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2008 Winners

We have finally found our winners and honourable mentions in both the fiction and poetry categories.

**Please note that all judging was done blind; names, bios, e-mails, etc. were all stripped from the entries.**

Fiction Winners (tie):
"Hell Friend" by Gemma Files
"As Promised" by Nick Stokes

Fiction Honourable Mentions:
"God's Gift to the Natives: Flight" by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
"Crossroads and Gateways" by Helen Marshall

Fiction Judges: Robert Boyczuk, Candas Jane Dorsey, Sandra Kasturi

Poetry Winner:
"Visitation" by Kim Goldberg

Poetry Honourable Mentions:
"Book of Sloth" by Jocko Benoit
"The Gypsy" by Helen Marshall

Poetry Judges: David Livingstone Clink, Mildred Tremblay, Sandra Kasturi

We would also like to note the entries that made it onto one or more judges' shortlists:

Fiction:
"Shoes" by Colleen Anderson
"Pearls Before Swine" by Don Bassingthwaite
"No Cages" by Kevin Nunn
"Natalie Touches Upon the World" by Ivan Faute

Poetry:
Jocko Benoit's "Slow Day in Tabloidland"
Robert Borski's "Neosaur," "Frog Prince," and "All the Clocks of Hell"
Gemma Files's "Tantalus, Reaching Upwards" and "Jar of Salts"
Kim Goldberg's "Inner Sanctum" and "Green Thumb"
Sidharth Gopinath's "Watcher"
Riina Kindlam's "Vulnerable, with a Pinch of Salt"
Helen Marshall's "Howling," "The Oak Girl," "The Queen of the Cats," and "Pan"