Winners
Alcuin Awards for Book Design winners are listed here. For more details and to see winners of the previous years, visit our Catalogues page.
For 2025 winners, please see our news announcement.
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Judges
Crispin Elsted, Natalie Olsen, and Jessica Sullivan
CHILDREN
1st prize (tie)
Thingamabob
Design: John Martz
Illustration: Marianna Coppo
Publisher: Tundra Books
—Three Bears and Goldilocks
Design: Bee Waeland
Publisher: Orca Book
2nd prize (tie)
Babble! And How Punctuation Saved It
Design: John Martz
Illustration: Roman Muradov
Publisher: Tundra Books
—One Tiny Bubble: The Story of Our Last Universal Common Ancestor
Design: Alisa Baldwin
Illustration: Dawn Lo
Publisher: Owlkids Books
3rd prize (tie)
Crocodile Hungry
Design: John Martz
Publisher: Tundra Books
—Water, Water
Design: John Martz
Publisher: Tundra Books
Honourable Mentions
Star: The Bird Who Inspired Mozart
Design: Sophie Paas-Lang
Illustration: Matte Stephens
Publisher: Tundra Books
—Il était une fois un mot
Design: Berger Studio
Publisher: Les éditions du passage
COMICS
1st prize
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Design: Kate Beaton & Tracy Hurren
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
2nd prize
Time Zone J
Design: Julie Doucet
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
3rd prize (tie)
Birds of Maine
Design: Michael Deforge
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Acting Class
Design: Nick Drnaso
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
LIMITED EDITIONS
1st prize
Circadia
Design: Jason Dewinetz
Publisher: Greenboathouse Press
2nd prize
nous nous emmêlerons
Design: Céline Huyghebaert, Camille Lamy & China Marsot-Wood
Publisher: Autoédition en collaboration avec l’imprimerie, centre d’artistes
3rd prize
Lumiere Press: Printer Savant & Other Stories
Design: Michael Torosian
Photography: Edward Weston, Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, et al.
Publisher: Lumiere Press
Honourable Mention
de tous nos corps
Design: Audrey Beaulé
Illustration: Céline Huyghebaert
Publisher: Centre Turbine
PICTORIAL
1st prize
Wetland Project: Explorations in Sound, Ecology and Post-Geographical Art
Design: Brady Marks & Mark Timmings
Photography: Nancy Angermeyer
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
2nd prize
The Science and Engineering of Water: An Illustrated Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts on Italian Hydraulics, 1500-1800
Design: Lara Minja (Lime Design)
Illustration: Matthias Reinicke
Photography: Gary William Ogle
Publisher: A.E. Publications
3rd prize
Being Legendary at Royal Ontario Museum: Confronting Colonialism, Rethinking History
Design: Ritu Kanal & Fidel Pena
Photography: Paul Eekhoff
Publisher: Art Canada Institute
POETRY
1st prize
Earish: Thirty poems of Paul Celan
Design: Mark Goldstein
Publisher: Beautiful Outlaw
2nd prize
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
Design: Emma Dolan
Illustration: Torkwase Dyson
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
3rd prize (tie)
The Ash Bell
Design: Mark Goldstein
Publisher: Beautiful Outlaw
—Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems
Design: Julie Scriver
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
PROSE FICTION
1st prize
Animal Person: Stories
Design: Jennifer Griffiths
Publisher:McClelland & Stewart
2nd prize
Fayne
Design: Kelly Hill
Illustration: Simon Antony Wilson
Publisher: Knopf Canada
3rd prize
Pure Life
Design: Kate Sinclair
Publisher: Strange Light
PROSE ILLUSTRATED
1st prize
Out of the Fire: Metalworkers along the Salish Sea
Design: Lara Minja
Photography: Dale Roth & Michele Ramberg
Publisher: Heritage House
2nd prize
305 Lost Buildings of Canada
Design: Julie Scriver & Raymond Biesinger
Illustration: Raymond Biesinger
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Honourable Mention
How I Draw: Scott McKowen Sketchbooks
Design: Scott McKowen
Publisher: Firefly Books
PROSE NON-FICTION
1st prize
Cyclettes
Design: Tree Abraham
Publisher: Book*hug Press
2nd prize
People Change
Design: Jennifer Griffiths
Publisher: Penguin Canada
3rd prize
Making Love with the Land
Design: Emma Dolan
Illustration: Winnie Truong
