Past Winners of the bpNichol Chapbook Award
2023: glass / language / untitled / exaltation, Jason Christie (above/ground press)
2022: Last, Arleen Paré (Baseline Press)
2021: It Was Treaty/It Was Me, Matthew James Weigel (Vallum Magazine)
2020: Remitting, Nisa Malli (Baseline Press)
2019: A God Dance in Human Cloth, NASRA (Glass Buffalo Press); How Not to Spill, Jessica Johns (Rahila’s Ghost Press)
2018: Reunions in the Year of the Sheep, Chuqiao Yang (Baseline Press)
2017: Anima Canadensis, Sonnet L’Abbé (Junction Books)
2016: Small Waterways, Nelson Ball (Apt. 9 Press)
2015: Of Beings Alone: The Eigenface, Lissa Wolsak (Nomados Press)
2014: Oilywood, Christine Leclerc (Nomados Press)
2013: Ordinary Time: The Merton Lake Papers, Gil McElroy (Baseline Press); Naturally Speaking, Sandra Alland (paperplates/espresso press)
2012: Mimic, Adrienne Gruber (Leaf Press)
2011: Accidentals, Claudia Coutu Radmore (Apt. 9 Press)
2010: You have hair like flags, Alisha Piercy (Your Lips to Mine Press)
2009: Inverting the Deer, Gary Barwin (serif of nottingham); Lift: Ghazals for C, Sandra Ridley (Jack Pine Press)
2008: Lack Lyrics, Jay Millar (Bookthug); Quantum Chaos & Poems, Clara Benson (Bookthug)
2007: Hazard, Jake Kennedy (Bookthug)
2006: Pliny’s Knickers, Steven Ross Smith & Hilary Clark (writers), Betsy Rosenwald (art and design) (Jackpine Press)
2005: Rousseau’s Boat, Lisa Robertson (Nomados Press)
2004: as lit x: the syntax of adoration, Susan Clark (Friends of Runcible Mountain); Bolivia/Peru, Barry McKinnon (Gorse Press)
2003: Imagines Lantzville, Allan Brown (Leaf Press); 12 Bars, Stan Dragland (Running the Goat Press)
2002: The New World and Finding It, Robert Kroetsch (Mother Tongue Press)
2001: The Sapphire Morpho, M. W. Field
2000: Buri Frau Rontgen’s Hand, Hilary Mosher (Outlaw Editions)
1999: Alphabetical, P. K. Page (Published for the Hawthorne Society by Reference West)
1998: More Excess, Nicole Markotić
1997: Liner (coauthored with Joshua Lovelace) and Manual for Beginners (coauthored with Yvette Poorter), Lance Blomgren (Intrepid Tourist Press)
1996: A Boy Named, Janice Williamson
1995: Arrythmia, Barry McKinnon (Gorse Press)
1994: Organon Vocis Organalis: bk.II of Aerial Sonography, Mathew Remski
1993: Do Sink, George Bowering (Pomflit)
1992: Quarters, George Bowering (Gorse Press); Morning Glory, Theresa Kishkan (Reference West)
1991: In The Small Hours of The Rain, Susan Musgrave (Reference West)
1990: Q H S, Mary Howes
1989: Additives, Paul Dutton (Imprimerie Dromadaire)
1988: The Faerie Queen and the Park, Robin Blaser (Fissure Press); Sous La Langue/Under Tongue, Nicole Brossard (Gynery Books)
1987: The Natural History of Water, a close reading, David Donnell (Shaw Street Press)
1986: The Mac Bolan Poems, Mark Laba (Gesture Press)
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