Publishing Awards

Best on Page Award
Magazines Canada presents the Best on Page Award, honouring the best ad work that Canada has to offer in Consumer and B2B magazine advertising (French and English). Categories include Best Full Page Spread, Best Campaign, and Best Fractional ad.

Canadian Online Publishing Awards
Categories honouring the best writing, design, ideas and multimedia projects from Canadian publication websites. The program will be open to websites published in conjunction with print magazines, as well as online-only magazines and blogs.

Claude Aubry Award
IBBY Canada presents the Aubry award biennially to an individual for distinguished service within children’s literature.

Libris Awards: Marketing Achievement of the Year
The Canadian Booksellers Association presents this award in recognition of skill, creativity and ingenuity by the marketing department of a Canadian publisher over the course of the previous year in effectively promoting a Canadian titles.

Libris Awards: Publisher of the Year
The Canadian Booksellers Association presents this award to a Canadian publisher in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the Canadian bookselling industry. Based on consistent high quality in author relations; editorial, production and marketing.

Libris Awards: Small Press Publisher of the Year
The Canadian Booksellers Association presents this award to a Canadian publisher in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the Canadian bookselling industry. Based on consistent high quality in author relations, editorial production and marketing.

The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design
The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada is the only national competition for book design in the country.

Victor Martyn Lynch Staunton Awards
The Canada Council presents the awards, worth $15,000, for outstanding achievement by mid-career artists in a variety of disciplines, including Writing and Publishing.

Alberta Book Publishing Achievement Award
Recognizing long-standing contributions made to Alberta book publishing.

Alberta Emerging Publisher Award
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) administers awards which honour the best of Alberta book publishers.

Alberta Publisher of the Year Award
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) administers awards which honour the best of Alberta book publishers.

Grant MacEwan Literary Arts Award
Created by the government of Alberta, the Grant MacEwan Literary Awards support young writers as well as professional publishing houses and is administed by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

BC Booksellers’ Choice Award
The Booksellers’ Choice Award is presented as a part of the BC Book Awards. The prize is presented to the originating publisher or author of the best book in terms of public appeal, initiative, design, production, and content.

Manitoba Writing and Publishing Lifetime Achievement Award
The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Lifetime Achievement Award is granted to a recognized individual whose exemplary work in the writing and publishing industry spans at least a twenty-five year period.