FICTION

WINNER!
Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth
Eli Baxter
(McGill-Queenʼs University Press)

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Rebecca Donner
(Little, Brown and Company)

Rehearsals for Living
Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
(Knopf Canada)

Persephoneʼs Children: A Life in Fragments
Rowan McCandless
(Rare Machines)

Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
Britt Wray
(Knopf Canada)

WINNER!
Shadow Blight
Annick MacAskill
(Gaspereau Press)

Dream of No One but Myself
David Bradford
(Brick Books)

H of H Playbook
Anne Carson
(New Directions Publishing)

Shifting Baseline Syndrome
Aaron Kreuter
(University of Regina Press)

Horrible Dance
Avery Lake
(Brick Books)

WINNER!
The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key
Dorothy Dittrich
(Talonbooks)

Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience
Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn
(Talonbooks)

Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down
Robert Chafe
(Playwrights Canada Press)

Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方
Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
(Playwrights Canada Press)

WINNER!
History of the Jews in Quebec
Judith Weisz Woodsworth
(Freehand Books)
Translation of Histoire des Juifs au Québec by Pierre Anctil

Remnants
Aleshia Jensen
(Book*hug Press)
Translation of Le drap blanc by Céline Huyghebaert

This Is How I Disappear
Aleshia Jensen and Bronwyn Haslam
(Drawn & Quarterly)
Translation of Cʼest comme ça que je disparais by Mirion Malle

White Resin
Susan Ouriou
(Linda Leith Publishing)
Translation of Blanc Résine by Audrée Wilhelmy

They Called Us Savages: A Hereditary Chiefʼs Quest for Truth and Harmony
Ben Vrignon
(McGill-Queenʼs University Press)
Translation of On nous appelait les Sauvages : souvenirs et espoirs dʼun chef héréditaire algonquin by Dominique Rankin and Marie-Josée Tardif

WINNER!
The Sour Cherry Tree
Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi
Owlkids Books)

Mina
Matthew Forsythe
(Simon & Schuster Canada)

kā-āciwīkicik / The Move
Doris George, Don K. Philpot, and Alyssa Koski
(Heritage House)

The Big Bath House
Kyo Maclear and Gracey Zhang
(Random House Studio)

Time is a Flower
Julie Morstad
(Tundra Books)

WINNER!
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
Jen Ferguson
(Heartdrum)

Step
Deborah Ellis
(Groundwood Books)

Sorry for Your Loss
Joanne Levy
(Orca Book Publishers)

A Boy Is Not a Ghost
Edeet Ravel
(Groundwood Books)

Urchin
Kate Story
(Running the Goat Books & Broadsides)