# Danuta Gleed Literary Award

The Danuta Gleed Literary Award is a Canadian national literary prize, awarded since 1998. It recognizes the best debut short fiction collection by a Canadian author in English language. The annual prize was founded by John Gleed in honour of his late wife, the Canadian writer Danuta Gleed, whose favourite literary genre was short fiction, and is presented by the Writers' Union of Canada. The incomes of her One for the Chosen, a collection of short stories published posthumously in 1997 by BuschekBooks and released by Frances Itani and Susan Zettell, assist in funding the award.
Initially Can$5,000, the prize money increased to Can$10,000 in 2004. The runners-up each receive CAN $500. The nominations must be submitted before the end of January. The year's shortlist is chosen by a jury. The varying jury is composed of Canadian writers, literary critics and publishers, such as Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Robin McGrath and Hal Niedzviecki in 2012 or Douglas Glover, J. Jill Robinson and Claire Holden Rothman in 2011.
The first winning work was Curtis Gillespie's The Progress of an Object in Motion.
In 2010, Joey Comeau's Overqualified was withdrawn, as the writer already published a debut work. Only two books were shortlisted in 2010 (the fewest in the history of the award). However, the 2010 judges called the winning work Wax Boats by Sarah Roberts "truly remarkable," speaking of her versatility and her convincing writing in every conceivable voice, and likening her to Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town for the modern age.

## Winners and nominees

Key :
* Meaning
* Winners
* Runners-up
* Other short-listed people
| Year Awarded | Author(s) | Book | Publisher |
| 1998 | Curtis Gillespie | The Progress of an Object in Motion | Coteau Books |
| 1998 | Joanne Gerber | In the Misleading Absence of Light | Coteau Books |
| 1998 | Janina Hornosty | Snackers | Oolichan Books |
| 1998 | Shree Ghatage | Awake When All the World is Asleep | House of Anansi Press |
| 1998 | David Manicom | Ice in Dark Water | Véhicule Press |
| 1999 | Dennis Bock | Olympia | Bloomsbury USA |
| 1999 | Judith Kalman | The County of Birches | Douglas & McIntyre |
| 1999 | Murray Logan | The King of Siam | The Porcupine's Quill |
| 1999 | Anne Fleming | Pool-Hopping and Other Stories | Polestar |
| 1999 | Nora Gold | Marrow and Other Stories | Warwick Publishing |
| 1999 | Sally Ito | Floating the Shore | The Mercury Press |
| 2000 | Mike Barnes | Aquarium | The Porcupine's Quill |
| 2000 | Elyse Gasco | Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby? | Picador |
| 2000 | Russell Smith | Young Men | Anchor Canada |
| 2000 | Zsuzsi Gartner | All the Anxious Girls on Earth | Patrick Crean Editions |
| 2000 | Maureen Hull | Righteous Living | Turnstone Press |
| 2000 | Alissa York | Any Given Power | Arbeiter Ring Publishing |
| 2001 | Barbara Lambert | A Message for Mr. Lazarus | Cormorant Books |
| 2001 | Ivan E. Coyote | Close to Spiderman | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| 2001 | Terence Young | Rhymes with Useless | Raincoast Books |
| 2001 | Alexandra Leggat | Pull Gently, Tear Here | Insomniac Press |
| 2001 | Annabel Lyon | Oxygen | McClelland & Stewart |
| 2002 | Gloria Sawai | A Song for Nettie Johnson | Coteau Books |
| 2002 | Rick Maddocks | Sputnik Diner | Knopf Canada |
| 2002 | Madeleine Thien | Simple Recipes | Little Brown & Company |
| 2002 | Aislinn Hunter | What's Left Us | Polestar Book Publishers |
| 2002 | Nadine McInnes | Quicksilver | Raincoast Books |
| 2002 | Adam Lewis Schroeder | Kingdom of Monkeys | Raincoast Books |
| 2003 | Lee Henderson | The Broken Record Technique | Penguin Canada |
