Ben Ladouceur
Ben Ladouceur is the author of the novel I Remember Lights and two poetry collections. He has received the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers, the National Magazine Award for Poetry, the Earle Birney Prize, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Thomas Morton Fiction Prize, and the Archibald Lampman Award. Ladouceur has also been nominated for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and the bpNichol Chapbook Award. He has completed writing residencies at the Al Purdy A-Frame and the University of Ottawa, where he has taught poetry.
Writers & Books
Award History
2018 - Winner
Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
Jury Citation
“Ben Ladouceur’s Otter is a supremely, almost eerily assured first collection. His poetry is cunning and supple, chatty and tender, artfully antic. Sifting through these pieces one gets the sense of an artist who has long ago absorbed and synthesized his influences, who is incapable of the derivative or the repetitive. Ladouceur’s innate wit and feel for narrative indicate an expansive sensibility that will effortlessly span genres in years to come. He is all one could hope for in a new writer: someone with chops and fodder, someone fully formed and bent on risk.” -- 2018 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers Jury (Ali Blythe, Greg Kearney, and Shannon Webb-Campbell)Juror History
Works Recognized by WT