Eliza Robertson, Paige Cooper and Judi Rever were among the winning authors at the 2018 Quebec Writers' Federation's (QWF) literary awards on Nov. 20, 2018.

The annual literary awards celebrated their 20th anniversary of honouring the province's English-language authors in seven $3,000 prize-winning categories at a gala event in Montreal.

Debut novelist Robertson won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction for Demi-Gods, a novel about a young woman in the 1950s who engages in a series of brief, highly charged encounters with her stepbrother.

Journalist and author Rever won the 2018 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction for In Praise of Blood, an investigative look at the Rwandan genocide in the mid-1990s. The book was also a finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Cooper won the Concordia University First Book Prize for Zolitude, a short story collection that mixes social commentary with sci-fi and fantasy elements.

Translator Dominique Fortier won the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation for her French translation of Heather O'Neill's The Lonely Hearts Hotel.

Sina Queyras was awarded the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry for My Ariel, a poem-by-poem engagement with Sylvia Plath's Ariel and the towering mythology surrounding it.

2018 Governor General's Literary Award for drama finalist Erin Shields won the inaugural QWF Prize for Playwriting for Paradise Lost, a feminist retelling of John Milton's epic poem.

Finally, Anne Renaud won the QWF Prize for Children's & Young Adult Literature for her book Mr. Crum's Potato Predicament, illustrated by Felicita Sala.