April 2005: Biblioasis wins an Alcuin Design Award for Straight Razor and Other Poems, placing second in it's category.
October 2005: Patricia Young wins the first Metcalf-Rooke Award for unpublished fiction. The shortlist also includes Julie Booker, Patricia Robertson and Patrick Roscoe.
February 11, 2006: Goran Simic receives the People's Prize from Zachariah Wells at an event in Toronto
March 6th, 2006: 2 books by Goran Simic, From Sarajevo With Sorrow (poetry) and Yesterday's People (short fiction), make Relit Longlist
April 28th, 2006: Goran Simic's Yesterday's People shortlisted for the $10,000 Danuta Gleed Award for first short story collection
June 1st, 2006: Goran Simic's short fiction collection Yesterday's People makes the Re-Lit short-list.
November 30th, 2006: Kathleen Winter wins 2nd Annual Metcalf Rooke Award for her collection boYS
April 15th, 2007: David Hickey's In The Lights of a Midnight Plow shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award for Poetry
July 20th, 2007: 3rd Annual Metcalf-Rooke Award for Fiction underway. Deadline September 30th, 2007.