Alberta Culture, Film and Literary Arts Non-Fiction Award
Archibald Lampman Poetry Award
Atlantic Poetry Prize
Arthur Ellis Award
Atlantic Booksellers Choice Award
The B. C. Book Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers.
The Booker Prize (or the Booker McConnell Prize, for the more exacting among you) was founded in 1969 by Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company.
Administered by Book Trust in the United Kingdom, this prestigious award is given to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the U.K., the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa.
The Booker Prize represents the very best of contemporary fiction. One of the world's most famous literary prizes, it continues to be the ultimate accolade for every fiction writer. Established by Booker plc in 1968, the prize aims to reward the best novel of the year. The Booker judges are selected from the country's leading critics, writers and academics to maintain the consistent excellence of the prize. The winner receives £21,000 and both the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a worldwide audience and a dramatic increase in book sales.
UK publishers may enter up to two full-length novels for a specific year. In addition, any title by an author who has won the Booker Prize in the past ten years and any title by an author who has been shortlisted in the last ten years may be submitted.
Canada Council Prize for Translation
Canada-Australia Prize
Canada-Japan Book Award
The Canada-Japan Literary Awards recognize literary excellence by Canadian writers who are writing on Japan, Japanese themes, or themes that promote mutual understanding between Japan and Canada or by Canadian translators of such books from Japanese into English or French. Up to $20,000 is available every two years for the literary awards.
Awards will be given for literary excellence to authors of published first-edition trade books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama - in English or French - on Japan, Japanese themes or themes that promote mutual understanding between Japan and Canada. Authors must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada. Canadian translators of works in the same genres translated from Japanese into English or French are also eligible.
Two to four awards valued at $5,000 or $10,000 may be awarded. The awards will be allocated in a way that is approximately proportionate to the number of books submitted in English and in French. Publishers of winning books will receive $1,500 for the promotion of the prize-winning books.
Canadian Authors Association Awards
The CAA administers five awards for full-length English-language literature for adults by Canadian authors "honouring writing that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal." For the 2001 awards:
The CAA MOSAID Technology, Inc. Award
For fiction: for a full-length novel.
The CAA Award for Poetry
For a volume of poetry by one poet.
The CAA Jubilee Award for Short Stories
"to recognize excellence in the art of short story writing, this award is given for a book collection by a single author."
The CAA Lela Common Award for Canadian History
"to recognize excellence in the writing of Canadian history."
The CAA Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography
"to recognize excellence in the writing of Canadian Biography."
The CAA Vicky Metcalf Awards
The CAA Vicky Metcalf Awards "honouring writing inspirational to Canadian youth" were created in 1963 by the Toronto librarian whose name they bear. There are now three separate categories.
The Body of Work Award of $10,000 goes to a Canadian author who has published a minimum of four books (fiction, non-fiction, poetry and/or picture books) inspirational to young people.
The Short Story Award of $3,000 is for a Canadian author of a short story, in English, published in a periodical or anthology during 2000. Publication may be outside Canada as long as the nominee is a Canadian by birth or naturalization, or a landed immigrant.
The Editor's Award $1,000 is given to the editor of the winning short story, if it is published in a Canadian periodical, anthology or collection.
CAA Air Canada Award honours a promising writer under 30 years of age with a two tickets to any Air Canada destination.
The Allan Sangster Award honours one of the CAA's own members for extraordinary service to the Association.
Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards
Canadian Historical Association Awards
Canadian Sports Book of the Year
The Canadian Literary Awards were created in 1979 by writer and broadcaster Robert Weaver. This year, the awards have formed a new partnership with Air Canada's enRoute magazine and The Canada Council for the Arts to seek out and promote new Canadian writers. In addition, this is the first time the French and English networks have combined their literary awards in a major commitment to talent development in both languages. Past winners of the Award represent a who's who of Canadian authors. Recipients have included Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Barry Callaghan, Bonnie Burnard, Gail Anderson Dargatz, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Gwendolyn MacEwan, Susan Musgrave and Shauna Singh Baldwin.
