The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English by writers from Quebec. They were known from 1988 to 1998 as the QSPELL Awards.
They are currently presented in seven literary categories:
A Community Award is also frequently presented to a person who has played a significant role in building and supporting Quebec's anglophone writing community.
The awards have been presented annually since 1988.
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize, established in 2008, is presented annually for children's and young adult books. Picture books with text and books intended for beginner readers are eligible in even-numbered years, whereas books intended for middle grade or young adult readers are eligible in odd-numbered years.[1] The award was established in 2008, was sponsored by sponsored by Janet and John Blachford beginning in 2014, and has been sponsored in the memory of Janet Savage Blachford since 2018.
| 2008 | Orphan Ahwak | Winner | ||
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| 2009 | What World is Left | Winner | ||
| Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion | Shortlist | |||
| When Stella Was Very, Very Small | Shortlist | |||
| 2010 | Rough Magic | Winner | [2] | |
| Walking Backward | Shortlist | |||
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| 2011 | Milo | Winner | ||
| Without You | Shortlist | |||
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| 2012 | 26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6 | Winner | [3] | |
| Pyro | Shortlist | |||
| Yellow Mini | Shortlist | |||
| 2013 | Undercurrent | Winner | ||
| Desperate Freedom | Shortlist | |||
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| 2014 | Hate Mail | Winner | [4] | |
| Any Questions? | Shortlist | |||
| Straight Punch | Shortlist | |||
| 2015 | No award was presented in 2015 | |||
| 2016 | , illus. by Marie Lafrance | Oscar Lives Next Door | Winner | |
| , illus. by Julie Morstad | This is Sadie | Shortlist | ||
| Bug in a Vacuum | Shortlist | |||
| 2017 | Subject to Change | Winner | ||
| Chico | Shortlist | [5] | ||
| Lightning Lou | Shortlist | |||
| 2018 | Mr. Crum's Potato Predicament | Winner | [6] | |
| , illus. by Tom Knight | Shortlist | [7] | ||
| , illus. by Félix Girard | That`s Not Hockey | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | Yipee's Gold Mountain | Winner | [8] | |
| In Which | Shortlist | |||
| I Am a Feminist: Claiming the F-Word in Turbulent Times | Shortlist | |||
| 2020 | Winner | [9] [10] | ||
| Pokko and the Drum | Shortlist | [11] | ||
| Fern and Horn | Shortlist | |||
| 2021 | Room for One More | Winner | [12] [13] | |
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| Journal of a Travelling Girl | Shortlist | |||
| Zee | Shortlist | |||
| 2022 | Mina | Winner | ||
| I’m Not Sydney | Shortlist | [14] [15] | ||
| Pink, Blue, and You | Shortlist | |||
| You Are My Favorite Color | Shortlist | |||
The carte blanche Prize, established in 2008, is awarded annual "in recognition of an outstanding submission to QWF’s online literary journal, carte blanche, by a Quebec writer, artist, or translator. Winners receive a cash prize and a unique trophy—'The Lori'—created by Montreal artist Glen LeMesurier."
| 2008 | "Wyoming is Haunted" | Winner | ||
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| 2009 | "Changing Winter Tires" | Winner | ||
| 2010 | "Something Important and Delicate" | Winner | ||
| "Picnic" | Second | |||
| "Letters Out" | Third | |||
| 2011 | "Like This Together" | Winner | ||
| "" | Second | |||
| , trans. by Howard Scott | "EX(o)ilium" | Third | ||
| 2012 | "Aria" | Winner | ||
| "" | Second | |||
| "William and Robbie" | Third | |||
| 2013 | "Bluefooted" | Winner | [17] | |
| "Finding Snow in Wyoming" | Second | |||
| "Death in the Midden" | Third | |||
| 2014 | and Sheryl Curtis (trans.) | "It’s Late, Doctor Schweitzer" by Didier Leclair | Winner | [18] |
| "Dung Beetle" | Second | |||
| "" | Third | |||
| 2015 | "Self-Serve" | Winner | ||
| Cathon | "Old Shit I Still Feel Guilty About" | Second | ||
| "Holy Treasures" | Third | |||
| 2016 | "Rabbits with Red Eyes" | Winner | ||
| "" | Second | |||
| "Bridges We Build" | Third | |||
| 2017 | "Ferrante in the Cellar: A Vulgar Appreciation" | Winner | ||
| "" | Second | |||
| "Self-Trolling" | Third | |||
| 2018 | "loss of (her)self" | Winner | ||
| "Tracking Animal" | Second | |||
| "Bow" | Third | |||
| 2019 | "Aquanauts" | Winner | ||
| "On killing a spider" | Second | |||
| "My (Your) Home Movie" | Third | |||
| 2020 | Winner | |||
| "Thin" | Second | |||
| "Emote: A Time Capsule" | Third | |||
| 2021 | "Tricks" | Winner | ||
| "Sickness in Limbo" | Second | |||
| "" | Third | |||
| 2022 | "Some Kind of Light" | Winner | ||
| "" | Second | |||
| "Gardens of Dirty Laundry" | Third |
The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation, also known as Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole and established in 1998, is awarded annually to books written by an English-language Quebec writer or an English-language Quebec translator of a book by a French author. English-language Quebec writers are eligible in even-numbered years, whereas English-language Quebec translators are eligible in odd-numbered years.
