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 are currently being accepted for the 2019 Alberta Book Publishing Awards, through February 28, 2019. See here for the full release, and download the submission forms below:
Eligibility, Conditions, and Attestation (with submission checklist)
Credit Card Authorization Form
Jury Criteria:
Robert Kroetsch Book of the Year Poetry
Lois Hole Editorial Excellence Award
Emerging Publisher of the Year Award
Winners 2018
Media Release (PDF)
Shortlist 2018
Download the 2018 awards shortlist in PDF format
Book Design
University of Calgary Press
Fail Safe by Nikki Sheppy
Designer Melina Cusano
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NeWest Press
The Orchard Keepers by Robert Pepper-Smith
Designer Natalie Olsen
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University of Alberta Press
Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography by Colleen Skidmore
Designer Alan Brownoff
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NeWest Press
What is Going to Happen Next? by Karen Hofmann
Natalie Olsen
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Cover Design
University of Calgary Press
Animal Metropolis
Designer Melina Cusano
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NeWest Press
Darwin’s Moving by Taylor Lambert
Designer David A. Gee
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University of Alberta Press
The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place by Tim Lilburn
Designer Alan Brownoff
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NeWest Press
My True and Complete Adventures as a Wannabe Voyageur by Phyllis Rudin
Designer Vicki Wiercinski
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Children and Young Adult
Weigl Educational Publishers
Canada on the Battlefield
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Tyche Books
Maddie Hatter and the Gilded Gauge
Jayne Barnard
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Junior Global Citizen
My Life as a Girl, So Far
Patti McIntosh, Marjoto Levy, Milane Pridmore-Franz
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Frontenac House
Two Black Eyes and the Unfinished Script
Tyler Trafford
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Trade Fiction
University of Alberta Press
Annie Muktuk and Other Stories
Norma Dunning
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Freehand Books
Dazzle Patterns
Alison Watt
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NeWest Press
To Me You Seem Giant
Greg Rhyno
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Frontenac House
Two Black Eyes and the Unfinished Script
Tyler Trafford
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Trade Non Fiction
NeWest Press
Darwin’s Moving
Taylor Lambert
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Freehand Books
The Unravelling
Clem Martini and Olivier Martini
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Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry
University of Alberta Press
Believing is not the same as Being Saved
Lisa Martin
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University of Calgary Press
Fail Safe
Nikki Sheppy
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Frontenac House
This Wound is a World
Billy-Ray Belcourt
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Scholarly and Academic
Athabasca University Press
Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin: Archaeology and Paleoenvironments
Brian M. Ronaghan
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University of Alberta Press
Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography
Colleen Skidmore
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Learning
Brush Education
Education Policy: Bridging the Divide Between Theory and Practice, Second Edition
Jerome G. Delaney
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Brush Education
K9 Search and Rescue Troubleshooting
Susan Bulanda
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Brush Education
Pathology Review & Practice Guide
Edited by Dr. Zu-hua Gao
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Speculative Fiction
NeWest Press
59 Glass Bridges
Steven Peters
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Tyche Books
Dying on Second
E.C. Bell
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Laksa Media
The Sum of Us
Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
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Laksa Media
Where the Stars Rise
Edited by Lucas K. Law and Derwin Mak
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Emerging Publisher of the Year
Past winners
Read winning and nominated titles in eBook format.
2017 Awards
2016 Awards
2015 Awards
2014 Awards
2013 Awards
2012 Awards
2011 Awards
2010 Awards
2009 Awards
2008 Awards
2007 Awards
2006 Awards
2005 Awards
2004 Awards