ReLit Awards
Short Fiction

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The ReLit Award for Short Fiction is given for a book of short fiction written by a Canadian author living in Canada and published by an independent Canadian literary publisher.

indicates a review is available for that book

2014

  • Christine Miscione – Auxiliary Skins

Also shortlisted:

  • Astrid Blodgett – You Haven't Changed a Bit
  • Cliff Burns – Exceptions & Deceptions
  • Austin Clarke – They Never Told Me
  • Kelli Deeth – The Other Side of Youth
  • Cynthia Flood – Red Girl Rat Boy
  • Bill Haugland – After it Rains
  • Sara Heinonen – Dear Leaves I Miss You
  • Martin Hunter – The Critic and Other Stories
  • Colette Maitland – Keeping the Peace
  • Dana Mills – Someone Somewhere
  • Christine Miscione – Auxiliary Skins
  • Leanne Simpson – Islands of Decolonial Love
  • Andrew F. Sullivan – All We Want is Everything
  • Peter Unwin – Life Without Death

2013

  • Ian Rogers – Every House is Haunted

Also shortlisted:

  • Wade Bell – Tracie's Revenge & Other Stories
  • Domenico Capilongo – Subtitles
  • Trevor Clark – Escape and Other Stories
  • Elisabeth De Mariaffi – How to Get Along with Women
  • Alex Leslie – People Who Disappear
  • Sean Virgo – Dibidalen
  • Donald Ward – The Weeping Chair
  • Julie Wilson – Seen Reading

2012

  • Greg Kearney – Pretty

Also shortlisted:

  • Carolyn Black – The Odious Child
  • Daniel Griffin – Stopping for Strangers
  • Jesus Hardwell – Easy Living
  • Matthew Firth – Shag Carpet Action
  • Mike Spry – Distillery Songs

2011

  • Tony Burgess – Ravenna Gets

Also shortlisted:

  • Jenn Farrell – The Devil You Know
  • Anne Perdue – I'm a Registered Nurse Not a Whore
  • Teri Vlassopoulos – Bats or Swallows
  • Jonathan Papernick – There is No Other
  • Darryl Joel Berger – Punishing Ugly Children
  • Michelle Berry – I Still Don't Even Know You
  • Ivan E. Coyote – Missed Her
  • Brian Joseph Davis – Ronald Reagan, My Father

2010

Also shortlisted:

  • David Derry – Sentimental Exorcisms
  • Amy Jones – What Boys Like
  • Matt Lennox – Men of Salt, Men of Earth
  • Steven Mayoff – Fatted Calf Blues
  • Ryan Turner – What We're Made Of
  • Richard Van Camp – The Moon of Letting Go

2009

Also shortlisted:

  • Arjun Basu – Squishy
  • Ian Colford – Evidence
  • Mark Anthony Jarman – My White Planet
  • Don McLellan – In the Quiet After Slaughter
  • Pamela Stewart – Elysium
  • Betsy Trumpener – The Butcher of Penetang

2008

  • Roberta Rees – Long After Fathers

Also shortlisted:

  • Salvatore Difalco – Black Rabbit
  • Elyse Friedman – Long Story Short
  • Liane Keightley – Seven Openings of the Head
  • Dave Margoshes – Bix's Trumpet
  • Christian McPherson – Six Ways to Sunday
  • P.K. Page – Up on the Roof

2007

Also shortlisted:

  • Ryan Arnold – The Coward Files
  • Krista Bridge – The Virgin Spy
  • Tim Conley – Whatever Happens
  • Sharon English – Zero Gravity
  • Nathan Sellyn – Indigenous Beasts
  • Damian Tarnopolsky – Lanzmann and Other Stories
  • Russell Wangersky – The Hour of Bad Decisions
  • Cathleen With – Skids

2006

  • Barry Webster – The Sound of All Flesh

Also shortlisted:

  • Ami Sands Brodoff – Bloodknots
  • Goran Simic – Yesterday's People
  • Keath Fraser – 13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger

2005

  • James Grainger – The Long Slide

Also shortlisted:

  • Lance Blomgren – Corner Pieces
  • Corey Frost – The Worthwhile Flux
  • James Marshall – Let's Not Let a Little Thing Like the End of the World Come Between Us

2004

  • Tony Burgess – Fiction for Lovers

Also shortlisted:

2003

  • Sean Johnston – A Day Does Not Go By

Also shortlisted:

  • Emily Schultz – Black Coffee Night
  • Richard Cumyn – The Obstacle Course
  • Corey Frost – My Own Devices

2001

  • Mark Anthony Jarman – 19 Knives