Susan was selected for the Shortlist for the prestigious 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize for her book of poetry, Exculpatory Lilies.
- Facebook Video: Susan Musgrave reads “Exculpatory Lilies”
- Youtube Video: Susan Musgrave reads “Exculpatory Lilies”
- Griffin Poetry Prize - "Exculpatory Lilies", Poem of the Week
- Susan Musgrave Still in the Running for 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize - TheGlobeandMail.com
- Power to the Poets: Griffin Prize Finalists on the Power of Poetry - The Star
- 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings - The Royal Conservatory
- B.C. writer Susan Musgrave named to The Griffin Poetry Prize 2023 Shortlist
- Canadians Susan Musgrave, Iman Mersal make revamped Griffin Poetry Prize Short List
Past Literary Awards
Awards Include:
Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Children's Books and as Editor
Exculpatory Lilies shortlisted for Governor General’s Award for Poetry, 2023
Exculpatory Lilies shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize
- HONOURABLE MENTION, Exculpatory Lilies, 1st Annual Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards for BC Authors 2023
- Tears of Things Wins Gold at Magazine Awards for Best Poetry, 2023
- Shortlisted Griffin Poetry Prize, June, 2023, for Exculpatory Lilies.
- George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award, 2023
- Exculpatory Lilies Globe and Mail 100 Best Books of the Year, 2022
- Longlisted Frontier OPEN, top 3% of submissions: “The Spinning Want the Still to Spin,” 2021
- Short-listed, Fish Poetry Prize (Ireland) May 2021 “The Colour of Water”
- First Prize, Arc’s Award of Awesomeness, September 2020
- Third Prize, Fish Poetry Prize (Ireland) Judge Billy Collins, May 2020 for poem “Wild and Alone”
- Gold winner, Taste Canada Awards for A Taste of Haida Gwaii November 14, 2016:
- Bill Duthie Bookseller’s Choice Award (BC Book Awards) for A Taste of Haida Gwaii April 30, 2016
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life (presented by the Writer’s Trust) 2014
- Toronto Public Library 2012 First & Best Booklist in Canadian books for children from birth to age five: Kiss, Tickle, Cuddle, Hug
- Second Annual CBC Bookie Awards Finalist, 2012
- Accenti Writing Contest, April 14, 2012 “Silent in its Shout” (personal essay) first prize ($1000)
- Spirit Bear Award, 2012: The tribute recognizes the significance of a vital and enduring contribution to the poetry of the Pacific Northwest, and is presented every two years. The award was founded in 2010 by B.C. authors Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier. Lane calls Musgrave one of Canada’s most remarkable and enduring writers. “Her presence as a writer and teacher has changed this land of ours. Her books have named and placed us spiritually,” Lane said in a news release. “Her artistic presence over the past 40 years has helped create who we are. She is as important to us as Emily Carr. Her continuing legacy will long endure.”
- B.C. Civil Liberties Association 50th Anniversary Award for contributions in the area of the arts, for writing, 2012
- University of Victoria 50th-Anniversary Prize: The Malahat Review Second Prize, 2012: “Personal Effects”
- Lush Triumphant Literary Awards Competition (SubTerran Magazine) First Prize, 2012, “The Goodness of this World”
- Origami Dove, Shortlisted for Governor General’s Award for Poetry, 2011
- Origami Dove Globe and Mail 100 Best Books of the Year, 2011
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Pandora Collective, Vancouver, B.C. 2010
- Short-listed: ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award for children’s/YA non-fiction, US, for Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls (Annick Press, series editor) 2002
- Short-listed for the Norman Fleck Award or Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls (Annick Press, series editor) 2002
- Honourable Mention Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, 2000, for Things That Keep and Do Not Change
- National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism, “Visitor’s Rites,” in Saturday Night, 2000
- Winner, B.C. Book Award for Breaking the Surface (Sono Nis). Editor. 2000
- Panty Lines Anthology: First Prize for “Ice-Age Lingerie,” 1999
- Dreams are More Real than Bathtubs (Orca) selected by The Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Our Choice 1999-2000
- Vicky Metcalf Short Story Editor’s Award, 1996
- CBC/Saturday Night/Tilden Award for Poetry, 1996 (First Prize)
- Short-listed for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, for Musgrave Landing: Musings on the Writing Life,
- Readers’ Choice Award for poems published in the Winter 1993 edition of Prairie Schooner
- First Prize b.p. nichol Poetry Chapbook Award for In the Small Hours of the Rain: Reference West, 1991
- Short-listed for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, for Great Musgrave, 1990
- P. Adams Short Fiction Award (Third Prize) for “The Remains Of Edward’s”, published in Negative Capability, Mobile, Alabama,1989
- A Man to Marry, A Man to Bury, short-listed for Governor General’s Award for Poetry, 1979
- DuMaurier Magazine Award (silver), 1992
- Finalist In Seal First Novel Competition, McClelland & Stewart, for The Charcoal Burners, 1980
- The Charcoal Burners short-listed for Governor General’s Award, 1981
- Grave-Dirt and Selected Strawberries short-listed for Governor General’s Award, 1974
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