Patricia Young

Patricia Young (born 1954 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, and short story writer.

She is married to writer Terence Young. Their daughter Clea Young is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Teardown was published in 2016.

Poetry

• Travelling the Floodwaters. Turnstone Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-88801-082-7.
• All I Ever Needed Was a Beautiful Room. Oolichan Books. 1987. ISBN 978-0-88982-073-9.
• The Mad and Beautiful Mothers. Ragweed Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-920304-79-2.
• Those Were the Mermaid Days. Ragweed Press. 1991. ISBN 0-921556-14-4.
• More Watery Still. Anansi. 1993. ISBN 978-0-88784-541-3.
• What I Remember From My Time on Earth: poems. Anansi. 1997. ISBN 978-0-88784-592-5.
• Ruin and Beauty. House of Anansi Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-88784-649-6.
• Here Come the Moonbathers. Biblioasis. 2008. ISBN 978-1-897231-43-2.
• An Auto-Erotic History of Swings. Sono Nis. 2010. ISBN 978-1-55039-178-7.
• Pilgrimage: Love Poems. JackPine Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-9865426-7-1.
• Stunned. Leaf Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-926655-35-2.
• Amateurs At Love. The Alfred Gustav Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-9877910-3-0.

Short stories

• Airstream. Biblioasis. 2006. ISBN 978-1-897231-01-2.

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

• Butler Prize, shortlist for Here Come The Moonbathers, 2009
• Airstream included on Globe and Mail's list of best 100 books of the year 2006
• Butler Prize, shortlist for Airstream, 2000
• Meltcalf-Rooke Award, for Airstream, 2006
• Governor General's Award nominee for Ruin & Beauty, 2000
• B.C. Book Prize for What I Remember From My Time On Earth, 1997
• Governor General's Award nominee for More Watery Still, 1993
• Pat Lowther Award for The Mad And Beautiful Mothers, 1989
• Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room, 1987

Prizes: poetry

• Federation of B. C. Writers, Literary Rites Competition, 1987, First Prize
• National Magazine Award, 1988
• C.B.C. Literary Competition, 1988, Second Prize
• League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Competition, Co-winner
• Aya Press Tenth Anniversary Literary Competition, First Prize, 1989
• League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, 1993, Second Prize
• Grain Prose Poem Contest, Co-winner, 1995
• League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, First Prize, 1996
• CV2 Annual Poetry Contest, First Prize, 1996
• Room of One's Own Poetry Contest, 1996
• League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, Second Prize, 1997
• George Woodcock Poetry Contest, Canada India Village Aid, First Prize, 1997
• The Stephen Leacock Poetry Award: The Orillia International Poetry Festival, 1997
• Mothertongue Chapbook Competition, second prize, 1998
• Grain Prose Poem Prize, co-winner, 1998
• Prairie Fire, Bliss Carmen Award, First Prize, 1998
• Grain Postcard Story Prize, Co-winner, 1999
• National Magazine Award for Poetry, silver, 1999
• Room of One's Own, Poetry Contest, second prize, 2007
• Prairie Fire, second prize, 2008
• Grain, Prose Poem Prize, Co-winner, 2008
• Arc's Poem of the Year Contest, first prize, 2008
• Room of One's Own Poetry Contest, second prize, 2008
• Fiddlehead Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention, 2009
• C. B. C. Literary Awards, finalist, 2009
• Malahat Review Long Poem Competition, shortlist, 2009 & 2011
• Arc's Poem of the Year Contest, first prize, 2009
• Malahat Review Open Season Award, shortlist, 2009 & 2012
• Bridport Poetry Prize (UK), shortlist, 2009
• C.B.C. Literary Awards, finalist, 2010
• Prism International Poetry Competition, Honourable Mention, 2010
• The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron Contest, Third Prize, 2010
• The New Quarterly, Occasional Verse Contest, Second Prize, 2010
• The Confederation Poet's Prize, 2010
• C.B.C. Literary Awards, finalist, 2011
• The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron Contest, First Prize, 2011
• Room of One's Own Poetry Contest, First Prize, 2011
• Montreal International Poetry Prize, shortlist, 2011
• Malahat Review, Open Season Award, shortlist, 2012
• Prism International Poetry Competition, Third Prize, 2012

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