Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author â Fred Wah April 22, 2021 Fred Wah is a BC poet who has published books of poetry, fiction, and criticism. His book of prose poems Waiting For Saskatchewan received the Governor General’s Award in 1986 and So Far was awarded the Stephanson Award for Poetry in 1992. Diamond Grill was published in 1996 and won the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction. Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity was awarded the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Writing in 2000 and is a door won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2009. Two recent poetry books involving collaborative projects are Sentenced to Light (2008) and, with Rita Wong,