| Danuta Gleed Literary Award | |
| Awarded For: | Canadian short fiction collections |
| Presenter: | Writers' Union of Canada |
| Country: | Canada |
| Year: | 1998 |
The Danuta Gleed Literary Award is a Canadian national literary prize, awarded since 1998. It recognizes the best debut short fiction collection by a Canadian author in English language.[1] The annual prize was founded by John Gleed in honour of his late wife, the Canadian writer Danuta Gleed, whose favourite literary genre was short fiction, and is presented by the Writers' Union of Canada. The incomes of her One for the Chosen, a collection of short stories published posthumously in 1997 by BuschekBooks and released by Frances Itani and Susan Zettell, assist in funding the award.
Initially Can$5,000, the prize money increased to Can$10,000 in 2004.[2] The runners-up each receive CAN $500.[1] The nominations must be submitted before the end of January.[3] The year's shortlist is chosen by a jury.[4] The varying jury is composed of Canadian writers, literary critics and publishers, such as Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Robin McGrath and Hal Niedzviecki in 2012 or Douglas Glover, J. Jill Robinson and Claire Holden Rothman in 2011.[5]
The first winning work was Curtis Gillespie's The Progress of an Object in Motion.
In 2010, Joey Comeau's Overqualified was withdrawn, as the writer already published a debut work. Only two books were shortlisted in 2010 (the fewest in the history of the award). However, the 2010 judges called the winning work Wax Boats by Sarah Roberts "truly remarkable," speaking of her versatility and her convincing writing in every conceivable voice, and likening her to Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town for the modern age.
| Winners | |
| Runners-up | |
| Other short-listed people | |
| Year Awarded | Author(s) | Book | Publisher | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Progress of an Object in Motion | Coteau Books | [6] | ||
| In the Misleading Absence of Light | Coteau Books | |||
| Snackers | Oolichan Books | |||
| Awake When All the World is Asleep | House of Anansi Press | |||
| Ice in Dark Water | Véhicule Press | |||
| Olympia | Bloomsbury USA | [7] | ||
| The County of Birches | Douglas & McIntyre | [8] | ||
| The King of Siam | The Porcupine's Quill | |||
| Pool-Hopping and Other Stories | Polestar | |||
| Marrow and Other Stories | Warwick Publishing | |||
| Floating the Shore | The Mercury Press | |||
| Aquarium | The Porcupine's Quill | [9] | ||
| Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby? | Picador | [10] | ||
| Young Men | Anchor Canada | |||
| All the Anxious Girls on Earth | Patrick Crean Editions | |||
| Righteous Living | Turnstone Press | |||
| Any Given Power | Arbeiter Ring Publishing | |||
| A Message for Mr. Lazarus | Cormorant Books | [11] | ||
| Close to Spiderman | Arsenal Pulp Press | [12] | ||
| Rhymes with Useless | Raincoast Books | |||
| Pull Gently, Tear Here | Insomniac Press | |||
| Oxygen | McClelland & Stewart | |||
| A Song for Nettie Johnson | Coteau Books | [13] | ||
| Sputnik Diner | Knopf Canada | |||
| Simple Recipes | Little Brown & Company | |||
| What's Left Us | Polestar Book Publishers | |||
| Quicksilver | Raincoast Books | |||
| Kingdom of Monkeys | Raincoast Books | |||
| The Broken Record Technique | Penguin Canada | [14] | ||
| Silent Cruise | Counterpoint | [15] | ||
| Dead Girls | McClelland & Stewart | |||
| When X Equals Marylou | Arsenal Pulp Press | [16] | ||
| The Falling Woman | Vintage Canada | |||
| Black Coffee Night | Insomniac Press | |||
| A Hard Witching & Other Stories | Harper Flamingo Canada | |||
| Veranda People | Raincoast Books | |||
| In the Chambers of the Sea | Killick Press | |||
| Way Up: Stories | Goose Lane Editions | |||
| A Place So Foreign and 8 More | Four Walls Eight Windows | |||
| Confidence: Stories | Thomas Allen Publishers | |||
| Natasha and Other Stories | Harper Flamingo Canada | |||
| So Beautiful | The Porcupine's Quill | |||
| Eyehill | Goose Lane Editions | |||
| Off Centre | Oberon Press | |||
| Hair Hat | Penguin Canada | |||
| Ladykiller | Thomas Allen Publishers | |||
| Rust and Bone | Viking Canada | |||
| Limbo | Turnstone Press | |||
| Yesterday's People | Biblioasis | |||
| Most Wanted | The Porcupine's Quill | |||
| Indigenous Beasts | Raincoast Books | |||
| Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures | Doubleday | |||
| The Hour of Bad Decisions | Coteau Books | |||
| Baby Khaki's Wings | Penguin Canada | |||
| The Virgin Spy | Douglas & McIntyre | |||
| Pardon Our Monsters | Esplanade Books | |||
| Long After Fathers | Coteau Books | |||
| The Year I Got Impatient | Oolichan Books | |||
| Seven Openings of the Head | Conundrum Press | |||
| Boundary Country | Thistledown Press | |||
| The Withdrawal Method | House of Anansi Press | |||
| Halifax for Evidence | The Porcupine's Quill | |||
| Once | Biblioasis | |||
| Happiness and other Disorders | Key Porter Books | |||
| The Butcher of Penetang | Caitlin Press | |||
| Wax Boats | Caitlin Press | |||
| Vanishing and Other Stories | Penguin Canada | |||
| Overqualified (withdrawn) | ECW Press | |||
| Greedy Little Eyes[17] | Vintage Canada | |||
| Mennonites Don't Dance | Thistledown Press | |||
| Light Lifting | Biblioasis | |||
| Crisp | NeWest Press | |||
| Bats or Swallows | Invisible Publishing | |||
| Not Anyone's Anything[18] [19] [20] | Freehand Books | |||
| And Also Sharks | Cormorant Books | |||
| Stopping for Strangers | Véhicule Press | |||
| Copernicus Avenue | Cormorant Books | |||
| This Will Be Difficult to Explain | Hamish Hamilton Canada | |||
| Bobcat and other stories | Hamish Hamilton | |||
| The Iron Bridge | Goose Lane Editions | |||
| Bull Head | Arsenal Pulp Press | |||
| Ether Frolics | Sybertooth | |||
| Floating Like the Dead | McClelland & Stewart | |||
| The Secret Life of Fission | Oberon Press | |||
| You Haven't Changed a Bit | University of Alberta Press | |||
| A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love | Mother Tongue Publishing | |||
| Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility | House of Anansi | |||
| Just Pretending | Coteau Books | |||
| American Innovations | HarperCollins | |||
| Wallflowers | Hamish Hamilton | |||
| Chez l'Arabe | House of Anansi | |||
| Circus | McClelland and Stewart | |||
| Hideout Hotel | Caitlin Press | |||
| Daydreams of Angels | HarperCollins | [21] | ||
| What You Need | Invisible Publishing | |||
| Debris | Biblioasis | |||
| In a Time of Drought and Hunger | Oberon Press | [22] | ||
| Last Words | Exile Editions | |||
| Bad Things Happen | Biblioasis | [23] | ||
| Willem deKooning's Paintbrush | HarperCollins | |||
| Double Dutch | Astoria | |||
| The Light That Remains | Enfield & Wizenty | |||
| Twelve Miles to Midnight | Black Moss Press | |||
| Annie Muktuk and Other Stories | University of Alberta Press | |||
| Glass Beads | Thistledown Press | [24] | ||
| Peninsula Sinking | Biblioasis | |||
| The Doll's Alphabet | Coach House Books | |||
| Life on Mars | Goose Lane Editions | |||
| That Time I Loved You | HarperCollins | [25] | ||
| Zolitude | Biblioasis | |||
| That Tiny Life | House of Anansi | |||
| Things Are Good Now | House of Anansi | [26] | ||
| Eye | Guernica Editions | |||
| Frying Plantain | Astoria | [27] | ||
| Watermark | Astoria | |||
| Dig | Breakwater Books | |||
| Lost Boys | Thistledown Press | [28] | ||
| The Eater of Dreams | Thistledown Press | |||
| We Two Alone | Astoria | [29] | ||
| Dominoes at the Crossroads | Esplanade Books | |||
| How to Pronounce Knife | McClelland & Stewart | |||
| Seeking Shade | The Porcupine's Quill | |||
| You Are Not What We Expected | Astoria | |||
| 20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis | Gabriel Dumont Institute Press | [30] | ||
| Home of the Floating Lily | Dundurn Press | |||
| Night Watch: The Vet Suite | Invisible Publishing | |||
| Personal Attention Roleplay | Metonymy Press | [31] | ||
| Exit Strategies | Signature Editions | |||
| Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century | Coach House Books | [32] | ||
| Bad Thoughts | Vintage Books | |||
| Her First Palestinian | House of Anansi Press | |||
| All the Shining People | House of Anansi Press | [33] | ||
| Stray Dogs | Knopf Canada | |||
| Cocktail | Biblioasis | [34] | ||
| Her Body Among Animals | Book*hug | |||
| The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories | ECW Press | |||
| The Private Apartments | House of Anansi Press | [35] | ||
| Anecdotes | Book*hug |
1. Comeau's Overqualified was withdrawn as it was not his debut short fiction collection. He already self-published It’s Too Late to Say I’m Sorry in 2007.[36]