| 2003 | Timothy Taylor | Silent Cruise | Counterpoint |
| 2003 | Nancy Lee | Dead Girls | McClelland & Stewart |
| 2003 | Tamas Dobozy | When X Equals Marylou | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| 2003 | Shaena Lambert | The Falling Woman | Vintage Canada |
| 2003 | Emily Schultz | Black Coffee Night | Insomniac Press |
| 2004 | Jacqueline Baker | A Hard Witching & Other Stories | Harper Flamingo Canada |
| 2004 | Jonathan Bennett | Veranda People | Raincoast Books |
| 2004 | Susan Rendell | In the Chambers of the Sea | Killick Press |
| 2004 | Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer | Way Up: Stories | Goose Lane Editions |
| 2004 | Cory Doctorow | A Place So Foreign and 8 More | Four Walls Eight Windows |
| 2004 | Melanie Little | Confidence: Stories | Thomas Allen Publishers |
| 2005 | David Bezmozgis | Natasha and Other Stories | Harper Flamingo Canada |
| 2005 | Ramona Dearing | So Beautiful | The Porcupine's Quill |
| 2005 | Kelly Cooper | Eyehill | Goose Lane Editions |
| 2005 | Caroline Shepard | Off Centre | Oberon Press |
| 2005 | Carrie Snyder | Hair Hat | Penguin Canada |
| 2006 | Charlotte Gill | Ladykiller | Thomas Allen Publishers |
| 2006 | Craig Davidson | Rust and Bone | Viking Canada |
| 2006 | Jacqueline Honnet | Limbo | Turnstone Press |
| 2006 | Goran Simic | Yesterday's People | Biblioasis |
| 2006 | Vivette Kady | Most Wanted | The Porcupine's Quill |
| 2007 | Nathan Sellyn | Indigenous Beasts | Raincoast Books |
| 2007 | Vincent Lam | Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures | Doubleday |
| 2007 | Russell Wangersky | The Hour of Bad Decisions | Coteau Books |
| 2007 | Anar Ali | Baby Khaki's Wings | Penguin Canada |
| 2007 | Krista Bridge | The Virgin Spy | Douglas & McIntyre |
| 2008 | Andrew Hood | Pardon Our Monsters | Esplanade Books |
| 2008 | Roberta Rees | Long After Fathers | Coteau Books |
| 2008 | Valeria Stetson | The Year I Got Impatient | Oolichan Books |
| 2008 | Liane Keightley | Seven Openings of the Head | Conundrum Press |
| 2008 | Tom Wayman | Boundary Country | Thistledown Press |
| 2009 | Pasha Malla | The Withdrawal Method | House of Anansi Press |
| 2009 | Ian Colford | Halifax for Evidence | The Porcupine's Quill |
| 2009 | Rebecca Rosenblum | Once | Biblioasis |
| 2009 | Ahmad Saidullah | Happiness and other Disorders | Key Porter Books |
| 2009 | Betsy Trumpener | The Butcher of Penetang | Caitlin Press |
| 2010 | Sarah Roberts | Wax Boats | Caitlin Press |
| 2010 | Deborah Willis | Vanishing and Other Stories | Penguin Canada |
| 2010 | Joey Comeau | Overqualified (withdrawn) | ECW Press |
| 2011 | Billie Livingston | Greedy Little Eyes | Vintage Canada |
| 2011 | Darcie Friesen Hossack | Mennonites Don't Dance | Thistledown Press |
| 2011 | Alexander MacLeod | Light Lifting | Biblioasis |
| 2011 | R. W. Gray | Crisp | NeWest Press |
| 2011 | Teri Vlassopoulos | Bats or Swallows | Invisible Publishing |
| 2012 | Ian Williams | Not Anyone's Anything | Freehand Books |
| 2012 | Jessica Westhead | And Also Sharks | Cormorant Books |
| 2012 | Daniel Griffin | Stopping for Strangers | Véhicule Press |
| 2012 | Andrew J. Borkowski | Copernicus Avenue | Cormorant Books |
| 2012 | Johanna Skibsrud | This Will Be Difficult to Explain | Hamish Hamilton Canada |
| 2013 | Rebecca Lee | Bobcat and Other Stories | Hamish Hamilton |
| 2013 | Anton Piatigorsky | The Iron Bridge | Goose Lane Editions |
| 2013 | John Vigna | Bull Head | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| 2013 | Paul Marlowe | Ether Frolics | Sybertooth |
| 2013 | Yasuko Thanh | Floating Like the Dead | McClelland & Stewart |
| 2014 | Paul Carlucci | The Secret Life of Fission | Oberon Press |
| 2014 | Astrid Blodgett | You Haven't Changed a Bit | University of Alberta Press |
