Canadian Literature recognizes the accomplishments of their students, editors, and scholars through various award and prize opportunities.
Canadian Literature Student Award
We’re proud to nurture and mentor upcoming young editors with a special expertise in the field of Canadian literature and publishing through our annual Canadian Literature Student Award.
This award provides an Arts Co-op student with a one-year paid editorial internship at our journal, which gives them the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of Canadian literature and acquire practical experience in publishing, research, editing, and writing.
Recently, this award has been expanded to assist graduate students who are working on CanLit Guides, an online teaching and learning resource. CanLit Guides allows graduate students the opportunity to develop and edit content in a collaborative environment and receive feedback from professors and editors in the field.
Canadian Literature Student Award Recipients
- (2023) Emma Gilroy
- (2022) Shanai Tanwar
- (2021) Jiejun Wu
- (2020) Camille Lemire
- (2019) Niamh Harold
- (2018) Janin Balleza
- (2016) Mary Chen
- (2014) Josephine Lee
- (2013) Zoya Mirzaghitova
- (2012) Christy Fong
- (2011) Jennifer Lin
- (2010) Kathleen McHale
- (2009) Kevin Tjia
- (2008) Stephen Ullstrom
- (2007) Melanie Triemstra/Sanderson
- (2006) Laura Potter
Past Canadian Literature Co-op Students
- Doug Giles
- Kristin McHale
- Nicole Maunsell
- Robert Parungao
- Russell Aquino
- Fayza Bundalli
- Cathy Miyagi
- Nicki Shidmehr
Graduate Students Supported by Canadian Literature
Current
- Dylan Jackson
Past
- Sharon Engbrecht
- Sheila Giffen
- Brendan McCormack
- Scott Inniss
CanLit Guides
- Mike Borkent
- Karen Correia Da Silva
- Sheila Griffin
- Alissa McArthur
- Jamie Paris
- Cara Woodruff
- Brendan McCormack
Poetry
- Mike Borkent
- Sonnet L’Abbé
French
- Jean Marie-Gérald
ACQL Barbara Godard Prize
We’re pleased to present the winning papers of the ACQL-ALCQ Barbara Godard Prize for Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar.
ACQL Barbara Godard Prize Recipients
- (2023) Valerie Uher | “Bloody Sore”: Eugenic Rhetoric and the Production of the “Universal Worker” in Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage
- (2022) Alice Hinchliffe | “I Am Home Among the Displaced:” A Conversation Between Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed and Tessa McWatt’s Shame On Me
- (2021) Marta Croll-Baehre | “Imitation of Empire Cuisine”: An Auto-ethnographic Exploration of the Canadian Artisanal Menu in Conversation with Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill
- (2019) Charlotte Comtois | Chroniques de l’intranquillité: lieux et précarité dans Le jeu de la musique de Stéfanie Clermont (Published in Canadian Literature 242)
- (2018) Emily Bednarz | Assembling Urban Archives: Reading Daphne Marlatt’s Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now
- (2016) Rebekah Ludolph | Humour, Intersubjectivity, and Indigenous Female Identity in Anahareo’s Devil in Deerskins (Published in Canadian Literature 233)
- (2015) Alba de Béjar Muiños | Towards a Posthuman Ethics. Post-Anthropocentrism and the Role of the Cyborg in Larissa Lai’s Oeuvre
- (2014) Isabelle Kirouac-Massicotte | De la colonisation à la prospection minière : la question de la frontier dans « Le rêve d’un géant » de Jeanne-Mance Delisle
- (2014) Jessica (Ratcliffe) McDonald | The Politics of Science Fiction and Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring
- (2013) Hannah McGregor | The Anxieties and Affordances of Genre in the Work of Karen Connelly (Published in Canadian Literature 222)
- (2012) Sarah Gibbons | Here’s to the Fatal Future: Risk, Crisis, and Resistance in Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries
- (2011) Joanne Leow | Re-map, Re-cover, and Re-perform: Interdiscursivity and the Poetry of Wayde Compton (Published in Canadian Literature 214)
- (2010) Andrea King | Haunting Love in Anne Hébert’s Les fous de Bassan and Mary Novik’s Conceit (Published in Canadian Literature 214)
- (2009) Michel Nareau | La nation à l’épreuve d’un récit métis: Ouvrir le Québec par le biais hispano-américain dans l’œuvre de Francine Noël (Published in Canadian Literature 204)
- (2009) Maud Lapierre | Colonization, Miscomprehension and Juxtaposition: Majzels’ City of Forgetting as a Contact Zone
- (2008) Erica Kelly | “Was Ever an Adventure Without its Cost?”: The Price of National Unity in E. J. Pratt’s “Towards the Last Spike” (Published in Canadian Literature 200)
- (2007) Caroline Lamb | Trading Insults: Competitive and Collaborative Identities in Canadian Hip Hop Music
- (2006) Maia Joseph | Wondering into Country: Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return (Published in Canadian Literature 193)
- (2005) Jean-Sébastien Ménard | Sur la langue de Kerouac (Published in Canadian Literature 195)
CanLit Essay Prize
The Canadian Literature Essay Prize was awarded annually from 2011-2014 to the best of the 24 articles publish each year.
- (2014) McKegney, Sam. “‘pain, pleasure, shame. Shame’: Masculine Embodiment, Kinship, and Indigenous Reterritorialization.” Canadian Literature 216 (2013): 12–33.
- (2013) Deanna Reder, Susan Gingell, Allison Hargreaves, Daniel Heath Justice, Kristina Bidwell, and Jo-Ann Episkenew. “Thinking Together: A Forum on Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy and Healing.” Canadian Literature 214 (Autumn 2012): 91-127.
- (2012) Meredith Quartermain. “T’ang’s Bathtub: Innovative Work by Four Canadian Poets.” 21st Century Poetics. Ed. Clint Burnham and Christine Stewart. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 116-132.
- (2011) Eli MacLaren and Josée Vincent. “Book Policies and Copyright in Canada and Quebec: Defending National Cultures.” Canadian Literature 204 (Spring 2010): 63-82.
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Congratulations to the Canadian Literature Essay Prize Recipients
(left to right) Donna Chin, Margery Fee, Jamie Paris, Kathryn Grafton, Mike Borkent, Louise Ladouceur “The Canadian Literature Essay Prize …