Two prizes are offered in each category for each language:
First Prize: $ 6,000
Second Prize: $ 4,000
These cash prizes cover the rights for publication in Air Canada's enRoute magazine as well as the recording and broadcast of a reading of the winning entries on CBC Radio. In the case of first prize winners, it also covers the rights to translation, by a person commissioned by CBC, recording and broadcast of a reading on CBC's French Radio.
CBA Libris Award for Best Specialty Book of the Year
CBA Libris Award for Best Specialty Book of the Year
Originally given by Books in Canada, the national review magazine and now co sponsored by Chapters. Previously known as SmithBooks/ Books in Canada award.
The Charles Taylor Prize
For Canadian literary non-fiction. $25,000 in prize money, offered every other year.The prize, commemorating essayist Charles Taylor, is awarded to the author whose book best demonstrates "an uncommon command of the English language, an elegance of style and a subtlety of thought and perception."
City of Dartmouth Book and Writing Award
The City of Edmonton Book Prize
The City of Edmonton Book Prize Was established by the City Council in 1995 to honour the books which contribute to the appreciation and understanding of the City of Edmonton by emphasizing its special character and/or achievements of its residents. The value of the award is $2,000.
The City of Toronto Book Award
The Toronto Book Awards are presented annually to authors whose books are evocative of Toronto and are of literary and artistic merit. These annual awards offer $15,000 in prize money. Each short-listed author receives $1,000 and the winning author is awarded the remainder.
The Commmonwealth Writers Prize
The Commonwealth Writers Prize is adminstered by Booktrust on behalf of the Commonwealth Foundation.
Any work of prose fiction is eligible, i.e. a novel or collection of short stories. Drama and poetry are ineligible.
The work must have been written by a citizen of the Commonwealth, must be of a reasonable length and be in English. For a work to be eligible, its author must be alive on the closing date for entries.
The regional winners for the 2002 prize have been announced. Atonement by Ian McEwan and The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer are among the books shortlisted for the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
The 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize will be awarded in April 2002 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
In 2002 there will be one award of £10,000 for the best book submitted and an award of £3,000 for the best first published book. In each of the four regions of the Commonwealth two prizes of £1,000 will be awarded: one for the best book and one for the best first published book.
C.P. Stacey Award
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The Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize
from The Writer's Trust of Canada
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
F.G. Bressani Prize
Floyd Chalmers Prize for Drama
Gabrielle Roy Prize
Gemini Award
Gerald R. Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry
Founded in 1994 by Montreal real-estate businessman Jack Rabinovich as a tribute to his late wife, Doris Giller. She had been prominent in the Canadian literary community as a
reporter and editor at three major daily newspapers prior to her death in 1993. The prize goes to the best Canadian novel or short story collection published each year in English.
Announced in November.
Gordon Montador Award
Governor General's Awards
Awarded in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text and illustration) and translation.
Canada's foremost literary prize, begun in 1937. Administered by the Canada Council, the jury reviews all books published by Canadian authors published in Canada or abroad during the previous year (Oct. 1 - Sept 30). The winners each receive a medal, $15,000 and a specially bound copy of his/her award winning book.
The Griffin Poetry Prize
The Griffin Poetry Prize, valued at C$80,000, is awarded annually in two categories – International and Canadian. Each prize is worth C$40,000. In each category, the prize is for the best collection of poetry in English published during the preceding year. One prize will go to a living Canadian poet or translator, the other to a living poet or translator from any country, which may include Canada – see 3(c), (d) and (e). Translations will be assessed for their quality as poetry in English; the focus will be on the achievement of the translator. Should a prize-winning book be a translation from a living poet, the prize will be awarded 60% to the translator and 40% to the original poet. If the original poet is dead, but his/her work is within copyright, 40% of the prize will be given to the original poet’s estate. Otherwise, the disbursement of 40% of the prize will be left to the discretion of the judges.