Publisher: Knopf Canada
REFERENCE
2nd prize
Caesar Country: Cocktails, Clams & Canada
Design: Aaron Harowirz
Photography: Tanya Pilgrim
Publisher: Appetite by Random House
3rd prize (tie)
The Flora and Fauna of Stanley Park
Design: Setareh Ashrafologhalai
Publisher: Heritage House
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Great Scoops: Recipes from a Neighborhood Ice Cream Shop
Design: Naomi MacDougall
Photography: Christian Lalonde
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
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Judges
Roberto Dosil, Elisa Gutiérrez, and Nayeli Jimenez
CHILDREN
First Prize: MARIE BARTHOLOMEW, designer of This is a Dog Book! by Judith Henderson; illustrated by Julien Chung (Kids Can Press);
Second Prize: BELLE WUTHRICH, designer of It Takes Guts by Dr. Jennifer Gardy; ; illustrated by Belle Wuthrich (Greystone Kids);
Third Prize: ANDREW ROBERTS, designer of Little Witch Hazel by Phoebe Wahl; illustrated by Phoebe Wahl (Tundra Book Group);
Honourable Mention: ANDREW DUPUIS, designer of ROAR-chestra! by Robert Heidbreder; illustrated by Dusan Petričić (Kids Can Press);
Honourable Mention: SARA GILLINGHAM, designer of We All Play by Julie Flett; illustrated by Julie Flett (Greystone Kids).
COMICS
First Prize: ADRIAN TOMINE & TRACY HURREN, designers of The Loneliness of the Long-distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine; illustrated by Adrian Tomine (Drawn & Quarterly);
Second Prize: MICHAEL DEFORGE, designer of Heaven No Hell by Michael Deforge; illustrated by Michael Deforge (Drawn & Quarterly);
Third Prize: TOM GAULD, designer of Department of Mind-blowing Theories by Tom Gauld; illustrated by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly).
LIMITED EDITIONS
First Prize: JASON DEWINETZ, designer of Arranging Furniture by Aaron Peck & Jason Dewinetz; illustrated by Jason Dewinetz (Greenboathouse Press);
Second Prize: STÉPHANE HUOT, designer of Masters of Serigraphy Posters by Marc H. Choko (Marc H. Choko & Editions du Limonaire);
Third Prize: CRISPIN ELSTED, designer of Sudden Immobility: Selected Poems of Molly Holden; illustrated by Andy English (Barbarian Press).
PICTORIAL
First Prize: LAUREN WICKWARE, designer of Warps, Heddles, Shuttles and Sheds by Emily Falvey, Jane Tisdale & Peter J. Laroque (Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University);
Second Prize: STACEY NOYES, LUZFORM DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY, designer of Lyse Lemieux: trespassers / intrus by Robin Laurence & Jennifer Cane (Burnaby Art Gallery);
Third Prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN, designer of Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada by Craig Jennex & Nisha Eswaran (Figure 1 Publishing in collaboration with The ArQuives, Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives);
Honourable Mention: NAOMI MACDOUGALL, designer of Canadian Architecture by Leslie Jen (Figure 1 Publishing);
Honourable Mention: UNDERLINE STUDIO, designers of That Night at Massey Hall by David Binks & Rob Bowman (David Binks);
Honourable Mention: RÉJEAN MYETTE, designer of Yechel Gagnon by Mira Locher, Jean-Marc Desgent & Virginia Eichhorn (Yechel Gagnon).
POETRY
First Prize: CRYSTAL SIKMA & MATTHEW JAMES WEIGEL, designers of Whitemud Walking by Matthew James Weigel (Coach House Books);
Second Prize: MARK GOLDSTEIN, designer of Part Thief, Part Carpenter by Mark Goldstein (Beautiful Outlaw);
Third Prize: A’RNO THE ARTIST & HAYLEY BURNS, designers of anglepoise by Margot Lettner (Daed’u Books);
Honourable Mention: MICHEL VRANA, designer of Shared Universe by (ECW Press);
Honourable Mention: LOKI, designer of Black Matters by Afua Cooper (Fernwood Publishing (Roseway Publishing)).
PROSE FICTION
First Prize: MARK GOLDSTEIN, designer of Her Process: a Transtranslation of Kafka’s “The Trial” by Mark Goldstein (Beautiful Outlaw);
Second Prize: ALYSIA SHEWCHUK, designer of The Bjorkan Sagas by Harold R. Johnson (House of Anansi Press);
Third Prize: JENNIFER GRIFFITHS, designer of Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson (Doubleday Canada);
Honourable Mention: NATALIE OLSEN, designer of The End of Me by John Gould (Freehand Books).
