Please refer to each organization’s website for complete and up-to-date lists of prizes
The Alberta Magazine Awards celebrate and recognize excellence in journalism and visual storytelling and honour individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the magazine industry.
Association des libraires du Québec
Le Prix des libraires du Québec joue un rôle important de reconnaissance de la littérature et de promotion de la lecture et de la culture. Il fait reconnaître le rôle du libraire, qui consiste à guider et à stimuler ses client⸱e⸱s sur le terrain de la curiosité, de la connaissance et de la culture en général et il encourage la fréquentation des librairies.
Association of Italian-Canadian Writers
The AICW-Bressani Literary Prize recognizes and celebrates books by Canadian authors of Italian origin. Submitted works must be in Italian, English, French or Italian dialect. (Translations are not eligible.)
Atlantic Book Awards
The Atlantic Book Awards Society (ABAS) is a registered non-profit organization with the mandate to promote and acknowledge excellence in Atlantic Canadian writing and book publishing through an annual awards ceremony and related events.
Atlantic Publishers’ Marketing Association
See Atlantic Book Awards.
BC & Yukon Book Prizes
The BC and Yukon Book Prizes celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers, illustrators and publishers.
Book and Periodical Council – Affiliate Member
The BPC is the umbrella organization for Canadian associations that are or whose members are primarily involved with the writing, editing, translating, publishing, producing, distributing, lending, marketing, reading and selling of written words.
One of the primary goals of the Book and Periodical Council is to function as a forum for its member associations to network, identify common goals and coordinate action to benefit the Canadian writing and publishing industry.
Canada Council for the Arts
Conseil des arts du Canada
The Governor General’s Literary Awards are awarded annually to the best English-language and French-language books in seven categories and for readers of all ages.
Les Prix littéraires du Gouverneur general récompensent des livres finalistes et gagnants dans sept catégories pour chacune des langues officielles et pour des lectorats de tous âges.
Canada’s History
Canada’s History administers The Governor General’s History Awards, which are Canada’s top honours in the field of history and heritage. They celebrate the very best in Canadian achievements to ensure our national past has a vibrant presence in our society today.
Canadian Authors Association
The CAA’s Literary Awards Program administers the Fred Kerner Book Award and the Whistler Independent Book Awards.
Canadian Children's Book Centre
The CCBC Book Awards include eight awards for children’s and young adult literature in the following categories:
Canadian Jewish Literary Awards
Awards for books on Jewish themes or topic, in English, French, or Yiddish. Authors must be Canadian citizens or permanent or former residents but need not be Jewish.
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is the first major English-language literary prize to celebrate creativity and excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the United States, awarding $150,000 USD to its winner, and $12,500 USD to each of its four finalists.
Crime Writers of Canada
Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence are presented annually. The Awards are for crime writing and are not restricted to mystery writing. The genre includes crime, detective, espionage, mystery, suspense, and thriller writing, as well as fictional or factual accounts of criminal doings and crime-themed literary works.
The Dafoe Foundation—J.W. Dafoe Book Prize
The J.W. Dafoe Book Prize is awarded to the best book on Canada, Canadians, and/or Canada’s place in the world published in the previous calendar year.
Dartmouth Book Awards
https://dartmouthbookawards.ca/
The Dartmouth Book Awards honour Nova Scotian literature and contributions writers make to Nova Scotia’s cultural heritage.
Fondation Metropolis Bleu
https://metropolisbleu.org/prix-litteraires/
Blue Metropolis Foundation
Chaque année, à travers ses Prix littéraires, le festival Métropolis bleu donne un coup de projecteur sur des oeuvres de qualité.
Each year, the Blue Metropolis Festival’s prizes spotlight achievement and quality work.
Voir le site web pour une liste complete. / See website for complete list.
Forest of Reading®
La Forêt de la lecture
https://forestofreading.com
Forest of Reading is a reading program that honours English- and French-language children’s and young adult literature in Canada.
La Forêt de la lecture est un programme qui célèbre la littérature jeunesse francophone et anglophone au Canada.
Grand Prix du livre de Montréal
https://montreal.ca/programmes/grand-prix-du-livre-de-montreal
Le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal met en lumière les écrivaines et les écrivains, le milieu de l’édition montréalaise et la littérature québécoise.