| 1998 | Self | Winner | [20] | ||
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| 1999 | These Festive Nights | Winner | [21] | ||
| Gabrielle Roy: A Life / Gabrielle Roy: Une Vie | Shortlist | ||||
| Romans-fleuves | Shortlist | ||||
| 2000 | Montréal barbare / City of Forgetting | Winner | [22] | ||
| Fille au bord de l’eau / Swimming Into the Light | Shortlist | ||||
| Le Kinkajou /The Kinkajou | Shortlist | ||||
| 2001 | and Howard Scott | / La Grand Paix de Montréal de 1701: les voies de la diplomatie franco-amérindienne | Winner | ||
| Travels with an Umbrella: An Irish Journey / Voyage en Irelande avec un parapluie | Shortlist | ||||
| Tsubaki | Shortlist | ||||
| 2002 | Dans l'ombre de Maggie / Jackrabbit Moon | Winner | |||
| L’autre ennemi / Finding the Enemy | Shortlist | ||||
| Bye-Bye, bébé / Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? | Shortlist | ||||
| 2003 | and David Homel | / Le Coeur est un muscle involuntaire | Winner | [23] [24] | |
| / Un fin passage | Shortlist | ||||
| Helen with a Secret / Helen avec un secret | Shortlist | ||||
| 2004 | and Paul Gagné | Un baume pour le cœur / Doing the Heart Good | Winner | ||
| L’histoire de Pi / Life of Pi | Shortlist | ||||
| and Paul Gagné | L’analyste / The Speaking Cure | Shortlist | |||
| 2005 | Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition / Raconter et mourir | Winner | [25] | ||
| and David Homel | ll That Glitters / L'élu du hazard | Shortlist | |||
| No End to the World / Sans bord, sans bout du monde | Shortlist | ||||
| 2006 | and Paul Gagné | La Clameur des ténèbres / The Unyielding Clamour of the Night | Winner | ||
| Les Anglos: La face cachée de Québec, Tome 1, 1608-1850 / The Anglos: The Hidden Face of Quebec City (Volume 1) | Shortlist | ||||
| Parlez-vous Boro? /Spoken Here | Shortlist | ||||
| 2007 | / L'immaculée conception | Winner | |||
| and Howard Scott | My Name is Bosnia / Je m'appelle Bosnia | Shortlist | |||
| and Erín Moure | Notebook of Roses and Civilization / Cahier de roses & de civilisation | Shortlist | |||
| 2008 | and Paul Gagné | Big Bang / Bang Crunch | Winner | ||
| Les artistes de la mémoire / The Memory Artists | Shortlist | ||||
| Parfum de poussière / De Niro’s Game | Shortlist | ||||
| 2009 | Nikolski | Winner | |||
| Fences in Breathing / La Capture du sombre | Shortlist | ||||
| and Fred A. Reed | Wildlives / Champagne | Shortlist | |||
| 2010 | Québec, ville du patrimoine mondial / Quebec, World Heritage City | Winner | |||
| Notre Mer Nourricière / Bottomfeeder | Shortlist | ||||
| Sans limites: la vie exceptionelle des jumelles Rhona et Rhoda Wurtele, olympiennes et pionnières du ski au Canada / No Limits: The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele – Canada’s Olympian Skiing Pioneers | Shortlist | ||||
| 2011 | Apocalypse for Beginners / Tarmac | Winner | |||
| Meridian Line / Origine des méridiens | Shortlist | ||||
