| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 2002 | The Invisible World | Louisiana State University Press | $5,000 | Sherod Santos |
John Canaday has published poems in New England Review, The Paris Review, Raritan, and Slate, among other journals and anthologies. He is a winner of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Playwriting and the New Millennium Poetry Award, and he has been the Starbuck Fellow in Poetry at Boston University, a Watson Fellow in England, and a tutor to the Royal Family in Jordan.