| 2014 | Eufemia Fantetti | A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love | Mother Tongue Publishing |
| 2014 | Theodora Armstrong | Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility | House of Anansi |
| 2014 | Lisa Bird-Wilson | Just Pretending | Coteau Books |
| 2015 | Rivka Galchen | American Innovations | HarperCollins |
| 2015 | Eliza Robertson | Wallflowers | Hamish Hamilton |
| 2015 | Mireille Silcoff | Chez l'Arabe | House of Anansi |
| 2015 | Claire Battershill | Circus | McClelland and Stewart |
| 2015 | Janine Alyson Young | Hideout Hotel | Caitlin Press |
| 2016 | Heather O'Neill | Daydreams of Angels | HarperCollins |
| 2016 | Andrew Forbes | What You Need | Invisible Publishing |
| 2016 | Kevin Hardcastle | Debris | Biblioasis |
| 2016 | Gerard Beirne | In a Time of Drought and Hunger | Oberon Press |
| 2016 | Hugh Graham | Last Words | Exile Editions |
| 2017 | Kris Bertin | Bad Things Happen | Biblioasis |
| 2017 | Kerry Lee Powell | Willem deKooning's Paintbrush | HarperCollins |
| 2017 | Laura Trunkey | Double Dutch | Astoria |
| 2017 | Lyse Champagne | The Light That Remains | Enfield & Wizenty |
| 2017 | André Narbonne | Twelve Miles to Midnight | Black Moss Press |
| 2018 | Norma Dunning | Annie Muktuk and Other Stories | University of Alberta Press |
| 2018 | Dawn Dumont | Glass Beads | Thistledown Press |
| 2018 | David Huebert | Peninsula Sinking | Biblioasis |
| 2018 | Camilla Grudova | The Doll's Alphabet | Coach House Books |
| 2018 | Lori McNulty | Life on Mars | Goose Lane Editions |
| 2019 | Carrianne Leung | That Time I Loved You | HarperCollins |
| 2019 | Paige Cooper | Zolitude | Biblioasis |
| 2019 | Erin Frances Fisher | That Tiny Life | House of Anansi |
| 2019 | Djamila Ibrahim | Things Are Good Now | House of Anansi |
| 2019 | Marianne Micros | Eye | Guernica Editions |
| 2020 | Zalika Reid-Benta | Frying Plantain | Astoria |
| 2020 | Christy Ann Conlin | Watermark | Astoria |
| 2020 | Terry Doyle | Dig | Breakwater Books |
| 2020 | Darci Bysouth | Lost Boys | Thistledown Press |
| 2020 | Kat Cameron | The Eater of Dreams | Thistledown Press |
| 2021 | Jack Wang | We Two Alone | Astoria |
| 2021 | Kaie Kellough | Dominoes at the Crossroads | Esplanade Books |
| 2021 | Souvankham Thammavongsa | How to Pronounce Knife | McClelland & Stewart |
| 2021 | Frances Boyle | Seeking Shade | The Porcupine's Quill |
| 2021 | Sidura Ludwig | You Are Not What We Expected | Astoria |
| 2022 | Arnolda Dufour Bowes | 20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis | Gabriel Dumont Institute Press |
| 2022 | Silmy Abdullah | Home of the Floating Lily | Dundurn Press |
| 2022 | Gillian Wigmore | Night Watch: The Vet Suite | Invisible Publishing |
| 2022 | Helen Chau Bradley | Personal Attention Roleplay | Metonymy Press |
| 2022 | Meg Todd | Exit Strategies | Signature Editions |
| 2023 | Kim Fu | Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century | Coach House Books |
| 2023 | Nada Alic | Bad Thoughts | Vintage Books |
| 2023 | Saeed Teebi | Her First Palestinian | House of Anansi Press |
| 2023 | Kathy Friedman | All the Shining People | House of Anansi Press |
| 2023 | Rawi Hage | Stray Dogs | Knopf Canada |
| 2024 | Lisa Alward | Cocktail | Biblioasis |
| 2024 | Paola Ferrante | Her Body Among Animals | Book*hug |
| 2024 | Rebecca Hirsch Garcia | The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories | ECW Press |
| 2024 | Idman Nur Omar | The Private Apartments | House of Anansi Press |
| 2024 | Kathryn Mockler | Anecdotes | Book*hug |
    1.^ Comeau's Overqualified was withdrawn as it was not his debut short fiction collection. He already self-published It’s Too Late to Say I’m Sorry in 2007.