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Alberta Book Publishing Awards

Alberta book publishers enrich our province's cultural landscape, releasing high-quality titles that bring our stories to life. The Alberta Book Publishing Awards honour this excellence and innovation annually, celebrating the best in the industry. This curated booklist features award-winning and shortlisted titles from the Alberta Book Publishing Awards, showcasing the literary brilliance of our local publishers. Join the Book Publishers Association of Alberta at the 2024 Awards Gala on September 24 at the Varscona Theatre in Edmonton. Dive into Alberta’s stories with our special selection!

Edmonton Public Library

32 items

  • Flip Flop Flapjack

    Wildhorse Jack and the First Stampede Breakfast

    Leahy, Brenda Joyce
    Children’s & Young Adult Book of the Year | Book Illustration: illustrated by Melissa Bruglemans-LaBelle
    Book, 2023Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books, [2023] — J 791.84 MOR LEA
  • Children’s & Young Adult Book of the Year | Graphic Novel of the Year | Book Illustration: Illustration by Bill Slavin
    eBook, 2023[Canmore, Alberta] : Renegade Arts Entertainment, 2023. — Internet Access
  • Indigiqueerness

    a Conversation About Storytelling

    Whitehead, Joshua (Writer)
    Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year | In dialogue with Angie Abdou, book cover design by Brnesh Berhe, interior design by Natalie Olsen (Kisscut Design)
    Book, 2023Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press, [2023] — 819.18603 WHI
  • Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year
    Book, 2023Calgary, AB : Freehand Books, [2023] — 616.85262 BEL
  • An Anthology of Monsters

    How Story Saves Us From Our Anxiety

    Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-
    Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year
    Book, 2023Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press, [2023] — 819.146 DIM
  • Prairie Interlace

    Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000

    Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year
    eBook, 2023[Calgary, Alberta] : University of Calgary Press, 2023. — Internet Access
  • Last but Not Least

    a Guide to to Proofreading Text

    Vermeer, Leslie, 1969-
    Learning Book of the Year
    Book, 2023Edmonton, AB : Brush education Inc., [2023] — 808.027 VER
  • Truth and Reconciliation Through Education

    Stories of Decolonizing Practices

    Learning Book of the Year
    eBook, 2023[Calgary, Alberta] : Brush Education, 2023. — Internet Access
  • Wheeling in Good Hands

    Holistic Massage for Wheelchair Users

    Sutherland, Christine, 1951-
    Learning Book of the Year
    eBook, 2023[Calgary, Alberta] : Brush Education, 2023. — Internet Access
  • Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry
    Book, 2023Edmonton, Alberta : NeWest Press, [2023] — 819.116 MAR
  • Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry
    eBook, 2023[Calgary, Alberta] : University of Alberta Press, 2023. — Internet Access
  • Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry
    Book, 2023Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, [2023] — 819.116 CRA
  • Super-Earth Mother

    the AI That Engineered a Brave New World

    Immega, Guy
    Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction
    Book, 2023Calgary : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, an imprint of Hades Publications Inc., [2023] — IMM
  • Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction
    eBook, 2023[Edmonton, Alberta] : Tyche Books Ltd., 2023. — Internet Access
  • Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction
    eBook, 2023[Calgary, Alberta] : University of Calgary Press, 2023. — Internet Access
  • Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction
    Book, 2023Calgary, AB : Tyche Books, 2023. — SAL
  • Scholarly & Academic Book of the Year
    eBook, 2023[Calgary, Alberta] : University of Alberta Press, 2023. — Internet Access
  • The Cancer Plot

    Terminal Mortality in Marvel's Moral Universe

    Wiebe, Reginald
    Scholarly & Academic Book of the Year
    eBook, 2024[Calgary, Alberta] : University of Alberta Press, 2024. — Internet Access
  • The Canadian Mountain Assessment

    Walking Together to Enhance Understanding of Mountains in Canada

    McDowell, Graham
    Scholarly & Academic Book of the Year
    eBook, 2023[Calgary, Alberta] : University of Calgary Press, 2023. — Internet Access
  • Remembering Our Relations

    Dënesuliné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park

    Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
    Scholarly & Academic Book of the Year
    eBook, 2023[Calgary, Alberta] : University of Calgary Press, 2023. — Internet Access