READ INDIGENOUS
Explore the published work of IVAs recipients and nominees 2018-2024 PLUS the work of past IVAs jurors!
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Previously Unpublished Poetry and Prose
Selected 2018 IVAs Winners and Finalists in the Winter/Spring 2020 Alaska Quarterly Review
Winners from previous years:
Dennis Allen, David Agecoutay, Jenn Ashton (now published), Leah Baptiste, Hannah Big Canoe, Kelsey Borgford (now published), Leslie Butt, Cody Caetano (now published), Francine Cunningham (now published), Marie-Andrée Gill (now published), Henry Heavyshield, sakâw laboucan, Samantha Martin-Bird, Elaine McArthur, Amanda Peters (now published), Jordan Redekop-Jones, Keely Shirt, and Cooper Skjeie.
Prose in English
Jenn Ashton, People Like Frank (Tidewater Press)
Carleigh Baker, Bad Endings (Anvil Press)
Sheryl Doherty, Finding Izzy (Wood Dragon Books)
Dawn Dumont, Glass Beads (Thistledown Press)
Alicia Elliot, And Then She Fell (Penguin Random House)
Bevann Fox, Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School (University of Regina Press)
Michelle Good, Five Little Indians (Harper Perennial)
Michael Hutchinson, The Case of the Missing Auntie (Second Story Press)
Brian Thomas Isaac, All the Quiet Places (TouchWood Editions)
Aviaq Johnston, Those Who Run in the Sky (Inhabit Media)
Helen Knott, In My Own Moccasins (University of Regina Press)
Katłįà (Catherine) Lafferty, Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a (Fernwood Publishing)
Jas M. Morgan, nîtisânak (Metonymy Press)
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Ghost Lake (Kegedonce Press)
Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane, Powwow: A Celebration through Song and Dance (Orca Book Publishers)
Michelle Porter, Approaching Fire (Breakwater Books)
Kaitlyn Purcell, ʔbédayine (Metatron Press)
Joanne Robertson, The Water Walker (Second Story Press)
Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth (Viking Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Poetry in English
Brandi Bird, I Am Still Too Much (Rahila’s Ghost)
Brandi Bird, The All and Flesh (House of Anansi)
Selina Boan, Undoing Hours (Nightwood)
Tenille K. Campbell, nedí nezų (Good Medicine) (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Francine Cunningham, On/Me (Caitlin Press)
Norma Dunning, Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity (Bookland Press)
Dallas Hunt, Creeland (Nightwood)
Wanda John-Kehewin, Seven Sacred Truths (Talon)
shalan joudry, Waking Ground (Gaspereau Press)
Jules Koostachin, Unearthing of Secrets, Gathering of Truths (Kegedonce)
Tyler Pennock, Bones (Brick Books)
jaye simpson, it was never going to be okay (Nightwood Editions)
Michelle Sylliboy, Kiskajeyi—I am Ready (Rebel Mountain)
Diana Hope Tegenkamp, Girl running (Thistledown Press)
Arielle Twist, Disintegrate / Disassociate (Arsenal Pulp)
Smokii Sumac, You are Enough: Love Poems for the End of the World (Kegedonce)
Joshua Whitehead, Full-Metal Indigiqueer (Talon Books)
Works in an Indigenous Language
Jodie Callaghan with Georgia Lesley (illustrator) and Joe Wilmot (Mi’gmaq, translator), Ga’s / The Train (Second Story Press)
Sharon King, Amik (Kegedonce Press)
Zacharias Kunuk, illustrated by Megan Kyak-Monteith, The Shaman’s Apprentice: Inuktitut (Inhabit Media)
Brittany Luby, with Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley and Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere, Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know (House of Anansi Press)
Rene Meshake, Injichaag: My Soul in Story (University of Manitoba Press)
Cole Pauls, Dakwäkãda Warriors (Conundrum)
Prose & Poetry in French
Joséphine Bacon, Uiesh, Quelque Part (Mémoire d’encrier)
Maya Cousineau-Mollen, Bréviaire du matricule 082 (Éditions Hannenorak)
Naomi Fontaine, Shuni — Ce que tu dois savoir, Julie (Mémoire d’encrier)
Naomi Fontaine, Manikanetish (Memoire d’encrier)
Édouard Itual Germain, Ni kistisin / Je me souviens (Éditions Hannenorak)
Marie-Andrée Gill, Chauffer le dehors (La peuplade)
J.D. Kurtness, De Vengeance (L’Instant Meme)
J.D. Kurtness, Aquariums (L’instant même)
J.D. Kurtness, La vallée de l’étrange (L’instant même)
Soleil Launière, Akuteu (Les éditions du remue ménage)
Andrée Levesque Sioui, Chant(s) (Éditions Hannenorak)
Shayne Michael, Fif et sauvage (Éditions Perce-Neige)
Émilie Monnet, Okinum (Les Herbes Rouges)
Félix Perkins, Boiteur des bois (Éditions Perce-Neige)
Georges Pisimopeo, Piisim Napeu (Éditions Hannenorak)
Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, Nipimanitu (Prise de parole)
Daniel Sioui, Indien stoïque (Éditions Hannenorak)
Jocelyn Sioui, Mononk Jules (Éditions Hannenorak)
Alexis Vollant, Nipinapunan (Éditions Hannenorak)
Alternative Format Writing
Lisa Boivin, I Will See You Again (HighWater Press)
Leslie Butt, Tanked (Amazon/self-published)
Cliff Cardinal, Huff & Stitch (Playwrights Canada Press)
Aimée Craft, Treaty Words For As Long As the Rivers Flow (Annick Press)
Brianna Jonnie, with Nahanni Shingoose, illustrated by Neal Shannacappo, If I Go Missing (James Lorimer)
Mika Lafond, Nipê Wânîn (Thistledown Press)
Elaine McArthur, Elizabeth Dances Pow-wow (Independently published)
Teoni Spathelfer (Heiltsuk) with Natassia Davies (Coast Salish, illustrator), White Raven (Heritage House)
Tasha Spillett (with Natasha Donovan), Surviving the City (HighWater Press)
Tasha Spillett, illustrated by Natasha Donovan, From the Roots Up: Surviving the City Vol. 2, (HighWater Press)
Phyllis Webstad, Phyllis’s Orange Shirt (Medicine Wheel Education)
READ THE JURY
Click on the links to purchase or learn more about current and past jury members.
