The 2024 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature (Chapter Books)
(Sponsored by Under the Arch Youth Foundation at The Calgary Foundation)
- Kate A. Boorman – Into the Sublime (McMillan/Henry Holt)
- Natasha Deen – The Signs and Wonders of Tuna Rashad (Running Press Kids)
- Dee Hahn – The Grave Thief (Puffin Canada) *WINNER*
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction
- Jessica Johns – Bad Cree (HarperCollins) *WINNER*
- Thomas Wharton – Book of Rain (Random House Canada)
- Deborah Willis – Girlfriend on Mars (Hamish Hamilton Canada)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction
- David Laurence Jones – New World Dreams (Heritage House) *WINNER*
- Paul McKendrick – Scrubbing the Sky (Figure 1 Publishing)
- Alexandra Zabjek – We Need to do This (LCR Publishing)
Memoir Award
(Supported by Vivian Hansen)
- Cecile Beaulieu – Brother Broken (FriesenPress)
- Charlotte Bellows – The Definition of Beautiful (Freehand Books)
- Jennifer Bowering-Delisle – Micrographia (Gordon Hill Press) *WINNER*
Short Story Collection
- Astrid Blodgett – This is How You Start to Disappear (University of Alberta Press)
- Idman Nur Omar – Private Apartments (House of Anansi Press)
- Premee Mohamed – No one will come back for us (Undertow Publications) *WINNER*
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Book of Poetry
(Sponsored by Stephan V. Benediktson)
- Alice Major – Knife on Snow (Turnstone Press) *WINNER*
- Natalie Meisner – It Begins in Salt (Frontenac House)
- Juleta Severson-Baker – Antecedent (Frontenac House)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama
- Caleigh Crow – There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death, or the Born Again Crow (Playwrights Canada Press)
- Mieko Ouchi – Burning Mom (Playwrights Canada Press)
- Josée Thibeault – La fille du facteur (Les Éditions du Blé) *WINNER*
James H. Gray Awards for Short Nonfiction
(Supported by Marilyn and Bob Stallworthy)
- paulo da costa – The Stones that Anchor Us (Queens Quarterly) *WINNER*
- Patti Edgar – Ascending in a Hotel Conference Room (The Dalhousie Review)
- Thomas Wharton – Cat Fox Neutrino (Hazlitt)
Howard O’Hagan Short Story Award
(Supported by the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society)
- Katherine Abbass – Fred (The Malahat Review)
- Astrid Blodgett – How to Read Water (University of Alberta Press) *WINNER*
- Ben Lof – The Care Bears (The Malahat Review)
Jon Whyte Memorial Unpublished Essay Award
(Supported by the Haynes Family – In Memory of Dr. Sterling Haynes)
- Antoinette Bekker – The Sensibilities of Dogs *WINNER*
- Marcello Di Cintio – Desconocido
- Julie Sedivy – Prosthesis
2023 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2023
Dena Seiferling (Calgary) — The Language of Flowers (Tundra Books) (WINNER)
Vivek Shraya (Calgary) — Revenge of the Raccoons (Owlkids Books)
Charis St. Pierre (Edmonton) — Welcome, Dark (Orca Books Publishers)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2023
Suzette Mayr (Calgary) — The Sleeping Car Porter (Coach House Books) (WINNER)
Darcy Tamayose (Lethbridge) — Ezra’s Ghosts (NeWest Press)
Thomas Trofimuk (Edmonton) — The Elephant on Karlův Bridge (Thistledown Press)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2023
Brandi Morin (Stony Plain) — Our Voice of Fire (House of Anansi Press) (WINNER)
Sandra Rollings-Magnusson (Edmonton) — Tales from the Homestead: A History of Prairie Pioneers, 1867-1914 (Heritage House)
Chris Turner (Calgary) — How to be a Climate Optimist (Random House Canada)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2023
Heather Morrow (Edmonton) — Alex & Michael & Hannah
Caroline Russell-King (Calgary) — High and Splendid Braveries (WINNER)
Trevor Schmidt (Edmonton) — Two-Headed/Half-Hearted
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2023
Tasnuva Hayden (Calgary) — An Orchid Astronomy (University of Calgary Press)
Jaspreet Singh (Calgary) — How to Hold a Pebble (NeWest Press)
Matthew James Weigel (Edmonton) — Whitemud Walking (Coach House Books) (WINNER)
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2023
paulo da costa (Calgary) — “Enclosures” (Reckoning) (WINNER)
Marcello Di Cintio (Calgary) — “The Cowboy Exclaims” (Canadian Geographic)
Kyra Lark Koustrup (Calgary) — “You and the Grass” (Freefall)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2023
Lareina Abbott (Calgary) — “Ma Soeur Marie” (Prairie Witch Anthology) (WINNER)
Suzanne Johnston (Calgary) — “Confidants” (The Saturday Evening Post)
C.J. Lavigne (Red Deer) — “Bees in Winter” (Corvid Queen)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award 2023
Patti Edgar (Calgary) — “One More Apostle Than You”
Kim McCullough (Calgary) — “Mare Tranquillitatis” (WINNER)
Seth Rasporich (Calgary) — “Tacoshop22rl” (This entry was later removed from competition by the author as it received publication prior to April 30, 2023. The WGA thanks Seth for his candour and congratulates him on publishing his essay!)
Memoir Award 2023
Tim Bowling (Edmonton) — The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird (Wolsak & Wynn)
James H. Marsh (Edmonton) — Know it all: Finding the Impossible Country (Durvile & UpRoute Books)
Brandi Morin (Stony Plain) — Our Voice of Fire (House of Anansi) (WINNER)
2022 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2022
Larry Loyie (Edmonton) with Constance Brissenden (Edmonton) – Wild Waters: Inside a Voyageur’s World (Indigenous Education Press)
Meagan Mahoney (Calgary) – Meranda and the Legend of the Lake (Owlkids Books)
Lorna Shultz Nicholson (Edmonton) – When You Least Expect It (Red Deer Press) (WINNER)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2022
Premee Mohamed (Edmonton) – The Annual Migration of Clouds (ECW Press)
Theresa Shea (Edmonton) – The Shade Tree (Guernica Editions) (WINNER)
P. J. Vernon (Calgary) Bath Haus – (Doubleday, c/o Penguin Random House Canada)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2022
Jordan Abel (Edmonton) – Nishga (Penguin Random House Canada – McClelland & Stewart)
Omar Mouallem (Edmonton) – Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas (Simon & Schuster) (WINNER)
Julie Sedivy (Calgary) – Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self (Harvard University Press)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2022
Dale Lee Kwong (Calgary) – Ai Yah! Chop Suey
Eugene Stickland (Calgary) – Closer and Closer Apart (From the book No Harm Done, Durvile & UpRoute Books)
David van Belle (Edmonton) – Love is Magic (WINNER)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2022
Tyler Engström (Calgary) – Think of How Old We Could Get (Frontenac House)
Rayanne Haines (Edmonton) – Tell the Birds your Body is Not a Gun (Frontenac House) (WINNER)
Ky Perraun (Edmonton) – Miraculous Sickness (At Bay Press)
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2022
Lisa Martin (Edmonton) – “The Wounded Man” (The New Quarterly)(WINNER)
Omar Mouallem (Edmonton) – “How a McDonald’s Knockoff Became the Immigrant Dream” (VICE Magazine)
Julie Sedivy (Calgary) – “Defamiliarizing the Mother Tongue: On Immigration’s Impact on Learning and Losing Language” (Literary Hub)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2022
C.J. Lavigne (Red Deer) – “Cenotaph” (Augur Magazine)
Ben Lof (Edmonton) – “Naked States” (The Malahat Review)
Rod Moody-Corbett (Lethbridge) – “Malady Head” (Soft Punk Magazine) (WINNER)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award 2022
Katherine Abbass (Beaumont) – “Inglorious Bastards”
Ali Bryan (Calgary) – “Bad Extra”
Jessica Waite (Calgary) – “In Defence of Grief” (WINNER)
Memoir Award
Ashley Bristowe (Calgary) – My Own Blood: A Memoir (Random House Canada)
Omar Mouallem (Edmonton) – Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas (Simon & Schuster)
Trina Moyles (Peace River) – Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest (Random House Canada) (WINNER)
