Frontenac House Awards and Nominations
Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award // Apr 2003
Science Fiction Saint was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Award which is given by the League of Canadian Poets to the best first book of poetry by a Canadian author.
Nominated for Publisher of the Year - Alberta Book Awards // Apr 2003
Frontenac House nominated for Publisher of the Year by the Book Publisher’s Association of Alberta and the Writers Guild of Alberta.
Shortlisted for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award // Apr 2003
Nancy Jo Cullen’s Science Fiction Saint was nominated for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for best Poetry Book.
Shortlisted for Alberta Book Awards Trade Fiction Book Award // Apr 2003
Nancy Jo Cullen’s Science Fiction Saint nominated for Alberta Book Awards best Trade Book (fiction and poetry) by the the Book Publisher’s Association of Alberta and the Writers Guild of Alberta
Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund (EATF) Awards // Oct 2002
Yvonne Trainer has been selected as one of the recipients of the fourth annual Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund (EATF) Awards. The award was established to encourage Edmonton artists in the creation of new works. Yvonne received the award of $2000 at the Azimuth theatre in Edmonton. She will use the award to write a new sequence of poems.
Finalist in the Contemporary Verse 2 Two Day Poem Contest // Oct 2002
Catherine Moss was a finalist in the Contemporary Verse 2 Two Day Poem contest for her poem “Weather Warning.”
Winner of the National Magazine Awards Silver Medal for Poetry // Sep 2002
Weyman Chan was awarded the silver medal for poetry by the National Magazine Awards for his poem sequence “At Work” which appeared in the Fall 2001 issue of The Capilano Review.
Shortlisted for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry // Apr 2002
Arran Fisher’s Static Mantis was short-listed for the Writers Guild of Alberta Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry in 2002.
Third Prize Winner in the Silver Wyvern Award Poetry on the Lake Competition // Sep 2001
Catherine Moss won third prize in the Silver Wyvern Award, the international Poetry on the Lake Competition. Catherine, who went to Italy to read and accept her award, was the first Canadian to win a prize in this competition.
http://www.orta.net/poetry/2001.html
Finalist, Canada’s Cowboy Festival, Calgary, national poetry contest // Feb 1996
Rosalee van Stelten was a finalist in Canada’s Cowboy Festival, Calgary, national poetry contest.
