Frontenac House Awards and Nominations
Shortlisted for Trillium Poetry Award // Apr 2006
Frontenac House is pleased to congratulate Patria Rivera, finalist in the 2006 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, for her book Puti/White.
Second prize winner of the Eric Hill Award of Poetic Excellence // Apr 2005
“Rare species,” a poem by Frontenac poet Patria Rivera, was recently selected by Erin Moure as the second prize winner of the Eric Hill Award of Poetic Excellence, at a competition held by QWERTY, a literary magazine published by the English Department of the University of New Brunswick. Rivera’s poem will appear in QWERTY’s fall issue.
Short-listed for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize // Apr 2005
Bob Stallworthy’s Optics is one of the three books that has been short-listed for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.
Short-listed for Alberta Book Awards: Book Illustration of the Year // Apr 2005
J. Fisher’s Death Day Erection nominated for the Alberta Book Awards Book Illustration of the Year.
Short-listed for Alberta Book Awards Trade Fiction Book Award // Apr 2005
Lisa Pasold’s Weave nominated for Alberta Book Awards Trade Fiction Book Award.
Nominated for Publisher of the Year - Alberta Book Awards // Apr 2005
Frontenac House nominated for Publisher of the Year by the Book Publisher’s Association of Alberta and the Writers Guild of Alberta.
Long-listed for the 2005 ReLit Awards // Apr 2005
Kevin Irie’s Angle Blood: The Tess Poems has been long-listed for the 2005 ReLit Awards.
Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award // Apr 2004
Frontenac House is very happy to announce that Ali Riley is on the 2004 shortlist for the Gerald Lampert Award for her book Wayward, published by Frontenac House in April 2003.
Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize // Apr 2004
Frontenac House is very happy to announce that Leslie Greentree is on the 2004 shortlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize for her book go-go dancing for Elvis, published in April 2003.
Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award // May 2003
Weyman Chan’s Before a Blue Sky Moon was awarded the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for best poetry book at the Alberta Book Awards Gala, Saturday May 10 in Edmonton, put on by the Book Publisher’s Association of Alberta and the Writers Guild of Alberta.