The Gustavus Myers Award
The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America gives an annual book award for outstanding books published each year which extend our understanding of the root causes of bigotry and of the range of options we as humans have in constructing alternative, shared power relationships.
The Heritage Canada Journalism Prize
This award is to be presented annually to a journalist, working in either the print or electronic media, whose coverage of heritage issues is judged to be outstanding. Nominations for the award will be accepted from individuals or organizations, provided that the nominator is not directly related to, employed by, or in any other way directly associated with, the journalist in question. These nominations, in turn, will be assessed by a national jury of outside experts similarly independent of the proposed candidate.
Heritage Toronto
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Independent Publisher Book Awards
Independent, university, small press, and self-publishers throughout North America may enter.Winners receive trophies; finalists receive certificates. $5000 in cash awards will go the ten outstanding books of the year. A yearlong publicity blitz will include the Web, other media, bookstores, libraries, and international book fairs.
The Isabel Miller Young Writers Award (Poetry or Fiction)
(Formerly CWA's Isabel Miller Award)
First Prize: $300 (cash prize or partial scholarship to attend YouthWrite, the WGA's summer writing camp for kids)
Second Prize: $200 (cash prize or partial scholarship to attend YouthWrite)
Third Prize: $100 (cash prize or partial scholarship to attend YouthWrite)?
Eligibility: You Must be 12 - 18 years of age and a resident of Alberta.
There are three prizes to be awarded: $1,000 for the winning entry and two $500 prizes for runners up.
Janice E. Handford Award
The OBPO administers the Janice E. Handford Award, given each year at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in recognition of an individual who has advanced the cause of small and literary Canadian publishing. Established in 1997, past winners include Jack David, Roy Macskimming, Angela Rebeiro, Judy Mappin and Simon Dardick.
Jewish Book Awards
Jewish Quarterly
John Wesley Dafoe Foundation
League of Canadian Poets Awards
Manitoba Writers' Guild
Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation
Awarded to a book translated into English
The $10,000 Journey Prize is awarded annually to a new and developing writer of distinction for a short story published in a Canadian literary publication. This award is made possible by James A. Michener's generous donation of his Canadian royalties earnings from his novel Journey, published by McClelland & Stewart in 1988. The Journey Prize itself is the most significant monetary award given in Canada to a writer at the beginning of his or her career for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work in progress.
Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award
National Business Book Award
The O. Henry Awards
The O. Henry awards are given each year to the best short fiction by Canadian and American authors published in Canadian and American magazines. All of the 3,000 or so stories published over the year are whittled down to about two dozen, which are then published together in one volume, called Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards collection.
Ottawa Citizen
Pat Lowther Memorial Award
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QSPELL Award for Poetry and Fiction
ReLit Award
Royal Society of Literature
Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award
A national award for a children’s picture book and for a young adult/middle reader book which recognizes authors and illustrators from across Canada who demonstrate artistic excellence in children’s literature.
Established in 1976 by Sylvia Schwartz in honour of her sister, the late Ruth Schwartz, a respected Toronto bookseller, the Ontario Arts Council selects an Ontario school to provide the juries for the prizes. It is administered by the Ontario Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council Foundation, and the Canadian Booksellers Association.
Saskatchewan Book Awards
Spoken and Electronic Words Program
Canda Council Grant
The Spoken and Electronic Words Program supports innovative literary projects that are not based on conventional book or printed magazine formats.
Grants are for the creation, production, performance, broadcast or dissemination of spoken or electronic literature. This includes dub and rap poetry, poetry performance, storytelling, poetry videos, Web poetry, e-zines, and other literary expression published or broadcast electronically. This program gives priority to innovative projects that extend the boundaries of literary expression.