Short Story Collection Award
Norma Dunning (Edmonton) – Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories (Douglas & McIntyre)
Lori Hahnel (Calgary) – Vermin (Enfield & Wizenty) (WINNER)
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (Edmonton) – Double Wahala, Double Trouble (Griots Lounge Publishing Canada)
2021 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2021
Alison Hughes (Edmonton) – The Silence Slips In (Orca Book Publishers) (WINNER)
Natalie Meisner (Calgary) – My Mommy, My Mama, My Brother, and Me (Nimbus Publishing)
Kim Smith (Calgary) – Boxitects (Harper Collins)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2021
Katie Bickell (Sherwood Park) – Always Brave, Sometimes Kind (TouchWood Editions) (WINNER)
Will Ferguson (Calgary) – The Finder (Simon & Schuster)
Annette Lapointe (Grande Prairie) – … And This Is The Cure (Anvil Press)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2021
Timothy Caulfield (Edmonton) – Relax, Dammit!: A User’s Guide to the Age of Anxiety (Penguin Canada) (WINNER)
Harnarayan Singh (Chestermere) with Michael Hingston (Edmonton) – One Game at a Time (McClelland and Stewart)
Gina Starblanket (Calgary) with Dallas Hunt – Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial (ARP Books)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2021
Ellen Chorley (Edmonton) –Everybody Loves Robbie (WINNER)
Matthew Mackenzie (Edmonton) – Bears
Clem Martini (Calgary) – Cantata
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2021
Bertrand Bickersteth (Calgary) – The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Kat Cameron (Edmonton) – Ghosts Still Linger (University of Alberta Press)
Amy LeBlanc (Calgary) – I know something you don’t know (Gordon Hill Press)
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2021
Tim Bowling (Edmonton) – “The Floating Library” (Queen’s Quarterly) (WINNER)
Omar Mouallem (Edmonton) – “January 8, 2020” (Edify Magazine)
Deborah Waldman (Edmonton) – “The Boys of Summer” (Tablet Magazine)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2021
Gabe Calderon (Edmonton) – “Andwànikàdjigan” (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Lee Kvern (Calgary) – “Players” (Grain Magazine) (WINNER)
Stephanie Tamagi (Edmonton) – “Fur Hat” (Exile Quarterly)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award 2021
Jannie Edwards (Edmonton) – “Meditations on Tenderness in a Time of Plague”
Peter Midgley (Edmonton) – “Bird”
Barbara Scott (Calgary) – “Black Diamond” (WINNER)
2020 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2020
Natasha Deen (Edmonton) – In the Key of Nira Ghani (Running Press Kids)
Sue Farrell Holler (Grande Prairie) – Cold White Sun (Groundwood Books) (WINNER)
Danielle L. Jensen (Calgary) – Dark Shores (Running Press Kids)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2020
Sharon Butala (Calgary) — Season of Fury and Wonder (Coteau Books)
Marina Endicott (Edmonton) — The Difference (Knopf Canada, Penguin Random House)
Richard Van Camp (Edmonton) — Moccasin Square Gardens (Douglas & McIntyre) (WINNER)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2020
Richard Kemick (Calgary) — I am Herod (Goose Lane Editions)
Naomi K Lewis (Calgary) — Tiny Lights for Travellers (University of Alberta Press) (WINNER)
Sharon Wood (Canmore) — Rising: Becoming the First Canadian Woman to Summit Everest, A Memoir (Douglas & McIntyre)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2020
Tara Beagan (Calgary) — Honour Beat (WINNER)
Elena Belyea (Edmonton) — Smoke
Christopher Duthie (Calgary) — A Dinner Party
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2020
Billy-Ray Belcourt (Edmonton) — NDN Coping Mechanisms (House of Anansi Press) (WINNER)
Monica Kidd (Calgary) — Chance Encounters with Wild Animals (Gaspereau Press)
Peter Midgley (Edmonton) — Let Us Not Think of Them as Barbarians (NeWest Press)
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2020
Paulo da Costa (Calgary) — “Learning to Shave, Learning to Leave” (The Fiddlehead) (WINNER)
Jennifer Bowering Delisle (Edmonton) — “Abracadabra” (The Forge)
Omar Mouallem (Edmonton) — “Billionaires, Bombers, and Bellydancers” (The Ringer)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2020
Ali Bryan (Calgary) — “The Big Man in Cargo Shorts” (Alberta Views) (WINNER)
Tyler Hein (Edmonton) — “Don’t Finish” (Funicular Magazine)
Joelle Tymchuk (Sherwood Park) — “Last Born” (The Fiddlehead)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award 2020
Jennifer Bowering Delisle (Edmonton) — “Premature Burial”
Rayanne Haines (Edmonton) — “This Is Normal”
Julie Sedivy (Calgary) — “Telescoping” (WINNER)
2019 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2019
Jenny Keith (Edmonton) – Day Cat, Night Cat, Friesen Press
Mike Kerr (Calgary) – Crafty Llama, Bloomsbury/Raincoast Books (WINNER)
Nhung Tran-Davies (Calmar) – Ten Cents a Pound, Second Story Press
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2019
Fran Kimmel (Lacombe) – No Good Asking, ECW Press
Clem Martini (Calgary) – The Comedian, University of Calgary Press
Joshua Whitehead (Calgary) – Jonny Appleseed, Arsenal Pulp Press (WINNER)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2019
Abu Bakr al Rabeeah and Winnie Yeung (Edmonton) – Homes: A Refugee Story, Freehand Books (WINNER)
Marcello Di Cintio (Calgary) – Pay No Heed to the Rockets, Goose Lane Editions
Shawna Lemay (Edmonton) – The Flower Can Always Be Changing, Palimpsest Press
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2019
Collin Doyle (Edmonton) – Let the Light of Day Through (WINNER)
David Gagnon Walker (Edmonton) – Premium Content
Cat Walsh (Edmonton) – Fetch
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2019
A. B. Dillon (Calgary) – Matronalia, Thistledown Press (WINNER)
Anna Marie Sewell (Edmonton) – For the Changing Moon, Thistledown Press
Kelly Shepherd (Edmonton) – Insomnia Bird, Thistledown Press
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2019
Wendy McGrath (Edmonton) – “Alterations,” Waiting: An Anthology of Essays, University of Alberta Press
Roberta Rees (Calgary) – “Bones, Honey,” Waiting: An Anthology of Essays, University of Alberta Press (WINNER)
Chris Turner (Calgary) – “Up in the Air,” Globe and Mail
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2019
Rona Altrows (Calgary) – “To Jesus from Aristides de Sousa Mendes,” Now or Never Publishing
Richard Kemick (Calgary) – “Hello, Horse,” The Fiddlehead (WINNER)
Thomas Wharton (Sherwood Park) – “Fort Mac,” Agnes and True
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award 2019
- Falon Fayant (Redwater) – “Sometimes, I’m Afraid”
- Leslie Greentree (Edmonton) – “Pink Smock Stories”
- Trina Moyles (Peace River) – “Herd Memory” (WINNER)
2018 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2018
Sarah Everett (Edmonton) – Everyone We’ve Been, Knopf / Penguin Random House (WINNER)
Alex Lyttle (Calgary) – From Ant to Eagle, Central Avenue Publishing
Lorna Schultz Nicholson (Edmonton) – Bent Not Broken: Madeline & Justin, Clockwise Press
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2018
Kimmy Beach (Red Deer) – Nuala: A Fable, University of Alberta Press
Suzette Mayr (Calgary) – Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall, Coach House Books
Deborah Willis (Calgary) – The Dark and Other Love Stories, Hamish Hamilton Canada / Penguin Random House (WINNER)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2018
Stephen Bown (Canmore) – Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on Bering’s Great Voyage to Alaska, Douglas & McIntyre (WINNER)
Bernadette McDonald (Banff) – Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka, Rocky Mountain Books
Chris Turner (Calgary) – The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands, Simon and Schuster Canada
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2018
