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The Short Works Prize 2020

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The Alvin A. Lee Award for Creative Non-Fiction:

Margaret Nowaczyk: Room for More

Honourable mentions:
Laura Sergeant: Landscape of Freckles
Anuja Varghese: Stop Rewind


The Judy Marsales Real Estate Ltd. Award for Poetry:

Jennifer Tan: Geraniums and A Black Cat

Honourable mention:
Lishai Peel: In the Flower Garden


The Hamilton Public Library
Freda Waldon Award for Fiction:

Margaret Nowaczyk: Yours to Keep

Honourable mention:
Anuja Varghese: Chrysalis


Unpublished:
Off-the-radar

The Redeemer University Award for Fiction:

Lis Jakobsen: Forgiveness in the Circumference

Honourable mention:
Taylor Wilson: Waking Up
Kathy Rupcic: The Directions for the Day
 


Hamilton Arts & Letters Award for Poetry:

Violet Arenburg: Sorrow’s Cruel Disfiguring Touch

Honourable mention:
Marnie Saskin: Between Two Summers


Hamilton Arts & Letters Award for Creative Non-Fiction:

Carol Greene: Systemic Vulnerability

Honourable mention:
Ming Ma: Untitled Graphic Work


The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM Young Writers Awards:

Rand Amer: Clouds Aren’t as Soft as You Think – George Floyd
(Creative Non-Fiction)

Rochelle Rosales: for bees (Poetry)

Oyinloluwa Aderibigbe: The Age-Old Conundrum (Poetry)

Ruth Ann Bos: Forest Fire (Poetry)

Morgan Faragher: Noctis or Nix (Fiction)

Ben Hemsworth: The Sunbathers (Fiction)

Hannah Rosales: When I Find You (Fiction)

Illyria Volcansek: One Hundred and Twenty-Two Seconds (Fiction)

Youth Honourable Mentions:
Franklin Gaydos: The Tome Runners (Fiction)
Ian Will: A GAY TEENAGE DREAM (Fiction)
Sarah Walker: Servitude (Fiction)
Simon Versteeg: Wetness (Fiction)
Natalie Begley: Debris (Poetry)
Olivia Walker: On The Sandy Shore (Poetry)


The Gillett Reminiscence Awards for Memoir Writing:

Simone Rotstein: Healing Through Writing

Laurie Reece: Letter to My Little Brother

Shannon Chartrand: Double Vision

Honourable mention:
Jennette Lukasik: Brandon 1970’s
Judy Mendelson: I Fell in Love with a Nerd

Thank you to the Sponsors and Community Partners:

Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine and the Hamilton Public Library, McMaster University, Judy Marsales Real Estate Ltd., James Gillett, Redeemer University, The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM, the City of Hamilton, and The Hamilton Spectator.

 

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