Grants range from $1,000 to $20,000, depending upon the nature of the project. Eligible costs include creation, production and dissemination costs, and performance travel costs and fees. Where applicable, the performer’s fees should also be included. Requests for the higher amounts are very competitive: for these, priority is given to projects with a national scope and those involving artists with a significant profile (in the case of grant amounts higher than $15,000).
Spoken and Electronic Words Program grants may also be used to offset subsistence costs (to a maximum of $2,000 per month) to allow artists to concentrate on their project. Grant recipients will be expected to devote the majority of their time to the project for which they receive funding.
The Canada Council’s contribution is not intended to cover all the costs of a performance or project; applicants are expected to raise some revenues through other sources of funding, the sale of tickets or the sale of materials produced.
Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour
Awarded to a Canadian writer for literary humour (can be fiction or non fiction). Named for Stephen Leacock who was a celebrated humourist of the early 1900's. Announced in April, presented in June.
Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
The Tom Fairly Award for Editorial Excellence
The Freelance Editor's Association of Canada (EAC's forerunner) established the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence in 1983 to recognize the editor's often invisible contribution to written communication. Nominations are open to all editors—both freelance and in-house. The award is for an editor's outstanding contribution to a work published in Canada in English or French during a stated calendar year. Any type of written project -- book, magazine, government or corporate report, software documentation -- is eligible, as is any type of editorial work. Nominees are limited to one submission per year. This submission can comprise a single item or several items from a related series of titles. For work published in any given year, the deadline for nominations is in late February of the following year, with supporting documentation due a week or two later.
Toronto Star Short Story Prize
1st Prize:$10,000
2nd Prize: $3,000
3rd prize: $1,000
Runners-up: $200 each
The annual contest is open to all residents of Canada and Canadian citizens, if a writer lives abroad.
Trillium Book Award
Sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation in partnership with the Association of Canadian Publishers. Books can be of any genre: fiction, essays, poetry, drama, childrens, etc. The author must be a Canadian and must have lived in Ontario for at least 3 of the past 5 years. Announced in April for previous year.
Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award
Major children's fiction award
First awarded in 1998, this prize to honours Canadian authors and playwrights. It is given to a Canadian author who has produced an outstanding body of work, has acted as a "caring mentor", and has published a work of fiction or a stage play in the last three years leading up to the prize. It is administered by The Writers' Development Trust in collaboration with the W.O. Mitchell Prize Committee. Every three years the prize will be given to works in French. Presented in June.
Winterset Award for Excellence in Newfoundland Writing
Writers'Alliance of Newfoundland & Labrador
Writers Development Trust Awards
Marian Engel Award
Inaugurated in 1986 to honour the memory of writer Marian Engel, this prize is awarded each year to a female Canadian writer in mid-career. It is presented by the Writers'
Development Trust and provides a cash award of $10,000 to the winner. Awarded in November.
Writers Federation of Nova Scotia
Writers Guild of Alberta Awards
Writers Trust of Canada Awards
Writers' Union of Canada Awards
annual Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, with a prize of $2,500
$25 fee per entry, cheque or money order made payable to The Writers' Union of Canada. Entries must be postmarked no later than November 3, 2002.
annual Writing for Children Competition, with a prize of $1,500
Fiction or non-fiction prose for children (no illustrations), up to 1500 words, English language, not previously published in any format. The winning entry and the entries of the 11 finalists will be submitted to a Canadian publisher of children’s books. Competition is open to Canadian citizens or landed immigrants who have not been published in book format and do not have a contract from a book publisher. $15 fee per entry, cheque or money order made payable to The Writers' Union of Canada. Entries must be postmarked no later than April 23, 2003 – Canada Book Day.
annual Postcard Story Competition, with a prize of $500
Original and unpublished, any text, fiction or non-fiction, up to 250 words, English language. Open to Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. $5 fee per entry, cash, cheque or money order made payable to The Writers' Union of Canada.
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