Geoffrey Simon Brown (Calgary) – The Circle
Karen Hines (Calgary) – Crawlspace (WINNER)
Nicole Moeller (Edmonton) – The Preacher, The Princess, and a Crow
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2018
Benjamin Hertwig (Edmonton) – Slow War, McGill-Queen’s University Press (WINNER)
Lisa Martin (Edmonton) – Believing is not the same as Being Saved, University of Alberta Press
Joshua Whitehead (Calgary) – full-metal indiqueer, Talonbooks
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2018
Sid Marty (Lundbreck) – “How I Did Not Try to Kill Andrew Suknaski,” Alberta Views
Sadia Masud (Edmonton) – “Taken Over By the West,” Glass Buffalo (WINNER)
Roberta Rees (Calgary) – “Evie’s Massage Parlour,” Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2018
Norma Dunning (Edmonton) – “Elipsee,” University of Alberta Press (WINNER)
Igpy Kin (Calgary) – “Not Even a Mouse,” Loft on Eighth
Deborah Willis (Calgary) – “The Last One to Leave,” Hamish Hamilton Canada / Penguin Random House
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award 2018
Jennifer Delisle (Edmonton) – “Passage”
Alycia Pirmohamed (Calgary) – “How to Be a Young Muslim Girl in Post-9/11 Canada”
Cynthia Scott Wandler (Morinville) – “Things You Can’t Do With a Broken Left Arm” (WINNER)
2017 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2017
Paige Feurer (Calgary) – And Then It Rained on Malcolm, Sky Pony Press
Georgia Graham (Lacombe) – Cub’s Journey Home, Red Deer Press (WINNER)
Alison Hughes (Edmonton) – What Matters, Orca Book Publishers
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2017
Lauralyn Chow (Calgary) – Paper Teeth, NeWest Press
Lisa J. Lawrence (Edmonton) – Rodent, Orca Book Publishers
Gisèle Villeneuve (Calgary) – Rising Abruptly, University of Alberta Press (WINNER)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2017
Marty Klinkenberg (Edmonton) – The McDavid Effect: Connor McDavid and the New Hope for Hockey, Simon & Schuster Canada
Myrna Kostash (Edmonton) – The Seven Oaks Reader, NeWest Press
Sydney Sharpe and Don Braid (Calgary) – Notley Nation, Dundurn Press (WINNER)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2017
Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths (Calgary) – My Family & Other Endangered Species
Mieko Ouchi (Edmonton) – I Am For You
Vern Thiessen (Edmonton) – Of Human Bondage (WINNER)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2017
Nora Gould (Consort/Edmonton) – Selah, Brick Books
Helen Hajnoczky (Calgary) – Magyarázni, Coach House Books
Richard Harrison (Calgary) – On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood, Wolsak and Wynn (WINNER)
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2017
Austen Lee (Edmonton) – “Among Cougars and Men,” Glass Buffalo (WINNER)
Omar Mouallem (Edmonton) – “Welcoming Omar Khadr,” University Affairs
Shelley Youngblut (Calgary) – “House of Cards,” The Walrus
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2017
Laurie MacFayden (Edmonton) – “Haircut,” Alberta Views (WINNER)
Gisèle Villeneuve (Calgary) – “Nuit Blanche with Gendarme,” University of Alberta Press
Thomas Wharton (Edmonton) – “Bestiary,” Hingston & Olsen
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award 2017
Rona Altrows (Calgary) – “Letter of Intent” (WINNER)
Mary Graham (Calgary) – “The Plight, and the Power, of the Stoney Nakoda”
Lee Kvern (Okotoks) – “Heavy Weight for Silence”
2016 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2016
Kate Boorman – Winterkill, Abrams/Amulet (WINNER)
Sigmund Brouwer – Thief of Glory, WaterBrook Press
Lorna Schultz Nicholson – Fragile Bones: Harrison and Anna, Clockwise Press
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2016
Tracey Lindberg – Birdie, Harper Collins
Bradley Somer – Fishbowl, St. Martin’s/Raincoast (WINNER)
Richard Van Camp – Night Moves, Enfield & Wizenty
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2016
Stephen Bown – White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless Journey Into the Heart of the Arctic, Douglas & McIntyre
Will Ferguson – Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey into the New Heart of Africa, Viking Canada (Penguin)
Andrew Nikiforuk – Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry, Greystone (WINNER)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2016
Beth Graham – The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble (WINNER)
Rose Scollard – Aphra
David van Belle and Eric Rose – The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2016
Jalal Barzanji – Trying Again to Stop Time, University of Alberta Press
Christian Bök – The Xenotext: Book 1, Coach House
Marilyn Dumont – The Pemmican Eaters, ECW Press (WINNER)
Alice Major – Standard Candles, University of Alberta Press
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2016
Marcello Di Cintio – “The Gifted Tag,” Swerve
Jane Harris – “The Unheard Patient,” Alberta Views (WINNER)
Julie Sedivy – “The Strange Persistence of First Languages,” Nautilus
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2016
Kate French – “Spiders,” FreeFall
Richard Van Camp – “Born a Girl,” Enfield & Wizenty
Thomas Wharton – “Filters,” FreeFall (WINNER)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award 2016
Ali Bryan – “Let’s Talk”
Diana Davidson – “An Ex-Wife’s Tale”
Elizabeth Withey – “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (WINNER)
2015 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2015
Victor Lethbridge – You’re Just Right, Tatanka Books
Leanne Shirtliffe – The Change Your Name Store, Sky Pony Press
Richard Van Camp – Little You, Orca Book Publishers (WINNER)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2015
Wendy McGrath – North East, NeWest Press
Fred Stenson – Who by Fire, Doubleday Canada
Rudy Wiebe – Come Back, Knopf Canada (WINNER)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2015
Ted Bishop – The Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written Word, Viking Canada (WINNER)
Lynette Loeppky – Cease: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Desire, Oolichan Books
Chris Turner – How to Breathe Underwater: Field Reports from an Age of Radical Change, Biblioasis
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2015
Cheryl Foggo – John Ware Reimagined (WINNER)
Conni Massing – The Invention of Romance
David van Belle – Liberation Days
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2015
Tim Bowling – Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief, Gaspereau Press
Sarah Lang – For Tamara, House of Anansi Press (WINNER)
Sharanpal Ruprai – Seva, Frontenac House
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2015
Susan Hagan – “Manuals on Being Woman,” WestWord
Bobbi Junior – “Tell Me About Today,” Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood
Chris Turner – “Owen’s Ark,” The Walrus (WINNER)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2015
Katie Bickell – “But For the Streetlamps and the Moon and All the Stars,” Tahoma Literary Review (WINNER)
Lee Kvern – “High Ground,” Enfield & Wizenty
Sheryl Normandeau – “Early Retirement,” Pages of Stories
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award 2015
Ali Bryan – “Mints After the Meal”
Jennifer Delisle – “Micrographia”
Kim McCullough – “Tributaries” (WINNER)
2014 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2014
Karen Bass, Graffiti Knight (Pajama Press) (WINNER)
Hazel Hutchins, The Great Bike Rescue (Orca Book Publishers)
Gail Sidonie Sobat, Not With A Bang (Magpie Books/Palimpsest Press)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2014
Ali Bryan, Roost (Freehand Books) (WINNER)
Lynn Coady, Hellgoing (House of Anansi Press)
Theresa Shea, The Unfinished Child (Brindle & Glass Publishing Ltd.)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2014
Jessica Kluthe, Rosina, The Midwife (Brindle & Glass Publishing Ltd.
