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

Jury Criteria

Submission Instructions

Past winners

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 2020 awards are currently being accepted, through February 28, 2020. Jury Criteria and submission instructions are below:

Jury Criteria

The 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards will be accepting submissions through February 28, 2020, in the following categories:

Book of the Year: 

Book Design

Industry Awards

Submission Instructions

The majority of the forms for the 2020 BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Awards have been migrated to online submissions. Please see the list of forms and checklist (included on the Eligibility, Conditions and Attestation form) to ensure that everything is submitted correctly. 

Any relevant supporting documentation should be uploaded to the file request(s) for each category titles are entered into. Please also include cover photos for use on social media and within the programs if the title is shortlisted.

Forms

Dropbox File Requests

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

Freehand Books

Lifetime Achievement in Publishing

Sharon Budnarchuk, co-owner of Audreys Books.

Past winners

Read winning and nominated titles in eBook format.

2019 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2018 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2017 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2016 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2015 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2014 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2013 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2012 Awards

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2011 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2010 Awards

Winners  | Shortlist

2009 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2008 Awards

Shortlist

2007 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2006 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2005 Awards

Winners | Shortlist

2004 Awards

Winners | Shortlist