The Porcupine's Quill
Celebrating forty years on the Main Street
of Erin Village, Wellington County
AWARDS
2020
The House on Major Street by Leon Rooke Populated by media personalities, literary characters, three-legged deer-like creatures and an array of idiosyncratic Toronto neighbours, The House on Major Street is an internal and external picaresque tale that begins with a dramatic bicycle accident and explores, along the way, the blurred boundaries between the stories we read, the stories we tell and the stories we live.
2020—ForeWord Indies Book Award,
Long-listed
Rerouted by Daniel Bryant Expect the unexpected in Daniel Bryant’s Rerouted, a collection of linked short stories in which myth, mirth and mayhem are never far away.
2020—ForeWord Indies Book Award,
Long-listed
2020—eLit Awards,
Runner-up
Mrs Romanov by Lori Cayer Lori Cayer’s poetry collection Mrs Romanov reveals the unexpectedly quotidian concerns of Alexandra Feodorovna, the last tsarina of Imperial Russia.
2019—Raymond Souster Award,
Long-listed
2019—Pat Lowther Memorial Award,
Long-listed
2020—Manitoba Book Awards Lansdowne Prize for Poetry,
Shortlisted
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll In this illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, master wood engraver George A. Walker provides an uproarious reinterpretation of the classic poem as seen through the convex lens of contemporary American politics.
2020—eLit Awards,
Winner
The Essential Douglas LePan by Douglas LePan The Essential Douglas LePan presents a wide-ranging collection of poetry—from tense verses on the fog of war to homoerotic love poems to lyrics in praise of the natural world, all in celebration of the heart’s blood ‘that runs through and supports everything mankind has made’.
2020—eLit Awards,
Winner
Casting into Mystery by Robert Reid Casting into Mystery celebrates the meditative sport of fly fishing, rejoicing in the camaraderie and quietude to be found not only in the gentle flow of river currents, but also in the community and culture of anglers past and present.
2020—eLit Awards,
Runner-up
Viaticum by Jeffery Donaldson What does it mean to think, to imagine, to create, to be? Why do we believe what we do? Is death an ontological state of being, or is it a grammar error? What exactly is poetry? The varied writings in Jeffery Donaldson’s Viaticum explore life’s most basic questions—and its biggest illusions—from the nature of language to the rhetorical potential of the afterlife.
2020—eLit Awards,
Runner-up
The Porcupine's Quill would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. The financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) is also gratefully acknowledged.
Browse Awards by Year:
View the list of awards won by Porcupine's Quill books. Titles are arranged by year, and include listings from 1977 to the present.