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Indigenous Voices Awards

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The Indigenous Voices Awards are a Canadian literary award program, created in 2017 to honour Indigenous literatures in Canada.[1] It is administered by the Indigenous Literary Studies Association,[1] a non-profit organization that promotes the production, study and teaching of Indigenous literatures.[2]

The awards grew out of a 2017 controversy, when a group of Canadian writers were criticized for campaigning on Twitter in favour of a prize supporting cultural appropriation.[3] In response, Toronto lawyer Robin Parker launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a new prize for First Nations, Métis and Inuit writers in Canada. The crowdfunding campaign was set with a goal of $10,000, but ultimately attracted over $140,000 in donations.[1]

The awards honour both published and unpublished work by Indigenous writers in Indigenous languages, English and French.[4] The first winners were announced in May 2018.[5] On National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21, 2022, IVA announced that an anthology of selected works by the finalists will be published by Penguin Random House Canada in 2023 to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the award.[4]

Recipients

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Indigenous Voices Awards winners
Year Category Author Title Award
2018 Alternative Format Mich Cota Musical Selections Winner
Mika Lafond Nipê Wânîn Winner
Keith Barker This is How We Got Here Finalist
Cliff Cardinal Huff & Stitch Finalist
English Poetry Billy-Ray Belcourt This Wound Is a World Winner
Tenille K. Campbell #IndianLovePoems Finalist
Joshua Whitehead Full-Metal Indigiqueer Finalist
English Prose Aviaq Johnston Those Who Run in the Sky Winner
Carleigh Baker Bad Endings Finalist
Dawn Dumont Glass Beads Finalist
Joanne Robertson The Water Walker Finalist
French Prose J. D. Kurtness De Vengeance Winner
Naomi Fontaine Manikanetish Finalist
Unpublished English Poetry Smokii Sumac #haikuaday and other poems Winner
David Agecoutay Poetic Selections Finalist
Brandi Bird Two Poems Finalist
Francine Merasty Poetry of a Northern Rez Girl Finalist
Unpublished French Poetry Marie-Andrée Gill Uashteu Winner
Unpublished Prose Elaine McArthur Queen Bee Winner
Treena Chambers Hair Raizing Finalist
Nazbah Tom The Hand Trembler Finalist
Amanda Peters Pejipug (Winter Arrives) Finalist
2019[6] Alternative Format Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan Surviving the City Winner
Kìzis Wàsakozi Finalist
English Poetry Smokii Sumac You are Enough: Love Poems for the End of the World Winner
Wanda John-Kehewin Seven Sacred Truths Finalist
Jules Arita Koostachin Unearthing of Secrets, Gathering of Truths Finalist
English Prose Tanya Tagaq Split Tooth Winner
Lindsay Nixon nîtisânak Finalist
Joshua Whitehead Jonny Appleseed Finalist
French Prose Joséphine Bacon Uiesh, Quelque Part Winner
Pierrot Ross-Tremblay Nipimanitu – L’esprit de l’eau Winner
Indigenous Language Francine Merasty Iskotew Iskwew Winner
Unpublished English Poetry Elaine McArthur Brush of a Bustle Winner
Autumn Schnell FemmNDN Commandments Finalist
Craig Commanda My Ghosts Roam this Land and other poems Finalist
Unpublished English Prose Francine Cunningham Teenage Asylums Winner
Blair Yoxall Little Bull Finalist
Brittany Johnson Transit Finalist
2020[7] Alternative Format Elaine McArthur Elizabeth Dances Pow-wow Winner
Phyllis Webstad Phyllis’s Orange Shirt Finalist
English Poetry Michelle Sylliboy Kiskajeyi—I am Ready Winner
Arielle Twist Disintegrate / Dissociate Winner
Brandi Bird I Am Still Too Much Finalist
Francine Cunningham On/Me Finalist
