Past Winners

2024

February Winner	Sunshine Cinema	Ben Charland	Read
January Winner	unmappable	candida moreira	Read

2023

December Winner	Coach Neurologist	Christa Fairbrother	Read
November Winner	How to Feed	Elise Ball	Read
October Winner	Overburst I	Kimberley Orton	Read
September Winner	Vancouver, 2023	Daniela Elza	Read
August Winner	Ode to a Simile	Jane Schapiro	Read
July Winner	Dust on the Moon	Laurie Koensgen	Read
June Winner	On a Fly Stuck By Its Wings to the Bathroom Window	Matthew King	Read
May Winner	Once	Kevin Irie	Read
April Winner	moving on land	Zoe Dickinson	Read
March Winner	My Love Language is Mastercard	Catherine Lewis	Read
February Winner	Untitled Haiku	Melissa Brizuela	Read
January Winner	Kitchen	Chantel Lavoie	Read

DECEMBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Carrom Board” by N. Gitanjali Lena
JUDGE	Rusty Priske

NOVEMBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Donald Trump Has Asian Eyes” by Kevin Irie “We Are Okay” by Fareh Malik
JUDGE	Kayla Calder

OCTOBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Riversedge” by Archer Lundy
JUDGE	Nancy Jo Cullen

SEPTEMBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“A 4-letter word meaning…” by Archer Lundy “unfinished” by Maria Gacesa
JUDGE	Susan Gillis

AUGUST HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Old Love” by Chantel Lavoie “The Poem That Saved Me” by Barbara Pelman
JUDGE	Alison Goodwin

JULY HONOURABLE MENTION	“Where to aim” by Kathleen Lewis “Growing Up Gen X” by Leanne Shirtliffe
JUDGE	Claudia Coutu Radmore

JUNE HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Crickets” by Callista Markotich “Mayfly” by Jacob Wilde
JUDGE	Mary Lee Bragg

MAY HONOURABLE MENTION	“Change” by Anne Archer “The Day Before the Wake” by Julie Paul
JUDGE	Frances Boyle

APRIL HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“spring attacks the house with many small armies” by Zoe Dickinson “Spring Thaw” by Anne Hopkinson
JUDGE	Jean Van Loon

MARCH HONOURABLE MENTION	“The Centre of This Bruise” by Pamela Mosher “Six degrees of separation” by Archer Lundy
JUDGE	Nancy Jo Cullen

FEBRUARY HONOURABLE MENTIONS	none
JUDGE	Alison Goodwin

JANUARY HONOURABLE MENTIONS	none
JUDGE	Manahil Bandukwala

2022

December Winner	Harvest Table	Kate Marshall Flaherty	Read
November Winner	A Little Distance	Dagne Forrest	Read
October Winner	The Fires of Vulnerability	Noelle Brody	Read
September Winner	Society of Silent Second Consonants	Ian FitzGerald	Read
August Winner	Maybe a Body	Anna Swanson	Read
July Winner	Offerings to Save the World	Mahaila Smith	Read
June Winner	Trans March	Charlie Petch	Read
May Winner	SH’MA: HEAR	Barbara Pelman	Read
April Winner	Sweet Spot	David Silverberg	Read
March Winner	On the First Day of Spring	Jennifer Bowering Delisle	Read
February Winner	Love Poem for Every Animal on Earth	Donna Kane	Read
January Winner	have considered	melanie brannagan frederiksen	Read

DECEMBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Sweet” by Forest Dagne “Mango” by Nadine El-Enany “Mourning my Father” by Don Palmer
JUDGE	Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang

NOVEMBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“The Pen” by Angeline Schellenberg “shrew” by Dan MacIsaac
JUDGE	Margo LaPierre

OCTOBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“If Not the Woods” by Charlene Kwiatkowski “Porthole to the Shades” by Elana Wolff “Poetry Phobia” by Anne Hopkinson
JUDGE	Lise Rochefort

SEPTEMBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Sonic Montage” by Cristalle Smith & Berenice Cancino “Sound Cage” by Kevin Irie “Stomach Apron” by Andrea Scott
JUDGE	nina jane drystek

AUGUST HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“where you can see it” by Elisha May Rubacha “Raking Milfoil” by Matthew King
JUDGE	Conyer Clayton

JULY HONOURABLE MENTION	“Ephemerides” by Ilinca Iurascu
JUDGE	Manahil Bandukwala

JUNE HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Lessening” by Kate Marshall Flaherty “Anniversary” by Lucas Warren
JUDGE	Chris Johnson

MAY HONOURABLE MENTION	“Abecedarian with Sharpened Vision” by Dagne Forrest
JUDGE	Sarah Tsiang

APRIL HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Three cheers for the new robot umpires!” by Alexander Hollenberg “One Thousand Games Ago” by Callista Markotich
JUDGE	Rusty Priske

MARCH HONOURABLE MENTION	“False Spring” by Alexander Hollenberg
JUDGE	Nancy Jo Cullen

