Kaie Kellough and Taras Grescoe were two of the winners for the 2020 Quebec Writers' Federation's literary awards.

The QWF annually awards prizes across several literary genres to English-language writers from Quebec. Prizes are awarded for translation, poetry, debut book, nonfiction, fiction and middle grade/YA. Each winner will receive $3,000.

Kellough won the Paragraph Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction for Dominoes at the Crossroads.

Dominoes at the Crossroads is a short story collection that explores Canada's Caribbean diaspora as they seek music and a connection to their past. It was also longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Kellough is also the author of the poetry collection Magnetic Equator, which won the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Grescoe won the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction for Possess the Air: Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome.

Possess the Air is a look at freedom fighters in Rome who fought against the regime of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. It explores the nationalism, fear-mongering and xenophobia that arises in a totalitarian state.

Grescoe is a journalist and nonfiction writer from Montreal. His other books include Bottomfeeder, Sacré Blues, The End of Elsewhere and Straphanger.

Marie-Louise Gay won the prize for children's and young adult literature for The Three Brothers, a picture book that features three siblings who set off on an adventure to discover wild animals within their changing world.

Gay is a prolific picture book creator who has published more than 20 books. In 2005, she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for literature for young people, which recognizes a children's book author for their complete body of work.

Madelaine Caritas Longman won the Concordia University First Book Prize for the poetry collection The Danger Model.

Sarah Wolfson won the A.M. Klein Prize for poetry for the collection A Common Name for Everything.

Mishka Lavigne won the QWF Prize for Playwriting for Albumen.

Alexei Perry Cox won the 3Macs carte blanche Prize for It's a Slow Ride. The $350 prize recognizes a Quebec writer for their outstanding submission to carte blanche, QWF's online literary journal.

Jan Jorgensen, an activist who also organizes the The Lawn Chair Soirée reading series, received the Judy Mappin Community Award. The prize recognizes a person who has contributed to the advancement of Quebec's English-language literary community.