PROSE ILLUSTRATED
First Prize: PETER COCKING & TAYSIA LOUIE, designers of Urban Magnets by Bruce Haden, Mark Holland & Bruce Irvine (Page Two);
Second Prize: BELLE WUTHRICH & JESSICA SULLIVAN, designers of Taming Fruit by Bernd Brunner (Greystone Books);
Third Prize: MICHEL VRANA, designer of The Bomb in the Wilderness by John O’Brian (UBC Press);
Honourable Mention: NATALIE OLSEN, designer of Field Study by Helen Humphreys (ECW Press).
PROSE NON-FICTION
First Prize: KELLY HILL, designer of A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Hamish Hamilton);
Second Prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN & BELLE WUTHRICH, designers of Seed to Dust by Marc Hamer (Greystone Books);
Third Prize: TAYSIA LOUIE, designer of Leveling Up: How to Master the Game of Life by Eric Siu (Page Two).
REFERENCE
First Prize: NAOMI MACDOUGALL, designer of The Double Happiness Cookbook by Trevor Lui (Figure 1 Publishing);
Second Prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN, designer of Washington Wine + Food by Julien Perry (Figure 1 Publishing);
Honourable Mention: JESSICA SULLIVAN, designer of Escapology: Modern Cabins, Cottages and Retreats by Colin McAllister & Justin Ryan (Figure 1 Publishing);
Honourable Mention: NAOMI MACDOUGALL, designer of Island Eats by Dawn Postnikoff & Joanne Sasvari (Figure 1 Publishing).
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Judges
Teresa Bubela, Emma Novotny, and Matt Warburton
CHILDREN
1st prize (Tie): SARA GILLINGHAM, designer of Hello, Crow by Candace Savage; illustrated by Chelsea O’Byrne (Greystone Kids (imprint));
1st prize (Tie): KELLY HILL, designer of Anne’s Alphabet by Kelly Hill; illustrated by Kelly Hill (Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers);
2nd prize (Tie): MARIE BARTHOLOMEW, designer of Hawks Kettle, Puffins Wheel by Susan Vande Griek; illustrated by Mark Hoffmann (Kids Can Press);
2nd prize (Tie): JOHN MARTZ, designer of It Began With a Page by Kyo Maclear; illustrated by Julie Morstad (Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers);
3rd prize (Tie): SARA GILLINGHAM, designer of Birdsong by Julie Flett; illustrated by Julie Flett (Greystone Kids (imprint));
3rd prize (Tie): JOHN MARTZ, designer of King Mouse by Cary Fagan; illustrated by Dena Seiferling (Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers);
Honourable Mention: JOHN MARTZ, designer of Alma and the Beast by Esmé Shapiro; illustrated by Esmé Shapiro (Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers);
Honourable Mention: MARIE BARTHOLOMEW & ANDREW DUPUIS, designers of Beastly Puzzles by Rachel Poliquin; illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler (Kids Can Press);
Honourable Mention: JOHN MARTZ, designer of Your First Day of Circus School by Tara Lazar; illustrated by Melissa Crowton (Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers).
