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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1540759569429-M1X4F0OQ55JYVT57XJHW/Indigenous%2Bpostcard%2Bfor%2Bweb.png Introductions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1540759599412-LHVDSVGLI9GVB663A7QL/Indigenous%2Bpostcard%2Bfor%2Bweb2.png Introductions https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/admissibilit-et-faq daily 0.75 2024-12-05 https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/jurors daily 0.75 2026-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1574820596666-KHQFI6Y7IAWUR9QNV8IE/richard-van-camp-2017-photo-by-william-au.jpg Jurors 2026 - Richard Van Camp A recipient of the Order of the Northwest Territories, Richard Van Camp is a proud Tlicho Dene from Fort Smith, NWT, now living in Edmonton: Treaty 6 Territory with his family. Richard is an internationally renowned storyteller and award winning author of 30 books for all ages. His novel, The Lesser Blessed, is now a feature film on Prime Video, and his graphic novel with Neiva Mateus, Three Feathers, is now a feature film on APTN. He is a mentor with the Audible Indigenous Writers' Circle and he is The University of Victoria's Indigenous Storyteller in Residence where he teaches online about reclaiming family medicines. You can visit Richard on Facebook, BlueSky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, SoundCloud and at www.richardvancamp.com Photo by William Au https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/5c772cd2-0288-44e3-a577-6ce8b20296a8/SMOKII.png Jurors 2026 - Smokii Sumac Smokii Sumac is 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 He is a two time Indigenous Voices Awards winner, first awarded in the unpublished poetry in English category, which lead to his IVA-winning collection you are enough: love poems for the end of the world being published in 2018. His podcast, The ʔasqanaki Podcast features a range of Indigenous guest musicians and writers including Tenille Campbell and G.R. Gritt. Most recently, he has been working on his first play Seven and One Heart with the National Queer and Trans playwriting unit, and he is proud to be a member of the xaȼqanaǂ ʔitkiniǂ (many ways of working on the same thing) project where he supports conversations around gender and sexual diversity throughout the research process, as the team asks the question qapsin kiʔin ʔakaǂxuniyam? What would a healthy community look like?. Photo by sweetmoon photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/d757a6cb-9a24-4ab6-8d02-2ee91027844a/EMILY.png Jurors 2026 - 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. Her writing has been published in The Malahat Review, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, among others. Emily Riddle is a dedicated Treaty 6 descendant and a semi-dedicated Edmonton Oilers fan.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/aad7c0b0-bded-4647-ba22-943d573ecb62/Screenshot+2025-12-01+at+1.21.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Jurors 2026 - Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek is an assistant professor in Black Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, which occupies the lands of the Anishinaabe and the Haudenosaunee people. She is the author of three books of poetry. Most recently, We, the Kindling, her first novel (2025, Alchemy, an imprint of Penguin Random House)was long-listed for the Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers Prize for Fiction, both 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/21c0773b-24d3-4c8d-a431-7a0bde7b74e7/Kayla+Lar-son+2025.jpg Jurors 2026 - Kayla Lar-Son Kayla Lar-Son is Metis/Ukrainian librarian from amiskwaciy and currently living on the traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. She is the interim head of the Xwi7xwa library, and former co-host of masinahikan iskwêwak – Book Women Podcast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/9d0118e6-dae5-4156-b827-58c271f652fc/Screenshot+2025-12-05+at+10.06.13%E2%80%AFAM.png Jurors 2026 - Marilyn Dumont Metis poet, writer, and Professor Marilyn Dumont teaches for the faculties of Arts and Native Studies at the University of Alberta and is proud of Metis family lines from her Mother’s - Vaness / Dufresne families and her father’s - Boudreau/Dumont families. She was awarded the 2018 Lifetime Membership from the League of Canadian Poets for her contributions to poetry in Canada. In 2019, she received the University of Alberta Distinguished Alumni Award and the Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award, and in 2022 was Awarded the Alberta Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medal for public service. 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/79166bc8-3462-4cfa-b850-652c5289436b/Tenille+K+Campbell_2022.jpg Jurors 2026 - Tenille K. Campbell Tenille K. Campbell is a Dene and Métis artist from English River First Nation, SK. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Saskatchewan, specializing in Indigenous Literature. 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. She is the artist behind sweetmoon photography, specializing in capturing Indigenous stories throughout Canada. She currently resides in Saskatoon, SK. Photo by Ali Lauren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/89eb92b9-45ee-4e4b-94e2-a3acbc88089c/Joanne+Arnott+%28Lila+Campbell+photo%29+detail+%281%29.jpg Jurors 2026 - Joanne Arnott writer, editor, arts activist, mother of six/empty nester, originally from Treaty 1 territory, at home on the west coast. Long affiliated with Metis and mixed-blood people, current family research points to an all-settler ancestry. Joanne has published eight books and four chapbooks, as author, and as editor; projects include Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories and Poetry by Vera Manuel (co-editor, University of Manitoba Press). Past recipient of Gerald Lampert Award (1992) and Vancouver Mayor’s Literary Arts Award (2017). Retired poetry mentor (The Writers Studio, SFU), and poetry editor (EVENT Magazine), Joanne is a lifetime member of the League of Canadian Poets and Surrey Muse. Books in print: Mother Time and A Night for the Lady (Ronsdale Press) and pandemic friendship (above/ground press). Photo by Lila Arnott Campbell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/2aac1036-6a2b-4b77-862f-d2d796ae8399/IVAs-logo.jpg Jurors 2026 - 2026 Contest closes on Friday, February 20th. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/2a254585-5226-42b4-bd27-263f266baaa4/Screenshot+2024-12-20+at+7.30.18%E2%80%AFAM.png Jurors 2026 - Le Prix voix autochtones Nous sommes très heureux·ses d’annoncer un changement de leadership dans l’administration des prix pour les catégories francophones. À partir de cette année, c’est Kwahiatonhk!, un organisme à but non lucratif dédié au développement, à la promotion et à la diffusion de la littérature autochtone, avec le soutien de la Chaire de leadership en enseignement sur les littératures autochtones au Québec (Maurice-Lemire) de l’Université Laval, qui assurera l’administration des prix qui seront remis en juin prochain lors du festival Kwe!. Nous croyons sincèrement que cette nouvelle collaboration entre les Indigenous Voices Awards, Kwahiatonhk! et Kwe! permettra de mieux soutenir et représenter la communauté littéraire autochtone francophone en consolidant les liens avec le milieu. Demeurez à l’affut en consultant le site web et la page Facebook de Kwahiatonhk!. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/c5e60cc3-fcb1-46f6-86b2-6d2a93af48ae/Screenshot+2024-12-20+at+7.32.03%E2%80%AFAM.png Jurors 2026 - Second Year of Changes in the French Prize After a successful first year, the IVAs and Kwahiatonhk! continue to collaborate on French-language prizes. See Kwahiatonhk! for inoformation about the Prix voix autochtones (PVAs), the French version of the IVAs Beginning in 2025, to better support and represent the French-speaking Indigenous literary community, administration of the IVAs French-language prizes has become a collaborative effort between the IVAs and Kwahiatonhk!, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development, promotion and diffusion of Indigenous literature. Administered by Kwahiatonhk! with the support of Université Laval’s Chaire de leadership en enseignement sur les littératures autochtones au Québec (Maurice-Lemire), and a committee composed of Louis-Karl Picard Sioui (Kwahiatonhk!), Marie-Eve Bradette (Chaire de leadership en enseignement sur les littératures autochtones au Québec), and Alec Mahoney (coordinator), the French prizes will be awarded in June during the Kwe! festival. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/eligibility-and-faq daily 0.75 2026-03-07 https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/lire-autochtones daily 0.75 2024-12-23 https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/a-propos-des-prix daily 0.75 2023-12-12 https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/remerciements daily 0.75 2024-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1543011611189-13MC9RIFKP0RLLYCJ2J7/pamela.jpg Remerciements Ontario Arts Foundations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1543618161634-Y3I4F4BFP3CKVXCUYZOV/penguin.png Remerciements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/051783ec-3454-45fa-a22e-fc1e7fb9dc0c/Wagamese+Book+Cover.jpg Remerciements - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1543010437214-QL4VKTL0FL3MF24AODAE/cela+logo.png Remerciements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1543565680854-6JM02Q4Q4IHV36MUA4K5/scholastic.jpg Remerciements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1527031024136-6ZSJ0NA9XBHX49XNS3Y3/OAF+logo_outline_f.jpg Remerciements LA FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO a été créée en 1991 en tant que fondation publique pour encourager et faciliter les dons aux arts. L'OAF est une fondation non gouvernementale et un organisme de bienfaisance enregistré. La Fondation détient plus de 300 dotations et fonds établis par des particuliers, des fondations privées, des sociétés et des organisations artistiques. LA FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO se concentrent sur les investissements visant à soutenir les arts sur le long terme, et à décerner des prix, des subventions ou des bourses pour des réalisations exceptionnelles dans le domaine des arts. https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/jurors-1 daily 0.75 2022-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605849723041-9GKUHT6FHPEC2ELC77QO/Jordan2019_15_WEB.jpg Jurors 2021 - Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer who lives in Edmonton. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). Abel’s latest project NISHGA (McClelland & Stewart, 2021) is a deeply personal and autobiographical book that attempts to address the complications of contemporary Indigenous existence and the often invisible intergenerational impact of residential schools. Abel recently completed a PhD at Simon Fraser University and is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1619978196007-MMMUMLFPGRLOSNOUVIEG/MarieAndreeGill.jpeg Jurors 2021 - Marie-Andrée Gill est Pekuakamishkueu (Ilnue du Lac-St-Jean, communauté de Mashteuiatsh, Québec). Autrice, poète, animatrice de balados décolonisants ( Laisser nous raconter : l’histoire crochie, Les mots de Joséphine ), elle est aussi étudiante au doctorat en lettres à l’Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Elle a terminé un mémoire de maitrise portant sur la décolonisation par l’écriture de l’intime et le rapport au territoire ancestral. Elle milite également pour les droits environnementaux et autochtones. Son travail et sa posture artistique lui ont valu le titre de l’artiste de l’année au Saguenay Lac-St-Jean en 2020. Elle a publié les recueils Béante, Frayer et Chauffer le dehors aux éditions La Peuplade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605388459236-L2SU0TH083PVMXDFUPVY/Joanne+Arnott+author+photo+small.jpg Jurors 2021 - Joanne Arnott is a Metis/mixed-blood poet, editor, essayist, and arts/community organizer originally from Manitoba. She has lived in the Lower Mainland for over three decades. She is a founding member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast, co-editing their anthology, Salish Seas: an anthology of text + image (2011) and other projects. She is mother to six children, all born at home. Her collections of poetry include Wiles of Girlhood (Gerald Lampert Award, 1991), My Grass Cradle (1992), Steepy Mountain Love Poetry (2004), Mother Time: New & Selected (2007), A Night for the Lady (2013) and Halfling Spring (2013). She published a children’s picture book with Mary Anne Barkhouse, Ma MacDonald (1991). Her non-fiction works include Breasting the Waves: On Writing and Healing (1995). In 2017 she received the Vancouver Mayor’s Art Award for the body of her work. Recent publications include a poetry chapbook, Pensive & beyond (2019), and the co-edited volume, Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel (2019). Joanne is Poetry Editor for EVENT Magazine, and Poetry Mentor at The Writers Studio, SFU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605388575975-9D2IGZLZMKB7AVKJ4LGA/Baker.jpg Jurors 2021 - Carleigh Baker is a nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân /Icelandic writer and teacher who lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ilwəta peoples. