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The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories. Founded in 2000 by Newfoundland filmmaker and author Kenneth J. Harvey.

Subtitled* Ideas, Not Money* the main title of the awards is short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, and Relighting Literature. The awards were conceived by Harvey as an alternative to larger mainstream prizes such as the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Awards. There is no money awarded for the prize; in the first two years, the winners received a nominal prize of one Canadian dollar, but since 2003 the recipients have been presented with a silver ring designed by Newfoundland artisan Christopher Kearney, featuring four inlaid movable dials engraved with all of the letters of the alphabet.

The award was known for its use of what were commonly called "very longlists" or "long shortlists", with no limit on the number of works that could be nominated in a given year and no followup winnowing of the nominees into a shorter list of finalists.

The award went on hiatus in the late 2010s, with no shortlists or winners announced for 2018, 2019 or 2020.

It was announced in January 2021 that management of the award had been taken over by Harvey's daughter Katherine Alexandra Harvey, with the project expanding to incorporate an online literary journal and a mentorship program for young writers. In April 2021, the shortlists and winners for all of the hiatus years were announced throughout the month.

In September 2023, Harvey announced that the awards will go on hiatus after that year's announcements, due to funding difficulties.

Nominees and winners

Novel

::data[format=table title="ReLit Award for Novel winners and shortlists"]