COMICS
1st prize: KEVIN HUIZENGA, designer of The River at Night by Kevin Huizenga; illustrated by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn & Quarterly);
2nd prize (Tie): NATALIE OLSEN, KISSCUT DESIGN, designer of Agnes, Murderess by Sarah Leavitt; illustrated by Sarah Leavitt (Freehand Books);
2nd prize (Tie): SYLVIA NICKERSON, designer of Creation by Sylvia Nickerson; illustrated by Sylvia Nickerson (Drawn & Quarterly);
3rd prize: SETH, designer of Clyde Fans by Seth; illustrated by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly);
Honourable Mention: MATTHEW STEVENS, M.C. JOUDREY & ROBERT PASTERNAK, designers of Place Into Being by Robert Pasternak; illustrated by Robert Pasternak (At Bay Press)
LIMITED EDITIONS
1st prize: JASON DEWINETZ, designer of 49 Days by Alan Loney (Greenboathouse Press);
2nd prize (Tie): COURTENAY WEBBER from THE FUTURE, designer of The Indexical, Alphabetized, Mediated, Archival Dance-a-Thon! by Evann Siebens (Wil Aballe Art Projects (WAAP));
2nd prize (Tie): FEED, designers of Numa Amun – Raccord by Jonathan Demers (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec);
3rd prize (Tie): FRANCES HUNTER, designer of VIA, Eastbound by Don McKay (Red Tower Bookworks);
3rd prize (Tie): AURÉLIE PAINNECÉ, designer of Oùrs by Marie-Andrée Gill, Mahigan Lepage, Sébastien Ménard & Laure Morali (Possibles éditions)
PICTORIAL
1st prize (Tie): MARC-ANDRÉ ROY, designer of Le soulèvement infini by Georges Didi-Huberman, Marta Gili, Louise Déry, Ariane De Blois & Guillaume Lafleur (Galerie de l’UQAM);
1st prize (Tie): FEED, designers of La dimension éthérique du réseau – par Anton Bequii by Benoit Aquin (Éditions photosynthéses);
2nd prize: FEED, designers of Françoise Sullivan by Mark Lanctôt, Vincent Bonin, Chantal Charbonneau, Ray Elwood & Noémie Solomon (Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal);
3rd prize: STACEY NOYES, LUZFORM DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY, designer of echoes by Emily Dundas Oke (Burnaby Art Gallery);
Honourable Mention: JESSICA SULLIVAN, designer of Toronto Makes by Randi Bergman (Figure 1 Publishing);
Honourable Mention: NAOMI MACDOUGALL, designer of Toronto’s Inclusive Modernity by Laura J. Miller (Figure 1 Publishing with the University of Toronto);
Honourable Mention: NATALIE OLSEN, designer of Fluevog by John Fluevog (LifeTree Media)
POETRY
1st prize: JENNIFER GRIFFITHS, designer of I Become a Delight to My Enemies by Sara Peters (Strange Light);
2nd prize: BERGER STUDIO, designer of Zéro douze by Marie Chouinard; illustrated by Marie Chouinard (Les Editions du passage);
3rd prize (Tie): NATALIE OLSEN – KISSCUT DESIGN, designer of let us not think of them as barbarians by Peter Midgley (NeWest Press);
3rd prize (Tie): RACHEL COOPER, designer of heft by Doyali Islam (McClelland & Stewart);
Honourable Mention: JULIE MASSY, SÉBASTIEN DULUDE & CATHERINE CHARBONNEAU, designers of Baloney suicide by VioleTT Pi; illustrated by VioleTT Pi (La Mèche)
PROSE FICTION
1st prize: JENNIFER GRIFFITHS, designer of Greenwood by Michael Christie (McClelland & Stewart);
2nd prize (Tie): MICHEL VRANA, designer of The Melting Queen by Bruce Cinnamon (NeWest Press);
2nd prize (Tie): LISA JAGER, designer of Reproduction by Ian Williams (Random House Canada);
3rd prize (Tie): TERRI NIMMO, designer of Children of the Moon by Anthony De Sa (Doubleday Canada);
3rd prize (Tie): NATALIE OLSEN – KISSCUT DESIGN, designer of Echolocation by Karen Hofmann (NeWest Press);
Honourable Mention: JULIE MASSY & CATHERINE CHARBONNEAU, designers of Zodiaque (La Mèche);
Honourable Mention: NATALIE OLSEN – KISSCUT DESIGN, designer of The Student by Cary Fagan (Freehand Books)
PROSE ILLUSTRATED
1st prize: PETER COCKING, designer of The Awesome Music Project Canada by Robert Carli & Terry Stuart; illustrated by Peter Cocking (Page Two Books);
2nd prize (Tie): IRENA TONNU & SERENA TONNU, designers of Warehouse Journal 28 edited by Irena Tonnu & Serena Tonnu (University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture);
2nd prize (Tie): BELLE WUTHRICH, designer of Winterlust by Bernd Brunner (Greystone Books);