Tyler Trafford, Almost a Great Escape (Goose Lane Editions) (WINNER)
Chris Turner, The War on Science (Greystone Books)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2014
Arun Lakra, Sequence (WINNER)
Jana O’Connor, The Lonely Hearts
Andrew Torry, Badger
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2014
Tim Bowling, Selected Poems (Nightwood Editions)
David Dowker and Christine Stewart, Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal (BookThug)
Paul Zits, Massacre Street (University of Alberta Press) (WINNER)
Amber Bowerman Memorial Travel Writing Award 2014
Alison Hodgins, “Learning to Fly”
Trina Moyles, “The Chicken Feather” (WINNER)
Rebecca Schaeffer, “Climbing Mt Fuji”
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2014
Caterina Edwards, “Light and Space in the Piazza” in The New Quarterly
Curtis Gillespie, “In the Chair: Clippings From Around the World” in Eighteen Bridges (WINNER)
Stuart Thomson, “Norm Macdonald’s Weird, Wonderful Twitter Book Club” in Ballast Mag
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2014
Astrid Blodgett, “New Summer Dresses” (University of Alberta Press)
Jasmina Odor, “His” in Eighteen Bridges (WINNER)
Audrey Whitson, “Snow” (Thistledown Press)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2014
Ted Bishop, “A Toddler in Tunis”
Jannie Edwards, “Oh Canada”
Kim McCullough, “Night/light” (WINNER)
2013 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2013
Marion Brooker,Tadeo’s Search for Circles (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Joan Marie Galat, The Discovery of Longitude (Pelican Publishing Company) (WINNER)
Georgia Graham, Where Wild Horses Run (Red Deer Press)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2013
Will Ferguson, 419 (Viking Canada (Penguin Canada))
Naomi K. Lewis, I Know Who You Remind Me Of (Enfield & Wizenty)
Richard Van Camp, Godless But Loyal to Heaven (Enfield & Wizenty) (WINNER)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2013
Marcello Di Cintio, Walls: Travels Along the Barricades (Goose Lane Editions) (WINNER)
Brian L. Evans, Pursuing China: Memoir of a Beaver Liaison Officer (University of Alberta Press)
Andrew Nikiforuk, The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude (Greystone Books)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2013
David Cheoros, Invisible Child (WINNER)
Col Cseke, Jim Forgetting
Dave Kelly, Dad’s Piano (Lunchbox Theatre)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2013
Jenna Butler, Wells (University of Alberta Press)
Nora Gould, I See My Love More Clearly from a Distance (Brick Books) (WINNER)
Sandy Pool, Undark: An Oratorio (Nightwood Editions)
Amber Bowerman Memorial Travel Writing Award 2013
Sydney Budgeon, “The Unfinished” (WINNER)
Selestia Herrera, “Greek Gambles”
Julia Seymour, “Professions of Love Across the Seine”
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2013
Marcello di Cintio, “A Hymn in Aramaic” in Alberta Views Magazine (WINNER)
Shaun Hunter, “Skin Deep” in FreeFall Magazine
Omar Mouallem, “The Lives of Others” in Alberta Venture
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2013
Kathleen Brown, “Marhawks in Winter” in Filling Station Magazine
Lynn Coady, “Dogs in Clothes” in Canadian Notes & Queries
Lee Kvern, “In Search of Lucinda” in Be A Better Writer (WINNER)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2013
Nora Abercrombie, “Becoming Canadian”
Myrl Coulter, “Current Crossings”
Elizabeth Haynes, “Memoria, Justicia, Sin Olvido” (WINNER)
2012 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2012
Jacqueline Guest, Ghost Messages (Coteau Books)
Barb Howard, The Dewpoint Show (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Cathy Ostlere, Karma (Puffin Canada) (WINNER)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2012
Lynn Coady, The Antagonist (House of Anansi Press) (WINNER)
Suzette Mayr, Monoceros (Coach House Books)
Rosemary Nixon, Kalila (Goose Lane Editions)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2012
Betty Jane Hegerat, The Boy (Oolichan Books)
Alice Major, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science (University of Alberta Press) (WINNER)
Andrew Nikiforuk, Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly & a Tiny Bug are Killing North America’s Great Forests (Greystone Books)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2012
Nicole Moeller, An Almost Perfect Thing (WINNER)
Mieko Ouchi, Nisei Blue (Alberta Theatre Projects)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2012
Tim Bowling, Tenderman (Nightwood Editions) (WINNER)
Rosemary Griebel, Yes (Frontenac House)
Michael Penny, Particles (McGill-Queens University Press)
Amber Bowerman Memorial Travel Writing Award 2012
Thomas Fox,“Varnasi”
Alison Karlene Hodgins, “A World Away” (WINNER)
Stephanie Kokonas, “Discovering Cambodia: A Journey into Grace”
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2012
Lisa Martin-DeMoor, “A Container of Light”
Dolly Dennis, “Perennial”
Jannie Edwards, “All Night Mirror: Notes Toward an Elegy” (WINNER)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2012
Amy Bright,“Look at it This Way”, Character I Press (WINNER)
Jon R. Flieger, “Transfers” in The Malahat Review
Barb Howard, “Breaking the Mould” in FreeFall Magazine
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2012
This Prize was not presented in 2012
2011 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2011
Sheldon Casavant, Morton the Magician and his Magnificent Magic Show (Sheldon Casavant Productions)
Victor Lethbridge, Little Chief and Mighty Gopher: The Pemmican Frenzy (Tatanka Productions)
Deidre Anne Martin, The Elegant Cockroach (Uppercase Publishing) (WINNER)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2011
Todd Babiak, Toby: A Man (HarperCollins) (WINNER)
Lee Kvern, The Matter of Sylvie (Brindle and Glass)
Rudy Wiebe, Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955 – 2010 (University of Alberta Press)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2011
Tim Bowling, In the Suicide’s Library: A Book Lover’s Journey (Gaspereau Press)
Myrna Kostash, Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium (University of Alberta Press) (WINNER)
Clem Martini and Olivier Martini,Bitter Medicine (Freehand Books)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2011
Meg Braem, Blood: A Scientific Romance (WINNER)
Mark Stubbings, Dry the Rain
David van Belle and Eric Rose, The Highest Step in the World
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2011
Tim Bowling, The Annotated Bee and Me (Gaspereau Press)
Jannie Edwards, Falling Blues (Frontenac House)
Robert Kroetsch, Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait (University of Alberta Press)
Alice Major,Memory’s Daughter (University of Alberta Press) (WINNER)
Amber Bowerman Memorial Travel Writing Award 2011
This Prize was not presented in 2011.
