Winners:
2011 Open Season Awards |
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| Poetry |
- Patrick Friesen, “ava gardner,” “blind in the summoner's arms,” “daughter,” “dragging the river,” “it was five in the shade in the afternoon,” and “storm windows”
- ("storm windows" won our 2012 P. K. Page Founders' Award for Poetry; and "daughter," "dragging the river," and "storm windows" were nominated for a 2011 National Magazine Award in the Poetry category.)
- Deanna Young, “Knowledge from a Previous Life”
- R. Johnson, “Popsong”
- Brian Bartlett, “From Ringing Here & There”
- Hamish Guthrie, “Doad Gow” and “Duo”
- Jody Aliesan, “They come in disguise”
- John Pass, “Self Storage”
- Karen Hofmann, “Flickers”
- Saint James Harris Wood, “2020 (or so)”
- Anne Marie Todkill, “Snowship, 1971” and “Trove”
- Tim Bowling, “Now”
- Elizabeth Ross, “Church Girls” and “Torqued Sacrum”
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| Fiction |
- Michael Larson, “The Woods”
- Hal Walling, “Party”
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Creative Non-Fiction |
- Toshiro Saito, “At War's End in Indonesia”
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| Reviews |
- Poetry
- Allan Safarik, The Day is a Cold Grey Stone (Regina: Hagios, 2010), Richard Lemm, Burning House (Hamilton: Wolsak and Wynn, 2010), and Ken Belford, Decompositions (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2010). (All reviewed by Erling Friis-Baastad.)
- Johanna Skibsrud, I do not think that I could love a human being (Kentville: Gaspereau, 2010) and Jena Schmitt, Catchment Area (Winnipeg: Signature, 2010). (Both reviewed by Sara Cassidy.)
- Stephen Collis, On the Material (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2010), Jeff Latosik, Tiny, Frantic, Stronger (Toronto: Insomniac, 2010), and Steve McOrmond, The Good News About Armageddon (London: Brick, 2010). (All reviewed by Katia Grubisic.)
- Fiction
Caroline Woodward, Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny (Fernie: Oolichan, 2010). (Reviewed by Donna Kane.)
- Rachel Wyatt, Letters to Omar (Regina: Coteau, 2010). (Reviewed by Corinna Chong.)
- Jenn Farrell, The Devil You Know (Vancouver: Anvil, 2010) and Alexander MacLeod, Light Lifting (Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2010). (Both reviewed by June Halliday.)
- Non-Fiction
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Sinclair Ross (selected and with an introduction by Jordan Stouck, annotations by David Stouck), "Collecting Stamps Would Have Been More Fun": Canadian Publishing and the Correspondence of Sinclair Ross, 1933-1986 (Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2010. (Reviewed by Mark Callanan)
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Stephen Scobie, The Measure of Paris (Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2010). (Reviewed by Amy Reiswig.)
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| Cover |
- Glenn E. Howarth, Untitled; Female figure/nude walking into the woods, nd
Oil; acrylic on canvas, 114.5 cm x 114 cm
Michael Collard Williams Collection
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria
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