Winner:
2015 Open Season Awards |
- Rebecca Salazar, "synaesthesia"
- Michael Carson, "The Neanderthal and the Cave"
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| Poetry |
- John Wall Barger, "A Big Black Wave"
- Yvonne Blomer, "Rhubarb: Death in a Garden"
- Susan Comninos, "Childlessness" (read the poem here)
- Triny Finlay, "Crush"
- Cornelia Hoogland, "Boy Aged Seven in the Snowy Basement," "Dr. Gauchet"
- Maureen Hynes, "Wing On"
- Danny Jacobs, "Fatberg," "Refinery Plea" (read an interview with Jacobs on his poetry)
- Kate Kennedy, "The Subjunctive, or, Deciding"
- Allison LaSorda, "The Albino," "Marineland"
- Sylvia Legris, "Caulinus: Arising from the Stem"
- Steve Myers, "African Canto"
- Vincent Pagé, "St. Helena Olive, Nesiota Ellipitia, 2004," "Japanese River Otter, Lutra lutra whiteleyi, 2012"
- Mitchell Parry, "August 30"
- Daniel Kincade Renton, "Dialectic at the Key Party"
- Kilby Smith-McGregor, "Wake Up Remembering Oranges"
- John Steffler, "I Haven't Looked at These in Years," "Old Forest"
- Royston Tester, "Roger Casement's Sock"
- Lesley Wheeler, "At First I Just Hear My Own Breathing," "The Sea Does Not Exist"
- Christine Wiesenthal, "Staphylococcus," "Salmonella"
- Patricia Young, "Cow," "Pig," "Chicken"
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| Fiction |
- Jane Eaton Hamilton, "The Husband"
- C. Hartglass, "Yin and Yang"
- Sara Salih, "Not I"
- Colin Snowsell, "Krankowsky"
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| Creative Nonfiction |
- Michael J. Hess, "What Do You Wear to a Nudist Colony?"
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| Reviews |
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Poetry
- Phyllis Webb, Peacock Blue (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2014.) (Reviewed by Phil Hall)
- Dilys Leman, The Winter Count (Montreal: McGill-Queens, 2014.) (Reviewed by Monica Kidd)
- George Stanley, North of California St.: Selected Poems (Vancouver: New Star, 2014.) (Reviewed by Robert G. May)
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Fiction
- Kenneth Radu, Butterfly in Amber (Montreal: DC Books, 2014.) (Reviewed by Justin Pfefferle)
- Diane Schoemperlen, By the Book: Stories and Pictures (Windsor: Biblioasis, 2014.) (Reviewed by Laurie D Graham)
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Nonfiction
- Stan Dragland, The Bricoleur & His Sentences (St. John's: Pedlar, 2014.) (Reviewed by Susan Olding)
- Christine Lowther, Born Out of This (Half Moon Bay: Caitlin, 2014.) (Reviewed by L. Chris Fox)
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| Cover |
- Étant donné: the Loris perched on his neoclassical plinth, 2008. Polystyrene, concrete adhesive, paper, paint
68 in. × 24 in. × 21 in.
Collection of the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art
Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay
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