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Explore the published work of IVAs recipients and nominees 2018-2023 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Previously Unpublished Poetry and Prose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
Prose in English
Brian Thomas Isaac, All the Quiet Places (TouchWood Editions)
Sheryl Doherty, Finding Izzy (Wood Dragon Books)
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Ghost Lake (Kegedonce Press)
Jenn Ashton, People Like Frank (Tidewater Press)
Michelle Good, Five Little Indians (Harper Perennial)
Michael Hutchinson, The Case of the Missing Auntie (Second Story Press)
Katłįà (Catherine) Lafferty, Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a (Fernwood Publishing)
Bevann Fox, Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School (University of Regina Press)
Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane, Powwow: A Celebration through Song and Dance (Orca Book Publishers)
Michelle Porter, Approaching Fire (Breakwater Books)
Helen Knott, In My Own Moccasins (University of Regina Press)
Kaitlyn Purcell, ʔbédayine (Metatron Press)
Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth (Viking Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
Lindsay Nixon nîtisânak (Metonymy Press)
Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Carleigh Baker, Bad Endings (Anvil Press)
Dawn Dumont, Glass Beads (Thistledown Press)
Aviaq Johnston, Those Who Run in the Sky (Inhabit Media)
Joanne Robertson, The Water Walker (Second Story Press)
Poetry in English
Selina Boan, Undoing Hours (Nightwood)
Tenille K. Campbell, nedí nezų (Good Medicine) (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Dallas Hunt (Wapsewsipi, Swan River First Nation) for Creeland (Nightwood)
Diana Hope Tegenkamp, Girl running (Thistledown Press)
Norma Dunning, Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity (Bookland Press)
shalan joudry, Waking Ground (Gaspereau Press)
Tyler Pennock, Bones (Brick Books)
jaye simpson, it was never going to be okay (Nightwood Editions)
Brandi Bird, I Am Still Too Much (Rahila’s Ghost)
Francine Cunningham, On/Me (Caitlin Press)
Michelle Sylliboy, Kiskajeyi—I am Ready (Rebel Mountain)
Arielle Twist, Disintegrate / Disassociate (Arsenal Pulp)
Wanda John-Kehewin, Seven Sacred Truths (Talon)
Jules Koostachin, Unearthing of Secrets, Gathering of Truths (Kegedonce)
Smokii Sumac, You are Enough: Love Poems for the End of the World (Kegedonce)
Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House)
Tenille K. Campbell, #IndianLovePoems (Signature Editions)
Joshua Whitehead, Full-Metal Indigiqueer (Talon Books)
Works in an Indigenous Language
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)
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)
Rene Meshake, Injichaag: My Soul in Story (University of Manitoba Press)
Cole Pauls, Dakwäkãda Warriors (Conundrum)
Prose & Poetry in French
Édouard Itual Germain, Ni kistisin / Je me souviens (Éditions Hannenorak)
Andrée Levesque Sioui, Chant(s) (Éditions Hannenorak)
Daniel Sioui, Indien stoïque (Éditions Hannenorak)
Shayne Michael, Fif et sauvage (Éditions Perce-Neige)
Félix Perkins, Boiteur des bois (Éditions Perce-Neige)
Émilie Monnet, Okinum (Les Herbes Rouges)
Jocelyn Sioui, Mononk Jules (Éditions Hannenorak)
Maya Cousineau-Mollen, Bréviaire du matricule 082 (Éditions Hannenorak)
Marie-Andrée Gill, Chauffer le dehors (La peuplade)
Naomi Fontaine, Shuni — Ce que tu dois savoir, Julie (Mémoire d’encrier)
Naomi Fontaine, Manikanetish (Memoire d’encrier)
J.D. Kurtness, De Vengeance ( L’Instant Meme)
J.D. Kurtness, Aquariums (L’instant même)
Joséphine Bacon, Uiesh, Quelque Part (Mémoire d’encrier)
Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, Nipimanitu (Prise de parole)
Alternative Format Writing
Leslie Butt, Tanked (Amazon/self-published)
Aimée Craft, Treaty Words For As Long As the Rivers Flow (Annick Press)
Lisa Boivin, We Dream Medicine Dreams (Portage & Main Press/HighWater Press)
Teoni Spathelfer (Heiltsuk) with Natassia Davies (Coast Salish, illustrator), White Raven (Heritage House)Lisa Boivin, I Will See You Again (HighWater Press)
Brianna Jonnie, with Nahanni Shingoose, illustrated by Neal Shannacappo, If I Go Missing (James Lorimer)
Tasha Spillett, illustrated by Natasha Donovan, From the Roots Up: Surviving the City Vol. 2, (HighWater Press)
Elaine McArthur, Elizabeth Dances Pow-wow (Independently published)
Phyllis Webstad, Phyllis’s Orange Shirt (Medicine Wheel Education)
Keith Barker, This is How We Got Here (Playwrights Canada Press)
Cliff Cardinal, Huff & Stitch (Playwrights Canada Press)
Mika Lafond, Nipê Wânîn (Thistledown Press)
Tasha Spillett (with Natasha Donovan), Surviving the City (HighWater Press)
READ THE JURY
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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.
Michelle Coupal
Co-editor of Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel (2019).
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.
JD Kurtness
who won the Indigenous Voices Award for French Prose in 2018 for her novel De vengeance. A member of the Innu nation originally from Mashteuiatsh, Quebec, she published De vengeance, her debut novel, in 2017
Francis Langevin
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).
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.
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 is 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 their books from Annick Press.