Recent Book Awards and Nominations

2011

• The Monkeyface Chronicles by Richard Scarsbrook won the 2011 OLA Forest of Reading White Pine Award.
  
• Mennonites Don't Dance by Darcie Friesen Hossack was shortlisted for the 2011 Danuta Gleed Award and 2011 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for First Book, Canada and Caribbean Region
• Raising Orion by Lesley Choyce was shortlisted for the 2011 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction
• Marty Chan'sThe Mystery of the Cyber Bully is a finalist for the 2011 John Spray Mystery Award

2010

• The Beautiful Children by Michael Kenyon won the 2010 ReLit Award for Fiction
• Cantilevered Songs by John Lent was longlisted for Poetry, and The Wolsenburg Clock (Jay Ruzesky) and My Sweet Curiosity (Amanda Hale) were longlisted for fiction.
• Mostly Happy by Pam Bustin won the 2010 OLA Forest of Reading White Pine Award
• The Monkeyface Chronicles by Richard Scarsbrook has been shortlisted for the 2011 OLA Forest of Reading White Pine Award.
• Jay Ruzeski's The Wolsenburg Clock was a finalist for the 2010 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for adult literature
• Return to Bone Tree Hill by Kristin Butcher was shortlisted for the 2010 Sheila A. Egoff BC Book Prize
• Breathing Soccer by Debbie Spring was shortlisted for the 2010 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
• Shimmerdogs by Dianne Linden was shortlisted for the 2010 R. Ross Annett Alberta Literary Award for Children's Literature.
• Nothing Sacred by Lori Hahnel was shortlisted for the 2010 Georges Bugnet Alberta Literary Award for Fiction
• Bernadette Wagner (This Hot Place), was shortlisted for the the 2010 Saskatchewan Book Award for First Book; Andrew Stubbs (Endgames), for Poetry; and Beverley Brenna (Something to Hang On To) for Young Adult Literature

2009

• Wild Talent by Eileen Kernaghan was a finalist for the 2009 Sunburst Award for Best Canadian Literature of the Fantastic
• Charlie Muskrat by Harold Johnson was shortlisted for the 2009 ReLit Award for Fiction
• Phantom Limb by Theresa Kishkan was winner of the 2009 CNFC Readers' Choice Award

2008

• Shimmerdogs by Dianne Linden shortlisted for the 2008 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature
• Sandbag Shuffle by Kevin Marc Fournier winner of the 2008 McNally-Robinson Award for Best Book for Young People, Manitoba Book Awards
• Featherless Bipeds by Richard Scarsbrook nominated for the 2007-08 BC Teen Reader's Choice Stellar Award
• Thistledown nominees for the Saskatchewan Book Awards:
  Pam Bustin for Fiction (winner), First Book (winner), and City of Saskatoon,
  Donna Caruso for NonFiction (winner),
  Bonnie Dunlop for Fiction,
  Harold Johnson for Fiction,
  Taylor Leedahl for Poetry,
  Thistledown Press for First People's Publishing.
• I, the Spy by Allison Maher nominated for the 2008-09 Red Cedar Award
• Boundary Country by Tom Wayman was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The award recognizes the best irst English-language collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published in 2007.
• ?Where the Rocks Say Your Name by Brenda Hasiuk has been nominated for the 2008 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, Manitoba Book Awards
• First Mountain by Paulette Dubé shortlisted for the 2008 Stephen G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, Alberta Literary Awards.
• The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul by Marty Chan shortlisted for the 2008 R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature, Alberta Literary Awards.
• Post by Arley McNeney shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Canada and Caribbean Region, for Best First Book.
• Phantom Limb (Theresa Kishkan) and Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden (Don Gayton) shortlisted for the 2008 Hubert Evans BC Book Prize for Non Fiction.

