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Entries – 2024 Call for Entries/Submissions
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Saskatchewan Book Awards (SBA) looks forward to receiving your submissions for the 2024 award season. Submissions for the 2024 Saskatchewan Book Awards will be accepted starting Friday, September 1, 2023. The deadline for submissions is Friday, November 3, 2023. Eligible books accepted for adjudication will be considered for 13 book prizes awarded in May 2024.
Please note the Saskatchewan Book Awards will consider accepting late submissions after November 3, 2023 up to November 17, 2023, providing the Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Book Awards is contacted in advance of the closing deadline for submissions (November 3, 2023) and approval is given by SBA to submit a late submission. Pending SBA approval for late submissions, a penalty fee of $40 in addition to $60 entry fee, or $100 per entry will apply for late submissions. No submissions after November 17, 2023 will be considered for adjudication in the 2024 award season.
Keep in mind that the criteria change from year to year so be sure to check the eligibility requirements for each award entered. For all of the awards, except the Children's Literature Award, books published on or after November 1, 2022 and no later than October 31, 2023 are eligible. Please note that the eligibility date for the Children's Literature Award is calculated from a publication date of on or after November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2023 as this award is offered in every two years. The Young Adult Literature Award and Le Prix du livre français will not be offered again until 2025.
For a complete description of the criteria for each award category and how to make your submission online, go to: SBA's 2024 Call for Submissions and Entry Guidelines
The online Entry Form for 2024 Submissions is now available at: 2024 Entry Form
For those who prefer to submit their entry form by mail rather than online,the 2024 SBA Entry Form, included in Appendix A on page 29 of the document, can be printed and mailed to the SBA office along with your payment and book copies.
For further information, contact :
Donna Woloshyn
Acting Executive Director
Saskatchewan Book Awards
314 – 1102 8th Avenue
Regina, SK S4R 1C9
Office Tel: 306-569-1585
Email:
2023 SBA SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEMENT - FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023
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On behalf of the Saskatchewan Book Awards, the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild (SWG) and the Regina Public Library (RPL) are pleased to present the Saskatchewan Book Awards 2023 Shortlist Announcement.
The shortlist announcement will be made by RPL Writer-in-Residence, Pam Bustin.
The announcement will take place in person on Friday, March 24, 2023 at 12:00 pm on the second-floor mezzanine at the RPL Central Branch (2311 - 12th Avenue) and online.
The online presentation will be available to stream live through YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF_IuZX616A
SBA 2022 Awards Ceremony
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SBA Awards Ceremony - June 23, 2022
The 2022 SBA Winners are listed below! or PDF: 2022_SK_Book_Awards_Winners_Press_Release.pdf
AWARDS FOR AUTHORS:
Ministry of Parks, Culture, and Sport First Book Award:
Only If We’re Caught (Thistledown Press) by Theressa Slind
University of Saskatchewan, President’s Office, Non-Fiction Award:
Bread & Water: Essays (University of Regina Press) by dee Hobsbawn Smith
SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski:
awâsis — kinky and disheveled (Brick Books) by Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer
University of Regina Faculty of Arts/University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Science Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award:
Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship (University of Toronto Press) by Allyson D. Stevenson
City of Saskatoon/Saskatoon Public Library Saskatoon Award:
Probably Ruby (Doubleday Canada), by Lisa Bird-Wilson
City of Regina Regina Award:
Little Housewolf (Signal Editions), by Medrie Purdham
Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award:
Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship
(University of Toronto Press) by Allyson D. Stevenson
G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation Children’s Award:
The Girl with the Cat (Red Deer Press) by Beverley Brenna (Illustrated by Brooke Kerrigan)
Saskatchewan Book Awards Fiction Award:
August Into Winter (McClelland & Stewart) by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award Honouring Mary Sutherland:
Probably Ruby (Doubleday Canada) by Lisa Bird-Wilson
AWARDS FOR PUBLISHERS:
Creative Saskatchewan Publishing Award:
University of Regina Press for
Cold Case North: The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett
by Michael Nest with Deanna Reder and Eric Bell
SaskBooks Publishing in Education Award:
University of Regina for
Mācī-Anihināpēmowin / Beginning Saulteaux by L. Lynn Cote & Margaret R. Cote
Saskatoon Public Library Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing Award:
GDI Press for
20.12 m: A Short Story Collection of a Life as a Road Allowance Métis by Arnolda Dufour Bowes
Saskatchewan Book Awards Strengthens Partnership with Founders
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Saskatchewan Book Awards Strengthens Partnerships with Founders.
REGINA – Beginning with the 2023 awards season, the Saskatchewan Book Awards will be operating in closer connection with its founding partners – SaskBooks, the Saskatchewan Library Association and the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild.
The four organizations have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate a greater role for the founding partners in the logistics and operational support of the Saskatchewan Book Awards, which will continue to promote and celebrate Saskatchewan authors and publishers as they have done for three decades. An example of this new agreement is the 2023 awards ceremony, which will take place during the Saskatchewan Library Association’s annual conference.
The volunteer-led Saskatchewan Book Awards Board of Directors will continue to be responsible for overseeing the sponsorship, submissions and independent adjudication processes, to guarantee the integrity and freedom from conflict of interest that was integral when the awards were founded by the partners in 1993. The Board is undergoing some transformation in line with its more focused role.
“As we enter into our 30th anniversary year, these changes will enable us to continue to deliver the high-quality Saskatchewan Book Awards program that we know is important to our literary community and reading public, while ensuring efficiency and sustainability,” said Donna Woloshyn, Chair of the Saskatchewan Book Awards Board of Directors.
“I want to thank our founding partners for coming together to focus on our future, as well as all those who contribute their time and effort to the success of the Saskatchewan Book Awards,” she continued. “We look forward to our next chapter of even stronger connections and increased collaboration.”
The Saskatchewan Book Awards is the only provincially focused book awards program in the province and it is a principal ambassador for Saskatchewan’s literary community.
For more information:
Donna Woloshyn, Chair
Saskatchewan Book Awards
306-569-1585
For a pdf copy: SBA_New_Direction_Media_Release_June_24_2022.pdf
Saskatchewan Book Awards Master of Ceremonies, Eric Peterson!
The Saskatchewan Book Awards thanks actor Eric Peterson for hosting the 2022 SBA Ceremony that took place on Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 7:00 pm. The pride of Indian Head, SK, Peterson brought his acting skills and folksy prairie humour in hosting the one hour ceremony. Thank you for making the 2022 SBA the best ever, Eric!
We would also like to thank His Honour, Lieutenant Governor Russ Mirasty, for his Greetings from Queen Elizabeth II (Government of Canada) as well as the Honourable Laura Ross, for Greetings on behalf of the Government of Saskatchewan, and Premier Scott Moe.
The SBA would also like thank the Sponsors of our thirteen, and the spokespersons that presented Awards on their behalf.
A final thank you goes to the fine folks at Amplify Digital Marketing Corporation in Regina, SK, that produced the 2022 Online Ceremony!
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