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals and have been anthologized in Canada and the United States. Her debut story collection, Bad Endings, won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Emerging Indigenous Voices Award for fiction. She was a 2019/20 Shadbolt fellow in the humanities at Simon Fraser University, where she now teaches creative writing. As a writer and researcher, Baker is particularly interested in how contemporary fiction can be used to address the climate crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605340622621-GSCZLWVLTPRAYS0YSJ17/brb.jpg Jurors 2021 - Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation in northwest Alberta. He lives in Vancouver, where he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He has written three critically acclaimed and award-winning books, including 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 2020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605849477304-4XUNWCGTA92HXSUWCOLR/image.jpg Jurors 2021 - Michelle Coupal is an Algonquin/French scholar of Indigenous literatures. She is a Canada Research Chair in Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Literatures, and an Associate Professor at the University of Regina. Michelle is a former President of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association. She specializes in and teaches courses on Indigenous literatures of Turtle Island, Indian Residential School literature, trauma and testimony, Indigenous media/film, and Canadian literature. She recently wrote the foreword to Bevann Fox’s novel, Genocidal Love, and co-edited a collection of the works by Vera Manuel, Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry. She has also recently written articles for The Conversation, Canadian Literature (online), and two edited book collections (L’enseignement des Traités à l’ère de la Réconciliation dans l’Ouest Canadien and Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada). She is currently co-editing special journal issues for Studies in American Indian Literature and Studies in Canadian Literature. She is also co-editing a book with Deanna Reder called How We Teach Indigenous Literatures. Her open-access website project, How to Teach Stories of Residential School, will be launched in 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605849926240-D9CRBYM2EDZ5HCP2O7PC/Margery+Fee%2C+Co-Applicant_0.jpg Jurors 2021 - Margery Fee PhD (Toronto), FRSC, Professor Emerita of English, UBC, specializes in Canadian, post-colonial and Indigenous literatures and Canadian English. She held the David and Brenda McLean Chair in Canadian Studies (2015-2017) to work on early Indigenous oral and literary production. In 2008, as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence, she worked on racialization and genetics at the UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. She edited the UBC journal Canadian Literature from 2007 to 2015. With Jan McAlpine, she co-authored The Guide to Canadian English Usage (Oxford, 2nd ed., 2011), and, with chief editor Stefan Dollinger, edited DCHP-2: The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (2nd ed., online, 2017). Recent publications are Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015), Tekahionwake: E. Pauline Johnson’s Writings on Native North America (Broadview, 2016) co-edited with Dory Nason; Polar Bear (Reaktion, 2019) and an edited collection of Jean Barman’s essays, On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space, and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia (Harbour, 2020). With Daniel Heath Justice, she is co-investigator on the SSHRC-funded project, The People and the Text, led by Deanna Reder (thepeopleandthetext.ca).  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605558125938-RHV0CCYXBJIKGRFUMNPV/Otoniya.jpg Jurors 2021 - Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek A lively presence on Vancouver’s writing scene, Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek is an Acholi woman. Her 100 Days (University of Alberta 2016), a book of poetry that reflects on the meaning of memory two decades after the Rwanda genocide, was nominated for several writing prizes including the 2017 B.C. Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards, and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Otoniya’s poem “Migration: Salt Stories” was shortlisted for the 2017 National Magazine Awards for Poetry in Canada. Her poem “Gauntlet” was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and is the title of her most recent work, a chapbook from Nomados Press (2019). She completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia, in October 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1541105375445-U72XWDK99R8ZV84904VI/40828142_10155858946753597_5466772036640571392_o.jpg Jurors 2021 - Francis Langevin lives and works in Syilx territory at the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). He has been teaching French and literature in Francophone minority communities since 2010. A specialist in contemporary novels, he is interested in the relationship between style and values, as well as in representations of regionality in today's Quebec and French fiction. On these subjects, 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605342215717-S081OHOSU67F34UQNFZR/vermette.jpeg Jurors 2021 - Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Métis nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 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 bestseller in Canada and won multiple awards, including the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Her second book of poetry, river woman (House of Anansi) and eighth children’s picture book, The Girl and The Wolf (Theytus) were both released last year. She is also the author of the picture book series, The Seven Teachings Stories (Highwater Press) and the graphic novel series, A Girl Called Echo (Highwater Press). And, along with a whole team of talented filmmakers, she co-wrote and co-directed the short doc, this river (NFB) which won the 2017 Canadian Screen Award for Best Short. Vermette lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605558040639-ZLKCV37CSOVX2CUTCSPQ/MNY.jpg Jurors 2021 - Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is an award-winning visual contemporary artist, author and professional speaker. His work has been seen in public spaces, museums, galleries and private collections across the globe. Institutional collections include the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum and Vancouver Art Gallery. His large sculptural works are part of the public art collection of the Vancouver International Airport, City of Vancouver, City of Kamloops and University of British Columbia. Yahgulanaas's publications include