RECENT AWARDS
Winner
Awarded the Sator New Works Award from Two Dollar Radio (for My Volcano).
Winner of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers from The Writers’ Trust of Canada for "Selections from Junebat." May 2019.
Winner of The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize for "Cold Dying Black Wet Cold Early Thing." April 2019. Read an interview about the winning poem here.
Finalist
“Foundations,” shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2024 Novella Prize. Read Foundations in Bad Houses.
My Volcano, longlisted for Brooklyn Public Library’s 2022 Book Prize for Fiction.
Vanishing Monuments, shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. May 2021.
Junebat, shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Prize from the League of Canadian Poets. April 2021.
“All Hearts Feed Horses,” & “Gender, OK” shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year contest, 2021.
“Coven Covets Boy,” longlisted for the Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. August 2020.
Finalist for the National Magazine Awards (Canada) prize for Poetry for "Cold Dying Black Wet Cold Early Thing." May 2020.
“The Sea That Has Become Known,” shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2020 Novella Prize.
Recent Grants and Residencies
Awarded a residency at the Queens University Biological Station (QUBS), July 2022.
Awarded a two-year Research and Creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. September 2020.
Awarded a position as an Artist in Residence at The Watermill Center, November-December 2018.
Awarded a Research and Creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. 2017.
Me with my 2019 Bronwen Wallace Award, flanked by Shelagh Rogers and Carolyn Smart.
RECENT PRESS:
2021
“13 Must-Read Books For Trans Day Of Visibility” on Buzzfeed (Vanishing Monuments)
“F Answering the Questions: A Conversation with John Elizabeth Stintzi” in The Adroit Journal (Vanishing Monuments)
2020
“An Awakening: Interview with John Elizabeth Stintzi” on UM Today.
“The Chat with John Elizabeth Stintzi” on 49th Shelf (Junebat)
“6 Queer Debuts To Read During Pride Month” in Kirkus Reviews (Vanishing Monuments)
“Writing complicated trans characters with John Elizabeth Stintzi” in Xtra (Vanishing Monuments)
“Split City Asks: John Elizabeth Stintzi” on Split City Reads
11 Must-Read Books For May from Chicago Review of Books (Vanishing Monuments).
Gender, identity and memory: debut writer John Elizabeth Stintzi scores a coup with two releases within a week from the Toronto Star (Junebat & Vanishing Monuments).
Why We Should Read Poetry: Ten poets offer recommendations on where to start and the poems that inspire them most for BOMB Magazine (Junebat).
15 Books and Authors Hurt by the Coronavirus from Publisher’s Weekly (Vanishing Monuments).
14 Highly Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books Coming This Spring from Electric Literature (Junebat).
Cover story for Quill & Quire’s April 2020 Poetry issue (Junebat & Vanishing Monuments).
14 Upcoming Queer Books to Get You Through to Summer from Them. (Vanishing Monuments).
Reads for the Rest of Us: Feminist Books Coming Out in 2020 from Ms. Magazine (Junebat & Vanishing Monuments).
Twenty books you need to know about in Spring 2020 from The Toronto Star (Vanishing Monuments and Junebat)
15 of the Most Anticipated Books by LGBTQ Authors For the First Half of 2020 by LitHub (Vanishing Monuments, with a shout out to Junebat)
Most Anticipated Spring 2020 Fiction Preview by 49th Shelf (Vanishing Monuments)
2019
CBC Books: John Elizabeth Stintzi wins $10K RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging writers
CBC Books: 3 emerging Canadian writers in the running for $10K RBC Bronwen Wallace Award
CBC Thunder Bay: Northwestern Ontario authors recognized as emerging writers through RBC award
CBC Books: John Elizabeth Stintzi wins $10K RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging writers
Page Fright Podcast: 13. John Elizabeth Stintzi
Plenitude Magazine: The Unstable, Fluid Identity: An Interview with John Elizabeth Stintzi
Adroit Journal: Oh, Canada: knife | fork | book Poets John Stintzi and Lauren Turner
Black Warrior Review: 44.2 Feature: An Interview with John Stintzi