Patricia Young

Poetry

Short stories

Anthologies

• A Walk by the Seine, Canadian Poets on Paris..
• Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry..
• Making Connections: Literacy from a Feminist Perspective.

  Awards and nominations

• Butler Prize, shortlist for Here Come The Moonbathers, 2009
• Airstream included on Globe and Mail's list of best 100 books of the year 2006
• Butler Prize, shortlist for Airstream, 2000
• Meltcalf-Rooke Award, for Airstream, 2006
• Governor General's Award nominee for Ruin & Beauty, 2000
• B.C. Book Prize for What I Remember From My Time On Earth, 1997
• Governor General's Award nominee for More Watery Still, 1993
• Pat Lowther Award for The Mad And Beautiful Mothers, 1989
• Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room,'' 1987

  Prizes: poetry

• Federation of B. C. Writers, Literary Rites Competition, 1987, First Prize
• National Magazine Award, 1988
• C.B.C. Literary Competition, 1988, Second Prize
• League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Competition, Co-winner
• Aya Press Tenth Anniversary Literary Competition, First Prize, 1989
• League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, 1993, Second Prize
• Grain Prose Poem Contest, Co-winner, 1995
• League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, First Prize, 1996
• CV2 Annual Poetry Contest, First Prize, 1996
• Room of One's Own Poetry Contest, 1996
• League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, Second Prize, 1997
• George Woodcock Poetry Contest, Canada India Village Aid, First Prize, 1997
• The Stephen Leacock Poetry Award: The Orillia International Poetry Festival, 1997
• Mothertongue Chapbook Competition, second prize, 1998
• Grain Prose Poem Prize, co-winner, 1998
• Prairie Fire, Bliss Carmen Award, First Prize, 1998
• Grain Postcard Story Prize, Co-winner, 1999
• National Magazine Award for Poetry, silver, 1999
• Room of One’s Own, Poetry Contest, second prize, 2007
• Prairie Fire, second prize, 2008
• Grain, Prose Poem Prize, Co-winner, 2008
• Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest, first prize, 2008
• Room of One’s Own Poetry Contest, second prize, 2008
• Fiddlehead Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention, 2009
• C. B. C. Literary Awards, finalist, 2009
• Malahat Review Long Poem Competition, shortlist, 2009 & 2011
• Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest, first prize, 2009
• Malahat Review Open Season Award, shortlist, 2009 & 2012
• Bridport Poetry Prize, shortlist, 2009
• C.B.C. Literary Awards, finalist, 2010
• Prism International Poetry Competition, Honourable Mention, 2010
• The Antigonish Review’s Great Blue Heron Contest, Third Prize, 2010
• The New Quarterly, Occasional Verse Contest, Second Prize, 2010
• The Confederation Poet’s Prize, 2010
• C.B.C. Literary Awards, finalist, 2011
• The Antigonish Review’s Great Blue Heron Contest, First Prize, 2011
• Room of One’s Own Poetry Contest, First Prize, 2011
• Montreal International Poetry Prize, shortlist, 2011
• Malahat Review, Open Season Award, shortlist, 2012
• Prism International Poetry Competition, Third Prize, 2012

  Prizes: fiction

• Other Voices Fiction Award, First Prize, 2000
• Matrix, First Prize, 2001
• Fiddlehead Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention 2001
• Other Voices Fiction Award, First Prize, 2001
• Fiddlehead Fiction Prize, Honorable Mention, 2002
• Room of One’s Own Fiction Prize, First Prize, 2003
• Fiddlehead Fiction Prize, Honorable Mention, 2004
• Journey Prize, 2004, Short-list
• This Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt, Second Prize, 2006