:: 2011 Videos + Shortlist: here

Our 2011 Winston Collins/ Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem recipient is Barbara Schott of Winnipeg, MB for her poem Thin Ice. Honourary Mentions were awarded to Carla Hartenberger of Toronto for Naked in the Sun, and Pamela Porter for The Place of Feathers. Congratulations to our recipients.

Our 2011 finalists were announced on Feb 8 at a gala event at Supermarket, Kensington Market, Toronto. The turnout was fantastic. Thank you to everyone.

Each of the three finalists will have their winning poems highlighted in the Summer 2011 issue of Descant, our 40th anniversary issue, and Barbara will read at our celebratory event June 29th at Harbourfront, Toronto. See information about the event here.

:: 2010 Press Release + Shortlist: here

Last year's Winston Collins/ Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem went to St. John, NL's Leslie Vryenhoek for her work "Letitia's Cold Footsteps", with Honourary Mentions going to Nepean, ON's Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst for "Eating Quince with Musicians" and Toronto's Myna Wallin for "Death, Wildlife and Taxes".

The 2010 finalists were announced on Feb 19 at a gala event sponsored by PAGEWAVE GRAPHICS, Toronto; thank-you to everyone who came out to help make this an extremely successful event!

The three finalists had their winning poems highlighted in a special section in the Summer 2010 issue of Descant.

:: 2009 Press Release + Shortlist: here

2009's Winston Collins/ Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem went to Hamilton's Marilyn Gear Pilling for her work "Billy Collins Interviewed On Stage at Chautauqua", with Honourary Mentions going to Fredericton's M. Travis Lane for "In a Glass Darkly" and Guelph's Shane Neilson for "Naming Uncle Bridges' Farm".

The three finalists had their winning poems highlighted in a special section in the Fall 2009 issue of Descant.

:: 2008 Press Release + Shortlist: here

2008's Winston Collins/ Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem went to Elgin, NB's Elizabeth Venart for her work "On the Day I Cut Cabbage", with Honourary Mentions going to Montreal's Cora Siré for "Before Leaving Hué" and Montreal's Celia Ste Croix for "The Poem on Your Body".

The three finalists had their winning poems highlighted in a special section in the Summer 2008 issue of Descant.

:: 2007 Press Release: here

The inaugural Winston Collins/ Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem went to Brantford's John B. Lee for his work "The Green Muse", with Honourary Mentions going to Victoria, BC's Yvonne Blomer for "The Roll Call to the Ark" and Toronto's Jim Nason for "Chardin’s Rabbit".

.The three finalists had their winning poems highlighted in a special section in the Summer 2007 issue of Descant.