Books

Recent Winners and Finalists

2012 Winners

1st Prize Winner

Thorazine Beach by Bradley Harris of Memphis, Tennessee

2nd Prize Winner

Embodying Geography by Manpreet Dhaliwal of Surrey, B.C.

3rd Prize Winner

Drift, Disappear by Mallory McMahon of Brooklyn, New York

Top Shortlisted Novels

  • Suicide Season by Jay Bethke of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
  • Fauvel by Kayt Burgess of Aurora, Ontario
  • Recycled Virgins by Dorothyanne Brown of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
  • Fall of Breath by Anne DeGrace of South Slocan, B.C.
  • The Clothes We Wear by Vanessa Fernando of Montreal, Quebec
  • Doorways by Barbara Gordon of Victoria, B.C.
  • The Pledge by Annie Mahoney of Toronto, Ontario
  • The Jewish Joke Factory by Kelsey Osgood of Brooklyn, New York
  • Werewolves of Vegas by Teresa Perrin of Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Baselines by Anna Stewart of Bakersfield, California
  • Go Bullet by Rudy Thauberger of Vancouver, B.C.
  • Giant by Ben R. Williams of Basset, Virginia

2011 Winners

1st Prize Winner

Heidegger Stairwell by Kayt Burgess of Aurora, Ontario

2nd Prize Winner

Brandon Hobson of Hennessey, Oklahoma, for Street Dogs

3rd Prize Winner

Karen Cressman of Brampton, Ontario, for She Felt Like Velvet

Shortlisted Novels

  • Full Moon Rules by LENORE BUTCHER of Woodstock, Ontario
  • Alice’s Adventures Through a Very Big Mirror by VICTORIA DUNN of Ottawa, Ontario
  • Darius to the Max by CATHI RADNER CASTRIO of Argyle, New York
  • Not by TERRY LEEDER of Oakville, Ontario
  • Rounds Down Range by J.L. MYERS of Tulsa, Oklahoma
  • Half of No by KARI PILGRIM of Brooklyn, New York
  • Happily Destroyed by EVAN PURCELL of Bullhead City, Arizona
  • Deadfall by RACHEL SLANSKY of San Francisco, California
  • Lords of Ironfire by RUDY THAUBERGER of Vancouver, British Columbia
  • 
Banquet of Consequences by ANDERSON TODD of Toronto, Ontario

2010 Winners

1st Prize Winner

Terroryaki! by Jennifer K. Chung

2nd Prize Winner

Gwendolyn Bird of Kasilof, Alaska, for The Island of Broken Toys

3rd Prize Winner

Tate Young of Toronto, Ontario, for The Ridgeback

Shortlisted Novelists

  • Jon Billman (Stillwater, OK) for Bicycle Tramps

  • Alan James Blair (Stillwater, OK) forThe Mermaid’s Brother
  • Jennie Bomford (Prince George, B.C.) for Spiritual
  • Keith Chittleborough (Glen Waverley, Australia) for Sheepless in Puckapunyal


  • Paul Colley & Laura Colley (Pickering, ON) for Clockwork
  • Logan Evans (Pullman, WA) for The Boundary Nebula
  • Gayleen Froese (Edmonton, AB) for What the Cat Dragged In

  • 
B. Gordon (Victoria, BC) for Archipelago

  • Diana Holdsworth (Amherst, MA) for The Golden Tooth
  • 
Jimmm Kelly (Vancouver, BC) forThe Little Man

  • Ashok Mathur (Vancouver, BC) for The First White Black Man

  • Iulia Park (Toronto, ON) for Canadian Experience
  • 
Rudy Thauberger (Vancouver, BC) for Evil Beach Dance Party
  • Jake Wallis Simons (Winchester, United Kingdom) for 24/3

  • Jenny D. Williams (Brooklyn, NY) for The Widow and the Twin

2009 Winners

1st Prize Winner

Snowmen by Mark Sedore

2nd Prize Winner

McKinley M. Hellenes of Mission, British Columbia, for Everything Will Be OK

3rd Prize Winner

Victoria Dunn of Ottawa, Ontario, for Alice’s Adventures with Welsh Zombies

Shortlisted Novelists

  • Miguel Burr (Vancouver, BC) for Fluorescence

  • Keith Chittleborough (Glen Waverley, Australia) for Sheepless in Puckapunyal

  • Karen Cressman (Brampton, ON) for Breaking the Girl
  • 
Kimberly Davidson (Vancouver, BC) for Jabula

  • Alice Egoyan and Devon Motola (Fresno, CA) for 77
  • 
David Gibson (Hamilton, ON) for Cold Heaven Blonde
  • 
Barbara Gordon (Victoria, BC) for Culture Heroes

  • Meredith Kennedy (Palo Alto, CA) for Strange Alchemy
  • 
Edward Lineberry (Dallas, TX) for Forged Prophet

  • J.C. Locke (Carrboro, NC) for Big Crunch

  • Gavin McLachlan (Toronto, ON) for Give Up Your Self
  • 
Greg Morrison (Woodstock, VA) for The Goetist

  • Erica Naone (Allston MA) for Needle and Fang

  • Marion Stein (New York, NY) for Hungry Ghosts
  • 
T.R. White (Brampton, ON) for Billy Blue Bear

2008 Winners

1st Prize Winner

The Videographer by Jason Rapczynski

2nd Prize Winner

Luminous Veil by Mark Sedore (Toronto, ON)

3rd Prize Winner

Deliver Me by Karen Cressman (Brampton, ON)