English Prose Jesse Thistle From the Ashes Winner
Helen Knott In My Own Moccasins Finalist
Kaitlyn Purcell ʔbédayine Finalist
French Poetry Maya Cousineau Mollen Bréviaire du matricule 082 Winner
Marie-Andrée Gill Chauffer le dehors Winner
French Prose Naomi Fontaine Shuni — Ce que tu dois savoir, Julie Winner
J. D. Kurtness Aquariums Finalist
Indigenous Language Rene Meshake Injichaag: My Soul in Story Winner
Cole Pauls Dakwäkãda Warriors Winner
Unpublished Poetry in English Keely Shirt Two Little Foxes, Buttertown Beach, and I Will Never Be Happier Winner
David Agecoutay Willow A Quartet Finalist
Corri Daniels A Memory of Mary Finalist
Unpublished Prose in English Cody Caetano Half-Bads in White Regalia Winner
Treena Chambers Forest Fires and Falling Stars Finalist
Steven Hall Gatzi Naka Finalist
2021 English Prose Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler Ghost Lake Winner
Jenn Ashton People Like Frank Finalist
Michelle Good Five Little Indians Finalist
Michael Hutchinson The Case of the Missing Auntie Finalist
Katłįà Land-Water-Sky Ndè-Tı-Yat’a Finalist
English Creative Nonfiction and Life-Writing Bevann Fox Genocidal Love Winner
Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane Powwow: A Celebration through Song and Dance  Finalist
Michelle Porter Approaching Fire Finalist
English Poetry jaye simpson it was never going to be okay Winner
Norma Dunning Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity Finalist
shalan joudry Waking Ground   Finalist
Tyler Pennock Bones Finalist
French Poetry Shayne Michael Fif et sauvage Winner
Félix Perkins Boiteur des bois Finalist
French Prose Émilie Monnet Okinum Winner
Jocelyn Sioui Mononk Jules Finalist
Graphic Novels, Comics, and Illustrated Books Brianna Jonnie with Nahanni Shingoose, Neal Shannacappo (illus.) If I Go Missing Winner
Lisa Boivin I Will See You Again Finalist
Tasha Spillett, with Natasha Donovan (illus.) From the Roots Up: Surviving the City Vol. 2 Finalist
Indigenous Language Zacharias Kunuk with Megan Kyak-Monteith (illus.) The Shaman's Apprentice: Inuktitut Winner
Unpublished Poetry in English Samantha Martin-Bird the indian (adultery) act & other poems Winner
Brandi Bird Ode to Diabetes Finalist
Erica Violet Lee A Manifesto for the Morning and Forever After Finalist
Shaya MacDonald She Said to Me Finalist
Unpublished Prose in English Amanda Peters Waiting for the Long Night Moon Winner
Troy Sebastian The Mission Finalist
Deanna M. Jacobson Hockey and Hot Chocolate Finalist
2022 English Prose Brian Thomas Isaac All the Quiet Places Winner
Sheryl Doherty Finding Izzy Finalist
English Poetry Selina Boan Undoing Hours Winner
Tenille K. Campbell nedí nezų Finalist
Dallas Hunt Creeland Finalist
Diana Hope Tegenkamp Girl running Finalist
French Language Édouard Itual Germain Ni kistisin / Je me souviens Winner
Andrée Levesque Sioui Chant(s) Finalist
Daniel Sioui Indien stoïque Finalist
Graphic Novels, Comics, and Illustrated Books Aimée Craft Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow Winner
Lisa Boivin We Dream Medicine Dreams Finalist
Teoni Spathelfer with Natassia Davies (illus.) White Raven Finalist
Indigenous Language Brittany Luby with Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley (illus.) and Alvin Ted Corbiere (trans.) and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know Winner
Jodie Callaghan, with Georgia Lesley (illus.) and Joe Wilmot (trans.) Ga’s / The Train Finalist
Sharon King Amik Finalist
Unpublished Prose in English Leslie Butt Tanked Winner
David Agecoutay It’s For the Best Finalist
Jenn Ashton Hail Mary, Mother of Pearl Finalist
Bianca Martin Paqt’sm / I Was Born with the Spirit of the Wolf Finalist
