Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award

The Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, established in 1996, was an annual prize given by the Canadian Poetry Association. It was named in memory of Shaunt Basmajian, a founder of the association. It was an annual manuscript publication competition and award. The contest was open to members and non-members alike and was administered by the Writers Resource Center in London, Ontario as of November each year. Book cover images can be found at HMS Press (Toronto/London) Canada. 2008 was the final year of the contest.
Winners
*1997: Roger Bell, Luke and the Wolf
*1998: Alice Major, Scenes from the Sugar Bowl Café
*1999: Liz Zetlin, The Gourd Poems
*2000: Linda Rogers, Grief Sits Down
*2001: Sue Chenette, The Time Between Us
*2002: K. V. Skene, Only a Dragon.
*2003: Louise Murphy, Pilgrimage
*2004: K. V. Skene, Calendar of Rain
*2005: kevin mcpherson eckhoff, signs of divorce, and Cornelia Hoogland, Second Marriage
*2006: Kate Marshall Flaherty, Unfathom
*2007: Vicki Goodfellow Duke, The Year We Quit Believing
*2008: J. J. Steinfeld, Where War Finds You