2007

• The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul by Marty Chan winner of the 2007 SYRCA Diamond Willow Award
• R.P. MacIntyre (Feeding At Nine) winner of the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Award for Children's Literature
• A Run On Hose by Rona Altrows won the 2006 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. The award recognizes literary achievement by Calgary authors.
• The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul by Marty Chan was shortlisted for the 2007 Arthur Ellis Crime Writers of Canada Award, the 2007 Saskatchewan Young Readers Choice Diamong Willow Award, and the 2007 Golden Eagle Children's Choice Book Award
• Rona Altrows (A Run On Hose) and Neil McKinnon (Tuckahoe Slidebottle) shortlisted for the 2007 Howard O'Hagen Alberta Book Award for Short Fiction.
• Brenda Hasiuk (Where the Rocks Say Your Name) nominated for four 2007 Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards: McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award; John Hirsh Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer; Eileen MacTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author; and, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.
• Brenda Hasiuk (Where the Rocks Say Your Name) and Michaeal Kenyon (The Biggest Animals), longlisted for the 2007 ReLit Awards
• Josh & the Magic Vial by Craig Spence nominated for the 2007 Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature BC Book Prize
• Featherless Bipeds by Richard Scarsbrook shortlisted for the 2007 CLA Young Adult Book Award
• Tuckahoe Slidebottle by Neil McKinnon nominated for the 2007 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
• The Mystery Of the Graffiti Ghoul by Marty Chan shortlisted for the 2007 Golden Eagle Children's Choice Book Award.
• The Adventure's of Caraway Kim...Southpaw by award-winning screenwriter, Don Truckey shortlisted for the 2007 Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children in Literacy Program)
• Bronding's Honour by Ann Ewan received a Canadian Children's Book Center Our Choice Award

2006

• The Alchemist's Daughter by Eileen Kernaghan was nominated for the 2006 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award and a CCBC Our Choice Award
• Poems From a Broken Body by John Livingstone Clark, Saltations by Jennifer Still, and Back Track by Harold Johnson longlisted for the 2006 ReLit Awards
• Back Track by Harold Johnson nominated for the 2006 Anskohk Book Awards for Aboriginal Book of the Year and Aboriginal Fiction Book of the Year
• Back Track by Harold Johnson was shortlisted for the 2006 Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year, Saltations by Jennifer Still for First Book and Poetry, Backwater Mystic Blues by Lloyd Ratzlaff for Non Fiction and City of Saskatoon, and Compensation by Devin Krukoff for Fiction and City of Regina. Thistledown Press was nominated for the Publishing and First People's Publishing Awards
• The First Vial by Linnea Heinrichs finalist for the 2006 Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading White Pine Award

2005

• The Alchemist's Daughter by Eileen Kernaghan wasshortlisted for the 2005 Sheila A. Egoff BC Book Prize
• Never Stand Behind a Loaded Horse by Gordon Kirkland was shortlisted for the 2995 Stephen Leacock Award for Humour
• The Story of Blue Eye by Tyler Trafford was shortlisted for the 2005 Grant McEwan Author's Award
• The Mystery of the Frozen Brains by Marty Chan was winner of the 2005 City of Edmonton Book Prize

2004

• Let's Not Let A Little Thing Like the End of the World Come Between Us by James Marshall was shortlisted for the Best First Book in the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Canada and Caribbean regions
• The Beauty Box by Bonnie Dunlop was winner of the 2004 Saskatchewan Book Award for First Book. Shelley Leedahl's Orchestra of the Lost Steps was shortlisted for Fiction, Book of the Year, and City of Saskatoon Awards
• Cheeseburger Subversive was a finalist in the 2004 OLA Forest of Reading White Pine Award and for the 2004 the CLA Young Adult Book Award
• Firedrake by Anne Ewanm was nominated for the 2004 Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Snow Willow Award

2003

• Offside by Cathy Beveridge was winner of the 2003 Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Snow Willow Award
• The Turning Time by Linda Smith was shortlisted for the 2003 Alberta Golden Eagle Award for Young Adult Literature