2007 SHORTLISTS

2006 / 2007

Creative Nonfiction

(List of the 2007 nominees in alphabetical order)
A Brief Guide to Human Ephemera by Kim Trainor (Vancouver, BC)
Abe Zamzam by Muhammad Zahir (Victoria, BC)
Bakvaas (nonsense): A Memoir by Rahat Kurd (Vancouver, BC)
Bazuk by Linda Rogers (Victoria, BC)
Blue Velvet by NJ Brown (Linfoot) (Edmonton, AB)
Childhood Memories of Nicotine and Revolution by Kiaras Gharabaghi (Bracebridge, ON)
Curriculum of a Western Landscape by Leona Theis (Saskatoon, SK)
Hard Wages by Stephen Hunt (Battersea, ON)
How the North was Won by Barry French (Souris, MB)
In a Garden by Shelagh Plunkett (Montreal, QC)
Last Son of the First Men by Larry Frolick (Niagara on the Lake, ON)
Listen and I Tell You Something by Laurie Block (Brandon, MB)
My Cold War by Terri Favro (Toronto, ON)
My Love Affair with Cancer by Ken Dafoe (Cambridge, ON)
Scoped by Raymond Lewans (Victoria, BC)
The Dress (A Memoir) by Marie-Lynn Hammond (Stouffville, ON)
The Jam Session by Alex Hutchinson (Toronto, ON)
The Man on the Train by Jamella Hagen (Vancouver, BC)
Uninvited Guests by Judy Fong Bates (Campbellford, ON)
Vidh by Phyllis Nakonechny (Swift Current, SK)
What I Know About the Production of Bubblegum by Maria Cichosz (Toronto, ON)

Poetry

(List of the 2007 nominees in alphabetical order of title)
Aperture by Claire Sharpe (Toronto, ON)
Catching a Snare Drum at the Fraser's Mouth by Harold Rhenisch (Campbell River, BC)
Dear Love by Barry Dempster (Holland Landing, ON)
Emilie Explains Newton to Voltaire by Sonja Greckol (Toronto, ON)
Floating Life by Moez Surani (Thornhill, ON)
Freshet by Marion Quednau (Mission, BC)
Gravelly Bay by Cornelia Hoogland (London, ON)
Half-life by Jim Johnstone (Toronto, ON)
Hear is My Voice by Sarah Snowdon (Halifax, NS)
Last Angels by Jeff Bien (Kemptville, ON)
Life in the Canopy by Bruce Rice (Regina, SK)
Liner Notes by Jennica Harper (Vancouver, BC)
Litany on the Line: A Poem in Three Movements by Pamela Mordecai (Toronto, ON)
My Brother at Three A.M. by Lee Danielle Hubbard (Victoria, BC)
Obsession: A Fairytale by Una McDonnell (Chelsea, QC)
Paseo de los Tristes: Andalusian Poems by Maureen Hynes (Toronto, ON)
Seams by Claire Battershill (Toronto, ON)
Seasons by Jenny MacDougall (Halifax, NS)
Song of a Flower in Bloom by Jeff Bien (Kemptville, ON)
Speaking in Tongues by Kristina Bresnen (London, ON)
Standing at the Window by Tracy Hamon (Regina, SK
Sundress, Fortress by Jeramy Dodds (Orono, ON)
The Blue Notebook by Shelley Ann Leedahl (Middle Lake, SK)
The Dolor of the Blue Leopard by Canaan Chu (Toronto, ON)
The Genesis Poems by Yvonne Blomer (Victoria, BC)
The Life of William James by Kate Cayley (Toronto, ON)
Trash: a Collection of Voices by David Halliday (Toronto, ON)
Tropic Tales by Heather Cardin (Gatineau, QC)
Two Houses by E. Alex Pierce (Sydney, NS)
Worlds Unite! by Dwight Kostjuk (Ottawa, ON)

Short Story

(List of the 2007 nominees in alphabetical order of title)
A Point in the Battle by Linda Ilene Solomon (Vancouver, BC)
All the Pretty Girls by Chandra Mayor (Winnipeg, MB)
An Exhalation of Larks by Patricia Pang (Victoria, BC)
Boom deaf, Bitumen blind by Marce Merrell (Edmonton, ON)
Death in the Summer of Love by Terri Favro (Toronto, ON)
Deception by Cáit Coogan (Coquitlam, BC)
Dirty Bird by Keir Lowther (Halifax, NS)
Fifteen Pounds of Steak by James Sandham (Toronto, ON)
Grace by Judy Winter (Kimberley, BC)
Gutted by Matthew J. Trafford (Toronto, ON)
Hands Like Birds by Laura Trunkey (Victoria, BC)
Home Again by Jennifer Arnold (Toronto, ON)
Lost in Lavender by Donna Sales (Calgary, AB)
Mother, Daughter by Loretta Seto (Vancouver, BC)
Night Flight by Diane Schoemperlen (Kingston, ON)
Pictures of Horses by Eric Arnold (Dallas TX, USA)
Preservation by Alex Leslie (Richmond, BC)
Salsa Madre by Alice Petersen (Montreal, QC)
Some of This is True by Janette Platana (Peterborough, ON)
Take Love by Allison Calvern (Fredericton, NB)
The End of the Last Ice Age by Elizabeth Peirce (Halifax, NS)
The Recipe Booklet by C. L. Walinga (Toronto, ON)
The Tent Trailer by William Thompson (Edmonton, AB)
The Trouble with Allan by Brian Hilton (Vancouver, BC)
The Volkswagen Mechanic by Don Morberg (Calgary, AB)
This Juliet by Mary Elizabeth Doyle (Drumheller, AB)
Thy Chosen Music by Amber Thody (Rotorua, 3015)
White by Lee Kvern (Okotoks, AB)
You Guys by Damian Tarnopolsky (Toronto, ON)