Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition

The Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition is a biennial literary award, presented by Queen's University to plays by Canadian playwrights.^[1] The award was created in 1997, funded by a bequest to the university by the late playwright Herman Voaden.^[1]

The competition awards a first prize of $3,000 and a second prize of $2,000. In addition to the cash prizes, both the first and second prize winners receive workshop productions of their play at the Thousand Islands Playhouse.^[1] Honourable mentions are also given.

Winners

Year	Playwright	Play	Result	Ref.
1997	Brian Drader	The Norbals	Winner	[2]
	Richard Sanger	Two Words for Snow	Second Prize	[2]
	Hiro Kanagawa	Slants	Third Prize
1999	Greg Nelson	North	Winner	[3]
	Robert Fothergill	Borderline	Second Prize
	Michael MacLennan	The Shooting Stage	Third Prize	[4]
2001	Michael MacLennan	Last Romantics	Winner	[5]
	Kent Stetson	New Arcadia	Second Prize	[5]
	Sharon Cavanagh	Mr. Outplacement	Third Prize
2003	Jason Hall	Eyes Catch Fire	Winner	[6]
	Laurie Fyffe	The Malaysia Hotel	Second Prize
2005	Florence Gibson MacDonald	Missing	Winner
	Emma C. Roberts	Excellence, Ontario	Second Prize
2007	Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman	Scratch	Winner	[7]
	Kevin Loring	Where the Blood Mixes	Second Prize	[8]
2009	David Egan	Tom's-a-Cold	Winner
	Donna-Michelle St. Bernard	Gas Girls	Second Prize	[9]
2011	David James Brock	Wet	Winner	[10]
	David Egan	Yuri Gagarin Dreams of God	Second Prize
2013	Jordan Tannahill	Late Company	Winner	[11]
	Jessica Moss	Next to Him	Second Prize
2015	Norman Yeung	Theory	Winner
	Len Falkenstein	Lac/Athabasca	Second Prize
2017	Michael Kras	The Team	Winner	[12]
	Brian Drader	Happy	Second Prize	[12]
2019	Damian Tarnopolsky	The Defence	Winner	[13]
	Marc-André Blanchard	The Brothers Gentle	Second Prize	[13]
2021	Jennifer Walton	Gunplay (After the Gun Goes Off)	Winner
	Zahida Rahemtulla	The Frontliners	Second Prize
2023	Brandon Zang	Ah Wing and the Automaton Eagle	Winner
	Alexander Steele Zonjic	Community Standards or (Move Fast and Break Things)	Second Prize