Year	Author(s)	Title	Result	Ref.	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
****	Skin	Winner
	**	Nominee
	This Place Called Absence
	Just for Comfort
	Bafflegab
	**
****	Lenny Bruce Is Dead	Winner
****	Please	Winner
	**	Nominee
	**
	Necessary Betrayals
****	Still Life With June	Winner
	Kameleon Man	Nominee
	**
	**
****	An English Gentleman	Winner
	Mackerel Sky	Nominee
	Sointula
	Blind Night
****	Alligator	Winner
	**	Nominee
	**
	**
****	Bow Grip	Winner
	**	Nominee
	Miss Lamp
	De Niro's Game
	ManBug
	All This Town Remembers
	Suddenly the Minotaur
	Orphans of Winter
	Season of Iron
****	******	Winner
	Orphan Love	Nominee
	Soucouyant
	Crown Shyness
	**
	Big White Knuckles
	**
****	Chase & Haven	Winner
	Cleavage	Nominee
	Shuck
	**
	Girls Fall Down
	Charlie Muskrat
	Anna's Shadow
****	******	Winner
	Overqualified	Nominee
	After the Red Night
	**
	Wrong Bar
	Away From Everywhere
	Holding Still for As Long As Possible
****	Blood Relatives	Winner
	**	Nominee
	One Bloody Thing After Another
	Krakow Melt
	**
	Good Evening, Central Laundromat
	**
	**
	Book
	Sweet England
****	Monoceros	Winner
	Dirty Feet	Nominee
	Maintenance
	Prick
	The Tattoo
	Idaho Winter
	Cherry Beach Express
	Algoma
	Constance, Across
	Six Metres of Pavement
	Adrift
	The Boy
	Prick
	Glass Boys
	Soldier of the Horse
	Flowers of Spit
	The Time We All Went Marching
	The Ballad of Martin B.
	Description of the Blazing World
	Kalila
	These Shadows Remain
	Missing Matisse
	Break Me
	Easy to Like
	Drift
	Bloodline
	Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew
	Mongrel
	Intention/Implication/Wind
	Hard Hed
	The Last Stoic
****	Life Is About Losing Everything	Winner	last=Darbyshire	first=Peter	date=2013-12-20	title=And the winners of the 2013 ReLit Awards are....	url=http://www.theprovince.com/news/winners+2013+ReLit+Awards/9312768/story.html	archive-date=2014-01-31	access-date=2023-07-07	website=	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131105027/http://www.theprovince.com/news/winners+2013+ReLit+Awards/9312768/story.html	url-status=bot: unknown }}
	Maidenhead	Nominee
	Heidegger Stairwell
	Lockpick Pornography
	Texas
	Whitetail Shooting Gallery
	Dirty Bird
	Love and the Mess We're In
	Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies
	Minor Episodes Major Ruckus
	Given
	Mount Royal
	Husk
	**
****	Savage 1986-2011	Winner
	Sneaker Wave	Nominee
	**
	Fallsy Downsies
	Juanita Wildrose, My True Life
	Infidelity
	Say Nothing Saw Wood
	Paradise Revisited
	**
	Anatomy of a Girl Gang
	Caught
	Rogue Cells/ Carbon Harbour
	Every Little Thing
	**
	Burning from the Inside
****	******	Winner
	Hysteric	Nominee
	Savour
	Jazz
	**
	**
	Just Beneath My Skin
	Universal Bureau of Copyrights
	Celia's Song
	North East
	Carafola
	New Tab
and Dyment	Motion Sickness
	Bunny and Shark
	My Grandmother's Pill
	Motherwild
	Pedal
	Mr. Jones
	Barker
	Walt
	Polyamorous Love Song
****	One Hundred Days of Rain	Winner
	**	Nominee
	Too Much on the Inside
	**
	Split
	Where Did You Sleep Last Night
	**
	**
	**
	Winnie's Tongue
	Martin John
	All-Day Breakfast
	Chinkstar
	**
	One Hit Wonders
	**
****	Wigford Rememberies	Winner
	**	Nominee
	Mister Nightingale
	Brothers
	Psychomachia
	Running on Fumes
	This Marlowe
	Weekend
	**
	Been in the Storm So Long
	Listening for Jupiter
	Niagara Motel
	All That Sang
	Hungary-Hollywood Express
	**
	**
	English Is Not a Magic Language
	**
	Today I Learned It Was You
	Fabulous Fictions & Peculiar Practices
	Blackbird Calling
	**
	**
	Into the Current
****	Long Ride Yellow	Winner
	**	Nominee
	Tarry This Night
	Leave Us in Peace
	**
	You Are Among Monsters
	In the Cage
	Small Claims
	Dying Behaviour of Cats
	Touching Strangers
	Only the Devil Is Here
	Skeet Love
	In Every Wave
	To Me You Seem Giant
****	Marry, Bang, Kill	Winner
	Queen Solomon	Nominee
	Army of the Brave and Accidental
	Atomic Road
	**
	In Which
	Little Beast
	**
	Amusement Park of Constant Sorrow
	No Quarter
	No Good Asking
	Hummingbird
	Adjacentland
	Twin Studies
	Black Star
	**
	Chameleon
****	Skin House	Winner
	Proof I Was Here	Nominee
	Crocuses Hatch from Snow
	**
	**
	**
	There Has to Be a Knife
	Itzel I: A Tlatelolco Awakening
	This Is Agatha Falling
	Dual Citizens
	Provisionally Yours
	Crow
	We All Will Be Received
****	Fake It So Real	Winner
	Always Brave	Nominee
	All I Ask
	Seeing Martin
	Butter Honey Pig Bread
	Throw Down Your Shadows
	Dirty Birds
	**
	Fair
	Noopiming
	After Elias
	Fauna
****	Avenue of Champions	Winner
	**	Nominee
	**
	Dante's Indiana
	Suture
	Instructor
	Saltus
	I, Gloria Grahame
	Monster Child
	Saturday Morning
	**
	We, Jane
	**
****	Querelle of Roberval	Winner
	Possessed	Nominee
	Wonder World
	The Wards
	Good Girl
	My Indian Summer
	A Kid Called Chatter
	Junie
	The Second Substance
	Fearnoch
	Tear
	Hotline
::

Poetry

::data[format=table title="ReLit Award for Poetry winners and shortlists"]

