Winners in the 2020 Arts and Letters Awards

Junior Division

Senior Division

Junior Division

Junior Poetry 

(99 entries, $350 prize) Adjudicators: Carol McDougall & Nellie Strowbridge

Emily Pike A Hard Pill to Swallow
Liam French Creation
Kaylee Clarke The Shower
Damon Jesso Sadness is Permanent
Jade Collins Red, Reclaimed
Cassandra Clowe-Coish Birthday Party
Yuvarna Govender White Wedding
Jessica Crocker Dancing in New York (Stonewall Inn 1969)

 

 

Junior Prose   

(24 entries, $350 prize) Adjudicators: Debbie Robbins & Samanda Stroud

Bronwyn Fiske Progress After Peril
Carrie Butler Midnight Run
Lillian Carter The Forgotten Fire of the Thirteenth
Maia Anne McKeown The Other Side of the Door
Kelsey Ross All the Time in the World
Alice Lawlor There’s a Little Bit of Me in You
Kailey Ikkusek-Rogers Pangaea
Allison Wragg Hiding Happiness

 

 

Junior French Literary 

(12 entries, $350 prize) Adjudicator: Jacinthe Tremblay

Genevieve Walsh je crie si fort

 

 

Junior Music  

(10 entries, $350 prize) Adjudicators: Glen Collins, Tony Murray & Maria White

Isaac Andrews Pink Hoodie
Connor Parsons Diversion
Olivia Jones Counting
Clare Follett Now

 

 

Junior Digital Multimedia

(2 entries, $350 prize) Adjudicator: Emily Bridger

Kaleigh Hemeon Stop Motion Through the Years

 

 

Junior Visual Art

(65 entries, $350 prize) Adjudicators: Chrissie Kerr & Bruno Vinhas

Brianna Fowler Beautiful Mind
Kassy Keats Galaxies
Catalina Belen Chandia Desolation
Rylee Flight A Falls Reflection Into Winter
Rebecca Boone Drift Away
Claudia Ramsay Kaleidoscope
Breanna Tilley The Lighthouse
Grace Way Pandemonium

 

 

SENIOR

Senior Poetry

(42 entries, $1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Grant Loveys & Katie Voutour

Alanna Mouland The Place
Bernard Wills Igor
Sheri Coombs Money & Dust
Thomas Duggan Recuerdo

 

 

Senior Short Fiction

(39 entries, $1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Matthew LeDrew & Heather Nolan

Joe Mitchell Male Bonding
Jennifer May Newhook Upstairs Nancy, Downstairs Nancy
Prajwala Dixit Truth is Stranger than Fiction
Adam Critchley Left to Turn out the Lights

 

 

Senior Nonfiction  

(21 entries, $1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Ainsley Hawthorn

Tom Moore Pegasus
Colleen Soulliere Second-Hand Smoking in Lisbon
Willow Kean Checking it Twice

 

 

Senior Dramatic Script 

(15 entries,  $1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Nicole Rousseau

Sharon King-Campbell Dayboil
Leahdawn Helena Hiscock Ruthless

 

 

Senior French Literary

(4 entries, $1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Jacinthe Tremblay

Adrian House Un sauvetage

 

 

Senior Music 

(13 entries, $1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Glen Collins, Tony Murray & Maria White

Michael Snelgrove Aegir, Ran and the Nine Waves
Louise Gauthier Il s’en vat
Duane Andrews The Heart of Eastern Passage
Zach Dalley Evergreen

 

 

Senior Digital Multimedia

(9 entries, $1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Emily Bridger

Ruth Lawrence Rigolet: Not Written in Stone

 

Senior Visual Art 

(119 entries, $1,000 prize) Adjudicators: David Baltzer, Jane Walker & Nelson White

Benjamin Trickett Mercer Max Mercer Sr. of Shearstown
Payam Pooyafar Self Portrait
Deborah Cannon Shore Birds II – “The Usual Suspects”
Joy E. Hecht Gannet over the Coast
Paul Quigley Fade Into You
Louis-Christophe Villeneuve Bol en chêne jaune
Frank Barry The Hare in Winter
Tony Smith A Snail’s Trace
Michael Flaherty Fire Tire
Donna Ramsay Untitled Portrait
Rolayne Lewis-Bartlett Pause
Pamela Williams Life

 

 

Percy Janes First Novel Award 

(12 entries, $2,500 prize) Adjudicator: Jamie Fitzpatrick

Alex Saunders Safe in a Dangerous Place: kamatsiagit ulugianattumi