ReLit winners announced

Date: July 22, 2007 | Discussion: 2 Comments

The 2007 ReLit Awards winners have been announced. Founded in 2000 as an alternative to the major literary prizes, ReLit awards the best new fiction, short fiction and poetry published by independent Canadian publishers.

This year’s winners are:

NOVEL: Bow Grip
by Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote is one of North America’s most beguiling storytellers and the author of three story collections, including Loose End, which was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction in 2006. Bow Grip, Coyote’s first novel, is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness; in it, a good-hearted, small-town mechanic struggles to deal with a wife who has left him for another woman until a used cello and an acquaintance’s suicide attempt compel him to make some changes in his life. With quiet authority, Bow Grip is about one man’s true rite of passage-trying to keep the ghosts of personal history at bay with a heart that’s as big as the endless prairie sky. (Book description)

You can read more about Bow Grip at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca.

SHORT FICTION: Gargoyles
by Bill Gaston

In this extraordinary new work, Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the “gargoyle” — the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. In Gaston’s marvelous, riotous, Rabelaisian world, Gargoyles are physical manifestations of the disfigurements and contortions to which we human beings subject ourselves. Indeed, as Gaston wrote each story, he sketched out a distinct gargoyle to look down over it. For that reason, each story in this collection has a strange and unique guardian spirit whose sometimes benevolent, and sometimes malevolent, presence informs the characters and their actions. Gargoyles shows one of our best writers at the top of his form. (Book description)

You can read more about Gargoyles at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca.

POETRY: Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method
by Daniel Scott Tysdal

An energetic, funny, and experimental first poetry manuscript which takes emotional as well as formal risks. (Book description)

You can read more about Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca.

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