| Partita for Glenn Gould / Partita pour Glenn Gould | Shortlist | ||||
| 2012 | T'es con, point /YOU Comma Idiot | Winner | |||
| Passage de Franklin / Franklin’s Passage | Shortlist | ||||
| and Paul Gagné | Fall | Shortlist | |||
| 2013 | / Les Verbes majeurs | Winner | |||
| Judith’s Sister / La Soeur de Judith | Shortlist | ||||
| Mai at the Predators’ Ball / Mai au bal des prédateurs | Shortlist | ||||
| 2014 | No award was presented in 2014 | ||||
| 2015 | and Guillaume Perrier | Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide / La Turquie et le fantôme arménien: sur les traces du genocide | Winner | ||
| and Howard Scott | As Always / Depuis Toujours | Shortlist | [26] [27] [28] | ||
| Mãn | Shortlist | ||||
| 2016 | and Paul Gagné | Solomon Gursky / Solomon Gursky Was Here | Winner | ||
| Petits Théâtres / Little Theatres | Shortlist | ||||
| and Paul Gagné | Joshua / Joshua Then and Now | Shortlist | |||
| 2017 | / La liberté pauvre | Winner | |||
| Rooms / Chambres | Shortlist | ||||
| Sun of a Distant Land / Soleil | Shortlist | ||||
| / Un the dans la toundra: Nipishapui Nete Mushuat | Shortlist | ||||
| 2018 | Hôtel Lonely Hearts / The Hotel Lonely Hearts | Winner | |||
| Vague d’effroi / The Dead of Winter | Shortlist | ||||
| and Paul Gagné | Petits feux / Small Fires | Shortlist | |||
| and Paul Gagné | / A Great Reckoning | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | / La dévoration des fées | Winner | |||
| and Aleshia Jensen | This Woman’s Work / Moi aussi je voulais l'emporter | Shortlist | |||
| Explosions / Des explosions | Shortlist | ||||
| 2020 | Éclipse électrique / The Knockoff Eclipse | Winner | |||
| NoirEs sous surveillance. Esclavage, répression et violence d’État au Canada / Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present | Shortlist | ||||
| Zolitude | Shortlist | ||||
| 2021 | I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Je suis une maudite sauvagesse/Eukuan nin matshimanitu innu-iskueu and Tante nana etutamin mitassi? / Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays?) | Winner | |||
| Em | Shortlist | ||||
| Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro’s Twilight / Avant l’Après | Shortlist | ||||
| 2022 | Plus aucun enfant autochtone arraché / Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada | Winner | [29] | ||
| Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales / The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate | Shortlist | ||||
| and Paul Gagné | Fils d’un tout petit héros / Son of a Smaller Hero | Shortlist | |||
The Concordia University First Book Prize, established in 1996 and sponsored by Concordia University, is awarded annually to the first book of an English-language Quebec writer. The award has been known as the First Book Award (1996 – 1998), McAuslan First Book Prize (1999 – 2009), the QWF First Book Prize (2010), and the Concordia University First Book Prize (2011 – present).
