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The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories.[1] Founded in 2000 by Newfoundland filmmaker and author Kenneth J. Harvey.[2]
Subtitled Ideas, Not Money the main title of the awards is short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, and Relighting Literature.[3] The awards were conceived by Harvey as an alternative to larger mainstream prizes such as the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Awards.[4] There is no money awarded for the prize; in the first two years, the winners received a nominal prize of one Canadian dollar,[5] but since 2003 the recipients have been presented with a silver ring designed by Newfoundland artisan Christopher Kearney, featuring four inlaid movable dials engraved with all of the letters of the alphabet.[6]
The award went on hiatus in the late 2010s, with no shortlists or winners announced for 2018, 2019 or 2020.
It was announced in January 2021 that management of the award has been taken over by Katherine Alexandra Harvey, with the project expanding to incorporate an online literary journal and a mentorship program for young writers.[7] In April 2021, the shortlists and winners for all of the hiatus years were announced throughout the month.[8]
In September 2023, Harvey announced that the awards will go on hiatus after that year's announcements, due to funding difficulties.[9]
Nominees and winners
Novel
| Year | Author(s) | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Bonnie Bowman | Skin | Winner | [10][11] |
| Bill Gaston | The Good Body | Nominee | [10] | |
| Lydia Kwa | This Place Called Absence | |||
| Ralph Osborne | Just for Comfort | |||
| Stan Rogal | Bafflegab | |||
| Cordelia Strube | The Barking Dog | |||
| 2002 | Jonathan Goldstein | Lenny Bruce Is Dead | Winner | [12] |
| 2003 | Peter Darbyshire | Please | Winner | |
| France Daigle | A Fine Passage | Nominee | ||
| Mary Swan | The Deep | |||
| Guillaume Vigneault | Necessary Betrayals | |||
| 2004 | Darren Greer | Still Life With June | Winner | |
| Kim Brunhuber | Kameleon Man | Nominee | ||
| David Homel | The Speaking Cure | |||
| Kent Nussey | A Love Supreme | |||
| 2005 | Sky Gilbert | An English Gentleman | Winner | |
| Natalee Caple | Mackerel Sky | Nominee | ||
| Bill Gaston | Sointula | |||
| Cordelia Strube | Blind Night | |||
| 2006 | Lisa Moore | Alligator | Winner | |
| Jim Christy | The Redemption of Anna Dupree | Nominee | ||
| David Gilmour | A Perfect Night to Go to China | |||
| Gaétan Soucy | The Immaculate Conception | |||
| 2007 | Ivan E. Coyote | Bow Grip | Winner | [13] |
| Andy Brown | The Mole Chronicles | Nominee | ||
| Chris Ewart | Miss Lamp | |||
| Rawi Hage | De Niro's Game | |||
| George K. Ilsley | ManBug | |||
| Sean Johnston | All This Town Remembers | |||
| Marie Hélène Poitras | Suddenly the Minotaur | |||
| Rob Ritchie | Orphans of Winter | |||
| Sylvia Maultash Warsh | Season of Iron | |||
| 2008 | Gil Adamson | The Outlander | Winner | [14] |
| Nadia Bozak | Orphan Love | Nominee | ||
| David Chariandy | Soucouyant | |||
| Curtis Gillespie | Crown Shyness | |||
| Claire Mulligan | The Reckoning of Boston Jim | |||
| Brian Tucker | Big White Knuckles | |||
| Andrew Wedderburn | The Milk Chicken Bomb | |||
| 2009 | Michael Blouin | Chase & Haven | Winner | |
| Theanna Bischoff | Cleavage | Nominee | ||
| Daniel Allen Cox | Shuck | |||
| Brian Dedora | A Slice of Voice at the Edge of Hearing | |||
| Maggie Helwig | Girls Fall Down | |||
