ADÈLE BARCLAY

ADÈLE BARCLAY is the winner of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry, The Walrus’ 2016 Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry, The Fiddlehead’s 2022 Fiction Prize, and TNQ‘s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest.  Her essay “Cobra Blue Mustang Strat” won Gold at the National Magazine Awards in 2025. Their debut poetry collection, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Renaissance Normcore was nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the ReLit Award and placed third for the 2020 Fred Cogswell Award. Essays from their forthcoming memoir Black Cherry have received numerous nominations from The Fiddlehead, The Malahat, TNQ, and CRAFT Literary and placed in contests by Room, PRISM international, and Event. They teach creative writing and literature at Capilano University.