3rd prize: NAOMI MACDOUGALL, designer of Carpe Fin by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanass; illustrated by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanass (Douglas & McIntyre);
Honourable Mention: PETER COCKING, designer of Brand New Name by Jeremy Miller; illustrated by Michelle Clement (Page Two Books)
PROSE NON-FICTION
1st prize: LISA JAGER, designer of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott (Doubleday Canada);
2nd prize: JENNIFER GRIFFITHS, designer of We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib (Viking Canada/Penguin Canada);
3rd prize (Tie): TERRI NIMMO, designer of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related by Jenny Heijun Wills (McClelland & Stewart);
3rd prize (Tie): NAYELI JIMINEZ & SUZANNE DEAN, designers of How to Catch a Mole by Marc Hamer; illustrated by Joe McLaren (Greystone Books);
Honourable Mention: NATHALIE CARON, designer of Marcher sur un LEGO et autres raisons d’aimer la vie by Stéphane Dompierre (Éditions Québec Amérique);
Honourable Mention: ZAB DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY, designer of Sister Language by Christina Baillie & Martha Baillie (Pedlar Press)
REFERENCE
1st prize (Tie): TREE ABRAHAM, designer of Cedar and Salt by DL Acken & Emily Lycopolus; illustrated by Tree Abraham; photographed by DL Acken (TouchWood Editions);
1st prize (Tie): JENNIFER GRIFFITHS, designer of Living High Off the Hog by Michael Olson; illustrated by Gary Taxali; photographed by Janis Nicolay (Appetite by Random House)
2nd prize: CATHERINE CHARBONNEAU, designer of Minimal by Laurie Barrette & Stéphanie Mandréa; photographed by Laurie Barrette & Stéphanie Mandréa (Parfum d’encre)
3rd prize: JENNIFER GRIFFITHS, designer of Modern Lunch by Allison Day; photographed by Allison Day (Appetite by Random House)
Honourable Mention: LEAH SPRINGATE, designer of Burdock & Co. by Andrea Carlson; photographed by Janis Nicolay (Appetite by Random House)
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Judges
Raphaël Daudelin, Frances Hunter, and Mauve Pagé
CHILDREN
1st prize (Tie): MICHAEL SOLOMON| designer of A Storytelling of Ravens by Kyle Lukoff; illustrated by Natalie Nelson (Groundwood Books);
1st prize (Tie): CS RICHARDSON, JOHN MARTZ & JÚLIA SARDÀ| designers of Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein by Linda Bailey; illustrated by Júlia Sardà (Tundra Books);
2nd prize: JULIEN BOISSEAU & ÉMILIEN MASSEAU| designers of Ribambelle: 10 histoires à lire, à regarder et à rêver, by Collectif; illustrated by Collectif (L’Abricot);
3rd prize: FIVE SEVENTEEN| designer of Great Dog by Davide Cali; illustrated by Miguel Tanco (Tundra Books)
COMICS
1st prize: SEAN KAREMAKER| designer of Feast of Fields by Sean Karemaker; illustrated by Sean Karemaker (Conundrum Press);
2nd prize: JULIE DOUCET & TRACY HURREN| designers of Dirty Plotte: the Complete Julie Doucet by Julie Doucet; illustrated by Julie Doucet (Drawn & Quarterly);
3rd prize: REBECCA ROSEN| designer of Flem by Rebecca Rosen; illustrated by Rebecca Rosen (Conundrum Press).
Honourable mention: JASON LUTES, SAM TSE, RACHEL NAM, TOM DEVLIN & TRACY HURREN| designers of Berlin by Jason Lutes; illustrated by Jason Lutes (Drawn & Quarterly).
LIMITED EDITIONS
1st prize: JASON DEWINETZ| designer of Kinship & Light: the Wyeth Poems by Samantha Sternberg (Greenboathouse Press);
2nd prize: NATALIE OLSEN| designer of Fables for the 21st Century edited & introduced by Rawi Hage, Lisa Moore & Madeleine Thien (Banff Centre Press);
3rd prize: NATALIE OLSEN| designer of The Ghost Box II edited by Patton Oswalt (Hingston & Olsen Publishing).
Honourable mention: TARA BRYAN| designer of Façades for Mark Rothko by Crispin Elsted (Walking Bird Press)
PICTORIAL
1st prize: DOMINIQUE MOUSSEAU| designer of Bill Vazan: All over la planète by Marie J. Jean, Zoë Tousignant & Robert Graham (Vox, centre de l’image contemporaine);
2nd prize (Tie): DEREK BARNETT| designer of Black Book by Hyung Min Yoon (Information Office);
2nd prize (Tie): FRANÇOIS MARTIN| designer of The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs at the NGC by Ann Thomas & John McElhone (National Gallery of Canada & 5 Continents);
3rd prize: STEFAN CANUEL| designer of Miles on the Brush by Anke Kausch (VKS Art Inc.)
