Awards & prizes

January deadlines

• Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award -- January 1
• Canadian Library Association Young Adult Canadian Book Award -- January 1
• Rocky Mountain Book Award medal -- January 15
• National Magazine Awards (many categories) $1,500, $500; President's Medal -- January 12
• Journey Prize, McLelland & Stewart (short story; open to Canadian literary publications) $10,000, $2,000 -- January 15
• The ReLit Award (novel, poetry, short fiction) ring -- January 25
• Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic (fantasy) $1,000 -- January 31
• City of Regina Book Awards $4,000 -- January 31
• Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry (Ottawa writers only) $500 -- January 31
• Arthur Ellis Awards (crime) -- January 31
• Danuta Gleed Literary Award (first collection of short fiction) $5,000 -- January 31

February deadlines

• The John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer $5,000 -- February 3
• The Mary Scorer Award for the Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher $1,000
• Tom Fairley Award (editing) $2,000 -- February 27
• City of Toronto Book Awards $15,000 -- February 28
  
  

March deadlines

• Western Magazine Awards Foundation (magazine writing, etc.) $500 -- March 15
• The Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-fiction $10,000 -- March 31
• Governor General's Literary Awards (fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, children's text, children's illustration, translation) $15,000 -- March 15

April deadlines

• Independent Publisher Book Awards (many categories) $5,000 -- April 15
• The Pierre Berton Award (Canadian history) $5,000 -- April 23
• The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction (first or second published book, Canadian themed) $3,000 -- April 30
• Canada-Japan Literary Awards up to $20,000 -- April 30

May deadlines

• Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction $2,000 -- May 31
• Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction $2,000 -- May 31
• A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry $2,000 -- May 31
• McAuslan First Book Prize $2,000 -- May 31
• Quebec Writers' Federation Prix de traduction / Translation Prize (Quebec residents fr 3+ years) $2,000 -- May 31

June deadlines

• City of Victoria Butler Book Prize $5,000 -- June 14
• Charles Taylor Prize for Non-fiction $25,000 -- June 15
• City of Vancouver Book Awards $2,000 -- June 16
• The Giller Prize (novel or short story collection) $25,000 -- June 25

July deadlines

• Prix Aurora Awards (fantasy & science fiction) -- July 17
• Saskatchewan Book Awards (includes: Brenda MacDonald Riches First Book Award, Fiction Award, Non-Fiction Award, City of Regina Award, City of Saskatoon Award, Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award, Children's Literature Award, Award For Publishing, Award For First Peoples Publishing) $1,500-2,000 -- July 31

August deadlines

• Quebec Writers' Federation Prix de traduction / Translation Prize (Quebec residents fr 3+ years) $2,000 -- August 1
• Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction $2,000 -- August 1
• Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction $2,000 -- August 1
• A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry $2,000 -- August 1
• McAuslan First Book Prize $2,000 -- August 1

September deadlines

• Saskatchewan Book Awards -- September 14

October deadlines

• Alden Nowlan Award for excellence in English language literary arts (New Brunswick authors) $5,000 -- October 1
• The Excellence Awards Program (various disciplines; NB authors) $5,000 -- October 1
• Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award (short fiction) $1,000 -- October 15
• The Ann Connor Brimer Award (children's literature in Atlantic Canada) $1,000 -- October 15
• Lionel Gelber Prize (books on local/global forces of change in international relations) $15,000 -- October 31

November deadlines

• The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (first book of poetry) $1,000 -- November 1
• Pat Lowther Memorial Award (poetry) $1,000 -- November 1
• Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize $15,000 -- November 1
• Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize $15,000 -- November 1
• Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize (biography) $10,000 -- November 1
• Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing $10,000 -- November 1
• Marian Engel Award (3 books of fiction or more) $15,000 -- November 1
• Matt Cohen Award (lifetime achievement award) $20,000 -- November 1
• Timothy Findley Award (lifetime achievement award) $20,000 -- November 1
• Commonwealth Writers Prize (all prose) £10,000 -- November 15
• Canadian Literary Awards $6,000 -- November 15
• Trillium (Ontario) Book Award (fiction and poetry) $20,000 -- November 30

December deadlines

• Atlantic Poetry Prize -- first Friday in December
• Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award (Nova Scotia authors) -- first Friday in December
• Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award (Atlantic authors) -- first Friday in December
• Atlantic Poetry Prize -- first Friday in December
• BC Book Prizes -- December 1
• Molson Prizes ($50,000 arts prize) -- December 1
• Dartmouth Books Awards $1,500 -- December 1
• Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (books that offer a significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past) $1,000 -- December 2
• The McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award $5,000 -- December 8
• The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award (Books about Winnipeg) $5,000 -- December 8
• The Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book (Manitoba authors) $1,500 -- December 8
• Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction (Manitoba authors) $3,500 -- December 8
• Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction (Manitoba authors) $3,500 -- December 8
• Ottawa Book Award $2,400 -- December 9
• Canadian Authors Association Jack Chalmers Poetry Award -- December 15
• Canadian Authors Association Awards for Adult Literature $2,500 -- December 15
• Alberta Book Awards -- December 15
• Charles Taylor Prize for Non-fiction $25,000 -- December 15
• Trillium (Ontario) Book Award (fiction and poetry) $20,000 -- December 30
• Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature $15,000 -- December 31
• Griffin Poetry Prize $40,000 -- December 31
• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour $10,000 -- December 31
• Alberta Book Awards (includes: The City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, The City of Edmonton Book Prize, Grant MacEwan Award, Georges Bugnet Award for Novel, Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama, Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction, Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction) various prizes -- December 31
• Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador book awards -- December 31

International awards and prizes

• Booker Prize £50,000
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award