Attila Berki

1 week ago | quillandquire.com | Attila Berki

The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced that it is honouring Margaret Atwood with the 2025 Lifetime Recognition Award. Created in 2006, the Lifetime Recognition Award is bestowed periodically by the Griffin trustees to international artists working in poetry. In 2024, the award was given to Canadian poet Don McKay.

3 weeks ago | quillandquire.com | Attila Berki

A.F. Moritz has been awarded the second annual Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. Moritz was awarded the prize for his 22nd collection of poetry, Great Silent Ballad, published in 2024 by House of Anansi Press. The $10,000 prize honours the most outstanding new poetry book published in Canada by an established poet.

1 month ago | quillandquire.com | Attila Berki

The Victoria Book Prize Society has announced the addition of a new poetry prize to its awards program. The DC Reid Poetry Prize will recognize exceptional books of poetry by writers who live in Capital Regional District (CRD). Winners of the award will receive a $5,000 prize. The new prize will be juried alongside the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for fiction and nonfiction (which up until this point also included poetry) and City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize.

1 month ago | quillandquire.com | Attila Berki

The shortlists for the 2025 Alberta Literary Awards have been announced by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. The awards celebrate literary excellence by Alberta authors. Teresa Wong, Amy Lin, and Julie Sedivy all received multiple nominations. The winners will be announced at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala in Calgary on June 6. The Golden Pen Award for lifetime achievement will also be presented at the gala to Richard Harrison.

1 month ago | quillandquire.com | Attila Berki

The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB) has announced the shortlisted titles for the 2024-25 New Brunswick Book Awards. The awards are presented to books published in the 2024 calendar year in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and, for the first time, young readers categories. Traditionally published and self-published authors who have lived in New Brunswick for three of the last five years, including the award year, are eligible. The finalists are:Mrs.