POETRY
1st prize: CS RICHARDSON| designer of The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos by Dionne Brand (McClelland & Stewart);
2nd prize: MEGAN FILDES| designer of Surfaces by Eric Schmaltz (Invisible Publishing);
3rd prize: NATALIE OLSEN, KISSCUT DESIGN| designer of False Spring by Darren Bifford (Brick Books)
PROSE FICTION
1st prize: JENNIFER GRIFFITHS| designer of Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq (Viking Canada/Penguin Random House Canada);
2nd prize: CS RICHARDSON| designer of Vi by Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman (Random House Canada);
3rd prize: CS RICHARDSON & TERRI NIMMO| designers of Theory by Dionne Brand (Knopf Canada)
PROSE ILLUSTRATED
1st prize: LEA BERGER (DFI GRAPHIK)| designer of Les platanes d’Istanbul by Tassia Trifiatis-Tezgel (Les editions du passage);
2nd prize: ROBERTO DOSIL| designer of Sixty-two Blogs: 2015-2017 by George Szasz (George Szasz);
3rd prize: JENNIFER LUM| designer of White as Milk, Red as Blood: the Forgotten Fairy Tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, translated by Shelley Tanaka, illlustrated by Willow Dawson (Knopf Canada).
Honourable mentions: TIM INKSTER| designer of Overtime: Portraits of a Vanishing Canada by Karl Kessler (Porcupine’s Quill) & NICOLE LAFOND| designer of La Grande Baie: portrait d’une bibliothèque by Gilbert Turp (Les editions du passage)
PROSE NON-FICTION
1st prize (Tie): DUNCAN NOEL CAMPBELL & ROBERT BRINGHURST| designers of Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis by Robert Bringhurst & Jan Zwicky (University of Regina Press);
1st prize (Tie): CS RICHARDSON & JENNIFER GRIFFITHS| designers of I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya (Penguin Canada/Penguin Random House Canada);
2nd prize: LISA JAGER| designer of The Measure of My Powers: a Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris by Jackie Kai Ellis (Appetite by Random House);
3rd prize: DUNCAN NOEL CAMPBELL| designer of Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove, and the Art of Resistance by Will Aitken (University of Regina Press)
REFERENCE
1st prize (Tie): CS RICHARDSON & ANDREW ROBERTS| designers of The Last Schmaltz: a Very Serious Cookbook by Anthony Rose & Chris Johns (Appetite by Random House);
1st prize (Tie): JESSICA SULLIVAN| designer of Lure: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the West Coast by Ned Bell with Valerie Howes (Figure 1 Publishing);
2nd prize: LISA JAGER| designer of Earth to Table Every Day: Cooking with Good Ingredients Through the Seasons by Jeff Crump & Bettina Schormann (Penguin Canada/Penguin Random House Canada);
3rd prize: ELENA VAN RENEN & BEATNIK DESIGN| designers of Petits déjeuners autour du monde by Vanessa Lewis (Edition les 400 coups)
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Judges
Sue Colberg, Shelley Gruendler, and Frank Viva
CHILDREN
1st prize: REBECCA GREEN & RACHEL COOPER| designers of How to Make Friends With a Ghost, by Rebecca Green (Tundra Books);
2nd prize: STUDIO PILOTE| designers of Les poissons électriques, by Erik Harvey-Girard (Les éditions de la Pastèque);
3rd prize: ISABELLE ARSENAULT & KELLY HILL| designers of Colette’s Lost Pet, by Isabelle Arsenault (Tundra Books).
Honourable Mentions: MICHAEL SOLOMON| designer of The Alphabet Thief, by Bill Richardson (Groundwood Books) & TERESA BUBELA & MARK HOFFMANN| designers of You Can Read, by Helaine Becker (Orca Book Publishers)
COMICS
1st prize: JOHANNA MARCADÉ-MOT & IGOR HOFBAUER| designers of Mister Morgen, by Igor Hofbauer (Conundrum Press);
2nd prize: JILLIAN TAMAKI| designer of Boundless, by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly);
3rd prize: MIMI POND| designer of The Customer is Always Wrong, by Mimi Pond (Drawn & Quarterly).
