Patricia Young (born 1954) is a Canadian poet, and short story writer. She has won numerous poetry competitions and literary awards, including the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Competition and Pat Lowther Award.
Poetry
Short stories
Anthologies A Walk by the Seine, Canadian Poets on Paris. (Black Moss Press, 1996) Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry. (Monitor Book Co., 1995/96). Making Connections: Literacy from a Feminist Perspective. (Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women, 1996)
Awards and nominations 1987: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room 1989: Pat Lowther Award for The Mad And Beautiful Mothers 1993: Governor General's Award nominee for More Watery Still 1997: B.C. Book Prize for What I Remember From My Time On Earth 2000: Governor General's Award nominee for Ruin & Beauty 2000: Butler Prize, shortlist for Airstream 2006: Airstream included on Globe and Mail's list of best 100 books of the year 2006: Meltcalf-Rooke Award, for Airstream 2009: Butler Prize, shortlist for Here Come the Moonbathers
Prizes: poetry YearPrizeResult1987Federation of B. C. Writers, Literary Rites CompetitionFirst1988National Magazine AwardFirstC.B.C. Literary CompetitionSecondLeague of Canadian Poets National Poetry CompetitionCo-winner1989Aya Press Tenth Anniversary Literary CompetitionFirst1993League of Canadian Poets National Poetry ContestSecond1995Grain Prose Poem ContestCo-winner1996League of Canadian Poets National Poetry ContestFirstCV2 Annual Poetry ContestFirstRoom of One's Own Poetry Contest1997League of Canadian Poets National Poetry ContestSecondGeorge Woodcock Poetry Contest, Canada India Village AidFirstThe Stephen Leacock Poetry Award: The Orillia International Poetry Festival1998Mothertongue Chapbook CompetitionSecondGrain Prose Poem PrizeCo-winnerPrairie Fire, Bliss Carmen AwardFirst1999Grain Postcard Story PrizeCo-winnerNational Magazine Award for PoetrySilver2007Room of One's Own, Poetry ContestSecond2008Prairie FireSecondGrain, Prose Poem PrizeCo-winnerArc's Poem of the Year ContestFirstRoom of One's Own Poetry ContestSecond2009Fiddlehead Poetry ContestHonourable mentionC. B. C. Literary AwardsFinalistArc's Poem of the Year ContestFirstBridport Poetry Prize (UK)Shortlist2009, 2011Malahat Review Long Poem CompetitionShortlist2009, 2012Malahat Review Open Season AwardShortlist2010C.B.C. Literary AwardsFinalistPrism International Poetry CompetitionHonourable MentionThe Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron ContestThirdThe New Quarterly, Occasional Verse ContestSecondThe Confederation Poet's Prize2011C.B.C. Literary AwardsFinalistThe Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron ContestFirstRoom of One's Own Poetry ContestFirstMontreal International Poetry PrizeShortlist2012Malahat Review, Open Season AwardShortlistPrism International Poetry CompetitionThird
Prizes: fiction Other Voices Fiction Award, First Prize, 2000 Matrix, First Prize, 2001 Fiddlehead Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention 2001 Other Voices Fiction Award, First Prize, 2001 Fiddlehead Fiction Prize, Honorable Mention, 2002 Room of One's Own Fiction Prize, First Prize, 2003 Fiddlehead Fiction Prize, Honorable Mention, 2004 Journey Prize, 2004, Short-list This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt, Second Prize, 2006
Personal life Young was born in Victoria, British Columbia. She married to writer Terence Young.Katherine Dedyna, "Husband and wife vie for city book prize". Victoria Times-Colonist, October 10, 2007. Their daughter, Clea Young, is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Teardown was published in 2016.M. A. C. Farrant, "Review: Clea Young's short stories are as smart as they are astute". Vancouver Sun, November 19, 2016.
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