| 1996 | Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam | Winner | ||
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| 1997 | Picking Up Pearls | Winner | [31] | |
| Buntys and Pinkies: Chronicles of a New Canadian | Shortlist | |||
| and R. Bruce Henry | Half Man, Half Beast: Making a Life in Canadian Theatre | Shortlist | ||
| 1998 | Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution | Winner | ||
| More Than Life Itself | Shortlist | |||
| Stories to Hide From Your Mother | Shortlist | |||
| 1999 | Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby? | Winner | ||
| Prisoner In a Red-Rose Chain | Shortlist | |||
| Charlevoix County, 1930 | Shortlist | |||
| 2000 | Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec | Winner | ||
| Wardlife, The Apprenticeship Of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk | Shortlist | |||
| Social Discredit, Anti-Semitism, Social Credit and the Jewish Response | Shortlist | |||
| 2001 | Winner | |||
| If Looks Could Kill | Shortlist | |||
| Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art | Shortlist | |||
| 2002 | Blues from the Malabar Coast | Winner | ||
| Empress of Ireland: The Story of an Edwardian Liner | Shortlist | |||
| Like Everyone Else…But Different: The Paradoxical Success of Canadian Jews | Shortlist | |||
| 2003 | One Day Even Trevi Will Crumble | Winner | ||
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| My Own Devices | Shortlist | |||
| 2004 | Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir | Winner | ||
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| 2005 | Winner | |||
| Blackbodying | Winner | |||
| Cities of Weather | Shortlist | |||
| 2006 | De Niro's Game | Winner | ||
| I, Nadja, and Other Poems | Shortlist | |||
| Dreadful Paris | Shortlist | |||
| 2007 | Bang Crunch | Winner | ||
| Ropewalk | Shortlist | |||
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| 2008 | Winner | |||
| Seven Openings of the Head | Shortlist | |||
| Mother Superior | Shortlist | |||
| 2009 | Winner | |||
| Fish Bones | Shortlist | |||
| Ruins and Relics | Shortlist | |||
| 2010 | Winner | [32] | ||
| Mammoth | Shortlist | |||
| YOU Comma Idiot | Shortlist | |||
| 2011 | Winner | |||
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| Spat the Dummy | Shortlist | |||
| 2012 | All The Voices Cry | Winner | ||
| Pollen | Shortlist | |||
| Waking in the Tree House | Shortlist | |||
| 2013 | Winner | |||
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| 2014 | Sweet Affliction | Winner | ||
| Us Conductors | Shortlist | |||
| Palawan Story | Shortlist | |||
| 2015 | Swing in the House and Other Stories | Winner | ||
| Giving Up | Shortlist | |||
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| 2016 | Small Fires | Winner | [33] | |
| Sleeping Giants | Shortlist | |||
| Indigenous Writes | Shortlist | |||
| 2017 | Uncertain Weights and Measures | Winner | ||
| Arabic for Beginners | Shortlist | |||
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| 2018 | Zolitude | Winner | ||
| Policing Black Lives: State Violence In Canada from Slavery to the Present | Shortlist | |||
| Excitement Tax | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | nîtisânak | Winner | ||
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| Seeker: A Sea Odyssey | Shortlist | |||
| We Were Like Everyone Else | Shortlist | |||
| 2020 | Winner | |||
| ZOM-FAM | Shortlist | |||
| Pluviophile | Shortlist | |||
| 2021 | Fighting for a Hand to Hold | Winner | [34] | |
| Knot Body | Shortlist | |||
| Ten Thousand Crossroads: The Path As I Remember It | Shortlist | |||
| We, Jane | Shortlist | |||
| 2022 | Winner | |||
| Prophetess | Shortlist | |||
| Dream of No One But Myself | Shortlist | |||
| We Have Never Lived On Earth | Shortlist |
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, established in 1988, is awarded annually to an English-language non-fiction book written by a Quebec author. The award was original named the Non-fiction Prize, though it changed in 1999.
| 1988 | Winner | [36] | ||
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| 1989 | Winner | [37] | ||
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| 1990 | Education Lost: Reflections on Contemporary Pedogogical Practice | Winner | [38] | |
| Missed Opportunities: The Story of Canada’s Broadcasting Policy | Shortlist | |||
| Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity | Shortlist | |||
| 1991 | Flight from Famine | Winner | [39] | |
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| Remembrance of Grandeur: The Anglo-Protestant Elite of Montreal | Shortlist | |||
| 1992 | In the Company of Strangers | Winner | [40] | |
| Sketches in Winter | Shortlist | |||
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| 1993 | Foxspirit: A Woman in Mao's China | Winner | [41] | |
| Civilization and its Discontented | Shortlist | |||
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| 1994 | E.K. Brown: A Study in Conflict | Winner | ||