Year	Author(s)	Title	Result	Ref.	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
****	Hymns to Phenomena	Winner	date=2001-06-18	title=New literary prize recognizes smaller success stories	work=Calgary Herald}}
	Change Room	Nominee
	Swimming Among the Ruins
	Dyssemia Sleaze
	Mining for Sun
	**
****	******	Winner	last=Cochrane	first=Mark	date=2022-06-22	title=Bonfire of the vanities: At the second annual ReLit Awards, the small world of Canadian poetry felt suffocatingly close	work=Vancouver Sun}}
	Eunoia	Nominee
	Pigeon
****	Excessive Love Prostheses	Winner
	Disturbances of Progress	Nominee
	Seven Pages Missing (Vol. 2)
	Mycological Studies
****	Small Arguments	Winner
	Ashland	Nominee
	**
	House Built of Rain
****	Night Street Repairs	Winner
	**	Nominee
	Mirabel
	Said Like Reeds or Things
****	Hot Poppies	Winner
	Ligatures	Nominee
	In the Scaffolding
	**
****	Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method	Winner	date=2007-07-19	title=Three indie writers honoured by ReLit Awards	work=The Globe and Mail}}
	Black	Nominee
	I, Nadja
and Darren Wershler-Henry	Apostrophe
	All the Lifters
	Types of Canadian Women
	Tear Down
	What You Can't Have
	**
****	Soft Geography	Winner	date=2008-07-27	title=ReLit award winners named	work=Ottawa Citizen}}
	**	Nominee
	All Things Said & Done
	Æthel
	Sitcom
	Two Hemispheres
	I Cut My Finger
****	Fear Not	Winner
	Noble Gas, Penny Black	Nominee
	Little Hunger
	Dead Cars in Managua
	Penny Dreadful
	Troubled
	Sentenced to Light
****	Red Nest	Winner	date=2010-10-22	title=Winners of ReLit Awards announced	work=The Globe and Mail}}
	**	Nominee
	**
	**
	Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip
	Paper Radio
	Always Die Before Your Mother
****	Sweet	Winner
	Marimba Forever	Nominee
	**
	**
	Every Day in the Morning (Slow)
	**
	You Know Who You Are
****	Jumping in the Asylum	Winner
	Blindfold	Nominee
	Methodist Hatchet
	What Is the Sound of Someone Unravelling
	Civil and Civic
	The Id Kid
	Wore Down Trust
	A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth
	Gift Horse
	Love Figures
	Red
	A Walker in the City
	Dying a Litte
	The Cure Is a Forest
	This Way
	True
	Insomniac Blues
	Easy Peasy
	A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People
	Match
	Apologetic for Joy
	Crow
	Woods Wolf Girl
	Straight Razor Days
	Book of Disorders
	**
	Sunday, the Locusts
	Appolinaire's Speech to the War Medic
	Hypotheticals
	The Monotony of Fatal Accidents
	Spinning Side Kick
	Versions of North
	The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane
	There Devil, Eat That
	Wretched Beast
	Myoclonus
	L’il Bastard
	The Sun Has Forgotten Where I Live
	Onion Man
	The Pillow Books
	Narcissus Unfolding
	Only the Fallen Can See
	Hooligans
	Contrary
	Beautiful Mutants
	Err
	Strong Bread
	Grunt of the Minotaur
	Post-Apothecary
	Dance, Monster!
	The Truth of Houses
	Fluttertongue 5
	Campfire Radio Rhapsody
	Grace Shiver
	England Is Mine
	The Anatomy of Clay
	No End in Strangeness
	Earworm
	The Crystal Palace
	Echoic Mimic
	Sweet Devilry
	And See What Happens
	Gulf
