Alberta Book Publishing Awards
Established in 1994, these annual awards recognize and celebrate the best of the Alberta book publishing industry.
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About the awards
Each year, publishers are selected through a peer jury process in up to 14 award categories. This much-anticipated event draws industry, government and media attention to the world-class excellence of Alberta’s publishing industry.
Submissions for the 2019 awards are now closed, and the shortlist is available here.
Awards Gala Program (PDF)
Winners 2019
The winners of the 2019 Alberta Book Publishing Awards were announced on Friday, September 13 at the Varscona Hotel on Whyte in Edmonton, Alberta. Download the full media release in PDF format here.
Shortlist 2019
Download the 2019 awards shortlist in PDF format
Book Design
University of Alberta Press
Anarchists in the Academy: Machines and Free Readers in Experimental Poetry by Dani Spinosa
Designer Alan Brownoff
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University of Alberta Press
The Stories Were Not Told: Canada’s First World War Internment Camps by Sandra Semchuk
Designer Alan Brownoff
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NeWest Press
Tar Swan by David Martin
Designer Natalie Olsen: Kisscut Design
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Cover Design
Freehand Books
The Figgs by Ali Bryan
Designer Natalie Olsen: Kisscut Design
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Freehand Books
All of Us In Our Own Lives by Manjushree Thapa
Designer Natalie Olsen: Kisscut Design
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University of Alberta Press
Waiting: An Anthology of Essays edited by Rona Altrows and Julie Sedivy
Designer Alan Brownoff
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University of Alberta Press
Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from My Father by Heather O’Neill
Designer Alan Brownoff
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Children and Young Adult
Dempster + Craig Books/Robert Wuetherick
Bygumbo
Gwen Molnar and Barbara Hartmann
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Frontenac House
The Little Grey Mouse: A Fable in Fabric
Trudy Cowan
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Siretona Creative
Shopping Cart Boy
Joshua Jordan G.H.
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Trade Fiction
Stonehouse Publishing
Lady Franklin of Russell Square
Erika Behrisch Elce
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NeWest Press
Left
Theanna Bischoff
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Freehand Books
Twin Studies
Keith Maillard
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Trade Non-Fiction
Athabasca University Press
Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir
Meenal Shrivastava
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Freehand Books
Homes: A Refugee Story
Winnie Yeung & Abu Bakr al Rabeeah
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University of Alberta Press
Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard
Jenna Butler
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Historical Society of Alberta
Mon Journal: The Journal and Memoir of Father Leon Doucet O.M.I. 1868-1890
Leon Doucet
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Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry
Frontenac House
Ruba’iyat For the Time of Apricots
Basma Kavanagh
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NeWest Press
That Light Feeling Under Your Feet
Kayla Geitzler
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University of Alberta Press
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Alice Major
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Athabasca University Press
What We Are When We Are
Cvetka Lipus, translated by Tom Priestly
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Scholarly and Academic
Athabasca University Press
American Labour’s Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Detente, 1945-1970
Anthony Carew
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Brush Education
Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples
Gregory Younging
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University of Alberta Press
Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
Editors Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell & Christi Belcourt
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University of Alberta Press
Metis Pioneers: Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed
Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
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Learning
Brush Education
Birthing in Good Hands: Holistic Massage for Pregnancy, Labor and Babies
Christine Sutherland
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Brush Education
Essentials of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Dr. Rahim Valani
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Speculative Fiction
Hades Publications
The Bathwater Conspiracy
Janet Kellough
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Tyche Books Ltd.
Fire: Demons, Dragons & Djinns
Editor Rhonda Parrish
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Laksa Media Groups Inc.
Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders
Editor Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
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Renegade Arts Entertainment
Sharkasaurus
Spencer Estabrooks
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Mel Hurtig Publisher of the Year
To be announced at the 2019 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Gala on September 13, 2019.
Lifetime Achievement in Publishing
Sharon Budnarchuk, co-owner of Audreys Books.
Past winners
Read winning and nominated titles in eBook format.
2019 Awards
2018 Awards
2017 Awards
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2015 Awards
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