The 2020 Indigenous Voices Awards Virtual Gala

2020 IVAs Gala and Award Recipients

On June 21st, the Indigenous Voices Awards hosted a virtual gala of readings and stories from the 2020 IVAs finalists where we also announced this year's award recipients! The gala was a live stream premiere of a recorded video featuring 2019 IVA awards recipients as our hosts: ktunaxa poet, Smokii Sumac and Innu writer, Pierrot Ross-Tremblay. You can watch the video and read the live comments right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KQ2cWWx5eU/

Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA) and the Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs) Directors are excited to announce the award recipients for the 2020 Awards. Please see our full press release in English and in French.

Read about all of this years finalists in our 2020 IVAs Virtual Program.

Award recipients are bolded.

PUBLISHED PROSE IN FRENCH ($5000)

  • Naomi Fontaine, Shuni — Ce que tu dois savoir, Julie (Mémoire d’encrier) 

  • J.D. Kurtness, Aquariums (L’instant même) 

PUBLISHED PROSE IN ENGLISH ($5000)

  • Helen Knott, In My Own Moccasins (University of Regina Press) 

  • Kaitlyn Purcell, ʔbédayine (Metatron Press) 

  • Jesse Thistle, From the Ashes (Simon & Schuster) 

PUBLISHED POETRY IN FRENCH ($5000)

  • Maya Cousineau-Mollen, Bréviaire du matricule 082 (Éditions Hannenorak) 

  • Marie-Andrée Gill, Chauffer le dehors (La peuplade) 

PUBLISHED POETRY IN ENGLISH ($5000)

  • Brandi Bird, I Am Still Too Much (Rahila’s Ghost) 

  • Francine Cunningham, On/Me (Caitlin) 

  • Michelle Sylliboy, Kiskajeyi—I am Ready (Rebel Mountain) 

  • Arielle Twist, Disintegrate / Dissociate (Arsenal Pulp) 

WORKS IN AN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE ($2000)

  • Rene Meshake, Injichaag: My Soul in Story (University of Manitoba Press) 

  • Cole Pauls, Dakwäkãda Warriors (Conundrum) 

UNPUBLISHED PROSE IN ENGLISH ($2000)

  • Cody Caetano, Excerpts from “Half-Bads in White Regalia” 

  • Treena Chambers, “Forest Fires and Falling Stars” 

  • Steven Hall, “Gatzi Naka” 

UNPUBLISHED POETRY IN ENGLISH ($2000)

  • David Agecoutay, “Willow A Quartet” 

  • Corri Daniels, “A Memory of Mary” 

  • Keely Shirt, “Two Little Foxes, Buttertown Beach, I Will Never be Happier”  

WORKS IN AN ALTERNATIVE FORMAT ($2000)

  • Elaine McArthur, Elizabeth Dances Pow-wow (Independently published) 

  • Phyllis Webstad, Phyllis’s Orange Shirt (Medicine Wheel Education)

So far, a total of $40,000.00 has been given to Emerging Indigenous Voices, a mix of published and unpublished authors who are destined to change what we read. All of this is made possible by your support.

We invite you to donate to the IVAs by clicking the donate button on the Welcome page of the Indigenousvoicesawards.org; you will be directed to the page of the national charitable organization that is holding our funds, the Ontario Arts Foundation, and be asked to select a fund; after you choose the “Indigenous Voices Awards Fund” and donate, a tax receipt will be issued to you.

A genuine thank you to all of you who continue to contribute to the Indigenous Voices Awards.