The ReLit Awards honour and shine a light on some of the best books of the year published by Canadian independent presses … and in that sense, they’re one of the most important, purposeful, and beneficial awards out there. They’re spearheaded by author Kenneth J. Harvey (Whose new book I am fiercely enjoying at the moment).
The award books in three categories — fiction, short fiction, and poetry — and this year’s full shortlists are listed below.
Read Salty Ink’s Review of Craig Francis Power’s Blood Relatives here
Read More about Jerrod Edson’s The Goon at Oberon’s website
Read more about Joey Comeau’s One Bloody Thing after Another at ECW’s website
Read Salty Ink’s review of The Good News about Armageddon here.
NOVEL
The Cube People, Christian McPherson (Nightwood)
Book, Ken Sparling (Pedlar)
Blood Relatives, Craig Francis Power (Pedlar)
The Find, Kathy Page (McArthur & Co)
Krakow Melt, Daniel Allen Cox (Arsenal Pulp)
The Goon, Jerrod Edson (Oberon)
The Bourgeois Empire, Evie Christie (ECW)
One Bloody Thing After Another, Joey Comeau (ECW)
Good Evening, Central Laundromat, Jason Heroux (Quattro)
Sweet England, Steve Weiner (New Star)
SHORT FICTION
The Devil You Know, Jenn Farrell (Anvil)
Ravenna Gets, Tony Burgess (Anvil)
I’m a Registered Nurse Not a Whore, Anne Perdue (Insomniac)
Bats or Swallows, Teri Vlassopoulos (Invisible)
There is No Other, Jonathan Papernick (Exile)
Punishing Ugly Children, Darryl Joel Berger (Killick)
I Still Don’t Even Know You, Michelle Berry (Turnstone)
Missed Her, Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)
Ronald Reagan, My Father, Brian Joseph Davis (ECW)
POETRY
The Inquisition Years, Jen Currin (Coach House)
Sweet, Dani Couture (Pedlar)
Every Day in the Morning (Slow), Adam Seelig (New Star)
A Good Time Had by All, Meaghan Strimas (Exile)
The Good News About Armageddon, Steve McOrmond (Brick)
You Know Who You Are, Ian Williams (Wolsak & Wynn)
Marimba Forever, Jim Christy (Guernica)
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