The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People is a Canadian book award given annually to the best historical fiction book written for young readers. The award is named after Geoffrey Bilson, a writer of historical fiction for young people and a history teacher at the University of Saskatchewan, who passed away in 1987. A group of experts chosen by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre selects the winner.
The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is an annual award that honors the best creative nonfiction book from the previous year. The book must be written by a Canadian author and focus on a Canadian place or topic. It must also be the author’s first or second published book of any kind.
The Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers is a Canadian literary award given each year by the Writers’ Trust of Canada to a Canadian writer who is part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer community. At first, the prize was given for a writer’s overall work, but since 2022, it has been awarded to recognize a writer’s first book. It is one of two literary awards in Canada that support the LGBTQ community, along with the Blue Metropolis Violet Prize, which honors established writers.
The Danuta Gleed Literary Award is a Canadian prize given since 1998. It honors the best first book of short stories written by a Canadian author in English. The award was started by John Gleed to remember his wife, Danuta Gleed, a Canadian writer who loved short stories.
The Carol Bolt Award is a yearly Canadian literary award. The Playwrights Guild of Canada gives the award to a member whose play has its first performance and is chosen as the best play of the year. The award is named in memory of Carol Bolt, a Canadian playwright.
The Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards were a Canadian program that gave literary awards each year. The Koffler Centre of the Arts organized, created, and presented these awards to works considered the best in literature by Jewish Canadian writers or about Jewish culture and history. In December 2014, the Koffler Centre of the Arts said the Awards would be paused for 2015.
Canada Reads is an annual “battle of the books” competition organized and broadcast by Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC. The program has two different versions: the English-language Canada Reads on CBC Radio One, and the French-language Le Combat des livres on Ici Radio-Canada Première. The English version has been on the air every year since 2002.
The Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Literature is a Canadian literary award given each year to the best young adult books written by Indigenous authors in Canada. The award is supported by the Canadian Organization for Development through Education (CODE), a Canadian charity focused on literacy and education, and by donor William Burt. It is managed by the Canada Council.
The Atlantic Book Awards & Festival is an annual event that honors books and illustrations by Atlantic Canadian authors. Free events happen in all four Atlantic provinces (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). The main event is the awards ceremony, where 13 different literary awards are given out.
The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, previously called the Arthur Ellis Awards, are a set of Canadian literary awards given each year to recognize the best crime and mystery writing published in Canada the year before. The awards are presented in May of the year following publication. At first, the awards were named after Arthur Ellis, a false name used by several official hangmen in Canada, with the first and most well-known being Arthur B.