Awards & prizes

Updated information on awards will be available mid-January 2025

2023-2024 award winners 

Gabriel Safdie Awards Winners 

• Drama: Jeanne Potvin   
• Fiction: Fab Pilon   
• Poetry: Erin Staley   

Creative Writing Awards 

• English Department Drama Award: Quinn Browne-Collins 
• Fiction Award: Ruby Walker 
• Poetry Award: Jade Palmer 

Literature Awards 

• A.G. Hooper Prize: Louise Van Oel  
• Compton-Lamb Memorial Scholarship: Morgan Kittson   
• MacGuigan Prize: Luna Guindon-Gough

Ritva Seppanen Award for Professional Writing 

• Louise van Oel

2023-2024 awards shortlists

Literature

A.G. Hooper Prize

• Bridget Huh
• Cassandra Pegg
• Louise Van Oel  

Compton-Lamb Memorial Scholarship

• Hayley Frances Bleho 
• Julius Davydchak
• Morgan Kittson   

MacGuigan Prize

• Evelyn Olivia Chan
• Luna Guindon-Gough
• Emily Wilkinson  

Creative Writing

Drama

• Quinn Browne-Collins 
• Coralie Olivier 
• Silvae (Stefne) Vallandigham 

Fiction

• Erin Staley 
• Ruby Walker 
• Diane Yeung 

Poetry

• Jade Palmer
• Rachael Riley
• Noah Sparrow 

Ritva Seppanen Award for Professional Writing

• Evelyn Olivia Chan
• Louise van Oel
• Sabrina Frassine