national bestsellers Flight of the Hummingbird and RED, a Haida Manga. When not writing or producing art, Yahgulanaas pulls from his 20 years of political experience in the Council of the Haida Nation and travels the world speaking to businesses, institutions and communities about social justice, community building, communication and change management. His most recent talks include the American Museum of Natural History and TEDxVancouver. https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/home-page-1 daily 0.75 2021-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605558511182-OF1J5KETWISBZ35TRQFQ/IVAs+logo.png 2021 IVAs Indigenous Voices Awards 2021 art by Lou-Ann Neel (Kwakwaka'wakw) https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/accueil daily 0.75 2025-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/631dd1fe-5c8c-4807-9d04-9e6fa223b442/IVAs%2Blogo.jpg Accueil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/2022-ivas daily 0.75 2023-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/626b2395-4f70-4b13-9348-9835d404749e/289628178_2834664530173260_5726762735508666405_n.jpg 2022 IVAs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/accueil-copy daily 0.75 2022-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/ce396e20-9991-4edb-8aad-aa94bb20ecd7/IVAs%2Blogo.png Accueil 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/jurors-2022 daily 0.75 2022-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605849723041-9GKUHT6FHPEC2ELC77QO/Jordan2019_15_WEB.jpg Jurors 2022 - Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer who lives in Edmonton. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). Abel’s latest project NISHGA (McClelland & Stewart, 2021) is a deeply personal and autobiographical book that attempts to address the complications of contemporary Indigenous existence and the often invisible intergenerational impact of residential schools. Abel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605388459236-L2SU0TH083PVMXDFUPVY/Joanne+Arnott+author+photo+small.jpg Jurors 2022 - Joanne Arnott is a Metis/mixed-blood poet, editor, essayist, and arts/community organizer originally from Manitoba. She has lived in the Lower Mainland for over three decades. She is a founding member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast, co-editing their anthology, Salish Seas: an anthology of text + image (2011) and other projects. She is mother to six children, all born at home. Her collections of poetry include Wiles of Girlhood (Gerald Lampert Award, 1991), My Grass Cradle (1992), Steepy Mountain Love Poetry (2004), Mother Time: New & Selected (2007), A Night for the Lady (2013) and Halfling Spring (2013). She published a children’s picture book with Mary Anne Barkhouse, Ma MacDonald (1991). Her non-fiction works include Breasting the Waves: On Writing and Healing (1995). In 2017 she received the Vancouver Mayor’s Art Award for the body of her work. Recent publications include a poetry chapbook, Pensive & beyond (2019), and the co-edited volume, Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel (2019). Joanne is Poetry Editor for EVENT Magazine, and Poetry Mentor at The Writers Studio, SFU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605388575975-9D2IGZLZMKB7AVKJ4LGA/Baker.jpg Jurors 2022 - Carleigh Baker is a nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân /Icelandic writer and teacher who lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ilwəta peoples. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals and have been anthologized in Canada and the United States. Her debut story collection, Bad Endings, won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Emerging Indigenous Voices Award for fiction. She was a 2019/20 Shadbolt fellow in the humanities at Simon Fraser University, where she now teaches creative writing. As a writer and researcher, Baker is particularly interested in how contemporary fiction can be used to address the climate crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/410fca85-75bd-49bc-839b-69177abe3db6/Warren+Cariou+Portrait.jpg Jurors 2022 - Warren Cariou Warren Cariou has devoted much of his career to studying the literature, storytelling traditions and environmental politics of Indigenous communities in Canada, especially in Métis, Cree, and Anishinaabe territories. He was inspired to study Indigenous stories by the example of his late father Ray Cariou, a gifted Métis raconteur. He has published works of fiction and memoir as well as critical writing, and he has also created photography and video projects about Indigenous communities in western Canada’s tar sands region. He is a Professor in the department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605558125938-RHV0CCYXBJIKGRFUMNPV/Otoniya.jpg Jurors 2022 - Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek is an Acholi poet who completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia in October 2019 and is now an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University. Her 100 Days (University of Alberta 2016), a book of poetry that reflects on the meaning of memory two decades after the Rwanda genocide, was nominated for several writing prizes including the 2017 B.C. Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards, and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Otoniya’s poem “Migration: Salt Stories” was shortlisted for the 2017 National Magazine Awards for Poetry in Canada. Her poem “Gauntlet” was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and is the title of her most recent work, a chapbook from Nomados Press (2019). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/da456034-5e87-4937-a77d-e95f133758c2/JDKurtness_creditSebLoze.jpeg Jurors 2022 - JD Kurtness Julie Kurtness left her native North to study microbes in Montreal, but eventually branched out into writing and, more recently, computer science. Under her pen name J. D. Kurtness, she published her first novel, De vengeance, with L’instant même in 2017. Critically acclaimed, the book, with its acid humour, tells the story of a sympathetic serial killer. Her second novel, Aquariums (L’instant même, 2019) is a tale of anticipation where humanity is the victim of an unprecedented epidemic. Recent events make her consider writing next about World Peace. Photo by: Seb Lozé https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1541105375445-U72XWDK99R8ZV84904VI/40828142_10155858946753597_5466772036640571392_o.jpg Jurors 2022 - Francis Langevin lives and works in Syilx territory at the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). He has been teaching French and literature in Francophone minority communities since 2010. A specialist in contemporary novels, he is interested in the relationship