Past Winners

…Crawford 2014 Feature Review Seasoned Poets and Pioneers Patricia Keeney Brief Review Red Doc by Anne Carson Margaret Christakos Judge Shannon Webb-Campbell 2013 Feature Review Poet vs. Poet online: Keeney…

Diana Brebner Prize

Prize: $500

The Diana Brebner Prize is awarded yearly for the best poem written by a National Capital Region poet, who has not yet been published in book form. The prize honours the

Poetry

LITERACY

…line by line But for some foreign movie clip that ‘someone’ saw online I Googled it and got a hit and totally got in it I watched the whole entire…

Poetry

Use of the Room

…mine—like stags’ on mouldy shag; you and I got the rug, the baby stowed in the ark of a pulled-out drawer. At random, like a biblio-

mant, I opened…

Christa Fairbrother

…resident with the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and her chapbook was a finalist for the Kari Ann Flickinger Memorial Prize. Connect with her: www.christafairbrotherwrites.com or @christafairbrotherwrites on IG.

candida moreira

…was recently published in the things they wrote, a community project featuring healthcare workers put out by ROOM: A Sketchbook For Analytic Action. you can connect with her at www.candidamoreira.com…

Jane Schapiro

…East, and Prairie Schooner. Schapiro lives in Fairfax, Virginia and volunteers at Food For Others. Her website is www.janeschapiro.com. [provided for the Arc Award of Awesomeness in August 2023]

Catherine Lewis

…Fiddlehead. A graduate of the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University, she is a Banff Centre Literary Arts alumna. Catch her on Twitter or Instagram at @cat_writes_604 or at www.catherinewriter.com….

Luke Hathaway

…Cabena as part of the metamorphosing ensemble ANIMA (animaearlymusic.com). He is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers’ Union of Canada (www.writersunion.ca/member/luke-hathaway). [updated in 2023]

Yvonne Blomer

…specifically on the lands of the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples. Yvonne mentors and teaches in poetry and prose and has students zooming in from across North America. www.yvonneblomer.com [provided for the 2022-2023…

Kim Fahner

…The Writers’ Union of Canada (2020-24), and a supporting member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. Kim may be reached via her author website at www.kimfahner.com. [updated in 2023]

Amanda Hale

Amanda Hale is a published novelist, poet, and dramatist. Her work has appeared in many literary magazines, including Prism International where she won a prize for creative non-fiction. www.amandahale.com

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