Congratulations to the 2021 Short Works Prize award recipients and honourable mentions.

PUBLISHED

The Alvin A. Lee Award for Creative Non-Fiction:

Laura Sergeant: The Familiar (A Cure for Bewilderment)

Honourable Mentions:
Jen Jones: Grit
John Mokrycke: Sweet Anticipation

The Judy Marsales Real Estate Ltd. Award for Poetry:

Chelsea Rainford: Turning Day Poem

Honourable Mentions:
Laura Sergeant: in these times
George Down: The Wind Too Often

The Hamilton Public Library Freda Waldon Award for Fiction:

Lynne Sargent: The Forest is a Dancer

Honourable Mention:
Selena Middleton (writing as Eileen Gunnell Lee): You Cannot Return to the Burning Glade

UNPUBLISHED:

OFF-THE-RADAR

The Redeemer University Award for Fiction:

Elizabeth Obermeyer: Dog Walkers and Murderers

Honourable Mentions:
Leah Hart: She Laughed and Calmed the Silence
Everett Vander Horst: Clear Cut Love

Hamilton Arts & Letters Award for Poetry:

Charles Bryan: Turtle Island

Honourable Mentions:

Luke Tenhage: To Playboi Carti (@Meh)
Alexander Hollenberg: Orchids on March 1, 2021
Robert Gombos: This Day is For You

Hamilton Arts & Letters Award for Creative Non-Fiction:

Paige Maylott: Mayflies

Honourable Mention:

Xavier Diaz Sanchez: Recollections of a video game collection

The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM Young Writers Awards:

Julia Middleton: Broken (Poetry)
Madison Barlow: in the body that used to be yours (Poetry)
Nat Begley: We never die in theory (Poetry)
Ella Hamilton: Things That Weren’t Meant to Be (Poetry)
Vanessa Koens: The Opposites (Fiction)
Sarah Walker: Growing Bodies (Fiction)
Sawyer Berkelaar: Nomad (Fiction)
Grace Constable: Bars (Fiction)

Youth Honourable Mentions:
Abbey Hanson: The Present (Poetry)
Cecilia DiTrapini: Alzheimer’s (Poetry)
Natalia Sawatsky: Windows (Poetry)
Janielle Lim: Jonah and the Big Backpack (Fiction)
Safiya Saskin: New Normal (Fiction)
Samantha Potts: Laurie’s Party (Fiction)
Mikayla Smylie: The World Kinda Ended and Now I Gotta Deal With It (Fiction)

The Gillett Reminiscence Awards for Memoir Writing:

Jennette Lukasik: FREEDOM
Judy Mendelson: Bake-ah, Bake-ah
– Remembering the Open Window Bakery
Kathy Wolsey: Walking, Dogs, and the neighbourhood
Shannon Chartrand: Walk a Mile in my Shoes

Read the judge’s comments on these winning entries, as well as their bios.

More details about the 2022 contest are coming soon.