between style and values, as well as in representations of regionality in today's Quebec and French fiction. On these subjects, 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/0bf60dc1-f0f0-4b38-adb8-9a1b13132235/GH+2018+headshot+1+cropped.jpg Jurors 2022 - Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill is a Cree and Métis artist and writer. Hill’s sculptural practice explores the history of found materials to enquire into concepts of land, property, and economy. Often, her works emerge from a curiosity about how land becomes legal property, and what the vulnerabilities of this relationship are. Hill's work her has 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). Hill lives and works on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/850ca864-8121-4288-bbaf-c7c16b1037b1/Red+Works+Studio_Robinson.jpg Jurors 2022 - Eden Robinson Haisla/Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson’s collection of short stories, Traplines, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and won the BC Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/34447db5-01bd-4300-b77f-19bd61445c0c/INDG+23+Nov-Portrait-Photo+by+1.jpg Jurors 2022 - June Scudeler After completing her PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2016 Metis scholar June Scudeler began a position at Simon Fraser University. In 2022 she will complete her role as co-editor of the journal, Studies in American Indian Literature. Photo: Xinyue Liu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1d6cba00-37b9-489b-b1c0-1bb16c756481/VCGS-028%281%29.jpg Jurors 2022 - Richard Van Camp Richard Van Camp is a proud Tlicho Dene from Fort Smith, NWT. He is the best-selling author of 26 books. His novel, Three Feathers (2015), is now a feature film with First Generation Films and you can watch it on CBC Gems and Amazon. You can visit Richard on Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, YouTube and at www.richardvancamp.com Photo: William Au https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/d159e8ad-292a-4e0b-b2d7-5eec90e5878f/Eldon+main+portrait+by+Xinyue+Liu-For+Web-Sound+House-+Never+Forgotten-Sound+House-+Never+Forgotten-3.jpg Jurors 2022 - Eldon Yellowhorn Dr. Yellowhorn is Piikani and has family and cultural ties to the Peigan Indian Reserve. His Piikani name, Otahkotskina, which translates as Yellow Horn, has been in the family for generations. His early career in archaeology began in southern Alberta where he studied the ancient cultures of the plains. Dr. Yellowhorn is a Professor at Simon Fraser University and the Founding Chair of the Department of Indigenous Studies. https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/jurors-2023-copy daily 0.75 2023-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/e7375d10-7da8-4d06-bf67-4754aea74165/BR+Belcourt+juror+photo+2023.jpeg Jurors 2023 - Billy-Ray Belcourt Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of four books: This Wound is a World, winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, longlisted for Canada Reads in 2020, A History of My Brief Body, a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction and the 2021 Lambda Award for Gay Memoir/Nonfiction, and A Minor Chorus, longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/2c6038d3-75e8-4959-9e3a-e31c7c3147d4/LBW_IMG_1670_GG_4X6.jpeg Jurors 2023 - Lisa Bird-Wilson Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Saskatchewan Métis and Cree writer whose work appears in literary magazines, newspapers, and anthologies across Canada. Her most recent book, Probably Ruby (2021), is published internationally and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, for the Amazon First Novel Award, and won two Saskatchewan Book Awards including Book of the Year. She is chair of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Writers Circle Inc (SAWCI)/ Ânskohk Indigenous Literature Festival. Lisa lives in Saskatoon and is the CEO of the Gabriel Dumont Institute, Canada’s first Métis post-secondary education and cultural institute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/410fca85-75bd-49bc-839b-69177abe3db6/Warren+Cariou+Portrait.jpg Jurors 2023 - Warren Cariou Warren Cariou has devoted much of his career to studying the literature, storytelling traditions and environmental politics of Indigenous communities in Canada, especially in Métis, Cree, and Anishinaabe territories. He was inspired to study Indigenous stories by the example of his late father Ray Cariou, a gifted Métis raconteur. He has published works of fiction and memoir as well as critical writing, and he has also created photography and video projects about Indigenous communities in western Canada’s tar sands region. He is a Professor in the department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/03c28226-6493-4822-8a56-317113fbbb1e/David+Chariandy.jpg Jurors 2023 - David Chariandy David is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. His first novel, entitled Soucouyant, was nominated for eleven literary awards, including the Governor General’s Award. His second novel entitled Brother won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Toronto Book Award, and the Ethel Wilson Book Prize and recently was made into a feature-length film. His latest work is of creative non-fiction entitled I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter. He is a 2019 winner of Yale’s Windham-Campbell Prize for a body of fiction.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605849926240-D9CRBYM2EDZ5HCP2O7PC/Margery+Fee%2C+Co-Applicant_0.jpg Jurors 2023 - Margery Fee PhD (Toronto), FRSC, Professor Emerita of English, UBC, specializes in Canadian, post-colonial and Indigenous literatures and Canadian English. She held the David and Brenda McLean Chair in Canadian Studies (2015-2017) to work on early Indigenous oral and literary production. In 2008, as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence, she worked on racialization and genetics at the UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. She edited the UBC journal Canadian Literature from 2007 to 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1605558125938-RHV0CCYXBJIKGRFUMNPV/Otoniya.jpg Jurors 2023 - Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek is an Acholi poet who completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia in October 2019 and is now an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University. Her 100 Days (University of Alberta 2016), a book of poetry that reflects on the meaning of memory two decades after the Rwanda genocide, was nominated for several writing prizes including the 2017 B.C. Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards, and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Otoniya’s recent book, A is for Acholi, was released in September 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/58029965-93b9-487f-b810-02a9c12b31d1/Dr.+Madeleine+Reddon.jpg Jurors 2023 - Madeleine Reddon Madeleine Reddon is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and an assistant professor at Loyola University of Chicago. Recent publications from Dr. Reddon include “Indigenous Modernism: Dehabituating Reading Practices,” an article in Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, and "Paranormal Encounters: Notes on Indigenous Horror," a chapter in Global Horror: Hybridity and Alterity in Horror Film. Her research interests include global avant-garde and modernist literatures, Indigenous studies, critical nationalisms, and psychoanalysis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/34447db5-01bd-4300-b77f-19bd61445c0c/INDG+23+Nov-Portrait-Photo+by+1.jpg Jurors 2023 - June Scudeler After completing her PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2016 Metis scholar June Scudeler began a position at Simon Fraser University. In 2022 she will complete her role as co-editor of the journal, Studies in American Indian Literature. Photo: Xinyue Liu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/3e884246-af10-47e8-849c-ce8c66f3a3cf/new_niigon_pic.jpg Jurors 2023 - Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair Dr. Niigaanwewidam Sinclair is Acting Department Head of the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba. He is a regular commentator on CBC, CTV, and APTN regarding current Indigenous issues and has helped organize Idle No More Winnipeg events. Besides a creative writer, he has co-edited three award-winning collections: Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories, Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water, and The Winter We Danced: Voices of the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/74f106f2-9127-4029-b294-2b08fbcaf702/Matthew+Tetreault.jpeg Jurors 2023 - Matthew Tétreault Dr. Matthew Tétreault is Métis and French-Canadian from Ste. Anne, Manitoba. He recently completed his PhD on Métis literary history, in the Department of English and Film Studies, at the University of Alberta, where he was selected to receive the Governor General’s Gold Medal for his dissertation and academic record. Matt is also the author of a collection of short stories, What Happened on the Bloodvein (2016). His first novel, Hold Your Tongue, is due out in the spring of 2023 with NeWest Press.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1d6cba00-37b9-489b-b1c0-1bb16c756481/VCGS-028%281%29.jpg Jurors 2023 - Richard Van Camp Richard Van Camp is a proud Tlicho Dene from Fort Smith, NWT. He is the best-selling author of 26 books. His novel, Three Feathers (2015), is now a feature film with First Generation Films and you can watch it on CBC Gems and Amazon. You can visit Richard on Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, YouTube and at www.richardvancamp.com Photo: William Au https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/88e0f3e7-b580-45b6-afc3-b5f983d64ce2/vermette.jpeg Jurors 2023 - Katherena Vermette katherena vermette (she/her/hers) is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation. She has worked in poetry, novels, children’s literature, and film. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, her father’s roots run deep in St. Boniface, St. Norbert and beyond. Her mother’s side is Mennonite from the Altona and Rosenfeld area (Treaty 1). vermette received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs (The Muses’ Company). The Break (House of Anansi) won several awards including the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and was a bestseller in Canada. Her National Film Board documentary, this river won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia. Her second novel, The Strangers (Hammish Hamilton) won the Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Fiction Prize and was named Chapters Indigo’s Book of the Year 2021. It was also longlisted for the Giller Prize. katherena lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/d159e8ad-292a-4e0b-b2d7-5eec90e5878f/Eldon+main+portrait+by+Xinyue+Liu-For+Web-Sound+House-+Never+Forgotten-Sound+House-+Never+Forgotten-3.jpg Jurors 2023 - Eldon Yellowhorn Dr. Yellowhorn is Piikani and has family and cultural ties to the Peigan Indian Reserve. His Piikani name, Otahkotskina, which translates as Yellow Horn, has been in the family for generations. His early career in archaeology began in southern Alberta where he studied the ancient cultures of the plains. Dr. Yellowhorn is a Professor at Simon Fraser University and the Founding Chair of the Department of Indigenous Studies. https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/2023-ivas daily 0.75 2024-05-06 https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/carving-space-the-indigenous-voices-awards-anthology-2023 daily 0.75 2024-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/3003e452-92f5-4ec4-ac54-87a2ada2f9c4/booklaunch+poster+early+draft.jpeg Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology (2023) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1715052796900-TLUZZPPUF5JOZPAIMDBM/2023_Gala_2_WEB.jpg Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology (2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/1715052843709-IJBAY9FO2CZCI21CSAZJ/2023_Gala_4_WEB.jpg Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology (2023) 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She is a writer, textile artist, and library worker 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. Her writing has been published in The Malahat Review, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, among others. Emily Riddle is a dedicated Treaty 6 descendant and a semi-dedicated Edmonton Oilers fan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/c6b4b9f7-71af-4c25-ac9e-bbc8c5748aef/Frances_Koncan.png Jurors 2024 (Copy) - Frances Koncan (she/they) is an Anishinaabe and Slovene playwright currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia, within the shared, unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Originally from Couchiching First Nation, they grew up on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba and attended the University of Manitoba (BA Psychology) and the City University of New York Brooklyn College (MFA Playwriting). They are currently Assistant Professor of Playwriting at the University of British Columbia. Select plays include: Women of the Fur Trade, Space Girl, and zahgidiwin/love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/5c772cd2-0288-44e3-a577-6ce8b20296a8/SMOKII.png Jurors 2024 (Copy) - Smokii Sumac is a Ktunaxa Two-Spirit and Transgender Poet, PhD Candidate, 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. His podcast, The ʔasqanaki Podcast features a range of Indigenous guest musicians and writers including Tenille Campbell and G.R. Gritt. Most recently, he has been working on his first play Seven and One Heart with the National Queer and Trans playwriting unit, and he is proud to be a member of the xaȼqanaǂ ʔitkiniǂ (many ways of working on the same thing) project where he supports conversations around gender and sexual diversity throughout the research process, as the team asks the question qapsin kiʔin ʔakaǂxuniyam? What would a healthy community look like? