Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Awarded for	Canadian short fiction collections
Country	Canada
Presented by	Writers' Union of Canada
First awarded	1998

The Danuta Gleed Literary Award is a Canadian national literary prize, awarded since 1998. It recognizes the best debut short fiction collection by a Canadian author in English language.^[1] The annual prize was founded by John Gleed in honour of his late wife, the Canadian writer Danuta Gleed, whose favourite literary genre was short fiction, and is presented by The Writers' Union of Canada. The incomes of her One for the Chosen, a collection of short stories published posthumously in 1997 by BuschekBooks and released by Frances Itani and Susan Zettell, assist in funding the award.^[1]

Initially Can$5,000, the prize money increased to Can$10,000 in 2004.^[2] The runners-up each receive Can$500.^[1] The nominations must be submitted before the end of January.^[3] The year's shortlist is chosen by a jury.^[4] The varying jury is composed of Canadian writers, literary critics and publishers, such as Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Robin McGrath and Hal Niedzviecki in 2012 or Douglas Glover, J. Jill Robinson and Claire Holden Rothman in 2011.^[5]

The first winning work was Curtis Gillespie's The Progress of an Object in Motion.

In 2010, Joey Comeau's Overqualified was withdrawn, as the writer already published a debut work. Only two books were shortlisted in 2010 (the fewest in the history of the award). However, the 2010 judges called the winning work Wax Boats by Sarah Roberts "truly remarkable," speaking of her versatility and her convincing writing in every conceivable voice, and likening her to Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town for the modern age.

