2023 QWF Literary Awards Shortlists
The Quebec Writers’ Federation has announced the shortlists for the six book prizes of the 25th QWF Literary Awards: the Concordia University First Book Prize, the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation, and the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.
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Halal Sex
The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America
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The House You Were Born In
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Valley of the Birdtail
An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
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End Times
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Captain Skidmark Dances with Destiny
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A Boy Is Not a Ghost
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The New Masculinity
A Roadmap for a 21st-Century Definition of Manhood
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The North Star
Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln
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The Long Road Home
On Blackness and Belonging
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Dream Rooms
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Slows: Twice
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Wet Dream
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To See Out the Night
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This is How I Disappear
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Made-Up
A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism
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Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution
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Fayne
A Novel
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Do You Remember Being Born?
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