Jordan Abel
NISHGA, a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation available May, 2021 (McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada). Also to explore: Injun (Talonbooks, 2016); Un/inhabited (Project Space Press 2014 / Talonbooks 2015); The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks, 2013).
Joanne Arnott
2019-2020 Co-editor, Saltchuck City Review, an Indigenous literary journal; Co-editor of Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel (2019).
Carleigh Baker
Bad Endings (Anvil Press, 2017, Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award, Finalist for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize).
Billy-Ray Belcourt
This Wound is a World (Frontenac House 2017), which among many other awards won the 2018 Indigenous Voices Awards prize for Most Significant Book of Poetry in English; NDN Coping Mechanisms (Anansi 2019), and A History of My Brief Body (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House Canada 2020).
His books, films, photography and scholarly research explore themes of community, environment, orality and belonging in the Canadian west, with particular focus on the relationships between Indigenous stories and the land.
Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek
100 Days (University of Alberta Press, 2016) won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, 2022 release of A is for Acholi.
Tenille K. Campbell
Her poetry collections, #IndianLovePoems (Signature Editions, 2017) and Nedi Nezu (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021), focuses on Indigenous Erotica – using humour, storytelling, and sensuality to reclaim and explore ideas of Indigenous sexuality.
Michelle Coupal
Co-editor of Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel (2019).
Marilyn Dumont
Her four collections of poetry have won provincial or national awards: A Really Good Brown Girl (1996); green girl dreams Mountains (2001); that tongued belonging (2007); The Pemmican Eaters (2015). A fifth collection surrounding Indigenous history of Edmonton, called South Side of a Kinless River was published by Brick Books in 2024.
JD Kurtness
Who won the Indigenous Voices Award for French Prose in 2018 for her novel De vengeance, is a member of the Innu nation originally from Mashteuiatsh, Quebec. She published De vengeance, her debut novel, in 2017.
He has published articles and co-directed thematic issues in the magazines Voix et images, Tangence, Spirale, Contre-jour, @nalyses, temps zéro (2013 and 2014), and Arborescences.
Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
Her works been exhibited at various places including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (2021), the Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto (2019), and the SBC galerie d’art contemporain, Montreal with the Woodland School (2017). She is also the co-editor of The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation (ARP 2009) and Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island (Wilfrid Laurier 2017).
Emily Riddle
Emily Riddle (Okimâw Pipikwan Iskwêw) is Nehiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation (Kipohtakaw). She is a writer and textile artist based in Amisko Waciw Wâskahikan (Edmonton, Canada). In 2022, she released her first full length poetry collection, The Big Melt which won the Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian first book award.
Eden Robinson
The author of Traplines (1998) and Monkey Beach (2000). Her novel Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Trickster Drift, its sequel, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. The final book in the Trickster series, Return of the Trickster, was published in 2021.
Smokii Sumac
A Ktunaxa Two-Spirit and Transgender Poet, Podcast host, and emerging playwright, he is a two time Indigenous Voices Awards winner, first awarded in the unpublished poetry in English category, which lead to his IVA-winning collection you are enough: love poems for the end of the world being published in 2018.
Richard Van Camp
His novel, Three Feathers (2015), is now a feature film with First Generation Films and you can watch it on CBC Gems and Amazon.
Katherena Vermette
Her first book, North End Love Songs (The Muses Company) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. Her novel, The Break (House of Anansi) was a bestseller in Canada and won multiple awards, including the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Others to explore: river woman (House of Anansi); The Girl and The Wolf (Theytus); The Seven Teachings Stories (Highwater Press); and A Girl Called Echo (Highwater Press).
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Yahgulanaas's publications include national bestsellers Flight of the Hummingbird (Greystone Books) and RED, a Haida Manga(Douglas & McIntyre).
Eldon Yellowhorn
An archaeologist and professor of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University. His research responds to the Calls to Action issued by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to search for children who died at residential schools. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. See his books from Annick Press.