	Startled Night
	Forge
****	Omens in the Year of the Ox	Winner
	Cloudy with a Fire in the Basement	Nominee
	New and Selected Poems
	Natural Capital
	Riot Lung
	Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed
	Conflict
	**
	Trobairitz
	Personals
****	Placeholder	Winner
	Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books	Nominee
	What the World Said
	How This World Comes to an End
	Multitudes
	This Cockeyed World
	How Poetry Saved My Life
	Coping With Emotions and Otters
	**
	Monkey Soap
	Forge
	**
	**
	Liquidities
	Hard Ass
	**
	Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis
	Love's Not the Way To
	Our Days in Vaudeville
	For Display Purposes Only
	**
	**
****	MxT	Winner
Rolli	Mavor's Bones	Nominee
	On Malice
	Yaw
	School
	Poems Suitable to Current Material Conditions
	Broom Broom
	Thou
	**
	Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths
	After Words
	In the Museum of Leonardo Da Vinci
	Easy Fix
	When We Were Old
	Open Letter: Woman Against Violence Against Women
	House Dreams
****	******	Winner
	Last Stop, Lonesome Town	Nominee
	Monologue Dogs
	Transmitter and Receiver
	Rotten Perfect Mouth
	Asbestos Heights
	Love Me Tender
	Bodymap
	Collected Poems
	Exquisite Monsters
	Dear Leader
	This World We Invented
	Foreign Park
	Keeping Watch at the End of the World
	Fauxccasional Poems
	No Work Finished Here
****	All the Gold Hurts My Mouth	Winner	last=van Koeverden	first=Jane	date=2018-07-16	title=Kris Bertin wins ReLit Award for short story collection Bad Things Happen	url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/kris-bertin-wins-relit-award-for-short-story-collection-bad-things-happen-1.4748517	access-date=2023-07-06	website=CBC Books	archive-date=2018-08-07	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807211935/https://www.cbc.ca/books/kris-bertin-wins-relit-award-for-short-story-collection-bad-things-happen-1.4748517	url-status=live }}
	Injun	Nominee
	If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach out For You
	All of Us Reticent, Here, Together
	Saint Twin
	Pound @ Guantanamo
	Canticles I
	**
	Little Dogs
	Every Night of Our Lives
	Silent Sister
	**
	After All the Scissor Work Is Done
	Tight Wire
	Assdeep in Wonder
	Shiner
	Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines
	**
	**
	Metanoia
	Nineteen Fifty-Seven
	Touch Anywhere to Begin
	Meditatio Placentae
	3 Summers
	**
	Tell Them It Was Mozart
	Kids in Triage
	Yes or Nope
	Stampede and the Westness of West
	**
****	Frequent, Small Loads of Laundry	Winner	date=2021-04-09	title=Martin West, Daniel Zomparelli and Rhonda Ganz win 2018 ReLit Awards	url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/martin-west-daniel-zomparelli-and-rhonda-ganz-win-2018-relit-awards-1.5981903	access-date=2023-07-06	website=CBC Books	archive-date=2022-08-10	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810201520/https://www.cbc.ca/books/martin-west-daniel-zomparelli-and-rhonda-ganz-win-2018-relit-awards-1.5981903	url-status=live }}
	Children Shouldn’t Use Knives and Other Tales	Nominee