The Grand Prix du livre de Montréal spotlights writers, Montréal’s publishing scene, and Québec literature.
Tout ouvrage de création, d’analyse, de compilation ou de référence littéraire, artistique ou sociohistorique / Any original work, including scholarly books, compilations and reference works, of a literary, artistic, social or historical nature.
Indigenous Voices Awards
https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/home-page
The Indigenous Voices Awards celebrate creativity and excellence in work by emerging and established Indigenous writers.
The J.I. Segal Awards honour the exploration of Jewish themes in literature and recognize the contribution of Jewish culture to a richly diverse contemporary Quebec. Prizes are awarded every two years.
The League of Canadian Poets
https://poets.ca/
The League of Canadian Poets administers several awards to honour excellence in Canadian poetry.
Manitoba Book Awards Working Group
https://manitobabookawards.ca/
On hiatus.
National Magazine Awards
Les prix du magazine canadien
https://magazine-awards.com/
The National Magazine Awards promote excellence in journalism by honouring outstanding work by journalists, writers, storytellers, photographers, designers and more.
Les prix du magazine canadien promeuvent l’excellence en journalisme en célébrant
les réalisations exceptionnelles des créateurs et journalistes.
See website for complete list.
Nova Scotia Book Awards
The Nova Scotia Book Awards brings together the Dartmouth Book Awards and the provincial awards administered by the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia.
Ontario Creates
The Ontario government established the Trillium Book Award in 1987 to recognize excellence, support marketing and foster increased public awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing.
Le gouvernement de l’Ontario a créé le Prix littéraire Trillium en 1987 pour souligner, promouvoir et mieux faire connaître l’excellence et la diversité des écrivaines et écrivains ontariens et de leurs œuvres.
PEI Writers’ Guild – Affiliate Member
A group of authors, editors, publishing industry professionals, and community-minded writers.
Penguin Random House Canada – Affiliate Member
Penguin Random House Canada, the country’s largest book publisher, aims to nourish a universal passion for reading by connecting authors and their writing with readers everywhere.
PEN Canada
PEN Canada is the Canadian chapter of PEN International, the writers’ organization for freedom of expression.
Prix littéraire Jacques-Poirier
https://slo.qc.ca/prix-et-concours/prix-litteraire-jacques-poirier-outaouais/
Le Prix littéraire Jacques-Poirier est remis chaque année à un·e auteur·trice résidant ou originaire de l’Outaouais, pour un ouvrage (roman, poésie, essai, récit ou roman graphique).
Quebec Writers’ Federation
The QWF Awards showcase the work of literary artists working in English in Quebec and French-language translators who translate their work.
Real Vancouver – Affiliate Member
Real Vancouver exists to provide a platform for Canadian writers to share original thought-provoking work with a world that needs new perspectives.
Saskatchewan Book Awards
The SBA offers up to 14 annual or semi-annual awards to celebrate, promote and reward Saskatchewan authors and publishers worthy of recognition.
Saskatchewan Foundation of the Arts
In support of literary excellence from or influenced by living in Saskatchewan.
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation
Uplifting Canada’s Groundbreaking Theatre Artists
La Société de développement des périodiques culturels québécois (SODEP) est une association vouée à la défense et à la promotion des revues culturelles du Québec.
Stephen Leacock Associates
The annual Stephen Leacock Medal recognizes excellence in Canadian literary humour.
Taste Canada
Recognizing the best in culinary writing.
Whiting Foundation
The Whiting Awards are given annually to ten emerging writers from Canada and the U.S.
Whistler Independent Book Awards
The Whistler Independent Book Awards recognize excellence in Canadian self-publishing.
Writers NL
The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards honour excellence in books by residents of Newfoundland and Labrador. The prize categories alternate.
Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia
Book Awards administered by the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) celebrate and promote excellence in writing from Nova Scotia and from Atlantic Canada.
Also: see Atlantic Book Awards.
Writers’ Guild of Alberta
The Alberta Literary Awards recognize excellence in writing by Alberta authors.
Writers’ Trust
Writers' Trust recognizes Canadian writers through prizes for single works and for remarkable literary careers.
Writers’ Trust
Writers' Trust recognizes Canadian writers through prizes for single works and for remarkable literary careers.
Writers’ Union of Canada
The Writers’ Union of Canada recognizes authors and contributions to the writing community.