Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award

Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award

The Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer under 35 who has not yet published his or her first book.

The award is named in memory of Bronwen Wallace, a Canadian writer who died of cancer in 1989.

The prize has a monetary value of $1,000. The prize alternates every other year between poetry and short fiction.

Winners

* 1994 - Michael Crummey, poetry
* 1995 - Adele Megann, short fiction
* 1996 - Stephanie Bolster, poetry
* 1997 - Rachel Rose, short fiction
* 1998 - Talya Rubin, poetry
* 1999 - Alissa York, short fiction
* 2000 - Sonnet L'Abbé, poetry
* 2001 - Valerie Stetson, short fiction
* 2002 - Alison Pick, poetry
* 2003 - Gillian Best, short fiction
* 2004 - Alison Calder, poetry
* 2005 - Nicole Dixon, short fiction
* 2006 - Jeramy Dodds, poetry
* 2007 - Marjorie Celona, short fiction


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