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Announcing the 2019 Poetry and Fiction Contest Winners!
Poetry
Winner: "A poem with two memories of Venezuela" by Mónica Gomery
Runner-Up: "April Tornado Watch" by Zoe Whittall
Fiction
Winner: "No More Connections" by Emma Post
Runner-Up: "Solarium" by Shaelin Bishop
Congratulations to these wonderful writers, and thank you again to everyone who entered. The winning pieces will be published in our April issue of Minola Review.
Meet our 2019 Poetry Judge, Doyali Islam
Doyali Islam’s second poetry book is heft (McClelland & Stewart, 2019), which the poet considers to be a “ledger of tenderness, survival, and risk.” Doyali’s poems have been published in Kenyon Review Online, The Fiddlehead, and Best Canadian Poetry, and have won several national contests and prizes. In 2019, Doyali was interviewed by Shelagh Rogers for CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter and by Anne Michaels for CV2. In 2017, she was interviewed by Michael Enright for The Sunday Edition and was a National Magazine Award finalist. The poetry editor of Arc, she lives in Toronto. www.doyali-islam.com
Photo by Arden Wray
Meet our 2019 Fiction Judge, Heather O’Neill
Heather O'Neill is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Her work, which includes Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and The Lonely Hearts Hotel, has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize in two consecutive years, and has won CBC Canada Reads, The Paragraphe MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and Raised in Montreal, O'Neill lives there today.
Photo by Julie Artacho
Poetry 2019 Finalists
"Why Aren't You Just American?" by Majda Gama
"A poem with two memories of Venezuela" by Mónica Gomery
"THE HEARTBEAT BAN IN IOWA MUSEUMS" by Charlotte Hughes
"LITTLE FOOT" by Megan Jones
"PEBBLE SWING" by Isabella Wang
"April Tornado Watch" by Zoe Whittall
Fiction 2019 Finalists
"Solarium" by Shaelin Bishop
"Jeff" by Amy Oldfield
"Swimming in the Wilderness" by Angélique Lalonde
"Twisted" by Amy LeBlanc
"The Planets" by Molly McCarron
"No More Connections" by Emma Post
