Debut longlisted for Cogswell Award
December 17th, 2025
I Feel That Way Too (Nightwood Editions $19.95) by jaz papadopoulos has been longlisted for the 2025 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry, administered by the Royal City Literary Arts Society. The award, judged this year by poet Cecily Nicholson, recognizes outstanding poetry collections published in Canada. The winner, to be announced in spring 2026, will receive a $500 prize.
Fred Cogswell (1917–2004) was a prolific poet, editor, professor, life member of the League of Canadian Poets and an Officer of the Order of Canada. For more information about the organization and the other nominated titles, please visit: https://rclas.com/2025-fred-cogswell-award/.
Published by Nightwood Editions, I Feel That Way Too is papadopoulos’s debut poetry collection and a critical, formally inventive response to the #MeToo movement. Working in narrative poetics, the book moves between past and present, drawing on art, philosophy, childhood memory and the Jian Ghomeshi trial to examine how media and social power structures sustain patriarchal ideologies. In a review for CV2, Hannah Godfrey writes that the collection articulates shared emotional experiences in language that offers both recognition and relief from isolation.
Based in Vernon, BC, jaz papadopoulos (they/them) is an interdisciplinary writer, educator and video artist, a Lambda Literary Fellow and a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s MFA program. Reacting to the longlist announcement, papadopoulos said they were honoured to be included alongside writers they admire, noting that the recognition has been motivating as they turn their attention to a next book. 9780889714687.
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