| and Rhoda Cohen | Insights, Discoveries, Surprises | Shortlist | ||
| E. K. Brown: A Study in Conflict | Shortlist | |||
| 1995 | Winner | [42] | ||
| Patient No More: The Politics of Breast Cancer | Shortlist | |||
| Before the End of the Day: Stories from a Doctor’s Journal | Shortlist | |||
| 1996 | Winner | |||
| Defiance in Their Eyes | Shortlist | |||
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| 1997 | City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 40s and 50s | Winner | ||
| Tango On the Main | Shortlist | |||
| Journey to Vaja | Shortlist | |||
| 1998 | Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire | Winner | ||
| Saint Patrick’s of Montreal: The Biography of a Basilica | Shortlist | |||
| This Distant and Unsurveyed Country | Shortlist | |||
| 1999 | Putting Down Roots | Winner | ||
| Voice of the Vanishing Minority | Shortlist | |||
| Charlevoix County, 1930 | Shortlist | |||
| 2000 | Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec | Winner | ||
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| Wardlife, The Apprenticeship Of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk | Shortlist | |||
| 2001 | Winner | |||
| River Song: Sailing the History of the St. Lawrence | Shortlist | |||
| Getting Started: A Memoir of the 1950s | Shortlist | |||
| 2002 | Winner | |||
| LeCarré’s Landscape | Shortlist | |||
| Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Re-invention of Death | Shortlist | |||
| 2003 | Shoshanna's Story | Winner | ||
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| 2004 | Mordecai and Me: An Appreciation of a Kind | Winner | ||
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| and William Marsden | Shortlist | |||
| 2005 | Survival: A Refugee Life | Winner | ||
| Sir William Hingston (1829-1907): Montreal Mayor, Surgeon and Banker | Shortlist | |||
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| 2006 | Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City | Winner | ||
| and Julian Sher | Angels of Death | Shortlist | ||
| Truth is Naked, All Others Pay Cash | Shortlist | |||
| 2007 | and Jean-Benoît Nadeau | Winner | ||
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| My Sister, My Self: Understanding the Relationship That Shapes Our Lives, Our Loves, and Ourselves | Shortlist | |||
| 2008 | Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood | Winner | ||
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| No Limits: The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, Canada’s Olympian Skiing Pioneers | Shortlist | |||
| 2009 | Winner | |||
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| Idiocy: A Cultural History | Shortlist | |||
| 2010 | Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map | Winner | ||
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| Done with Slavery | Shortlist | |||
| 2011 | Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism | Winner | ||
| They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children | Shortlist | |||
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| 2012 | Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile | Winner | ||
| Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change | Shortlist | |||
| Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė | Shortlist | |||
| 2013 | Winner | |||
| Slouching Towards Sirte | Shortlist | |||
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| 2014 | Winner | |||
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| 2015 | Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World | Winner | ||
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| Boundless | Shortlist | |||
| 2016 | Winner | |||
| Shanghai Grand | Shortlist | |||
| Indigenous Writes | Shortlist | |||
| 2017 | Out Standing in the Field: A Memoir by Canada's First Female Infantry Officer | Winner | ||
| Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867 – 1917 | Shortlist | [43] | ||
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| 2018 | Winner | |||
| Policing Black Lives: State Violence In Canada from Slavery to the Present | Shortlist | |||
| Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by ‘Toots’ | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | Winner | |||
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| nîtisânak | Shortlist | |||
| 2020 | Possess the Air: Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome | Winner | ||
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| 2021 | Fighting for a Hand to Hold | Winner | ||
| Peacekeeper’s Daughter: A Middle-East Memoir | Shortlist | |||
| Bent Out of Shape | Shortlist | |||
| Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada’s Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic | Shortlist | |||
| Music, Late and Soon | Shortlist | |||
| 2022 | Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel | Winner | ||
| Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic | Shortlist | |||
