The Porcupine's Quill

Clark Blaise is more than just a local colourist who ferrets out the curious details of ‘marginal’ communities in order to delight cosmopolitan readers. Rather, if we consider the full arc of his work, we see that for nearly fifty years he has been challenging the way that we understand the concept of place in contemporary Canadian and American literature.

2007—ForeWord Magazine, Book of the Year (Short Stories),
Shortlisted

2007—ReLit Awards, Short Fiction,
Long-listed

Towards the end of a long and passionate life, P K Page shares in a most engaging form the highlights of a life lived to the full.

2007—ForeWord Magazine, Book of the Year (Autobiography/Memoir),
Shortlisted

2007—City of Victoria Butler Book Prize,
Shortlisted

2007—ReLit Awards, Poetry,
Long-listed

The nature of the Deity, illuminated first through a prism of found nineteenth-century steel engravings, is subsequently reconsidered by the most famous lost Canadian poet of the 1960s.

2007—Alcuin Society,
Runner-up

Zero Gravity is Toronto author Sharon English’s second collection of short stories. The book is rooted in Vancouver, with side trips to British Columbia’s Kootenay mountains, Montreal and Delphi, Greece. English’s characters lead accelerated lives only to be seized by spiritual emptiness. Their attempts to escape — by joining, by quitting, by falling in and out of love — make for funny, insightful and intense reading. The author presents a fly’s-eye view of urban experience, coming at city life from multiple angles that unite, as the book progresses, into a vivid experience of isolation and adaptation. The book’s unusual imagery and controlled prose deliver an edgy and anxious commentary on a new century.

2006—Globe Top 100,
Commended

2007—Giller Prize,
Long-listed

2007—ReLit Awards, Short Fiction,
Shortlisted