2019 Prize Winner
The 2019 Harbourfront Festival Prize, which includes a $10,000 cash prize, was awarded to Canadian poet, editor and small press activist Stuart Ross. Author of 20 books of poetry, fiction and essays, Ross is a founding member of the Meet The Presses collective, has taught writing workshops across the country and was the 2010 Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University. He's the winner of, among others, the 2017 PoetryNOW: Battle of the Bards competition, the 2017 Jewish Literary Award for Poetry and the 2010 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Ross' micro-press, Proper Tales, is in its 40th year.
A jury composed of Quill & Quire's Alison Jones, Toronto Star's Books Editor Deborah Dundas and the Director of the Toronto International Festival of Authors Geoffrey E. Taylor was tasked with awarding the 2019 Prize to Ross.
About the Prize
Established in 1984, the Harbourfront Festival Prize (C$10,000) is presented annually in recognition of an author's contribution to the Canadian literature community, based on the merits of their own published work and/or the time they have invested cultivating the next generation of voices. The recipient is selected by a jury process and presented with the Prize during the Toronto International Festival of Authors every October.
Past Winners
2018 Lee Maracle
2017 Joseph Kertes
2016 Miriam Toews
2015 Avie Bennett
2014 Margaret MacMillan
2013 Alice Munro
2012 Austin Clarke
2011 Seth
2010 Peter Robinson
2009 Helen Humphreys
2008 Wayson Choy
2007 Christopher Dewdney
2006 Dionne Brand
2005 Guy Vanderhaeghe
2004 Jane Urquhart
2003 Linda Spalding
2002 Paul Quarrington
2001 Daniel David Moses
2000 Victor Coleman
1999 Matt Cohen
1998 Marty Gervais
1997 Ken Gass
1996 Timothy Findley
1995 Douglas George Fetherling
1994 M.G. Vassanji
1993 Graeme Gibson
1992 Alberto Manguel
1991 Nicole Brossard
1990 Howard Engel
1989 Tomson Highway
1988 Michael Ondaatje
1987 Barry Callaghan
1986 Margaret Atwood
1985 John Robert Colombo
1984 Dennis Lee
above/ground press author Stuart Ross has been announced as the winner of the 2019 Harbourfront Festival Prize! Congratulations, Stuart! above/ground press has been fortunate enough to publish two (so far) Stuart Ross titles: ESPESANTES (2018) and NINETY TINY POEMS (2019), both of which are, of course, still in print. And have you seen the Forty Proper Tales blog, celebrating Ross and his forty years of continuous activity as an editor/publisher through Proper Tales Press? Oh, and I should mention we're part of a roundtable discussion on small press activity at Harbourfront together on October 26th (will we see you there?). As the press release for the prize (which you can find here) reads:
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