Honourable Mention: RUTH LEE-MUI & JEFF LEMIRE| designers of Roughneck, by Jeff Lemire (Gallery 13)
LIMITED EDITIONS
1st prize: MICHAEL TOROSIAN| designer of The Ballad of Soames Bantry, by Michael Torosian … [et al.] (Lumiere Press & The Howard Greenberg Gallery);
2nd prize: NATALIE OLSEN| designer of The Ghost Box, edited by Patton Oswalt (Hingston & Olsen Publishing);
3rd prize (tie): FRANCES HUNTER| designer of Oscar Cahén, by Roald Nasgaard … [et al.] (Beaverbrook Art Gallery & The Cahén Archives).
3rd prize (tie): PASCALE SÉVIGNY-VALLIÈRES | designer of Une année sans lumière, by Pascale Sévigny-Vallières (Pascale Sévigny-Vallières)
PICTORIAL
1st prize: STEFAN CANUEL| designer of Geoffrey Farmer: a Way Out of the Mirror, by Kitty Scott (National Gallery of Canada & Mousse Publishing);
2nd prize: MÉLANIE LAVIOLETTE| designer of Colosses: Mémoires de portiers et récits de bars, by Jean-Sébastien Martel … [et al.] (Sid Lee Collective);
3rd prize: PAPRIKA| designers of Art In Canada, by Marc Mayer (National Gallery of Canada).
Honourable Mention: JESSICA SULLIVAN| designer of We’ll All Become Stories, by Rebecca Basciano … [et al.] (Figure 1 Publishing)
POETRY
1st prize: NATALIE OLSEN| designer of Dear Ghost, by Catherine Owen (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers);
2nd prize: JENNIFER GRIFFITHS| designer of Admission Requirements, by Phoebe Wang (McClelland & Stewart);
3rd prize: MARK BYK| designer of Faunics, by Jack Davis (Pedlar Press).
Honourable Mentions: DAVID GEE & TROY CUNNINGHAM| designers of Quick: Aphorisms, by George Murray (ECW Press) & MATTHEW STEVENS & SHIRLEY CAMIA| designers of Children Shouldn’t Use Knives, and Other Tales, by Shirley Camia (At Bay Press)
PROSE FICTION
1st prize (tie): JENNIFER GRIFFITHS| designer of Lost in September, by Kathleen Winter (Knopf Canada);
1st prize (tie): JENNIFER GRIFFITHS| designer of The Agony of Bun O’Keefe, by Heather Smith (Penguin Teen Canada);
2nd prize: TERRI NIMMO| designer of The Only Café, by Linden MacIntyre (Random House Canada).
3rd prize: KELLY HILL| designer of Demi-Gods, by Eliza Robertson (Hamish Hamilton)
PROSE ILLUSTRATED
1st prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN| designer of They Desire a Better Country | Ils désirent une patrie meilleure, by Lawrence Scanlan (Figure 1 Publishing);
2nd prize: LARA MINJA| designer of The Language of Family, edited by Michelle van der Merwe (Royal BC Museum);
3rd prize: CS RICHARDSON| designer of The Inconvenient Indian (Illustrated edition), by Thomas King (Doubleday Canada)
PROSE NON-FICTION
1st prize: CS RICHARDSON & LAUREN PETERS-COLLAER| designers of Birds Art Life, by Kyo Maclear (Doubleday Canada);
2nd prize: ALAN BROWNOFF| designer of Remembering Air India, edited by Chandrima Chakraborty … [et al.] (The University of Alberta Press);
3rd prize: DUNCAN NOEL CAMPBELL| designer of Memoirs of a Muhindi, by Mansoor Ladha (University of Regina Press).
Honourable mentions: INGRID PAULSON| designer of History of Science in Society, by Andrew Ede & Lesley B. Cormack (University of Toronto Press) & NAOMI MACDOUGALL| designer of The Orwell Tapes, by Stephen Wadhams (Locarno Press)
REFERENCE
1st prize: TERRI NIMMO| designer of The Preservatory, by Lee Murphy (Appetite by Random House);
2nd prize: JENNIFER GRIFFITHS| designer of The First Mess Cookbook, by Laura Wright (Penguin Canada);
3rd prize: JENNIFER GRIFFITHS| designer of The Inviting Life, by Laura Calder (Appetite by Random House).
