The Quebec Writers Federation has announced the shortlists for its 15^th annual literary awards. The winners will be revealed at a gala in Montreal on Nov. 19.

This year’s finalists are:

A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry

• Mia Anderson, The Sunrise Liturgy: A Poem Sequence (Wipf and Stock Publishers)
• Peter Dubé, Conjure (Rebel Satori Press)
• Ken Howe, The Civic-Mindedness of Trees (Wolsak and Wynn)

Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction

• Maximilian Forte, Slouching Towards Sirte (Baraka Books)
• Adam Leith Gollner, The Book of Immortality (Doubleday Canada)
• Shelagh Plunkett, The Water Here Is Never Blue (Viking Canada)

Concordia University First Book Prize

• Connie Guzzo-McParland, The Girls of Piazza d’Amore (Linda Leith Publishing)
• Shelagh Plunkett, The Water Here Is Never Blue (Viking Canada)
• Andrew Szymanski, The Barista and I (Insomniac Press)

Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction

• Jocelyne Dubois, World of Glass (Quattro Books)
• Lorne Elliott, Beach Reading (Acorn Press)
• Saleema Nawaz, Bone and Bread (House of Anansi Press)

QWF Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• Paul Blackwell, Undercurrent  (Doubleday Canada)
• Melinda Cochrane, Desperate Freedom (Brian Wrixon Books)
• Anne Renaud, The Extraordinary Life of Anna Swan (Cape Breton University Press)