Winners and nominees

Key
Color	Meaning
	Winners
	Runners-up
	Other short-listed people

Year Awarded	Author(s)	Book	Publisher	Ref.
1998	Curtis Gillespie	The Progress of an Object in Motion	Coteau Books	^[6]
	Joanne Gerber	In the Misleading Absence of Light	Coteau Books
	Janina Hornosty	Snackers	Oolichan Books
	Shree Ghatage	Awake When All the World is Asleep	House of Anansi Press
	David Manicom	Ice in Dark Water	Véhicule Press
1999	Dennis Bock	Olympia	Bloomsbury USA	^[7]
	Judith Kalman	The County of Birches	Douglas & McIntyre	^[8]
	Murray Logan	The King of Siam	The Porcupine's Quill	^[8]
	Anne Fleming	Pool-Hopping and Other Stories	Polestar
	Nora Gold	Marrow and Other Stories	Warwick Publishing
	Sally Ito	Floating the Shore	The Mercury Press
2000	Mike Barnes	Aquarium	The Porcupine's Quill	^[9]
	Elyse Gasco	Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby?	Picador	^[10]
	Russell Smith	Young Men	Anchor Canada	^[10]
	Zsuzsi Gartner	All the Anxious Girls on Earth	Patrick Crean Editions
	Maureen Hull	Righteous Living	Turnstone Press
	Alissa York	Any Given Power	Arbeiter Ring Publishing
2001	Barbara Lambert	A Message for Mr. Lazarus	Cormorant Books	^[11]
	Ivan E. Coyote	Close to Spiderman	Arsenal Pulp Press	^[12]
	Terence Young	Rhymes with Useless	Raincoast Books	^[12]
	Alexandra Leggat	Pull Gently, Tear Here	Insomniac Press	^[12]
	Annabel Lyon	Oxygen	McClelland & Stewart	^[12]
2002	Gloria Sawai	A Song for Nettie Johnson	Coteau Books	^[13]
	Rick Maddocks	Sputnik Diner	Knopf Canada
	Madeleine Thien	Simple Recipes	Little Brown & Company
	Aislinn Hunter	What's Left Us	Polestar Book Publishers
	Nadine McInnes	Quicksilver	Raincoast Books
	Adam Lewis Schroeder	Kingdom of Monkeys	Raincoast Books
2003	Lee Henderson	The Broken Record Technique	Penguin Canada	^[14]
	Timothy Taylor	Silent Cruise	Counterpoint	^[15]
	Nancy Lee	Dead Girls	McClelland & Stewart	^[15]
	Tamas Dobozy	When X Equals Marylou	Arsenal Pulp Press	^[16]
	Shaena Lambert	The Falling Woman	Vintage Canada
	Emily Schultz	Black Coffee Night	Insomniac Press
2004	Jacqueline Baker	A Hard Witching & Other Stories	Harper Flamingo Canada	^[1]
	Jonathan Bennett	Veranda People	Raincoast Books	^[1]
	Susan Rendell	In the Chambers of the Sea	Killick Press
	Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer	Way Up: Stories	Goose Lane Editions
	Cory Doctorow	A Place So Foreign and 8 More	Four Walls Eight Windows	^[1]
	Melanie Little	Confidence: Stories	Thomas Allen Publishers	^[1]
2005	David Bezmozgis	Natasha and Other Stories	Harper Flamingo Canada	^[1]
	Ramona Dearing	So Beautiful	The Porcupine's Quill	^[1]
	Kelly Cooper	Eyehill	Goose Lane Editions	^[1]
	Caroline Shepard	Off Centre	Oberon Press	^[1]
	Carrie Snyder	Hair Hat	Penguin Canada	^[1]
2006	Charlotte Gill	Ladykiller	Thomas Allen Publishers	^[1]
	Craig Davidson	Rust and Bone	Viking Canada	^[1]
	Jacqueline Honnet	Limbo	Turnstone Press	^[1]
	Goran Simic	Yesterday's People	Biblioasis	^[1]
	Vivette Kady	Most Wanted	The Porcupine's Quill	^[1]
2007	Nathan Sellyn	Indigenous Beasts	Raincoast Books	^[1]
	Vincent Lam	Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures	Doubleday	^[1]
	Russell Wangersky	The Hour of Bad Decisions	Coteau Books	^[1]
	Anar Ali	Baby Khaki's Wings	Penguin Canada	^[1]
	Krista Bridge	The Virgin Spy	Douglas & McIntyre	^[1]
2008	Andrew Hood	Pardon Our Monsters	Esplanade Books	^[1]
	Roberta Rees	Long After Fathers	Coteau Books	^[1]
	Valeria Stetson	The Year I Got Impatient	Oolichan Books	^[1]
	Liane Keightley	Seven Openings of the Head	Conundrum Press	^[1]
	Tom Wayman	Boundary Country	Thistledown Press	^[1]
2009	Pasha Malla	The Withdrawal Method	House of Anansi Press	^[1]
	Ian Colford	Halifax for Evidence	The Porcupine's Quill	^[1]
	Rebecca Rosenblum	Once	Biblioasis	^[1]
	Ahmad Saidullah	Happiness and other Disorders	Key Porter Books	^[1]
	Betsy Trumpener	The Butcher of Penetang	Caitlin Press	^[1]
2010	Sarah Roberts	Wax Boats	Caitlin Press	^[1]
	Deborah Willis	Vanishing and Other Stories	Penguin Canada	^[1]
	Joey Comeau	Overqualified (withdrawn)¹	ECW Press	^[1]