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2011
Leah Bailly, “Bamako, Believe Me”
Jessica Kluthe, “Traces”
Margaret Macpherson, “A Thousand Years North of Dorothy” (WINNER)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2011
Jane Cawthorne, “Weight” in FreeFall
Stephen Howard, “Saturday” in The Prairie Journal
Rudy Wiebe, “Shadow of a Rock” in Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010, University of Alberta Press (WINNER)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2011
Carolyn Hall, “A Pinch of Time” (WINNER)
Marguerite Watson, “Closer to the Bone”
Janice Williamson, “The Turquoise Sea” in Alberta Views
2010 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2010
Hazel Hutchins, After (Smith, Bonappétit & Son)
Dianne Linden, Shimmerdogs (Thistledown Press)
David A. Poulsen, Numbers (Key Porter Books)
Linda Smith, The Broken Thread (Coteau Books) (WINNER)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2010
Michael Davie, Fishing for Bacon (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Cecelia Frey, A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing(Brindle & Glass)
Lori Hahnel, Nothing Sacred (Thistledown Press)
Betty Jane Hegerat, Delivery (Oolichan Books)
Thomas Trofimuk, Waiting for Columbus (McClelland & Stewart)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2010
Stephen Bown, Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 (Douglas & McIntyre)
Will Ferguson, Beyond Belfast: A 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet(Penguin Group Canada) (WINNER)
Gordon Laird, The Price of a Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization (McClelland & Stewart)
Ed Struzik, The Big Thaw: Travels in the Melting North (John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd.)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2010
Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson and Daniela Vlaskalic, The Drowning Girls, from The Drowning Girls/Comrades (Playwrights Canada Press) (WINNER)
Gordon Pengilly, Seeing in the Dark, from Metastasis and Other Plays (NeWest Press)
Eugene Stickland, Queen Lear (B House)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2010
Joan Crate, subUrban Legends (Freehand Books)
Catherine Owen, Frenzy (Anvil Press) (WINNER)
Anna Marie Sewell, Fifth World Drum (Frontenac House)
Bob Stallworthy,Things That Matter Now (Frontenac House)
Amber Bowerman Memorial Travel Writing Award 2010
Mia Atienza, “One Flamenco Night” (WINNER)
Karyn Robertson, “Good Karate”
Sebastian X. Samur, “A New Oishii”
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 2010
Joan Dixon, “The Perils of War and Mother-Son Relationships” (WINNER)
Elizabeth Haynes, “Seventeen Postcards”
Marguerite Watson, “What Grows in the Soil”
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2010
Gregory Koop, “Jive Willie No-Nose” in The Nashwaak Review
Lee Kvern, “I May Have Known You” in Descant
Ben Lof, “When in the Field with Her at His Back” in The Malahat Review (WINNER)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2010
Diana Davidson, “Ahead of the Ice” (WINNER)
Joan Dixon, “Embedded on the Home Front” in Chatelaine
A. Ellen Kelly, “Contemplating My Father’s War”
2009 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2009
Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert, Mattland (Annick Press) (WINNER)
Jessica Meserve, Can Anybody Hear Me? (Andersen Press)
Shenaaz Nanji, Indian Tales: A Barefoot Collection (Barefoot Books)
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 2009
Marina Endicott, Good to a Fault (Freehand Books)
Jaspreet Singh, Chef (Véhicule Press) (WINNER)
Samantha Warwick, Sage Island (Brindle & Glass)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2009
Caterina Edwards, Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer’s, a Daughter in Search of the Past (Greystone Books) (WINNER)
Shawna Lemay, Calm Things (Palimpsest Press)
Rudy Wiebe, Big Bear (Penguin)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2009
Collin Doyle, “The Mighty Carlins”
Conni Massing, “The Myth of Summer” from Conni Massing: Two Plays (Playwrights Canada Press)
Sharon Pollock, “Kabloona Talk” from Sharon Pollock: Collected Works Vol. III(Playwrights Canada Press) (WINNER)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2009
Weyman Chan, Noise from the Laundry (Talonbooks)
Su Croll, Blood Mother (Signature Editions)
Lisa Martin-DeMoor, One Crow Sorrow (Brindle & Glass) (WINNER)
Amber Bowerman Memorial Travel Writing Award 2009
Leah Bailly, “Long Views Across Nothing” (WINNER)
Andrew Derksen, “El Verbo Esperar”
Erica Wiens, “The Composition of a Memory”
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story 2009
Jonathan Ball, “Costa Rican Green” in Etchings
Andrea Beça, “The Disappearing Act” in FreeFall
Barb Howard, “Mrs. Goodfellow’s Dog” in Grain (WINNER)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2009
The jury decided not to present the prize in 2009.
2008 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2008
Marty Chan, The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul (Thistledown Press)
Katherine Holubitsky, The Big Snapper (Orca Book Publishers) (WINNER)
Gail Sidonie Sobat, A Glass Darkly (Great Plains Publications
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 2008
Todd Babiak, The Book of Stanley (McClelland & Stewart)
Nina Newington, Where Bones Dance (University of Wisconsin Press) (WINNER)
Darcy Tamayose, Odori (Cormorant Books)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2008
Tim Bowling, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture (Nightwood Editions) (WINNER)
Donald B. Smith, Honoré Jaxon: Prairie Visionary (Coteau Books)
Chris Turner, The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need (Random House Canada)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2008
Stewart Lemoine, At the Zenith of the Empire (NeWest Press)
Stephan Massicotte, The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion (Playwrights Canada Press) (WINNER)
Mieko Ouchi, “The Blue Light” from Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays (Playwrights Canada Press)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2008
Bert Almon, A Ghost in Waterloo Station (Brindle & Glass) (WINNER)
Dymphny Dronyk, Contrary Infatuations (Frontenac House)
Paulette Dubé, First Mountain (Thistledown Press)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 2008
Roberta Rees, Long After Fathers (Coteau Books) (WINNER)
Ron Wood, And God Created Manyberries (Frontenac House)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2008
Carmen Pearson, “Re-stepping the Worn Trail” (WINNER)
J. Mark Smith, “The Molecule that Went Behind the World”
Audrey J. Whitson, “Skating Lessons”
2006 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2006
Colleen Heffernan, A Kind of Courage (Orca Book Publishers) (WINNER)
Clem Martini, The Plague: Feather and Bone, The Crow Chronicles (Kids Can Press)
David A. Poulsen, Last Sam’s Cage (Key Porter Books)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 2006
Marie Jakober, Sons of Liberty: A Novel on the Civil War (Forge Books) (WINNER)
Adrian Michael Kelly, Down Sterling Road (Coach House Books)
Chava Rosenfarb, The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto (University of Wisconsin Press)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2006
Ted Bishop, Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books (Penguin Group) (WINNER)
Stephen R. Bown, A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates and the Making of the Modern World, Penguin Group
Birk Sproxton, Phantom Lake: North of 54 (University of Alberta Press)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2006
Mark Haroun, “A Giraffe in Paris”
Sharon Pollock, Sharon Pollock: Collected Works Vol. I (Playwrights Canada Press) (WINNER)
Vern Thiessen, Shakespeare’s Will (Playwrights Canada Press)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2006
David Bateman, Invisible Foreground (Frontenac House)
Andy Weaver, Were the Bees (NeWest Press)
sheri-d wilson, Re:Zoom (Frontenac House) (WINNER)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 2006
Laura J. Cutler, This Side of Bonkers (Turnstone Press) (WINNER)
Jacqueline Honnet, Limbo (Turnstone Press)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2006
Pam Chamberlain, “North of the River” (WINNER)
Raymond Gariépy, “A Culture of Permamence”
A. Ellen Kelly, “Keeping in Touch”
2005 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2005
Joan Marie Galat, Dot to Dot in the Sky: Stories of the Moon (Whitecap Books) (WINNER)
Hazel Hutchins, A Second is a Hiccup (North Winds Press)
Shenaaz G. Nanji, An Alien in My House (Second Story Press)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 2005
Paul Anderson, Hunger’s Brides (Random House) (WINNER)
Greg Hollingshead, Bedlam (HarperCollins Canada)
Marie Jakober, Even the Stones (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2005
Linda Goyette and Carolina Jakeway Roemmich, Edmonton in Our Own Words (University of Alberta Press)
Mark Lisac, Alberta Politics Uncovered: Taking Back Our Province (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Paul Voisey, High River and the Times: An Alberta Community and its Weekly Newspaper, 1905-1966(University of Alberta Press)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2005
Ken Cameron, “My One and Only”
Karen Hines, The Pochsy Plays (Coach House Books) (WINNER)
Stewart Lemoine, A Teatro Trilogy: Selected Plays (NeWest Press)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2005
Tim Bowling, The Memory Orchard (Brick Books)
Walter Hildebrandt, Where the Land Gets Broken (Ekstasis Editions) (WINNER)
Mingus Tourette, nunt (Zygote Publishing)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 2005
Chava Rosenfarb, Survivors: Seven Short Stories (Cormorant Books)
Ken Rivard, Whiskey Eyes (Black Moss Press)
Thomas Wharton, The Logogryph (Gaspereau Press) (WINNER)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2005
The jury decided not to present the prize in 2005.