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| Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf | Shortlist |
The Judy Mappin Community Award, established in 1995 and first awarded to Judith Mappin, is awarded annually "to a member of the extended literary community who has made a significant and longstanding contribution to the development and/or dissemination of English-language literature in Quebec."[45]
| 1995 | Her role in founding QSPELL and its prizes, her tireless work as a bookseller who promoted local authors, and her visionary role in the creation of a genuine Canadian literature in both the French and English languages | |||
| 1996 | His work promoting local authors as Books editor of the Montreal Gazette | |||
| 1997 | Her work promoting literature and writers at CBC Radio | |||
| 1998 | and Nancy Marrelli | Their work at Véhicule Press | ||
| 1999 | The commitment and professionalism she displayed in her work for the Electronic Rights Defence Committee | |||
| 2000 | Her work at CBC Radio | |||
| 2001 | His work as Cultural Advisor of CACUM: Conseil des Arts de la CUM | |||
| 2002 | Her work as the Director of The Centre of Literacy of Quebec | |||
| 2003 | Her work as the Founder and Artistic Director of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival and as a teacher, author, literary translator, editor, and community activist | |||
| 2004 | and Ian McGillis | The professionalism and judgment they brought to their work as co-editors of the Montreal Review of Books | ||
| 2005 | His role in the founding and flourishing of many major arts organizations, including the Federation of English-language Writers of Quebec, the Quebec Drama Federation, the Quebec Writers' Federation, and the English-Language Arts Network | |||
| 2006 | Her good judgment, graciousness, and unwavering commitment to advancing the cause of English-language literature in Quebec | |||
| 2007 | The inclusiveness and power of his vision of Quebec literature | |||
| 2008 | Her indefatigable service to the writing community as an organizer, writer, and advocate | |||
| 2009 | Their work at The Word bookstore, Montreal | |||
| 2010 | Her tireless work promoting writers through The Yellow Door and the Visual Arts Centre reading series | |||
| 2011 | His work as a producer, editor, and publisher, and for the inclusiveness and power of his vision for Quebec literature | |||
| 2012 | His invaluable contributions as a teacher, mentor, editor, publisher, and writer | |||
| 2013 | No award was presented in 2013 | |||
| 2014 | Her longstanding dedication to fostering a love of learning, literacy, and the English language during her work with the Montreal Children's Library | |||
| 2015 | The invaluable care and advice she has given to book lovers and writers, and for her role in instilling a love of literature in throngs of children | [46] | ||
| 2016 | The unflagging focus, determination, and modesty with which he built and maintained Serai and Montreal Serai | |||
| 2017 | His work with Matrix and the Knowlton Literary Association | |||
| 2018 | Her work with Atwater Library and Computer Centre | |||
| 2019 | His work championing underground publishing and dedicated service to Montreal's independent writing community | |||
| 2020 | Her hard work, leadership, and longstanding personal commitment to community in all its forms | |||
| 2021 | Offering advice and opportunity to scores of students and writers, always with generosity, humility, and good humour | |||
| Dedicating almost 50 years of his life to serving readers, promoting books, and supporting the English-language writing community | ||||
| 2022 | His lifelong commitment to leading, supporting, and inspiring writers and artists in Montreal and beyond. | |||
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry, established in 1988, is awarded annually to a book of English-language poetry written by a Quebec poet. The prize was known as the Poetry Prize from 1988 to 1922. From 2011 to 2015, the prize was sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother Robert, and in 2022, it was sponsored by Byron Rempel.
| 1988 | Modern Marriage | Winner | ||
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| 1989 | Balthazar and Other Poems | Winner | ||
| Blue Sand, Blue Moon | Shortlist | |||
| Infinite Worlds: The Poetry of Louis Dudek | Shortlist | |||
| 1990 | Cold Rubber Feet | Winner | ||
| WSW (West South West) | Winner | |||
| 1991 | Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems | Winner | ||
| Rue Sainte Famille | Shortlist | |||
| Woman Listening | Shortlist | |||
| 1992 | Reasons for Winter | Winner | ||
| Small Perfect Things | Shortlist | |||
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| 1993 | Configurations at Midnight | Winner | ||
| Short Talks | Shortlist | |||
| Coastlines | Shortlist | |||
| 1994 | Winner | |||
| Flowers in Magnetic Fields | Winner | |||
| Sheepish Beauty, Civilian Love | Shortlist | |||
