Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award

The Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, established in 1996, was an annual prize given by the Canadian Poetry Association. It was named in memory of Shaunt Basmajian, a founder of the association. It was an annual manuscript publication competition and award. The contest was open to members and non-members alike and was administered by the Writers Resource Center in London, Ontario as of November each year. Book cover images can be found at HMS Press (Toronto/London) Canada. 2008 was the final year of the contest.

Winners

 * 1997: Roger Bell, Luke and the Wolf ISBN 0-9694127-3-8,
 * 1998: Alice Major, Scenes from the Sugar Bowl Café ISBN 0-9694127-4-6
 * 1999: Liz Zetlin, The Gourd Poems ISBN 0-9686018-0-4
 * 2000: Linda Rogers, Grief Sits Down ISBN 0-9686018-2-0
 * 2001: Sue Chenette, The Time Between Us ISBN 0-9686018-4-7
 * 2002: K. V. Skene, Only a Dragon. ISBN 0-9686018-6-3
 * 2003: Louise Murphy, Pilgrimage ISBN 0-9686018-9-8
 * 2004: K. V. Skene, Calendar of Rain ISBN 0-9734609-1-1
 * 2005: kevin mcpherson eckhoff, signs of divorce concrete poetry ISBN 1-55253-062-0, and Cornelia Hoogland, Second Marriage ISBN 1-55253-061-2
 * 2006: Kate Marshall Flaherty, Unfathom ISBN 978-1-55253-065-8
 * 2007: Vicki Goodfellow Duke, The Year We Quit Believing ISBN 978-1-55253-053-5
 * 2008: J. J. Steinfeld, Where War Finds You ISBN 978-1-55253-069-6