FEBRUARY HONOURABLE MENTIONS

“Needle for Leaf” by Elana Wolff
“similitude” by Laurie Koensgen

JUDGE

Susan Olding

JANUARY HONOURABLE MENTIONS	none
JUDGE	Sadiqa de Meijer

2021

December Winner	figure drawing of a horseshoe crab	Tazi Rodrigues	Read
November Winner	Chaos	David Ly	Read
October Winner	Drive-Thru & 10 Things	Marco Melfi	Read
September Winner	Use of the Room	Elana Wolff	Read
August Winner	Yellow	Ariel Gordon	Read
July Winner	Leaf-i-ly	Rose Maloukis	Read
June Winner	Grimm	Callista Markotich	Read
May Winner	Impromptu gosling	Ariel Gordon	Read
April Winner	The Map of Absence	David Epstein	Read
March Winner	River and Burn	Julian Day	Read
February Winner	Spell	Catherine Graham	Read
January Winner	DUTY / DEON	Kathryn MacDonald	Read

DECEMBER HONOURABLE MENTION	“Lest I Wane Again” by Christopher Tompkins
JUDGE	Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang

NOVEMBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“The natural order of things” by donalee Moulton “symbiosis” by Meg Freer “After the Diagnosis” by Tom Cull
JUDGE	Chris Johnson

OCTOBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Consolation” by Anna Yin “Making Custard” by Catherine Barnwell
JUDGE	Rusty Priske

SEPTEMBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“stay in a tied-together house, Tanna island” by Claudia Radmore “hotel room” by Lucas Warren
JUDGE	Susan Gillis

AUGUST HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“bolt” by Kate Hargreaves “Oso Township, The Frontenacs” by Archer Lundy
JUDGE	Nancy Jo Cullen

JULY HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“-based” by Jenna Jarvis “Childhood Psychedelic” by Micheline Maylor
JUDGE	Manahil Bandukwala

JUNE HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Lost Time” by Jean Van Loon “Not memory but retelling” by Anna Veprinska
JUDGE	Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang

MAY HONOURABLE MENTIONS	Kate Marshall Flaherty for “Bumblebee” Anna Yin for “Personal”
JUDGE	Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang

APRIL HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Spatial Awareness” by Amy LeBlanc “Span” by Neil Surkan
JUDGE	Margo LaPierre

MARCH HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Quiet as a Metaphor for Love” by Jesse Aaron Macpherson “Colour Field” by Elana Wolff
JUDGE	Manahil Bandukwala

FEBRUARY HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“searching through the rubble of our indifference” by Daniela Elza “Sundogs” by Julian Day “Turn” by Leslie Casey
JUDGE	Susan Olding

JANUARY HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“umbrellas” by Cindy Maguire “Skin” by Lee-Ann Taras
JUDGE	shayne avec i grec

2020

December Winner	Ocean Blue	Susan Gillis	Read
November Winner	Fall Constellations	Elana Wolff	Read
October Winner	Biden reflects on the 1st debate	Amanda Earl	Read
September Winner	Dorothy & Grace	Joanna Drummond	Read
August Winner	Water	Susan Musgrave	Read
July Winner	Mr. T in Your Pocket	YS Lee	Read
June Winner	The New Opening	Ashley-Rae Carter-Wells	Read
May Winner	i poison the ants and regret it	Owen Schaefer	Read
April Winner	Hello goodbye	Lee Parpart	Read

DECEMBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Sambro” by Eleonore Schönmaier “Saint Valentine’s Day” by Jeff Parent “The Colours of Pain” by Amanda Earl
JUDGE	Sadiqa de Meijer

NOVEMBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Slide” by Kimberley Orton “Millionaire” by Susana Molinolo
JUDGE	Nancy Jo Cullen

OCTOBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Foreign” by Noga Shackak “Waasa Inaabidaa” by Ashley Hynd
JUDGE	Rusty Priske

SEPTEMBER HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“single-use” by IAN MARTIN “WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE” by IAN MARTIN
JUDGES	Sarah Tsiang, Nancy Jo Cullen, Rusty Priske

AUGUST HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Shoring” by Laurie Koensgen “small waves” by Angela Rebrec “La Floride” by Susan Glickman
JUDGE	Sarah Tsiang

JULY HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“The Personal is Political” by Chris Banks “My Charlotte” by Amanda Earl “Your Body is Not a Prop for Unpacking” by Pamela Yuen-Elkerbout
JUDGE	Sarah Tsiang

JUNE HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Seven Ways to Start an Opening School” by Lisa Stuart
JUDGE	Sarah Tsiang

MAY HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Week 4” by Catriona Wright “Illanelle, March 2020” by Robbie Chesick “Apex Predators” by Chris Jennings
JUDGE	Sarah Tsiang

APRIL HONOURABLE MENTIONS	“Last words” by Pamela Porter “Spring Equinox” by Kirsteen MacLeod “One of Fifty Creosote Legends” by Amanda Earl
JUDGE	Sarah Tsiang