The Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
2022
Glen Huser – Burning the Night (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Premee Mohamed – The Annual Migration of Clouds (ECW Press)
Trina Moyles – Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest (Random House Canada)
2021
Tyler Enfield – Like Rum-Drunk Angels (Goose Lane Editions) (WINNER)
Beth Sanders – Nest City: How Citizens Serve Cities and Cities Serve Citizens (POPULUS Community Planning Inc.)
Anne Wheeler – Taken by the Muse: On the Path to Becoming a Filmmaker (NeWest Press)
2020
Billy-Ray Belcourt — NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes From the Field (House of Anansi)
Marina Endicott — The Difference (Knopf Canada, Penguin Random House) (WINNER)
Audrey J. Whitson — The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning (NeWest Press)
2019
Carissa Halton – Little Yellow House, University of Alberta Press
Alice Major – Welcome to the Anthropocene, University of Alberta Press
Kelly Shepherd – Insomnia Bird, Thistledown Press (WINNER)
2018
Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House) (WINNER)
Norma Dunning, Annie Muktuk and other stories (University of Alberta Press)
Lisa Martin, Believing is not the same as Being Saved (University of Alberta Press)
2017
Lauralyn Chow, Paper Teeth, NeWest Press (WINNER)
Katherine Koller, Art Lessons, Enfield & Wizenty
Trent Portigal, A Floating Phrase, Roundfire Books
2016
Tyler Enfield, Madder Carmine, Enfield & Wizenty
Peter Midgley, Unquiet Bones, Wolsak & Wynn
Richard Van Camp, Night Moves, Enfield & Wizenty (WINNER)
2015
Greg Bechtel, Boundary Problems, Freehand Books
Tim Bowling, Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief, Gaspereau Press
Rudy Wiebe, Come Back, Penguin Random House Canada (WINNER)
2014
Tim Bowling, Selected Poems (Nightwood Editions) (WINNER)
Nellie Carlson and Kathleen Steinhauer (as told to Linda Goyette), Disinherited Generations: Our Struggle to Reclaim Treaty Rights for First Nations Women and Their Descendants (University of Alberta Press)
Lynn Coady, Hellgoing (House of Anansi Press)
2013
Tim Bowling, The Tinsmith (Brindle and Glass)
Catherine Cole, GWG: Piece by Piece (Goose Lane Editions)
Nora Gould, I see my love more clearly from a distance (Brick Books) (WINNER)
2012
Dawn Dumont, Nobody Cries at Bingo (Thistledown Press)
Wendy McGrath, Santa Rosa (NeWest Press)
Judy Schultz, Freddy’s War (Brindle & Glass Publishing Ltd.) (WINNER)
2011
Tim Bowling, In the Suicide’s Library (Gaspereau Press)
Myrna Kostash, Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium (University of Alberta Press) (WINNER)
Rudy Wiebe, Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955 – 2010 (University of Alberta Press)
2010
Pierrette Requier, details from the edge of the village (Frontenac House)
Ed Struzik, The Big Thaw: Travels in the Melting North (John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd.)
Thomas Trofimuk, Waiting for Columbus (McClelland & Stewart) (WINNER)
2009
Jack W. Brink, Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains (Athabasca University Press) (WINNER)
Caterina Edwards, Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer’s, a Daughter in Search of the Past(Greystone Books)
Alice Major, The Office Tower Tales (University of Alberta Press)
2008
Bert Almon, A Ghost in Waterloo Station (Brindle & Glass) (WINNER)
Tim Bowling, The Bone Sharps (Gaspereau Press)
Mieko Ouchi, Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays (Playwrights Canada Press)
2007
Todd Babiak, The Garneau Block (McClelland & Stewart) (WINNER)
Vern Thiessen, The Courier and Other Plays (Playwrights Canada Press)
Rudy Wiebe, Of This Earth (Vintage)
2006
Ted Bishop, Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books (Penguin Group) (WINNER)
E.D. Blodgett, Elegy (University of Alberta Press)
Brock Silversides, Fort de Prairies: The Story of Ft. Edmonton (Heritage House)
2005
Tim Bowling, Memory Orchard (Brick Books)
Marty Chan, The Mystery of the Frozen Brains (Thistledown Press) (WINNER)
Greg Hollingshead, Bedlam (HarperCollins Canada)
2004
Jacqueline Baker, A Hard Witching (HarperCollins) (WINNER)
Tim Bowling,The Paperboy’s Winter (Penguin)
Fil Fraser, Alberta’s Camelot (Lone Pine Publishing)
2003
Monica Hughes, The Maze (HarperCollins Canada)
Lorie Miseck, A Promise of Salt (Coteau Books)
Thomas Trofimuk, The 52nd Poem (Great Plains Publications) (WINNER)
2002
Tim Bowling, Darkness and Silence (Nightwood Editions)
Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson (Coteau Books) (WINNER)
Rudy Wiebe, Sweeter than All the World (Knopf Canada)
2001
Tim Bowling, The Thin Smoke of the Heart (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Shirley Serviss, Reading Between the Lines (Coteau Books)
Fred Stenson, The Trade (Douglas & McIntyre) (WINNER)
Uriel Rosenweig, The First Century of Jewish Life in Edmonton
2000
Alice Major, Tales for an Urban Sky (Broken Jaw Press)
Srdja Pavlovic (ed.), Threshold: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing from Alberta (University of Alberta Press)
Alla Tumanov, Where We Buried the Sun (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
1999
Glen Huser, Touch of the Clown (House of Anansi)
Sally Ito, Floating Shore (Mercury Press)
Alice Major, Lattice of the Years (Bayeaux Arts)
Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson, Stolen Life (Alfred A. Knopf Canada) (WINNER)
1998
David Carpenter, Banjo Lessons (Coteau Books) (WINNER)
1997
Shirley Graham, Milner Fenerty: The Story of a Law Firm
Stroll of Poets Society, Stroll of Poets Anthology
F. Royer and R. Dickinson, Wildflowers of Edmonton and Central Alberta (University of Alberta Press) (WINNER)
Ethel-Marie Burford, Pilgrim Woman Her Life
E. Stewart Bishop, Love is Always with Us
Vanna Tessier, Gypsy Drums (Snowapple Press)
1996
Bob Hesketh and Frances Swyripa (ed.), Edmonton: The Life of a City (NeWest Press) (WINNER)