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| 1995 | Winner | |||
| Glasburyon | Shortlist | |||
| 1996 | Glass, Irony and God | Winner | ||
| Search Procedures | Shortlist | |||
| Swimming into the Light | Shortlist | |||
| 1997 | Visions Fugitive | Winner | ||
| David and Jonathan | Shortlist | |||
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| 1998 | Autobiography of Red | Winner | ||
| Debriefing the Rose | Shortlist | |||
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| 1999 | Facts | Winner | ||
| Grounding Sight | Shortlist | |||
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| 2000 | Giving My Body to Science | Winner | ||
| Land Without Chocolate | Shortlist | |||
| October | Shortlist | |||
| 2001 | Winner | |||
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| Histories | Shortlist | |||
| 2002 | Girls and Handsome Dogs | Winner | ||
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| O’Cidadán | Shortlist | |||
| 2003 | Volta | Winner | ||
| Snow Formations | Shortlist | |||
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| 2004 | With English Subtitles | Winner | ||
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| Franklin’s Passage | Shortlist | |||
| 2005 | Little Theatres | Winner | ||
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| 2006 | I, Nadja and Other Poems | Winner | ||
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| He Claims He is the Direct Heir (Porcupine's Quill)by | Shortlist | |||
| 2007 | O Cadoiro | Winner | ||
| Reaching for Clear: The Poetry of Rhys Savarin | Shortlist | |||
| Sitcom | Shortlist | |||
| 2008 | Sympathy for the Couriers | Winner | ||
| Radius of Light | Shortlist | |||
| What if red ran out | Shortlist | |||
| 2009 | This Way Out | Winner | ||
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| Jack | Shortlist | |||
| 2010 | Winner | |||
| Circus | Shortlist | |||
| O Resplandor | Shortlist | |||
| 2011 | Winner | |||
| Skullduggery | Shortlist | |||
| Some Frames | Shortlist | |||
| 2012 | We, Beasts | Winner | ||
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| 2013 | Winner | |||
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| Conjure | Shortlist | |||
| 2014 | MxT | Winner | ||
| Here In There | Shortlist | |||
| Needs Improvement | Shortlist | |||
| Peeling Rambutan | Shortlist | |||
| 2015 | Asbestos Heights | Winner | ||
| Hyena Subpoena | Shortlist | |||
| Kapusta | Shortlist | |||
| 2016 | Small Fires | Winner | ||
| Saint Twin | Shortlist | |||
| and Gillian Sze | Redrafting Winter | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Rag Cosmology | Winner | ||
| Feel Happier in Nine Seconds | Shortlist | |||
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| 2018 | My Ariel | Winner | ||
| Museum of Kindness | Shortlist | |||
| Panicle | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | Obits | Winner | ||
| Magnetic Equator | Shortlist | |||
| I am a Body of Land | Shortlist | |||
| 2020 | Winner | |||
| Eight Track | Shortlist | |||
| POP | Shortlist | |||
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| rushes from the river disappointment | Shortlist | |||
| 2021 | I Am the Big Heart | Winner | ||
| Because the Sun | Shortlist | |||
| Hell Light Flesh | Shortlist | |||
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| 2022 | Dream of No One But Myself | Winner | ||
| Horrible Dance | Shortlist | |||
| Emanations | Shortlist | |||
| Quiet Night Think | Shortlist |
The Max Margles Fiction Prize, established in 2022, is presented to a new English-language Quebec writer "to allow a writer to work uninterruptedly on a manuscript for four months." It is "the largest such prize to be awarded by any Canadian provincial writers’ organization."
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The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, established in 1988, is presented annually to an English-language Quebec writer of fiction.
| 1988 | Winner | |||
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| 1989 | Distant Relations | Winner | ||
| To Samerkand and Back | Shortlist | |||
| Electrical Storms | Shortlist | |||
| 1990 | Solomon Gursky Was Here | Winner | ||
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| Lives of the Saints | Shortlist | |||
| 1991 | Winner | |||
| Eyemouth | Shortlist | |||
| From the Foot of the Mountain (Cormorant)by | Shortlist | |||
| 1992 | Winner | |||
| Dog Years | Shortlist | |||
| Orphaned by Halley’s Comet | Shortlist | |||
| 1993 | Missing Fred Astaire | Winner | ||
| Je t’aime Cowboy | Shortlist | |||
| Main Brides | Shortlist | |||
| 1994 | Evil Eye | Winner | ||
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| Spirits in the Dark | Shortlist | |||
| 1995 | Friends & Marriages | Winner | ||
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| Endangered Species | Shortlist | |||
| 1996 | Winner | |||
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| True Romance with a Sailor | Shortlist | |||
