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.

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2009

• Lisa Foad – The Night is a Mouth

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

• Bill Gaston – Gargoyles

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:

• Phlip Arima – Broken Accidents
• Dana Bath – Universal Recipients
• Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer – Way Up

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