Shortlisted Novelists

  • Pam Bustin, Chapleau, ON, for Sanctuary
  • Chris Connolly, New York NY, for The Suitcase or the Coffin
  • Mark Freeman, Vancouver, BC, for Worldtown
  • Roben Goodfellow, Toronto, ON, for St. George and the Dragon
  • J.A. Goodwin, Toronto, ON, for Gifts from Uncle Leon
  • Meredith Kennedy, Long Beach, CA, for The Magic Colt
  • Edward Lineberry, Dallas, TX, for UNTITELD
  • William Osler, Lethbridge, AB, for Ed’s Cave
  • Judith K. Parker, Vancouver, BC, for On the Home Front
  • Chris Seymour, Vancouver, BC, for Self Defense
  • R.H. Slansky, Portland, OR, for Icebound
  • Ryan States, Edmonton, AB, for Silver Bullets
  • Special mention to Carson Taylor of Claremore, OK, and Natasha Carr-Harris of Vancouver, BC, for being this year’s youngest entrants to complete and submit a novel. (14 and 10, respectively!)

2007 Winners

1st Prize Winner

In the Garden of Men by John Kupferschmidt

2nd Prize Winner

Erin Jeanne Foster-O’Riordan of Edmonton, Alberta

3rd Prize Winner

Matthew Claxton of Langley, British Columbia

Shortlisted Novelists

  • Matthew Andrews, Modesto, California
  • J. Tynan Burke and Danny Cullenward, Fairfax, California
  • M. Burr, North Vancouver, B.C.
  • Karen Cressman, Brampton, Ontario
  • Louise D’Arcy, Yackandandah, Australia
  • Brinley Davis, Gunnison, Colorado
  • Paul Dechene, Regina, Saskatchewan
  • Gayleen Froese, Edmonton Alberta
  • Peter Kryszkiewicz, North Vancouver, B.C.
  • Edward Lineberry, Dallas, Texas
  • Christopher Meades, Burnaby, B.C.
  • Mark Sedore, Toronto, Ontario
  • Hilary Smith, Vancouver, B.C.
  • Rudy Thauberger, Vancouver, B.C.
  • Anderson Todd, Owen Sound, Ontario
  • Bryan Ward, Mission, B.C.
  • Ben R. Williams, Bassett, Virginia
  • And special mention to Dylan Bates of Scarborough, Ontario

2006 Winners

1st Prize Winner

The Convictions of Leonard McKinley by Brendan McLeod

2nd Prize Winner

Terry Dove of Vancouver, BC, for Rocketdial

3rd Prize Winner

Carolyn Magner Mason of Tuscaloosa, AL, for Hopeless Causes

Shortlisted Novelists

  • Tom Alexander, London, UK
  • Timothy Anderson, Edmonton, AB
  • Emily Anderson and Marit Peterson, Chicago, IL
  • Rae Calvary, Milwaukie, OR
  • Patricia Chao, New York, NY
  • Trisha Cull, Victoria, BC
  • Jody Franklin, Victoria, BC
  • Joe Goodwill, Vancouver, BC
  • B. Gordon, Victoria, BC
  • Thomas Gray, Olympia, WA
  • Cammy Lee, Toronto, ON
  • Colleen Marlin, Toronto, ON
  • Kari McKay, Edmonton, AB
  • Walt Morton, Venice, CA
  • Richard Schwindt, Kingston, ON
  • Andrea Wijayakoon Phillpotts, Richmond, BC
  • Ron Yamauchi, Vancouver, BC

2005 Winners

1st Prize Winner

Day Shift Werewolf by Jan Underwood

2nd Prize Winner

Skunks I Have Loved by Srividya Natarajan (London, Ontario)

3rd Prize Winner

Basement Fishing by Terry Dove (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Shortlisted Novelists

  • Emily Anderson and Zach Scott, Chicago, Illinois
  • Manuel Azuaje, Edmonton, Alberta
  • Elizabeth Bachinsky and Amber Dawn, Maple Ridge/Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Matthew Claxton, Langley, British Columbia
  • James Dallas Smith and Adam Sikora, Oshawa, Ontario
  • Jessica Darago, Arlington, Virginia
  • Eric Howerton, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Nicolas Milligan, Hinton, Alberta
  • Patricia Morningstar, Falls Church, Virginia
  • Griffith Owain, Toronto, Ontario
  • Jason Pearce, Richmond, Ontario
  • Kristin Sumner, Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • Heather and Wes Wardell, Markham, Ontario
  • Robert Weston, Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Joe Wiebe, Vancouver, British Columbia

2004 Winners

1st Prize Winner

Love Block by Meghan Austin and Shannon Mullally

2nd Prize Winner

Sincere Flattery by Jen Frankel (Stratford, Ontario)

3rd Prize Winner

Touching Picasso by Amy Nichols (Peoria, Arizona)

Shortlisted Novelists

  • Todd Aalgaard, Campbell River, BC
  • Elizabeth Bachinsky, Maple Ridge, BC
  • Gurbeen Bhasin, Etobicoke, ON
  • Karen Cressman, Brampton, ON
  • Terry Dove, Vancouver, BC
  • Ryan Fitzgerald, Winnipeg, MB
  • Jennifer Genereux, Burnaby, BC
  • Cynthia Gould, Toronto, ON
  • Colleen Marlin, Toronto, ON
  • Brett Ross McKenzie, London, ON
  • Lynn Nappi, Richland, WA
  • Shane Plante, Antigonish, NS
  • Stephanie Rea, Ottawa, ON
  • Derrick Van Grol, Rochester, NY
  • Cheryl Wold, Edmonton, AB

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