2004 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2004
Glen Huser, Stitches (Groundwood Books) (WINNER)
Martine Leavitt, Tom Finder (Red Deer Press)
Dianne Linden, Peacekeepers (Coteau Books)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 2004
Tim Bowling, The Paperboy’s Winter (Penguin Books) (WINNER)
Susan Ouriou, Damselfish (XYZ Editions)
Fred Stenson, Lightning (Douglas & McIntyre)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2004
Anthony J. Hall, The American Empire and the Fourth World (McGill-Queen’s University Press) (WINNER)
Martin Morrow, Wild Theatre: The History of One Yellow Rabbit (Banff Centre Press)
Audrey Whitson, Teaching Places (Wildred Laurier University Press)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2004
Marty Chan, “The Forbidden Phoenix” (WINNER)
Mieko Ouchi, The Red Priest (Playwrights Canada Press)
Vern Thiessen, Einstein’s Gift (Playwrights Canada Press)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2004
Tim Bowling, The Witness Ghost (Nightwood Editions)
Jill Hartman, A Painted Elephant (Coach House Books)
Robert Hilles, Wrapped Within Again: Poems New & Selected (Black Moss Press) (WINNER)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 2004
Jacqueline Baker, A Hard Witching (HarperCollins) (WINNER)
Laura Cutler, Jumping Off (NeWest Press)
W. Mark Giles, Knucklehead (and other stories) (Anvil Press)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2004
The jury decided not to present the prize in 2004.
2002 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2002
Cheryl Foggo, I Have Been in Danger (Coteau Books)
Katherine Holubitsky, Last Summer in Agatha (Orca Books) (WINNER)
Martine Leavitt, Dollmage (Red Deer Press)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 2002
Gail Helgason, Swimming into Darkness (Coteau Books)
Darlene Barry Quaife, Polar Circus (Raven Stone)
Thomas Wharton, Salamander (McClelland & Stewart) (WINNER)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2002
A.K. Hellum, A Painter’s Year in the Forests of Bhutan (University of Alberta Press) (WINNER)
Andrew Nikiforuk, Saboteurs (Macfarlane, Walter & Ross)
Ken McGoogan, Fatal Passage (HarperFlamingo Canada)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2002
Chris Craddock, naked at school (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Aaron Coate, The End of the Rope (Legal Archives Society of Alberta)
Mieko Ouchi, Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull and Elyne Quan, “Rice”
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2002
Marilyn Dumont, green girl dreams mountains (Oolichan Books) (WINNER)
Arran Fisher, Stastic Mantis (Frontenac House)
Christine Wiesenthal, Instruments of Surrender (Buschek Books)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 2002
Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson (Coteau Books) (WINNER)
Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book 2002
Barb Howard, Whipstock (NeWest Press)
Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson (Coteau Books) (WINNER)
Norm Sacuta, Garments of the Known (Nightwood Editions)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2002
Caterina Edwards, “What Remains” (WINNER)
2001 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2001
Anita Horrocks, Topher (Stoddart Kids)
Monica Hughes, Stormwarning (HarperCollins Canada)
Tololwa Mollel, My Rows and Piles of Coins (Clarion Books) (WINNER)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 2001
Pearl Luke, Burning Ground (HarperCollins Canada)
JoAnn McCaig, The Textbook of the Rose (Cormorant Books)
Fred Stenson, The Trade (Douglas & McIntyre) (WINNER)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2001
Bruce Kirby, Sand Dance (McClelland & Stewart)
Alberto Manguel, Reading Pictures (Alfred A. Knopf Canada Press)
Chic Scott, Pushing the Limits (Rocky Mountain Books) (WINNER)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2001
David Belke,The Minor Keys (NeWest Press)
Clem Martini, Three Martini Lunch (Red Deer Press) (WINNER)
Glenda Stirling, NextFest Anthology (NeWest Press)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2001
Tim Bowling, The Thin Smoke of the Heart (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Claire Harris, She (Goose Lane Editions)
Shane Rhodes, The Wireless Room (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 2001
Caterina Edwards, Island of the Nightingales (Guernica Editions) (WINNER)
Ken Rivard, Skin Tests (Black Moss Press)
Candas Jane Dorsey, Vanilla (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book 2001
Todd Babiak, Choke Hold (Turnstone Press) (WINNER)
Bruce Kirby, Sand Dance (McClelland & Stewart)
Kathleen Wiebe, Willow Creek Summer (Coteau Books)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 2001
Pam Brown, “Ghosts”
Barbara Janusz, “The One-Legged Sandpiper”
Margaret Macpherson, “Re-Routing the Wind” (WINNER)
2000 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 2000
Barbara Demers, Willa’s New World (Coteau Books) (WINNER)
Glen Huser, Touch of the Clown (Groundwood Books)
Marilynn Reynolds, The Prairie Fire (Orca Book Publishers)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 2000
Sarah Murphy, Lilac in Leather (pedlar press)
Catherine Simmons Niven, A Fine Daughter (Red Deer Press) (WINNER)
Peter Oliva, The City of Yes (McClelland & Stewart) (WINNER)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 2000
Audrey Andrews, Be Good Sweet Maid (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
George Melnyk, The Literary History of Alberta, Volume 2 (University of Alberta Press)
Alla Tumanov, Where We Buried the Sun (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2000
Jonathan Christenson and Joey Tremblay, Elephant Wake (NeWest Press)
Clem Martini, Illegal Entry (Playwrights Canada Press) (WINNER)
Eugene Stickland, Sitting on Paradise (Red Deer Press)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2000
E.D. Blodgett, Apostrophes 3: alone upon the earth (BuschekBooks)
Susan Holbrook, Mislead (Red Deer Press)
Shawna Lemay, All the God-Sized Fruit (McGill-Queen’s University Press) (WINNER)
Alice Major, Tales for an Urban Sky (Broken Jaw Press)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 2000
Elizabeth Haynes, Speak Mandarin Not Dialect (Thistledown Press)
Barbara Scott, The Quick (Cormorant Books) (WINNER)
Robert Rawdon Wilson, Boundaries and Other Fictions (University of Alberta Press)
Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book 2000
Audrey Andrews, Be Good Sweet Maid (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Catherine Simmons Niven, A Fine Daughter (Red Deer Press) (WINNER)
Barbara Scott, The Quick (Cormorant Books)
1999 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 1999
Martine Bates, The Taker’s Key (Red Deer Press)
Anita Horrocks, What They Don’t Know (Stoddart Kids) (WINNER)
Monica Hughes, The Story Box (HarperCollins Canada)
Mary Woodbury, Brad’s Universe (Orca Book Publishers)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 1999
Kristjana Gunners, Night Train to Nykobing (Red Deer Press)
Greg Hollingshead, The Healer (HarperCollins Canada) (WINNER)
Aritha van Herk, Restlessness (Red Deer Press)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 1999
