Susie Taylor is the winner of the BMO Winterset Award for her short story collection, Vigil. In celebration of the prize's 25th anniversary, a one-time nonfiction prize was introduced and awarded to co-authors Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen for their book, Invisible Prisons.
Celebrating excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing, the BMO Winterset Award presented C$12,500 (about US$9,030) for each of the winning books. The two finalists were given C$3,000 (about US$2,170) each: Sara Power for fiction (Art of Camouflage) and Ashleigh Matthews for nonfiction (Otherwise Grossly Unremarkable).