Congratulations from all of us at the Royal City Literary Arts Society!

We are pleased to announce the 2026 Longlist for our
13th Annual Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence in Poetry.

Thank you to our 2026 Cogswell Award Judge, Kevin Spenst!
We appreciate your hard work and dedication.

Our finalists in alphabetical order:

Tabako on the Windowsill by Hari Alluri (Brick Books)

Long Exposure by Stephanie Bolster (Palimpsest Press)

A Bow Forged from Ash by Melissa Powless Day (Palimpsest Press)

Several Small Animals Enclosed in a Benedictine Monastery by Vera Hadzic (Anvil Press)

Devotional Forensics by Joseph Kidney (icehouse poetry | Goose Lane Editions)

What We Know So Far Is …by Conor Mc Donnell (Buckrider Books | Wolsak & Wynn Publishers)

Unravel by Tolu Oloruntoba (McClelland & Stewart | Penguin Random House)

Myth by Terese Mason Pierre (House of Anansi)

Wellwater by Karen Solie (House of Anansi)

Bonememory by Anna Veprinska (University of Calgary Press)

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