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This sent in from Craig Saunders At a gala ceremony on June 5, Sina Queyras won the National Magazine Award for poetry. The NMAs are Canada’s top prizes for magazine writing. The author of four books, including Teethmarks , Lemon Hound and the newly released Expressway , the Montreal poet won for “Her Dreams of the Expressway,” published in the Malahat Review . The silver award went to Vancouver poet Jennica Harper for “Liner Notes,” published in Prism International . Honorable mentions went to Warren Heiti, Michael Lista, Peter Richardson, Barry Dempster, Sylvia Legris, Amy Dennis, Lorna Crozier and Jan Zwicky . It was a banner night for the Malahat Review , which publishes out of the University of Victoria, British Columbia. The literary journal also won the gold and silver awards for fiction with stories by Andrew Tibbetts and D.W. Wilson , and a silver in the “personal journalism” category for “Bad Day” by Joel Yanofsky . AlbertaVie ws was named magazine of the year. The Walru...