2020 call for submissions
Submissions are open.
Read call for submissions2019
Winner
The Ghost Garden
(Random House Canada)
Jury
Mark Medley
Scott Moodie
Erin Wunker
2018
Winner
In Praise of Blood
(Random House Canada)
shortlisted
Policing Black Lives: State Violence In Canada from Slavery to the Present
(Fernwood Publishing)
Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by ‘Toots’
(New Star Books)
Jury
Nigel Hunt (Toronto)
Marcello Di Cintio (Calgary)
Anne Lagacé Dowson (Montreal)
2017
Winner
shortlisted
Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867 – 1917
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914 – 1948
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Jury
Chris Frey
Rod MacLeod
Rebecca Margolis
2016
Winner
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
(Allen Lane Canada, Penguin Random House Canada)
shortlisted
Shanghai Grand
(HarperCollins Publishers Ltd)
Indigenous Writes
(HighWater Press (an imprint of Portage & Main Press))
Jury
Andrea Bennett
Peter Knegt
Taylor Lambert
2015
Winner
Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World
(Princeton University Press)
shortlisted
The Permanent Nature of Everything: A Memoir
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
Boundless
(House of Anansi Press)
Jury
Joan McGilvray
Bruce Symaka
Peter McFarlane
2014
Winner
shortlisted
The Bells of Memory
(Linda Leith Publishing)
The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging
(Princeton University Press)
Jury
Lars Lih
George Sipos
Felix von Geyer
2013
Winner
The Book of Immortality
(Doubleday Canada)
shortlisted
Slouching Towards Sirte
(Baraka Books)
The Water Here is Never Blue
(Viking Canada)
Jury
Maya Khankhoje
Ken McGoogan
Larry Scanlan
2012
Winner
Straphanger
(HarperCollins Canada)
shortlisted
Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
(Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė
(University of Nebraska Press)
Jury
Gregory McCormick
Maria Meindl
Jan Walter
2011
Winner
Bad Animals: A Father’s Accidental Education in Autism
(Viking Canada)
shortlisted
They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
(Random House Canada)
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
Jury
Denise Chong
Joshua Knelman
Denis Sampson
2010
Winner
Global Warring
(Key Porter Books)
shortlisted
A Place in Mind: the Search for Authenticity
(Véhicule Press)
Done with Slavery
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
Jury
Ted Bishop
Sarah de Leeuw
Eric Siblin