Sean Michaels wins Quebec Writer's Federation fiction award

The Quebec Writers’ Federation announced the winners of the 2014 QWF Literary Awards at a gala hosted in Montreal.

• Click here to read all the winning stories

Sean Michaels took home the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction for his debut novel, Us Conductors. 

The QWF literary awards recognize the best in English-language writing published by Quebec writers in the past year.

Awards were handed out on Tuesday evening at a special celebration held at the Corona Theatre in Little Burgundy.

Complete list of winners

• Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction ($2,000): Sean Michaels for Us Conductors (Random House Canada)

• Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction ($2,000): Chantal Hébert for The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was (Knopf Canada)

• A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry ($2,000): Sina Queyras for MxT (Coach House Books)

• QWF Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature ($2,000): Monique Polak for Hate Mail (Orca Book Publishers)

• Concordia University First Book Prize ($2,000): Anna Leventhal for Sweet Affliction (Invisible Publishing)

• Judy Mappin Community Award: Elizabeth Macdonnell

• Quebec Writing Competition — A partnership between CBC Quebec, the Quebec Writers' Federation, Maisonneuve magazine and Véhicule Press, the Quebec Writing Competition recognizes the best original, unpublished stories by Quebec’s English-language writers. This year’s winners are:

  First Prize ($1,500): Allegra McKenzie for The Glass Man

  Second Prize ($1,000): James Dunnigan for Open Bay

  Reader’s Choice Award ($300): Josée Lafrenière for Breath

• 3Macs carte blanche Prize: Elaine Kennedy and Sheryl Curtis for their translation of Didier Leclair for It’s Late, Doctor Schweitzer