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2024 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Shortlist Announced

The Book Publishers Association of Alberta has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! These annual awards recognize excellence in Alberta publishing.

The following shortlist represents the finest of Alberta book publishing as determined by leading professionals in the book industry from across Canada and showcases the wide range of books published each year in Alberta. This year, jurors evaluated 107 submissions from Alberta publishers across 15 different categories. The BPAA will also be awarding the Special Achievement in Publishing Award, honouring an individual who best exemplifies the spirit of the Alberta book publishing community.

The winners of the 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Awards will be announced at a gala reception at the Varscona Theatre in Edmonton on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. The gala is open to the public, and more information on how to purchase tickets will be shared on the BPAA website in mid-July. Leading up to the gala, the featured categories and shortlisted titles will be highlighted on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along and join the conversation using the hashtags #ABPubShortlist and #ABPubAwards.

Children’s & Young Adult

Flip Flop Flapjack: Wildhorse Jack and the First Stampede Breakfast

Brenda Joyce Leahy (CA)

Published: May 15, 2023 by Red Barn Books Inc.
ISBN: 9781989915110
Secrets of Jarrow

Bill Slavin (CA)

Published: May 17, 2023 by Renegade Arts Entertainment
ISBN: 9781989754269

Trade Non-Fiction

Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

Joshua Whitehead (CA)

Published: Apr 25, 2023 by Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 9781771993913
The Definition of Beautiful: A Memoir

Charlotte Bellows (CA)

Published: Sep 01, 2023 by Freehand Books
ISBN: 9781990601460
An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety

Cherie Dimaline (CA)

Published: Feb 15, 2023 by University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9781772126822
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000

Published: Nov 30, 2023 by University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 9781773854878

Learning

Last But Not Least: A Guide to Proofreading Text

Leslie Vermeer (CA)

Published: Dec 11, 2023 by Brush Education
ISBN: 9781550597875
Truth and Reconciliation Through Education: Stories of Decolonizing Practices

Published: May 29, 2023 by Brush Education
ISBN: 9781550599336
Wheeling in Good Hands: Wholistic Massage for Wheelchair Users

Christine Sutherland (CA)

Published: Dec 11, 2023 by Brush Education
ISBN: 9781550599367

 

Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry

Kink Bands

David Martin (CA)

Published: Sep 01, 2023 by NeWest Press
ISBN: 9781774390771
Monitoring Station

Sonja Ruth Greckol (CA)

Published: Mar 06, 2023 by University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9781772126792
there's more

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

Published: Mar 06, 2023 by University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9781772126808
Muster Points

Lucas Crawford (CA)

Published: Jun 15, 2023 by University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 9781773854533

Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction

Book Cover: Super-Earth Mother (EDGE)Super-Earth Mother

Guy Immega (CA)

Published: June 1, 2023 by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN: 9781770532274

 

 

Book Cover: The Passion of Ivan Rodriguez (Tyche Books)Passion of Ivan Rodriguez 

Hayden Trenholm (CA)

Published: Aug 8, 2023 by Tyche Books
ISBN: 9781989407530

 

 

 

Book Cover: Saltwater Sorrows (Tyche Books)Saltwater Sorrows

Rhonda Parrish (CA)

Published: Aug 2, 2023 by Tyche Books
ISBN: 9781989407530

 

 

Flicker

Lori Hahnel (CA)

Published: Sep 15, 2023 by University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 9781773854687

Scholarly & Academic

Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine

Published: Oct 25, 2023 by University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9781772126853
The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel’s Moral Universe

Reginald Wiebe (CA), Dorothy Woodman (CA)

Published: Nov 23, 2023 by University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9781772127119
Canadian Mountain Assessment: Walking Together to Enhance Understanding of Mountains in Canada

Graham McDowell, Madison Stevens, Shawn Marshall

Published: Nov 17, 2023 by University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 9781773855097
Remembering Our Relations: Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (CA)

Published: Dec 22, 2023 by University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 9781773854113

Graphic Novel

Alice of Spades

Chase Kantor (CA)

Published: Sep 06, 2023 by Renegade Arts Entertainment
ISBN: 9781989754283
Secrets of Jarrow

Bill Slavin (CA)

Published: May 17, 2023 by Renegade Arts Entertainment
ISBN: 9781989754269

Trade Fiction

The Abduction of Seven Forgers

Sean Dixon (CA)

Published: Sep 01, 2023 by Freehand Books
ISBN: 9781990601491
Coq

Ali Bryan (CA)

Published: May 01, 2023 by Freehand Books
ISBN: 9781990601255
Hold Your Tongue

Matthew Tétreault (CA)

Published: May 01, 2023 by NeWest Press
ISBN: 9781774390719
This Is How You Start to Disappear

Astrid Blodgett (CA)

Published: Aug 11, 2023 by University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9781772127133

Regional

Reimagining Fire: The Future Of Energy

Eveline Kolijn (CA), Alice Major (CA), Larry Kapustka (CA)

Published: Apr 30, 2023 by Durvile Publications
ISBN: 9781990735134
Oldman's River: New and Collected Poems

Sid Marty (CA)

Published: May 15, 2023 by NeWest Press
ISBN: 9781774390733
We Need to Do This: A History of the Women's Shelter Movement in Alberta and the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters

Alexandra Zabjek (CA)

Published: Sep 15, 2023 by University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 9781773854922

Book Cover Design

Whistle at Night and They Will Come: Indigenous Horror Stories Volume 2

Alex Soop (CA)

Published: Oct 01, 2023 by Durvile Publications Ltd.
ISBN: 9781990735301
Exit Strategies

Paul Cresey (CA)

Published: May 01, 2023 by Freehand Books
ISBN: 9781990601316
I (Athena)

Ruth DyckFehderau (CA)

Published: Apr 01, 2023 by NeWest Press
ISBN: 9781774390672
Matara: The Elephant Play

Conni Massing (CA)

Published: Oct 15, 2023 by NeWest Press
ISBN: 9781774390825

Book Design

Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

Joshua Whitehead (CA)

Published: Apr 25, 2023 by Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 9781771993913
The Abduction of Seven Forgers

Sean Dixon (CA)

Published: Sep 01, 2023 by Freehand Books
ISBN: 9781990601491
Oldman's River: New and Collected Poems

Sid Marty (CA)

Published: May 15, 2023 by NeWest Press
ISBN: 9781774390733

Book Illustration

Flip Flop Flapjack: Wildhorse Jack and the First Stampede Breakfast

Brenda Joyce Leahy (CA)

Published: May 15, 2023 by Red Barn Books Inc.
ISBN: 9781989915110
Secrets of Jarrow

Bill Slavin (CA)

Published: May 17, 2023 by Renegade Arts Entertainment
ISBN: 9781989754269

To be announced at the gala:

Mystery and Thriller Book of the Year

Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence

Special Achievement in Publishing Award

Find the shortlisted books at your favourite indie bookstore & through the Read Alberta Collection in Alberta libraries.