2011	Billie Livingston	Greedy Little Eyes^[17]	Vintage Canada	^[1]
	Darcie Friesen Hossack	Mennonites Don't Dance	Thistledown Press	^[1]
	Alexander MacLeod	Light Lifting	Biblioasis	^[1]
	R. W. Gray	Crisp	NeWest Press	^[1]
	Teri Vlassopoulos	Bats or Swallows	Invisible Publishing	^[1]
2012	Ian Williams	Not Anyone's Anything^[18]^[19]^[20]	Freehand Books	^[1]
	Jessica Westhead	And Also Sharks	Cormorant Books	^[1]
	Daniel Griffin	Stopping for Strangers	Véhicule Press	^[1]
	Andrew J. Borkowski	Copernicus Avenue	Cormorant Books	^[1]
	Johanna Skibsrud	This Will Be Difficult to Explain	Hamish Hamilton Canada	^[1]
2013	Rebecca Lee	Bobcat and other stories	Hamish Hamilton	^[1]
	Anton Piatigorsky	The Iron Bridge	Goose Lane Editions	^[1]
	John Vigna	Bull Head	Arsenal Pulp Press	^[1]
	Paul Marlowe	Ether Frolics	Sybertooth	^[1]
	Yasuko Thanh	Floating Like the Dead	McClelland & Stewart	^[1]
2014	Paul Carlucci	The Secret Life of Fission	Oberon Press
	Astrid Blodgett	You Haven't Changed a Bit	University of Alberta Press
	Eufemia Fantetti	A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love	Mother Tongue Publishing
	Theodora Armstrong	Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility	House of Anansi
	Lisa Bird-Wilson	Just Pretending	Coteau Books
2015	Rivka Galchen	American Innovations	HarperCollins
	Eliza Robertson	Wallflowers	Hamish Hamilton
	Mireille Silcoff	Chez l'Arabe	House of Anansi
	Claire Battershill	Circus	McClelland and Stewart
	Janine Alyson Young	Hideout Hotel	Caitlin Press
2016	Heather O'Neill	Daydreams of Angels	HarperCollins	^[21]
	Andrew Forbes	What You Need	Invisible Publishing	^[21]
	Kevin Hardcastle	Debris	Biblioasis	^[21]
	Gerard Beirne	In a Time of Drought and Hunger	Oberon Press	^[22]
	Hugh Graham	Last Words	Exile Editions	^[22]
2017	Kris Bertin	Bad Things Happen	Biblioasis	^[23]
	Kerry Lee Powell	Willem deKooning's Paintbrush	HarperCollins	^[23]
	Laura Trunkey	Double Dutch	Astoria	^[23]
	Lyse Champagne	The Light That Remains	Enfield & Wizenty	^[23]
	André Narbonne	Twelve Miles to Midnight	Black Moss Press	^[23]
2018	Norma Dunning	Annie Muktuk and Other Stories	University of Alberta Press
	Dawn Dumont	Glass Beads	Thistledown Press	^[24]
	David Huebert	Peninsula Sinking	Biblioasis	^[24]
	Camilla Grudova	The Doll's Alphabet	Coach House Books	^[24]
	Lori McNulty	Life on Mars	Goose Lane Editions	^[24]
2019	Carrianne Leung	That Time I Loved You	HarperCollins	^[25]
	Paige Cooper	Zolitude	Biblioasis	^[25]
	Erin Frances Fisher	That Tiny Life	House of Anansi	^[25]
	Djamila Ibrahim	Things Are Good Now	House of Anansi	^[26]
	Marianne Micros	Eye	Guernica Editions	^[26]
2020	Zalika Reid-Benta	Frying Plantain	Astoria	^[27]
	Christy Ann Conlin	Watermark	Astoria	^[27]
	Terry Doyle	Dig	Breakwater Books	^[27]
	Darci Bysouth	Lost Boys	Thistledown Press	^[28]
	Kat Cameron	The Eater of Dreams	Thistledown Press	^[28]
2021	Jack Wang	We Two Alone	Astoria	^[29]
	Kaie Kellough	Dominoes at the Crossroads	Esplanade Books	^[29]
	Souvankham Thammavongsa	How to Pronounce Knife	McClelland & Stewart	^[29]
	Frances Boyle	Seeking Shade	The Porcupine's Quill	^[29]
	Sidura Ludwig	You Are Not What We Expected	Astoria	^[29]
2022	Arnolda Dufour Bowes	20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis	Gabriel Dumont Institute Press	^[30]
	Silmy Abdullah	Home of the Floating Lily	Dundurn Press	^[30]
	Gillian Wigmore	Night Watch: The Vet Suite	Invisible Publishing	^[30]
	Helen Chau Bradley	Personal Attention Roleplay	Metonymy Press	^[31]
	Meg Todd	Exit Strategies	Signature Editions	^[31]
2023	Kim Fu	Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century	Coach House Books	^[32]
	Nada Alic	Bad Thoughts	Vintage Books	^[32]
	Saeed Teebi	Her First Palestinian	House of Anansi Press	^[32]
	Kathy Friedman	All the Shining People	House of Anansi Press	^[33]
	Rawi Hage	Stray Dogs	Knopf Canada	^[33]

1.^ Comeau's Overqualified was withdrawn as it was not his debut short fiction collection. He already self-published It’s Too Late to Say I’m Sorry in 2007.^[34]

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