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CBC Poetry Prize

  • longlisted for:
    "even this dust / some walks of late / of a feather / this slowly"
    CBC Books
    10 November 2021


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    Future Places Environmental Poetry Prize

  • 2n Prize:
    "what I'm after. is a language"
    Lancaster University Future Places Centre, Eden North, Iceland, Kendal Mountain Literature Festival and Saraband publishers.
    20 November 2021

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    10th Annual Robin Blaser Poetry Contest

  • honourable mention:
    "The Pleasure of the Coast"
    The Capilano Review
    April 2021

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    The Laurel Prize 2021

  • longlisted for:
    This is a Picture of Wind
    Longbarrow Press, 2020
  • The Guardian

  • Best Poetry Books of 2020:
    This is a Picture of Wind
    Longbarrow Press, 2020

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    Forward Prizes for Poetry

  • Highly Commended for:
    An Ocean of Static
    Penned in the Margins 2018
  • excerpted in
    Forward Book of Poetry 2019

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    Opening Up Digital Fiction Competition 2018

  • People's Choice Award for:
    This is a Picture of Wind
  • Full list of winners and honourable mentions

  • Turn On Literature

    Turn On Literature

  • shortlisted for:
    The Gathering Cloud
  • The Shortlist for The Turn on Literature Prize and Honourable Mentions

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    The Saboteur Awards 2017

  • Editor's Pick for:
    The Gathering Cloud
  • Saboteur Awards 2017: Spotlight on the Best Wildcard Shortlist

  • New Media Writing Prize

    New Media Writing Prize 2016

  • awarded for:
    The Gathering Cloud
    Bournemouth University, UK
  • JR Carpenter takes the big prize at the 2016 New Media Writing Prize Awards

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    The Dot Award for Digital Literature 2015

  • awarded for:
    This is a Picture of Wind
    if:book, UK
  • Focus on the 2015 Dot Award

  • New Media Writing Prize

    New Media Writing Prize 2012

  • shortlisted for:
    CityFish
    Bournemouth University, UK

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    Expozine Alternative Press Award 2008

  • awarded for Best English Book:
    Words the Dog Knows, Montreal: Conundrum Press 2008
    Montreal, Canada

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    QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Prize 2008

  • awarded for:
    Wyoming is Haunted, Carte Blanche 7
    Montreal, Canada, 2008
  • CBC/QWF Quebec Writing Competition 2005

  • awarded for:
    Air Holes
  • anthologized in:
    In Other Words: New English Writing from Québec, Véhicule Press
    Montreal, Canada, 2008
  • CBC/QWF Quebec Writing Competition 2003

  • awarded for:
    Precipice
  • anthologized in:
    Short Stuff: New English Writing from Québec, Véhicule Press
    Montreal, Canada, 2005


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