Prince Edward Island Book Award

Since 2006, the Prince Edward Island Book Awards have celebrated the best in books by Prince Edward Islanders. Awards are given in four categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's literature.

2024 submissions

Entries for the 2024 Prince Edward Island Book Awards are now closed.  

Who is eligible?

Authors, editors, or creators must be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants as well as residents of Prince Edward Island.

How are winners chosen?

Awards are presented every two years to the author, editor, or creator of the book that most clearly shows excellence in content, design, and production.

Past winners

2022

• Non-Fiction: Hung-Min Chiang - Home is Where the Water
• Fiction: Oliva Robinson - The Blue Moth Motel 
• Poetry: Laurie Brinklow - My Island’s the House I Sleep in at Night
• Children’s Literature:  Orysia Dawydiak - Kira’s Crossing 

2020

• Non-Fiction: Rosemary Curley, Pierre Yves Daoust, Donald F. McAlpine, Kimberly Riehl, and J. Dan McAskill - Mammals of Prince Edward Island and Adjacent Marine Waters
• Fiction: J. J. Steinfeld - Gregor Samsa Was Never in the Beatles
• Poetry: Richard Lemm - Jeopardy
• Children’s Literature:  Orysia Dawydiak - Rika's Shepherd

2018

• Non-fiction: John Cousins - New London: The Lost Dream: The Quaker Settlement on P.E.I.'s North Shore, 1773-1795
• Fiction: Harmony Wagner - Queen of The Crows
• Poetry: Brent MacLaine - Prometheus Reconsiders Fire

2016

• Non-fiction: Debra Komar - The Bastard of Fort Stikine
• Fiction: Finley Martin - Dead Letter
• Poetry: David Helwig - Keeping Late Hours

2014

• Non-fiction: Jesse Francis and A.J.B. Johnston  - Ni'n na L'nu: The Mi'kmaq of Prince Edward Island
• Fiction: Richard Lemm, editor - Riptides: New Island Fiction
• Poetry: P. Susan Buchanan and Margot Maddison-MacFadyen , editors - The TWIG Collective: A Gathering of Twigs

2012

• Non-fiction: Marian Bruce - Remembering Old Dan
• Fiction: Patti Larsen - Run
• Poetry: Dianne Hicks Morrow - What Really Happened Is This

2010

• Non-fiction: John Sylvester - Wild Island
• Fiction: Steven Mayoff - Fatted Calf Blues
• Poetry: Brent MacLaine - Shades of Green

2008

• Non-fiction: Georges Arsenault - La Mi-Carême en Acadie
• Fiction: Richard Lemm - Shape of Things to Come
• Poetry: Joseph Sherman - Beautiful Veins

2006

• Non-fiction: Catherine Edward - Brow of Dawn