| 1997 | Butterfly Lovers | Winner | ||
| Getting Out of Town | Shortlist | |||
| Finding the Enemy | Shortlist | |||
| 1998 | Barney's Version | Winner | ||
| City of Forgetting | Shortlist | |||
| Promise of Shelter | Shortlist | |||
| 1999 | Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby? | Winner | ||
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| City of Ice | Shortlist | |||
| 2000 | Winner | |||
| Realia | Shortlist | |||
| Very Good Butter | Shortlist | |||
| 2001 | Life of Pi | Winner | ||
| Ice Lake | Shortlist | |||
| Down There By the Train | Shortlist | |||
| 2002 | Doing the Heart Good | Winner | ||
| All Pure Souls | Shortlist | |||
| Wound Ballistics | Shortlist | |||
| 2003 | Winner | |||
| Ten Thousand Lovers | Shortlist | |||
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| 2004 | Look for Me | Winner | ||
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| Ha! A Self-Murder Mystery | Shortlist | |||
| 2005 | Winner | |||
| Any Day Now | Shortlist | |||
| Crazy About Lily | Shortlist | |||
| 2006 | De Niro's Game | Winner | ||
| Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? | Shortlist | |||
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| 2007 | Lullabies for Little Criminals | Winner | ||
| Garcìa’s Heart | Shortlist | |||
| Bang Crunch | Shortlist | |||
| 2008 | Cockroach | Winner | ||
| Pardon Our Monsters | Shortlist | |||
| Chef | Shortlist | |||
| 2009 | Fall | Winner | ||
| Stripmalling | Shortlist | |||
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| 2010 | Illustrado | Winner | ||
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| YOU Comma Idiot | Shortlist | |||
| 2011 | Niko | Winner | ||
| Midway | Shortlist | |||
| Dogs at the Perimeter | Shortlist | |||
| 2012 | Carnival | Winner | ||
| Pollen | Shortlist | |||
| Tell It to the Trees | Shortlist | |||
| 2013 | Bone and Bread | Winner | ||
| World of Glass | Shortlist | |||
| Beach Reading | Shortlist | |||
| 2014 | Us Conductors | Winner | ||
| I’m Not Scared of You or Anything | Shortlist | |||
| New Tab | Shortlist | |||
| 2015 | Boo | Winner | ||
| Daydreams of Angels | Shortlist | |||
| No Safeguards | Shortlist | |||
| 2016 | Winner | |||
| The Poet is a Radio | Shortlist | |||
| Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Shortlist | |||
| Rich and Poor | Shortlist | |||
| 2017 | Winner | |||
| Behold Things Beautiful | Shortlist | |||
| Lost In September | Shortlist | |||
| 2018 | Demi-Gods | Winner | ||
| Zolitude | Shortlist | |||
| Beirut Hellfire Society | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | Winner | |||
| Churchill at Munich | Shortlist | |||
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| I’ll Never Tell | Shortlist | |||
| 2020 | Dominoes at the Crossroads | Winner | ||
| Home Game | Shortlist | |||
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| Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams | Shortlist | |||
| 2021 | Love Like Water, Love Like Fire | Winner | ||
| Songs for the End of the World | Shortlist | |||
| We, Jane | Shortlist | |||
| Undersong | Shortlist | |||
| 2022 | Prophetess | Winner | ||
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| Stray Dogs | Shortlist | |||
| Jones | Shortlist |
The QWF Playwriting Prize, established in 2018, is award every other year in even-numbered years. Typically, plays published "published or produced during the two previous years" are eligible.[50] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on theatre, plays have been eligible for the award if they have been published or produced since 2018, "provided that the play was not already submitted for the 2020 prize."
The QWF Playwriting Prize winner received a $3,000 prize, as well as "a reading as part of Infinithéâtre’s Pipeline Reading Series."
| 2018 | Paradise Lost | Winner | ||
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| "Sperm Count" (in Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas) | Shortlist | |||
| When Memories Have Us (Based on the original script co-written by Paul Van Dyck and Caitlin Murphy) | Shortlist | |||
| Truth and Treason | Shortlist | |||
| 2020 | Albumen | Winner | ||
| Alice and the World We Live In | Shortlist | |||
| Sania the Destroyer | Shortlist | |||
| Instant | Shortlist | |||
| 2022 | Winner | |||
| and Ned Cox | Shortlist | |||
| Beloved | Shortlist | |||
| Beautiful Man | Shortlist |
The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize, established in 2022 as the QWF Spoken Word Prize and renamed in 2023 in honor of Ian Ferrier, "is open to Quebec-based spoken word artists, storytelling artists, and literary performance artists working primarily in English in any form of performative writing."[51] [52]
| 2022 | "Not in the Bike Commercial” | |
| “Free Your Mind” | ||
| "Odiama" | ||
| 2023 | Deb Vanslet | "Laughter in the Rain" |
| Caitlin Murphy | "All the Screams" | |
| BeWyrd | "Survival Mechanisms" |