ReLit Awards
Short Fiction

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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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
- Stuart Ross – Buying Cigarettes for the Dog
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
- 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
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