Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

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The Kobo Emerging Writer Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented since 2015 by online e-book and audiobook retailer and eReader manufacturer Rakuten Kobo.[1]

Awardees receive a $10,000 prize, and are provided with support in marketing their books.[1] Three prizes are awarded each year to debut books published in the prior calendar year in literary fiction, non-fiction, and one of 3 genre fiction categories. Each year a different genre is honoured in the genre fiction category, rotating between mystery, romance, and speculative fiction. Since 2023, the genre fiction category has been open to books published since the prize last accepted submissions in that genre.

Winners

Year Author Title Genre Reference
2015 Claire Battershill Circus Literary fiction [2]
Sam Wiebe Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noir Mystery
Robyn Doolittle Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story Nonfiction
2016 Irina Kovalyova Specimen Literary fiction [3]
Nicola R. White Fury’s Kiss Romance
Wab Kinew The Reason You Walk Nonfiction
2017 Lynne Kutsukake The Translation of Love Literary fiction [4]
Dee Willson A Keeper's Truth Speculative fiction
Teva Harrison In-Between Days Nonfiction
2018 Omar El Akkad American War Literary fiction [5]
Sheena Kamal The Lost Ones Mystery
Maria Qamar Trust No Aunty Nonfiction
2019 Nora Decter How Far We Go and How Fast Fiction [6]
Julie Evelyn Joyce Steeped in Love Romance
Kate Harris Lands of Lost Borders Nonfiction
2020 Zalika Reid-Benta Frying Plantain Fiction [7]
J. R. McConvey Different Beasts Speculative fiction
Jesse Thistle From the Ashes Nonfiction
2021 Michelle Good Five Little Indians Fiction [8]
Emily Hepditch The Woman in the Attic Mystery
Eternity Martis They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life and Growing Up Nonfiction
2022 Pik-Shuen Fung Ghost Forest Fiction [9]
Damhnait Monaghan New Girl in Little Cove Romance
Jesse Wente Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance Nonfiction
2023 Erica McKeen Tear Fiction [10]
K.S. Covert The Petting Zoos Speculative Fiction
Harrison Mooney Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery Nonfiction
2024 Jamaluddin Aram Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday Fiction [11]
Keziah Weir The Mythmakers Mystery
Jérémie Harris Quantum Physics Made Me Do It: A Simple Guide to the Fundamental Nature of Everything Nonfiction

References

  1. ^ a b Ryan Porter (May 2, 2019). "Tanya Tagaq, Kate Harris, and Uzma Jalaluddin among shortlisted authors for Kobo Emerging Writer Prize". Quill and Quire.
  2. ^ Conan Tobias (July 8, 2015). "Battershill, Wiebe, Doolittle win inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill and Quire.
  3. ^ Becky Robertson, "Awards: Kinew, Kovalyova, White win Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill & Quire, June 22, 2016.
  4. ^ Becky Robertson, "Teva Harrison, Lynne Kutsukake, Dee Wilson awarded Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill & Quire, June 28, 2017.
  5. ^ Samraweet Yohannes (June 19, 2018). "Omar El Akkad, author of American War, among winners of $10K Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". CBC News.
  6. ^ "26 Canadian books that won awards in the first half of 2019". CBC News. July 8, 2019.
  7. ^ Sue Carter, "Jesse Thistle, Zalika Reid-Benta, J.R. McConvey win Kobo’s Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill & Quire, June 25, 2020.
  8. ^ Deborah Dundas, "Michelle Good wins Kobo Emerging Writer fiction prize — making it three wins for the three noms she got on that big day in May". Toronto Star, June 22, 2021.
  9. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Jesse Wente, Pik-Shuen Fung, Damhnait Monaghan named winners of 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer prizes". Quill & Quire, June 23, 2022.
  10. ^ Bridget Raymundo, "Erica McKeen, Harrison Mooney and K.S. Covert win $10K Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". CBC Books, June 28, 2023.
  11. ^ "Toronto author Jamaluddin Aram among winners of $10K Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize". CBC Books, June 19, 2024.

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