	Everything We’ve Loved Comes Back to Find Us
	**
	Bad Engine
	Museum of Kindness
	**
	Dysphoria
	Dazzle Ships
	**
	**
	Excitement Tax
	**
	Whatever, Iceberg
****	Sit How You Want	Winner	date=2021-04-16	title=Andrew Battershill, Robin Richardson & Barry Callaghan win 2019 ReLit Awards	url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/andrew-battershill-robin-richardson-barry-callaghan-win-2019-relit-awards-1.5990846	url-status=live	access-date=2023-07-06	website=CBC Books	archive-date=2023-04-08	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408042037/https://www.cbc.ca/books/andrew-battershill-robin-richardson-barry-callaghan-win-2019-relit-awards-1.5990846 }}
bpNichol	Night on Prose Mountain	Nominee
	What Your Hands Have Done
	Safe Words
	Mrs. Romanov
	Listen Before Transmit
	What Kind of Men Are You
	Anatomic
	City Poems
	Divided
	Quarrels
	We Like Feelings. We Are Serious
	Goodbye Horses
	Full Circle
	Nightlight for Children of Insomniacs
	Midday at the Super-Kamiokande
****	Fresh Pack of Smokes	Winner	last=Qiao	first=Vicky	date=2021-05-05	title=Cassandra Blanchard, Tracey Waddleton & Michael Blouin win 2020 ReLit Awards	url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/cassandra-blanchard-tracey-waddleton-michael-blouin-win-2020-relit-awards-1.6014651	access-date=2023-07-06	website=CBC Books	archive-date=2023-05-28	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528175508/https://www.cbc.ca/books/cassandra-blanchard-tracey-waddleton-michael-blouin-win-2020-relit-awards-1.6014651	url-status=live }}
	**	Nominee
	Winter's Cold Girls
	**
	Renaissance Normcore
	NDN Coping Mechanisms
	Boom Time
	New and Collected Poems
	Our Latest in Folktales
	Bounce House
	Breakfast with a Heron
	**
	This Is the Emergency Present
	Motel of the Opposable Thumbs
****	Pop	Winner	date=2021-04-27	title=Susan Sanford Blades, Kristyn Dunnion & Simina Banu win 2021 ReLit Awards	url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/susan-sanford-blades-kristyn-dunnion-simina-banu-win-2021-relit-awards-1.6003840	access-date=2023-07-06	website=CBC Books	archive-date=2022-11-06	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221106055840/https://www.cbc.ca/books/susan-sanford-blades-kristyn-dunnion-simina-banu-win-2021-relit-awards-1.6003840	url-status=live }}
	Swivelmount	Nominee
	We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite
	**
	Anthesis
	Niagara & Government
	Roguelike
	I Know Something You Don't Know
	Mythical Man
	Cult Life
	**
	it was never going to be okay
	**
	I Am the Big Heart
	Word Problems
****	Why I Was Late	Winner
	Grey All Over	Nominee
	J'Accuse...!
	Exhibitionist
	**
	Tell the Birds Your Body Is Not A Gun
	Ink Earl
	Creeland
	Constrictor
	**
	Searching for Eastman
	In Singing, He Composed a Song
	Love and Other Failed Religions
	Autowar
	**
****	Flyway	Winner
	Learned	Nominee
	But the Sun, and the Ships, and the Fish, and the Waves
	Brat
	Vox Humana
	Pronounced/Workable
	The Day-Breakers
	The Affirmations
	Infinity Network
	Dream Of Me As Water
	Blood
	The End Is in the Middle
	First-Time Listener
::