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/bf9f8e63-17af-47b8-bce5-ce01234c2ee2/SHELAGH.png Jurors 2024 (Copy) - Shelagh Rogers A broadcaster for more than 40 years, Shelagh has worked on programs such as Morningside, The Arts Tonight, This Morning, and most recently The Next Chapter from 2008 to 2023. In 2011, she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada for promoting Canadian culture, for advocacy in mental health, truth and reconciliation, and adult literacy. That same year, she was inducted as an Honorary Witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a role she committed to for the rest of her life. Shelagh returns as a juror for the IVAs, having served in its inaugural year in 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/32376ff5-bd49-42be-b965-f27f0c40f4bc/JORDO.png Jurors 2024 (Copy) - Jordan Abel is a queer Nisga’a writer who lives in Edmonton. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). Abel’s NISHGA, released in 2021, is a deeply personal and autobiographical book that attempts to address the complications of contemporary Indigenous existence and the often invisible intergenerational impact of residential schools. It was awarded the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres award, and was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. His recent book, Empty Spaces was released by McClelland & Stewart in 2023. (Abel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/6b21c1dd-4722-404a-9993-009895185141/Kwahiatonhk-Mayamollen.jpg Jurors 2024 (Copy) - Maya Cousineau Mollen Innue originaire d’Ekuanitshit (Mingan), Maya Cousineau Mollen est adoptée de façon traditionnelle par une famille québécoise choisie par sa mère biologique. Engagée dans son milieu, elle est membre fondatrice de l’Association étudiante autochtone de l’Université Laval. Elle a aussi travaillé pour l’Enquête nationale sur les femmes et les filles autochtones disparues et assassinées et a coprésidé le RÉSEAU pour la stratégie urbaine de la communauté autochtone à Montréal. Petite-fille du célèbre Jack Monoloy, Maya Cousineau Mollen écrit de la poésie depuis l’âge de quatorze ans. En 2007, elle participe à une résidence d’écrivains autochtones en début de carrière à Banff. Elle publie ensuite des textes dans plusieurs revues ainsi que dans les collectifs Languages of Our Land/Langues de notre terre (Banff Centre Press, 2014), Amun (Stanké, 2016), Libérer la culotte (Éditions du remue-ménage, 2021) et Projet TERRE (Éditions David, 2021). En 2021, elle publie aussi un album jeunesse chez Dominique et compagnie, Le Noël des amis de la forêt. Fruit de plusieurs années d’écriture, son premier recueil de poèmes, Bréviaire du matricule 082, paraît en 2019 aux Éditions Hannenorak et sera co-lauréat aux Prix Voix autochtones 2020, catégorie poésie en français. Son second recueil, Enfants du lichen, paraît au printemps 2022 (Éditions Hannenorak) et remporte le Prix Voix Autochtones 2023, catégorie poésie publiée en français, ainsi que le Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général 2022, catégorie Poésie. Calmement enragée, sa poésie chante la féminité autochtone et fait résonner l’identité innue dans le territoire de Montréal/Muliats/Tio’tia:ke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/a7dbd359-09b5-474a-a708-d7dc9a91f636/Francis_Langevin_400x6002.jpeg Jurors 2024 (Copy) - Francis Langevin Francis Langevin (il, lui) est professeur-chercheur non-Autochtone d’origine canadienne-française né à Rouyn-Noranda (QC), municipalité située au sein du Nitakinan, anicinape aki. Il vit désormais à Kelowna (BC), sur les territoires traditionnels, ancestraux, non-cédés de la nation Syilx Okanagan. 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https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/jurors-2025-copy daily 0.75 2025-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/492f88d1-8e12-47f6-981d-b80e7e7c1448/CodyCaetano2024.jpg Jurors 2025 (Copy) - Cody Caetano is a writer and literary agent at CookeMcDermid. He is an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation. His memoir, Half-Bads in White Regalia, won the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Published Prose. Excerpts from the book earned the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Unpublished Prose. He lives in Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/f24d91ab-55d0-4e1f-8bf1-0a53edd39347/IVAs+Camille+Georgeson-Usher.jpg Jurors 2025 (Copy) - Camille Georgeson-Usher is a Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene / Scottish scholar, curator, and writer from Galiano Island, BC and is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Indigenous Art at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. Through her research, she is interested in how peoples move together through space, how public art becomes a site for gathering, and intimacies with the everyday. She uses her practice as a long-distance runner as a methodology for embodied theory and alternative forms of sensing place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/ab31538b-99f5-4496-ab70-8911920f1b84/IVAs+Liz+Howard_author+photo+2023.png Jurors 2025 (Copy) - Liz Howard is a poet, editor, and teacher. Her work explores Anishinaabe ways of knowing, cosmology, ecology, and the liberatory potentials of language as art. Her first collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Her second collection, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, was shortlisted for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Trillium Poetry Prize. She has completed creative writing and Indigenous arts residencies at the University of Toronto, the rare Charitable Research Reserve, University of Winnipeg, McGill University, University of Calgary, UBC Okanagan, Douglas College, Sheridan College, and for The Capilano Review. Her work has been performed and published internationally, and has been translated into French, German, Mandarin, and Spanish. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in Northern Ontario, she is of mixed settler and Anishinaabe heritage (ancestrally connected to Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation, Robinson-Huron). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/9eed5e4f-631c-4f18-9493-195ae683a2f4/Jessica+Johns+photo.jpg Jurors 2025 (Copy) - Jessica Johns is a queer nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was shortlisted for the Amazon first novel award, was a Canada Reads finalist, and won the WGA Fiction Prize, Alex Award, and MacEwan Book of the Year Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/7237cbf1-3492-46f0-8e2a-0c4ac96d42f9/Screenshot+2024-12-29+at+6.48.02%E2%80%AFAM.png Jurors 2025 (Copy) - Conor Kerr is a national award losing and winning Metis/Ukrainian writer and bird hunter living in amiskwaciwaskahikan. Born in Saskatoon, raised in Buffalo Pound Lake and Drayton Valley, he is a member of the Metis Nation of Alberta. His Ukrainian family are settlers on Treaty 4 territory. Conor is the author of the novels Avenue of Champions (2021), Prairie Edge (2024), and the forthcoming Duck Blind (2026). He is also the author of the poetry collections An Explosion of Feathers (2021), Old Gods (2023) and the forthcoming poetic novella Beaver Hills Forever (2025). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/ef751fc6-a5ed-445b-9cd2-28bbb3057a26/Screenshot+2024-12-23+at+7.44.33%E2%80%AFAM.jpg Jurors 2025 (Copy) - Jónína Kirton an Icelandic and Red River Métis poet, was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Treaty 1, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, Dene peoples and the homeland of the Métis. She graduated from the SFU Writer's Studio in 2007 and since that time has published three books with Talonbooks. She was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category. Her second collection of poetry, An Honest Woman, was a finalist in the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her third book, Standing in a River of Time, was released in 2022. It merges poetry and lyrical memoir to take us on a journey exposing the intergenerational effects of colonization on her Métis family. She currently lives in New Westminster BC, the stolen Land of many Coast Salish Nations including the S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Qayqayt, šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Semiahmoo, Kwantlen, sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie), sc̓əwaθenaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsawwassen), Quw’utsun, Stz’uminus and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/932bdfb0-54d9-4982-ba6d-dd7d65054a97/IVAs+Cecily+Nicholson.png Jurors 2025 (Copy) - Cecily Nicholson is the author of four books and past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (2015) and the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry (2018). She is the first honouree of the Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading award from the Poetry in Canada Society (2023) and 2024/2025 Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics at UC Berkeley. Cecily is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/82e40f7a-d95e-437c-9913-732650be27ff/Screenshot+2024-12-23+at+9.07.53%E2%80%AFAM.png Jurors 2025 (Copy) - Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek is an Acholi poet. Her 100 Days (University of Alberta 2016) a book of poetry that reflects on the meaning of memory two decades after the Rwanda genocide, was nominated for several writing prizes including the 2017 BC Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Her poem “Gauntlet” was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and is the title of her most recent work, a chapbook with the same title from Nomados Press (2019). She is an assistant professor of Black Creativity at Queen’s University in Kingston, which occupies the lands of the Anishinaabe and the Haudenosaunee people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/2aac1036-6a2b-4b77-862f-d2d796ae8399/IVAs-logo.jpg Jurors 2025 (Copy) - Stay Tuned for More Information! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/2a254585-5226-42b4-bd27-263f266baaa4/Screenshot+2024-12-20+at+7.30.18%E2%80%AFAM.png Jurors 2025 (Copy) - Le Prix voix autochtones Nous sommes très heureux·ses d’annoncer un changement de leadership dans l’administration des prix pour les catégories francophones. À partir de cette année, c’est Kwahiatonhk!, un organisme à but non lucratif dédié au développement, à la promotion et à la diffusion de la littérature autochtone, avec le soutien de la Chaire de leadership en enseignement sur les littératures autochtones au Québec (Maurice-Lemire) de l’Université Laval, qui assurera l’administration des prix qui seront remis en juin prochain (date à confirmer) lors du festival Kwe!. Nous croyons sincèrement que cette nouvelle collaboration entre les Indigenous Voices Awards, Kwahiatonhk! et Kwe! permettra de mieux soutenir et représenter la communauté littéraire autochtone francophone en consolidant les liens avec le milieu. Les nouvelles modalités et le calendrier des prix seront annoncés lors de l’ouverture du concours en janvier 2025. Demeurez à l’affut en consultant le site web et la page Facebook de Kwahiatonhk!. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af214f8da02bc4a8fbbc96a/c5e60cc3-fcb1-46f6-86b2-6d2a93af48ae/Screenshot+2024-12-20+at+7.32.03%E2%80%AFAM.png Jurors 2025 (Copy) - 2025 Changes in the French Prize The IVAs and Kwahiatonhk! to collaborate on French-language prizes French language Prizes Now open via Kwahiatonhk! and the IVAs/PVAs Visit https://kwahiatonhk.com/pva-concours-2025/ to apply or learn more. New this year, to better support and represent the French-speaking Indigenous literary community, administration of the IVAs French-language prizes will be a collaborative effort between the IVAs and Kwahiatonhk!, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development, promotion and diffusion of Indigenous literature. Administered by Kwahiatonhk! with the support of Université Laval’s Chaire de leadership en enseignement sur les littératures autochtones au Québec (Maurice-Lemire), and a committee composed of Louis-Karl Picard Sioui (Kwahiatonhk!), Marie-Eve Bradette (Chaire de leadership en enseignement sur les littératures autochtones au Québec), and Alec Mahoney (coordinator), the French prizes will be awarded in June during the Kwe! festival. Visit the Kwahiatonhk! website and Facebook page for dates and more information. French language Prizes Now open via Kwahiatonhk! and the IVAs/PVAs This year, there are two French-language prize categories totaling $10,000 in prizes for emerging Indigenous writers: Children's literature ($5,000) General literature ($5,000) Submissions run from January 24, 2025 to March 14, 2025. Visit https://kwahiatonhk.com/pva-concours-2025/ to apply or learn more.