Unpublished Poetry in English Meghan Eaker mistahi maskikiy Winner
Brandi Bird A Dawn Finalist
Jacqueline Gibbon tante ohci kiya / Displaced Métis Iskwew Finalist
Samantha Martin-Bird Poems for White Men Finalist
2023 English Prose Cody Caetano Half-Bads in White Regalia Winner
Francine Cunningham God Isn't Here Today Finalist
Frances Koncan Women of the Fur Trade
Kim Spencer Weird Rules to Follow
Chelsea Vowel Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
Joshua Whitehead Making Love with the Land
French Prose Carole Labarre L'Or des mélèzes Winner
J. D. Kurtness Bienvenue Finalist
Jocelyn Sioui Frétillant et agile
English Poetry Emily Riddle The Big Melt Winners
Matthew James Weigel Whitemud Walking
Justene Dion-Glowa Trailer Park Shakes Finalist
Ashley Qilavaq-Savard Where the Sea Kuniks the Land
Délani Valin Shapeshifters
French Poetry Maya Cousineau Mollen Enfants du lichen Winner
Rita Mestokosho Atik u utei Finalist
Indigenous Language Solomon Awa Animals Illustrated: Narwhal Winner
George Paul, Loretta Gould, Barbara Sylliboy The Honour Song Finalist
Unpublished prose in English David Agecoutay "Frank" Winner
Brandi Bird "Home" Finalist
Kerissa Dickie "Seh Woo – My Teeth"
Henry Heavyshield "Settler Birds and Social NDNs in the City"
Scarlet Scott "In the Morning"
Unpublished poetry in English Cooper Skjeie "Scattered Oblations" Winner
Leah Baptiste "Rez Girls Are Forever" Finalist
Kelsey Borgford "Once the Smudge Is Lit"
Kaitlyn Purcell "A Child Called Dream"
Graphic novels Samantha Beynon, Lucy Trimble Oolichan Moon Winner
Raeann Brown Bedtime in Nunatsiavut Finalist
Babah Kalluk Niitu and Chips
Cole Pauls Kwändǖr
Willie Poll with Chief Lady Bird Together We Drum, Our Hearts Beat as One
2024 English Prose Alicia Elliott And Then She Fell Winner
Caleigh Crow There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow Finalist
Michelle Good Truth Telling
Peggy Janicki The Secret Pocket
Tiffany Morris Green Fuse Burning
Angela Sterritt Unbroken
English Poetry Brandi Bird The All + Flesh Winner
Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber The Star Poems Finalist
Jamesie Fournier Elements
Cara-Lyn Morgan Building a Nest from the Bones of My People
French Prose J. D. Kurtness La vallée de l’étrange Winner
Georges Pisimopeo Piisim Napeu
Moira-Uashteskun Bacon Envole-toi, Mikun Finalist
French Poetry/Drama Soleil Launière Nipinapunan Winner
Alexis Vollant Akuteu
Émilie Monnet Marguerite, le feu Finalist
Unpublished Prose Dennis Allen Kristopher with a K Winner
Jenn Ashton Hungry
Henry Heavyshield Our Rez Anomaly
Kaitlyn Purcell łuk'é náte
Unpublished Poetry Leah Baptiste Coming of Age Winner
Hannah Big Canoe Nanabush Trails and Four Others
sakâw laboucan styrofoam love
Jordan Redekop-Jones On the Threshold, I Taste Lightning

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "New literary prize for Indigenous writers to offer $25K in awards". CBC News, October 19, 2017.
  2. ^ "ILSA". Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  3. ^ "Crowdfunded Indigenous Voices Awards formally launches, with focus on emerging talent". Quill & Quire, October 30, 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Recipients announced for the fifth annual Indigenous Voices Awards". Indigenous Voices Awards. June 21, 2022. Archived from the original on June 22, 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
  5. ^ "Billy-Ray Belcourt, Aviaq Johnston among winners of 2018 Indigenous Voices Awards". CBC Books, May 31, 2018.
  6. ^ "Tanya Tagaq and seven other writers take home prizes at Indigenous Voices Awards". CityNews, June 5, 2019.
  7. ^ "Winners Announced for 2020 Indigenous Voices Awards". Open Book, June 22, 2020.
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