarded…
Read MoreThe Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award 2021 Winner: Jillian Christmas
Congratulations to Jillian Christmas, The Winner of the 2021 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award! 2021 SHERI-D WILSON GOLDEN BERET AWARD WINNER for lifetime achievement in Canadian spoken word poetry The Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award is an annual literary prize crafted specifically to highlight the unique strengths and values of spoken word poetry. The Sheri-D…
Read MoreVery Small Verse 2021 Winner: Sometimes by Rae Crossman
Congratulations to Rae Crossman, winner of the 2022 Very Small Verse Contest!
Read MoreBroadsheet Contest 2021 Winner: Beekeeping by Kim Fahner
Congrats to Kim Fahner, winner of the 2021 Broadsheet Contest.
Read More2020 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize for Canadian Youth – Winning Poems
Join the League of Canadian Poets in celebrating the six winners of the 2020 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize!
Read More2020 Raymond Souster Award Winner: Unmeaningable by Roxanna Bennett
and the 2020 Raymond Souster award goes to… Unmeaningable by Roxanna Bennett (Gordon Hill Press) From the jurors: Where and how is meaning made in a body that interferes with its own lines of communication? Roxanna Bennett’s Unmeaningable is a powerful example of embodied cognition. Crafted with rigorous precision, Bennett’s poems bore into a linguistic system…
Read More2020 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Winner: Float and Scurry by Heather Birrell
The 2020 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award goes to… Float and Scurry by Heather Birrell (Anvil Press/A Feed Dog Book) From the jurors: In the rapid-fire collection Float and Scurry, Heather Birrell tackles parenting, patriarchy, personal politics and much more, often while driving the reader to laughter. So many of this book’s subjects and projects…
Read More2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Winner: How She Read by Chantal Gibson
and the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award goes to… How She Read by Chantal Gibson (Caitlin Press) From the jurors: Chantal Gibson’s How She Read creates its illuminating poetics through language, image, and a hieroglyphic that only slowly reveals its significance. From a song of praise to Black girls; to an homage to the poet’s grandfather,…
Read More2020 Poetry Awards: Interview with Charlie C Petch
Charlie C Petch is the winner of the 2020 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award from the League of Canadian Poets. Find out more about Charlie’s poetry and process below. LCP: What does poetry mean to you? CP: For me, poetry is authenticity, a vehicle for change, for growth, play, escape, and nurturing community. LCP: Who has…
Read More2020 Poetry Awards: Interview with Chantal Gibson
Chantal Gibson is the author of How She Read (Caitlin Press), and winner of the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets. Find out more about Chantal’s poetry and process below. LCP: Tell the story of how your collection came to be. CG: I would say How She Read started…
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