| Harold Johnson | Charlie Muskrat | |||
| David Manicom | Anna's Shadow | |||
| 2010 | Michael Kenyon | The Beautiful Children | Winner | [15][16] |
| Joey Comeau | Overqualified | Nominee | ||
| Christiane Frenette | After the Red Night | |||
| Jason Hrivnak | The Plight House | |||
| Nathaniel G. Moore | Wrong Bar | |||
| Chad Pelley | Away From Everywhere | |||
| Zoe Whittall | Holding Still for As Long As Possible | |||
| 2011 | Craig Francis Power | Blood Relatives | Winner | |
| Evie Christie | The Bourgeois Empire | Nominee | ||
| Joey Comeau | One Bloody Thing After Another | |||
| Daniel Allen Cox | Krakow Melt | |||
| Jerrod Edson | The Goon | |||
| Jason Heroux | Good Evening, Central Laundromat | |||
| Christian McPherson | The Cube People | |||
| Kathy Page | The Find | |||
| Ken Sparling | Book | |||
| Steve Weiner | Sweet England | |||
| 2012 | Suzette Mayr | Monoceros | Winner | |
| Edem Awumey | Dirty Feet | Nominee | ||
| Ashley Little | Prick | |||
| Catherine Mavrikakis | Flowers of Spit | |||
| Tom Reynolds | Break Me | |||
| Edward Riche | Easy to Like | |||
| 2013 | Lynn Crosbie | Life Is About Losing Everything | Winner | [17] |
| Tamara Faith Berger | Maidenhead | Nominee | ||
| Kayt Burgess | Heidegger Stairwell | |||
| Joey Comeau | Lockpick Pornography | |||
| Claudio Gaudio | Texas | |||
| Annette Lapointe | Whitetail Shooting Gallery | |||
| Keir Lowther | Dirty Bird | |||
| Stephen Marche | Love and the Mess We're In | |||
| James Marshall | Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies | |||
| Garry Thomas Morse | Minor Episodes Major Ruckus | |||
| Susan Musgrave | Given | |||
| Basil Papademos | Mount Royal | |||
| Corey Redekop | Husk | |||
| Barry Webster | The Lava in My Bones | |||
| 2014 | Nathaniel G. Moore | Savage 1986-2011 | Winner | |
| Jeff Beamish | Sneaker Wave | Nominee | ||
| Paul Bowdring | The Strangers' Gallery | |||
| Stephanie Domet | Fallsy Downsies | |||
| Susan Downe | Juanita Wildrose, My True Life | |||
| Stacey May Fowles | Infidelity | |||
| Joel Thomas Hynes | Say Nothing Saw Wood | |||
| Shane Joseph | Paradise Revisited | |||
| Amanda Leduc | The Miracle of Ordinary Men | |||
| Ashley Little | Anatomy of a Girl Gang | |||
| Lisa Moore | Caught | |||
| Garry Thomas Morse | Rogue Cells/ Carbon Harbour | |||
| Chad Pelley | Every Little Thing | |||
| Ursula Pflug | The Alphabet Stones | |||
| Christine Walde | Burning from the Inside | |||
| 2015 | Andrew Kaufman | The Tiny Wife | Winner | [18] |
| Nelly Arcan | Hysteric | Nominee | ||
| Jackie Bateman | Savour | |||
| Elizabeth Copeland | Jazz | |||
| Jesse Gilmour | The Green Hotel | |||
| Beth Goobie | The First Principles of Dreaming | |||
| Darren Greer | Just Beneath My Skin | |||
| Bertrand Laverdure | Universal Bureau of Copyrights | |||
| Lee Maracle | Celia's Song | |||
| Wendy McGrath | North East | |||
| Christine Miscione | Carafola | |||
| Guillaume Morissette | New Tab | |||
| Ursula Pflug and Dyment | Motion Sickness | |||
| Alisha Piercy | Bunny and Shark | |||
| Lisa Pike | My Grandmother's Pill | |||
| Ken Rivard | Motherwild | |||
| Chelsea Rooney | Pedal | |||
| Margaret Sweatman | Mr. Jones | |||
| Wayne Tefs | Barker | |||
| Russell Wangersky | Walt | |||
| Jacob Wren | Polyamorous Love Song | |||
| 2016 | Carellin Brooks | One Hundred Days of Rain | Winner | |
| Michel Basilières | A Free Man | Nominee | ||
| Danila Botha | Too Much on the Inside | |||
| Matt Cahill | The Society of Experience | |||
| Libby Creelman | Split |