Finalists
2010 Winners
Wednesday, January 26th, 20111st 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
Wednesday, January 27th, 20101st 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
Friday, February 20th, 20091st 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!)
2004 Winners
Monday, February 16th, 20091st 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
2005 Winners
Saturday, February 14th, 20091st 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
2006 Winners
Saturday, February 14th, 20091st 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
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