Myrna Kostash, The Doomed Bridegroom (NeWest Press)
George Melnyk, The Literary History of Alberta (University of Alberta Press)
Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson, Stolen Life (Alfred A. Knopf Canada) (WINNER)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 1999
Brad Fraser, Martin Yesterday (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Greg Nelson, Spirit Wrestler (Coteau Books) (WINNER)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 1999
Richard Harrison, Big Breath of a Wish (Wolsak and Wynn)
Nicole Markotic, minotaurs & other alphabets (Wolsak and Wynn)
Monty Ried, Flat Side (Red Deer Press) (WINNER)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 1999
Jackie Flanagan,Grass Castles (Bayeux Arts)
Sally Ito, Floating Shore (The Mercury Press) (WINNER)
Marijan Megla, Vajolin (Violin) (The Books Collective)
Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book 1999
Jacqueline Bell, burning for it (Rowan Books)
Jackie Flanagan, Grass Castles (Bayeux Arts)
Linda Goyette, Second Opinion (Rowan Books)
Mary Elizabeth Lauzon, The Kisses of His Mouth (New Leaf Works)
Rajinderpal Pal, Pappaji wrote poetry in a language I cannot read (Tsar Publications) (WINNER)
1998 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 1998
Michele Martin Bossley, Taking a Dive (James Lorimer & Company)
Cheryl Foggo, One Thing That’s True (Kids Can Press)
Hazel Hutchins, The Prince of Tarn (Annick Press) (WINNER)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 1998
David Albahari, Tsing (Baveaux Arts)
Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine (Tom Doherty Associates)
Dave Duncan, Future Indefinite (Avon Books)
Margie Taylor, Some of Skippy’s Blues (Robert Davies Multimedia Publishing) (WINNER)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 1998
Elspeth Cameron, No Previous Experience (Penguin)
Judy Schultz, Mamie’s Children (Red Deer College Press) (WINNER)
Kevin Van Tighem, Coming West (Altitude Publishing)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 1998
Ron Chambers, Three Really Nasty Plays (Red Deer College Press) (WINNER)
Marty Chan,”Mom, Dad, I’m Living with a White Girl”
Clem Martini, “Selling Mr. Rushdie”
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 1998
E.D. Blodgett, Apostrophes 3: through you and I (University of Alberta Press)
Tim Bowling, Dying Scarlet (Nightwood Editions) (WINNER)
Andrew Wreggitt, Zhivago’s Fire (Thistledown Press)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 1998
Cecilia Frey, Salamander Moon (Snowapple Press) (WINNER)
Curtis Gillespie, The Progress of an Object in Motion (Coteau Books)
Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book 1998
Curtis Gillespie, The Progress of an Object in Motion (Coteau Books) (WINNER)
Valerie Haig-Brown, Deep Currents (Orca Book Publishers)
lorie miseck, The blue not seen (The Books Collective)
Margie Taylor, Some of Skippy’s Blues (Robert Davies Multimedia Publishing)
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 1998
Glenn Dixon, “The Geography of Meaning” (WINNER)
1997 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 1997
Anita Horrocks, Breath of a Ghost (Stoddart Publishing)
Gwen Molnar, Animal Rap and Far-Out Fables (Beach Holme Publishing)
David A. Poulsen, Billy and the Bearman (Napoleon Publishing)
Don Trembath, The Tuesday Café (Orca Book Publishers) (WINNER)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 1997
Helen Forrester, Mourning Doves (HarperCollins Canada)
Kristjana Gunnars, The Rose Garden (Red Deer College Press) (WINNER)
Sarah Murphy, Connie Many Stories (The Mercury Press)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 1997
David Burcuson, Significant Incident (McClelland & Stewart) (WINNER)
Jim McLennan, Trout Streams of Alberta (Johnson Gorman Publishers)
J. Pecover, The Work of Justice (Wolf Willow Press)
Tony Rees, Hope’s Last Home (Johnson Gorman Publishers)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 1997
Brad Fraser, Love and Human Remains (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Inge Israel, Clean Breast
JoAnne James, Three Quest Plays (Red Deer College Press)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 1997
E.D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: woman at a piano (Buschek Books)
Kristjana Gunnars, Exiles Among You (Coteau Books) (WINNER)
Claire Harris, Dipped in Shadow (Goose Lane Editions)
Robert Hilles, Nothing Vanishes (Wolsak and Wynn)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 1997
Vanna Tessier, Gypsy Drums (Snowapple Press)
Fred Wah, Diamond Grill (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book 1997
Lisa Christensen, A Hiker’s Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies (Glenbow) (WINNER)
Harvey Deutschendorf, Of Work & Men (Fairview Press)
Fiona Nelson, Lesbian Motherhood: An Exploration of Canadian Lesbian Families (University of Toronto Press)
J. Pecover, The Work of Justice (Wolf Willow Press)
1996 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 1996
Monica Hughes, Where Have You Been, Billy Boy? (HarperCollins)
Tololwa Mollel, Big Boy (Stoddart Publishing Company) (WINNER)
Linda Smith, Wind Shifter (Thistledown Press)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 1996
Marion Douglas, Bending at the Bow (Press Gang Publishers) (WINNER)
Suzette Mayr, Moon Honey (NeWest Press)
Thomas Wharton, Icefields (NeWest Press)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 1996
Hugh A. Dempsey, The Golden Age of the Canadian Cowboy (Fifth House Publishers) (WINNER)
Judy Schultz, Looking for China (Red Deer College Press)
David Staples and Greg Owens, The Third Suspect (Red Deer College Press)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 1996
Brad Fraser, Poor Super Man (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Sharon Pollock,Fair Liberty’s Call (Coach House Books)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 1996
Robbie Newton Drummond, The Sun is Whatever You Say it Is (Ekstasis Editions)
Vivian Marple, I Mention the Garden for Clarity (Quarry Press)
Charles Noble, Wormwood Vermouth, Warphistory (Thistledown Press) (WINNER)
Christopher Wiseman, Remembering Mr. Fox (Sono Nis Press)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 1996
Robert Hilles, Near Morning (Black Moss Press)
Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl (Somerville House) (WINNER)
Ken Rivard, If She Could Take All These Men (Beach Holme Publishers)
Rudy Wiebe, River of Stone (Random House)
Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book 1996
Gail Helgason, Fracture Patterns (Press Gang Publishers)
Suzette Mayr, Moon Honey (NeWest Press)
Thomas Wharton, Icefields (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
1995 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 1995
Beth Goobie, Mission Impossible (Red Deer College Press) (WINNER)
Hazel Hutchins, Within a Painted Past (Annick Press)
Frank O’Keeffe, Nancy Nylen: Ordinary Farm Girl, ExplorerExtraordinaire (Beach Holme Publisher)
Cora Taylor, Summer of the Mad Monk (Douglas & McIntyre)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 1995
Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms (NeWest Press)
