Announcing the 2024 Kingfisher Poetry Prize Longlist!

Congratulation to these fine-feathered poets!

Our poetry editors, wife and husband team Emily Osborne and Daniel Cowper, have measured the virtues of each short, shining poem in our Kingfisher Poetry Prize entries.  They’ve chosen a longlist of twenty-eight outstanding contenders, and will now work to narrow that list to ten poems to send on to final judge Jude Neale. A (2) beside the poet’s name indicates two of their poems are advancing to the next round.

The 2024 Kingfisher Prize Longlist

Andrew Moore
Angela Rebrec
Angelle McDougall
Barbara Baydala
Barbara Kmiec
Callista Markotich
Chantel Daniels
Diane Massam
Donna Shanley
Elizabeth Cockle
Gilles Cyrenne
Greer Shothers
Heather Simeney MacLeod
M. Platts-Fanning
Jordan Mounteer
Mary Kelly
Nicole Moen (2)
Patricia Hemminger
Rhonda Collis (2)
Sadie McCarney
Sandra Kasturi (2)
Sarah Rauch
Steve Horel
Tara Seguin
Tony Peyser

Congratulations to these twenty-five poets, whose work managed to stand out amid a flight of excellent entries, and best of luck to you in the next selection round.

2024 Holiday Launch

The shortlist will be announced at our 2024 Holiday Launch, this coming Sunday at Café Duello. All are welcome and the event is free, but please RSVP Here.

PS: Have you checked out our 2024 Silent Auction yet? There are dozens of fantastic prizes to bid on, from books by local authors to holidays in Tuscany! Check it out here >>

Our Poetry Editors and Kingfisher First Judges

Daniel Cowper

Daniel Cowper is from Bowen Island, BC. After studying medieval literature, philosophy, and law in Vancouver, Manhattan, and Toronto, Daniel is building a cabin on Bowen Island. Daniel’s poetry has appeared in Arc Poetry, Literary Review of Canada, Prairie Fire, Vallum, and other reviews and anthologies in Canada, the US, and Ireland. Daniel is the author of The God of Doors, published in 2017 as co-winner of Frog Hollow Press’s Chapbook Contest, and Grotesque Tenderness, published in 2019 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Look for his new book of poetry, out soon!

Emily Osborne

Emily Osborne is the author of the poetry books SKALDS (forthcoming), Safety Razor (2023), Biometrical (2018) and a book of Old Norse to English verse translations, Quarrel of Arrows (2020). She is the winner of The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry 2018, and her poetry has been published in CV2, The Malahat Review, Barren Magazine, Canthius, The Literary Review of Canada and elsewhere. She earned a PhD in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature from the University of Cambridge and held a postdoctoral fellowship in medieval literature and linguistics at The University of British Columbia.