Book and Magazine Awards / Prizes

January deadlines

• Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award — January 1
• Canadian Library Association Young Adult Canadian Book Award — January 1
• Trillium (Ontario) Book Award (fiction and poetry) $20,000 — January 9  
• Rocky Mountain Book Award medal — January 15
• National Magazine Awards  $1,500, $500; President's Medal — January 12
• Journey Prize, McLelland & Stewart (short story; open to Canadian literary publications) $10,000, $2,000 — January 15
• The ReLit Award (novel, poetry, short fiction) — January 25
• Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic (fantasy) $1,000 — January 31
• Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry (Ottawa writers only) $500 — January 31
• Arthur Ellis Awards (crime) — January 31
• Danuta Gleed Literary Award (first collection of short fiction) $5,000 — January 31

• The John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer $5,000 — February 3
• Tom Fairley Award (editing) $2,000 — February 27
• City of Toronto Book Awards $15,000 — February 28

• Western Magazine Awards Foundation (magazine writing, etc.) $500 — March 15
• The Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-fiction $10,000 — March 31
• Governor General's Literary Awards (fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, children's text, children's illustration, translation) $15,000 — March 15

• Independent Publisher Book Awards (many categories) $5,000 — April 15
• The Pierre Berton Award (Canadian history) $5,000 — April 23
• The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction (first or second published book, Canadian themed) $3,000 — April 30
• Canada-Japan Literary Awards up to $20,000 — April 30

• Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction $2,000 — May 31
• Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction $2,000 — May 31
• A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry $2,000 — May 31
• McAuslan First Book Prize $2,000 — May 31
• Quebec Writers' Federation Prix de traduction / Translation Prize  $2,000 — May 31

• City of Victoria Butler Book Prize $5,000 — June 14
• Charles Taylor Prize for Non-fiction $25,000 — June 15
• City of Vancouver Book Awards $2,000 — June 16
• The Giller Prize (novel or short story collection) $25,000 — June 25

• Prix Aurora Awards (fantasy & science fiction) — July 17
• Saskatchewan Book Awards (includes: Brenda MacDonald Riches First Book Award, Fiction Award, Non-Fiction Award, City of Regina Award, City of Saskatoon Award, Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award, Children's Literature Award, Award For Publishing, Award For First Peoples Publishing) $1,500-2,000 — July 31

• Quebec Writers' Federation Prix de traduction / Translation Prize (Quebec residents fr 3+ years) $2,000 — August 1
• Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction $2,000 — August 1
• Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction $2,000 — August 1
• A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry $2,000 — August 1
• McAuslan First Book Prize $2,000 — August 1

• Saskatchewan Book Awards — September 15

• Alden Nowlan Award for excellence in English language literary arts (New Brunswick authors) $5,000 — October 1
• The Excellence Awards Program (various disciplines; NB authors) $5,000 — October 1
• Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award (short fiction) $1,000 — October 15
• The Ann Connor Brimer Award (children's literature in Atlantic Canada) $1,000 — October 15
• Lionel Gelber Prize (books on local/global forces in international relations) $15,000 — October 31

• The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (first book of poetry) $1,000 — November 1
• Pat Lowther Memorial Award (poetry) $1,000 — November 1
• Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize $15,000 — November 1
• Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize $15,000 — November 1
• Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize (biography) $10,000 — November 1
• Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing $10,000 — November 1
• Marian Engel Award (3 books of fiction or more) $15,000 — November 1
• Matt Cohen Award (lifetime achievement award) $20,000 — November 1
• Timothy Findley Award (lifetime achievement award) $20,000 — November 1
• Commonwealth Writers Prize (all prose) £10,000 — November 15
• CBC Literary Awards $6,000 — November 1

• Atlantic Poetry Prize — first Friday in December
• Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award (Nova Scotia authors) — first Friday in December
• Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award (Atlantic authors) — first Friday in December
• Atlantic Poetry Prize — first Friday in December
• BC Book Prizes — December 1
• British Columbia Award for Canadian Nonfiction — ($25,000 first prize) December 1 
• Molson Prizes ($50,000 arts prize) — December 1
• Dartmouth Books Awards $1,500 — December 1
• The McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award $5,000 — December 8
• The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award  $5,000 — December 8
• The Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book (Manitoba authors) $1,500 — December 8
• Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction (Manitoba authors) $3,500 — December 8
• Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction $3,500 — December 8
• Ottawa Book Award $2,400 — December 9
• Trillium (Ontario) Book Award (fiction and poetry) $20,000 — December 9
• Canadian Authors Association Jack Chalmers Poetry Award — December 15
• Canadian Authors Association Awards for Adult Literature $2,500 — December 15
• Alberta Book Awards — December 15
• Charles Taylor Prize for Non-fiction $25,000 — December 15  
• Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature $15,000 — December 31
• Griffin Poetry Prize $40,000 — December 31
• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour $10,000 — December 31
• Alberta Book Awards (includes: The City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, The City of Edmonton Book Prize, Grant MacEwan Award, Georges Bugnet Award for Novel, Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama, Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction, Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction) various prizes — December 31
• Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador book awards — December 31

No date specified

• Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award