Short fiction

::data[format=table title="ReLit Award Short Fiction winners and shortlists"]

Year	Author(s)	Title
****	19 Knives	Winner
	How Did You Sleep?	Nominee
	Buddha Stevens
	Love and the Bottle
	Oxygen
	Drought
****	Mount Appetite	Winner
	Viking Brides	Nominee
	Nits
****	******	Winner
	**	Nominee
	My Own Devices
	Black Coffee Night
****	Fiction for Lovers	Winner
	Broken Accidents	Nominee
	Universal Recipients
	Way Up
****	******	Winner
	Corner Pieces	Nominee
	**
	Let's Not Let a Little Thing Like the End of the World Come Between Us
****	******	Winner
	Bloodknots	Nominee
	13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger
	Yesterday's People
****	Gargoyles	Winner
	**	Nominee
	**
	Whatever Happens
	Zero Gravity
	Indigenous Beasts
	Lanzmann and Other Stories
	**
	Skids
****	Long After Fathers	Winner
	Black Rabbit	Nominee
	Long Story Short
	Seven Openings of the Head
	Bix's Trumpet
	Six Ways to Sunday
	Up on the Roof
****	******	Winner
	Squishy	Nominee
	Evidence
	My White Planet
	In the Quiet After Slaughter
	Elysium
	**
****	Buying Cigarettes for the Dog	Winner
	Sentimental Exorcisms	Nominee
	What Boys Like
	Men of Salt, Men of Earth
	Fatted Calf Blues
	What We're Made Of
	**
****	Ravenna Gets	Winner
	Punishing Ugly Children	Nominee
	I Still Don’t Even Know You
	Missed Her
	Ronald Reagan, My Father
	**
	There Is No Other
	I’m a Registered Nurse Not a Whore
	Bats or Swallows
****	Pretty	Winner
	Pollen	Nominee
	**
	Nothing Could Be Further
	Shag Carpet Action
	Stopping for Strangers
	Easy Living
	Leaving Berlin
	The Girl on the Escalator
	Holidays
Rolli	God's Autobio
	Distillery Songs
	Talking at the Woodpilie
	And Also Sharks
	The Reverse Cowgirl
****	Every House Is Haunted	Winner
	Tracie's Revenge & Other Stories	Nominee
	Subtitles
	Escape and Other Stories
	How to Get Along with Women
	People Who Disappear
	Dibidalen
	**
	Seen Reading
****	Auxiliary Skins	Winner
	You Haven't Changed a Bit	Nominee
	Exceptions & Deceptions
	They Never Told Me
	**
	Red Girl Rat Boy
	After it Rains
	Dear Leaves I Miss You
	**
	Keeping the Peace
	Someone Somewhere
	Islands of Decolonial Love
	All We Want is Everything
	Life Without Death
****	Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome	Winner
	Boundary Problems	Nominee
	How You Were Born
	I'm Not Scared of You or Anything
	We Don't Listen to Them
	How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun
	Gifts for the One Who Comes After
	Hello, Sweetheart
	**
	Paradise & Elsewhere
	Some Extremely Boring Drives
	What I Want to Tell Goes Like This
	Nothing Looks Familiar
Rolli	I Am Currently Working on a Novel
****	Debris	Winner
	Swing in the House	Nominee
	Lessons from a Nude Man
	Bad Day for Ralphie
	Dance Moves of the Near Future
	**
	Welcome to the Circus
	**
	Last Words
	Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
	I Am What I Am Because You Are What You Are
	Moving Parts
	Meticulous, Sad and Lonely
	Confidence
	Pauls
	Night Moves
****	Bad Things Happen	Winner
	Canadian Shield	Nominee
	For All the Men and For All the Women I’ve Known
	Middle-Aged Boys & Girls
	Two Man Tent
	Waiting for the Cyclone
	As If
	**
	Jettison
	**
	Four-Letter Words
	Worldly Goods
	Swinging Through Dixie
	How to Pick Up a Maid in Statue Square
	Double Dutch
	Rising Abruptly
	**
	Cretacea & Other Stories from the Badlands
****	Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person	Winner
	**	Nominee
	Smells Like Heaven
and Steve Gagnon	I Never Talk About It
	Barrelling Forward
	Has the World Ended Yet
	Annie Muktuk and Other Stories
	**
	**
	Peninsula Sinking
	You Are Not Needed Now
	Life on Mars
	Normalwhat’snormal
	Things Don’t Break
	This Accident of Being Lost
****	All the Lonely People	Winner
	**	Nominee
	**
	Hider/Seeker
	Tread & Other Stories
	You and Me, Belonging
	Difficult People
****	Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious	Winner
	Use Your Imagination!	Nominee
	Lost Boys
	**
	Dig
	Dead Flowers
	Swallows Playing Chicken
	Cracker Jacks for Misfits
	Meteorites
	Half-Sisters
	Moccasin Square Gardens
****	Stoop City	Winner
	Here the Dark	Nominee
	Seeking Shade
	**
	**
	Swimmers in Winter
	Permanent Tourist
	Czech Techno
	Dominoes at the Crossroads
	Paradise Island and Other Galaxies
	Goth Girls of Banff
****	******	Winner
	Erase and Rewind	Nominee
	White Lie
	Just Like a Real Person
	Tainna
	Chemical Valley
	Breaking Right
	Urban Disturbances
	Handwringers
	We Want What We Want
	Radium Girl
	Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road
	Exit Strategies
	Wave Forms and Doom Scrolls
	Equipoise
****	God Isn't Here Today	Winner
	Gaiety	Nominee
	Bodies in Trouble
	Grin Reaping
	World Naked Bike Ride
	All the Shining People
	Rafael Has Pretty Eyes
	Shimmer
	I Am Claude François and You Are a Bathtub
	Ferry Back the Gifts
	Ezra's Ghost
	We Have Never Lived on Earth
	Cut Road
	Taobao
::

References

"Three indie writers honoured by ReLit Awards". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', July 19, 2007.
[https://nationalpost.com/afterword/shortlist-announced-for-relit-awards "Shortlists announced for ReLit Awards"] . ''[[National Post]]'', August 31, 2010.
"ReLit award winners named". ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', July 27, 2008.
"Canada's newest literary prize is for independent presses". ''[[National Post]]'', November 8, 2000.
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