Roberta Rees, Beneath the Faceless Mountain (Red Deer College Press) (WINNER)
Richard Wagamese, Keeper ‘n Me (Doubeday Canada) (WINNER)
Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 1995
Eva Brewster, Progeny of Light/Vanished in Darkness (NeWest Press)
Hugh Dempsey, The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt (Fifth House)
Andrew Nikiforuk and David Eberth, The Land Before Us (The Royal Tyrrell Museum, Red Deer College Press)
Stacy Schiff, Saint-Exupery (Random House) (WINNER)
Sydney Sharp, The Gilded Ghetto (HarperCollins Canada)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 1995
Pamela Boyd, Odd Fish (Red Deer College Press) (WINNER)
Doug Curtis, Lester’s Hat
Sharon Pollock, Saucy Jack (Blizzard Publishing)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 1995
Bert Almon, Earth Prime (Brick Books) (WINNER)
Robert Budde, Catch as Catch (Turnstone Press)
Jeff Derksen, Dwell (Talonbooks)
Nicole Markotic, Connect the Dots (Wolsak and Wynn)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 1995
Rosemary Nixon, The Cock’s Egg (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Fred Stenson, Teeth (Coteau Books)
Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book 1995
Nicole Markotic, Connect the Dots (Wolsak and Wynn)
Jan Mather, Designing Alberta Gardens (Red Deer College Press)
Stacy Schiff, Saint-Exupery (Random House) (WINNER)
1994 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 1994
David Bly, The McIntyre Liar (Tree Frog Press) (WINNER)
Cecil Beeler, No Room in the Well (Red Deer College Press)
Monica Hughes, A Handful of Seeds (Lester Publishing)
Hazel Hutchins, The Best of Arlie Zack (Annick Press)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 1994
Marion Douglas, The Doubtful Guests (Orca Book Publishers)
Robert Hilles, Raising of Voices (Black Moss Press) (WINNER)
Peter Oliva, Drowning in Darkness (Cormorant Books)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 1994
David Bercuson, True Patriot (University of Toronto Press)
Myrna Kostash, Bloodlines (Douglas & McIntyre) (WINNER)
George Melnyk, Beyond Alienation (Detselig Enterprises)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 1994
Blake Brooker, Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp (Red Deer College Press)
Brad Fraser, The Ugly Man (NeWest Press)
Greg Nelson, Castrato (Blizzard Publishing) (WINNER)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 1994
Peter Ormshaw, The Purity of Arms (Thistledown Press)
Monty Reid, Crawlspace (Anansi)
Richard Stevenson, From the Mouths of Angels (Ekstasis Editions) (WINNER)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 1994
Cullene Bryant, Llamas in the Snow (River Books)
J. Jill Robinson, Lovely in Her Bones (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Martin Sherman, Elephant Hook and Other Stories (NeWest Press) (WINNER)
Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book 1994
Peter Oliva, Drowning in Darkness (Cormorant Books) (WINNER)
Marilynn Reynolds, Belle’s Journey (Orca Book Publishers
Martin Sherman, Elephant Hook and Other Stories (NeWest Press)
1993 Winners
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 1993
Owen Beattie and John Geiger, Buried in Ice (Hodder Children’s Books)
Lynne Fairbridge, In Such a Place (Doubleday Canada)
Monica Hughes, The Crystal Drop (HarperCollins Canada) (WINNER)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 1993
Martine Bates, The Dragon’s Tapestry (Red Deer Press)
Kristjana Gunnars, The Substance of Forgetting (Red Deer Press)
Greg Hollingshead, Spin Dry (Mosaic) (WINNER)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 1993
Karen Connelly, Touch the Dragon (Turnstone)
Olive Dickason, Canada’s First Nations (University of Oklahoma Press)
F.L. Morten, Morgentaler V Borowski (McClelland & Stewart) (WINNER)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 1993
John Murrel, Democracy (Talonbooks) (WINNER)
Sharon Pollock, Getting It Straight (Red Deer College Press)
Andrew Wregitt and Rebecca Shaw, Wild Guys
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 1993
Inge Israel, Unmarked Doors (Ronsdale Press)
Roberta Rees, Eyes Like Pigeons (Brick) (WINNER)
Fred Wah, Alley Alley Home Free (Red Deer Press)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 1993
Greg Hollingshead, White Buick (Oolichan Books) (WINNER)
Yasmin Ladha, Lion’s Granddaughter and Other Stories (NeWest Press)
Sarah Murphy, The Deconstruction of Wesley Smithson (Mercury Press)
1992 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 1992
Marilyn Halvorsen, Brothers and Strangers (Stoddart)
Hazel Hutchins, A Cat of Artemis Pride (Annick Press) (WINNER)
Cora Taylor, Julie’s Secret Western Producer Prairie Books)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 1992
Daniel Dancocks, D-Day Dodgers (McClelland & Stewart)
Mel Hurtig, The Betrayal of Canada (Stoddart)
Kenneth McGoogan, Canada’s Undeclared War (Detselig) (WINNER)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 1992
Janet Hinton, Delicate Slate Disturbed
Clem Martini, Nobody of Consequence (WINNER)
Conni Massing, Gravel Run (Blizzard Publishing)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 1992
Nancy Holmes, Down to the Golden Chersonese: Victorian Lady Travellers (Sono Nis Press)
Robbie Newton, Arctic Circle Songs (Penumbra Press)
Fred Wah, So Far (Talonbooks) (WINNER)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 1992
Beth Goobie, Could I Have My Body Back Now, Please? (NeWest Press)
Rosemary Nixon, Mostly Country (NeWest Press)
J. Jill Robinson, Saltwater Trees (Pulp Press) (WINNER)
Janice Williamson, Tell Tale Signs (Turnstone Press)
1991 Finalists
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 1991
Jan Hudson, Dawn Rider (HarperCollins) (WINNER)
Monica Hughes, Invitation to the Game (HarperCollins)
Elona Malterre, The Last Wolf of Ireland (Clarion Books)
Moe Price, The Incredible Mungwort Quest (McClelland & Stewart)
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 1991
Glen Huser, Grace Lake (NeWest Press)
Thomas King, Medicine River (Viking) (WINNER)
Aritha van Herk, Places Far from Ellesmere (Red Deer College Press)
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction 1991
Cheryl Foggo, Pourin’ Down Rain (Detselig Enterprises)
Bill Jackson, Three Stripes and Four Brownings (Turner Warwick Publications)
Howard Palmer, Alberta, A New History (Hurtig Publishers)
Donald B. Smith, From the Land of Shadows (Western Producer Prairie Books) (WINNER)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 1991
Nancy Cullen and Rose Scollard, Gone Tomorrow
Caterina Edwards, Homeground (Guernica)
Brad Fraser, Unidentifiable Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (Blizzard Publishing) (WINNER)
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 1991
Mary Howes, Vanity Shades (Red Deer College Press)
Charles Noble, Let’s Hear it for Them (Thistledown Press)
Monty Reid, These Lawns (Red Deer College Press) (WINNER)
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction 1991
Cecelia Frey, The Love Song of Romeo Paquette (Thistledown Press) (WINNER)
Sarah Murphy, Comic Book Heroine (NeWest Press)
Fred Stenson, Working Without a Laugh Track (Coteau Books)