Honourable Mention: NATALIE OLSEN| designer of The Okanagan Table, by Rod Butters (Figure 1 Publishing)
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Judges
Judith Poirier, Matt Warburton, and Robin Mitchell Cranfield
CHILDREN
1st prize (tie): ESMÉ SHAPIRO & JENNIFER LUM | designer of Ooko, by Esmé Shapiro (Tundra Books);
1st prize (tie): SARA GILLINGHAM | designer of Today, by Julie Morstad (Simply Read Books);
2nd prize: BENOIT TARDIF | designer of Metropolis, by Benoit Tardif (Kids Can Press);
3rd prize: FRANK VIVA | designer of Sea Change, by Frank Viva (Tundra Books)
Honourable Mention: ROBYN WOODCOCK (Relish New Brand Experience) | designer of When We Were Alone, by David Alexander Robertson (HighWater Press)
COMICS
1st prize: CHESTER BROWN | designer of Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly);
2nd prize: MICHAEL DEFORGE | designer of Big Kids, by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly);
3rd prize: CATHERINE LEPAGE | designer of Zoothérapie, by Catherine Lepage (Somme toute)
Honourable Mention: HENRIETTE VALIUM | designer of The Palace of Champions, by Henriette Valium Conundrum Press
LIMITED EDITIONS
1st prize: STUDIO FEED | designers of Post-Punk Art Now, by Sébastien Pesot (Pesot-organisme de creation);
2nd prize: MARLENE MACCALLUM | designer of Tea Ceremonies, by Matthew Hollett (Marlene MacCallum);
3rd prize: JASON DEWINETZ | designer of Lead, Tin & Antimony: a Specimen of Types Held in Cases or Cast Fresh at the Greenboathouse Press, by Jason Dewinetz (Greenboathouse Press)
Honourable Mention: NATALIE OLSEN | designer of The 2016 Short Story Advent Calendar, edited by Michael Hingston (Hingston & Olsen Publishing)
PICTORIAL
1st prize: STUDIO FEED | designers of Scandale! Le Montréal illicite 1940-1960, by Maryse Bédard … [et al] (Éditions Cardinal);
2nd prize: JONAH SAMSON & JESSICA SULLIVAN | designer of Yes Yes We’re Magicians, by Jonah Samson (Figure 1 Publishing & Presentation House Gallery);
3rd prize: LAUREN WICKWARE | designer of Lost Bodies: Brendan Fernandes (Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s)
Honourable Mention: DEREK BARNETT | designer of MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, edited by Daina Augaitis, Bruce Grenville & Stephanie Rebick (Vancouver Art Gallery & Black Dog Publishing)
POETRY
1st prize: NATALIE OLSEN | designer of You Can’t Bury Them All, by Patrick Woodcock (ECW Press);
2nd prize: TATJANA PETKOVIC | designer of You Were Here, by André Narbonne (Flat Singles Press);
3rd prize (tie): NATALIE OLSEN | designer of On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood, by Richard Harrison (Wolsak and Wynn);
3rd prize (tie): STUDIO FEED | designers of Pro pelle cutem (peau pour peau): poésie, by Nicolas Lauzon (les editions du passage)
Honourable Mention: TIM INKSTER | designer of The Essential DG Jones, edited by Jim Johnstone (The Porcupine’s Quill)
PROSE FICTION
1st prize: BETH OBERHOLTZER (Oberholtzer Design Inc) | designer of The Hope, by Craig Francis Power (Pedlar Press);
2nd prize: KATE HARGREAVES | designer of Lost Animal Club: Stories, by Kevin A Couture (NeWest Press);
3rd prize: NATHALIE CARON | designer of À l’abri des hommes et des choses, by Stéphanie Boulay (Québec Amerique)
PROSE ILLUSTRATED
1st prize: MARVIN HARDER | designer of Relations on Ungava Bay: An Illustrated History of Inuit, Naskapi and Eurocanadian Interaction, 1800-1970, by Toby Morantz (Avataq Cultural Institute);
2nd prize: ALENA RIEGER & ALLY PEREIRA-EDWARDS | designers of Warehouse Journal, vol 25, edited by Alena Rieger & Ally Pereira-Edwards (University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture);
3rd prize: LÉA BERGER (DFI Graphik) | designer of Carnets de Montréal, by Catherine Pont-Humbert (les editions du passage)
Honourable Mention: ROBERT LEPAGE, STEVE BLANCHET & NATHALIE CARON | designers of 887, by Robert Lepage (Québec Amerique)
PROSE NON-FICTION
1st prize: LARA MINJA | designer of Imagining Uplands: John Olmsted’s Masterpiece of Residential Design, by Larry McCann (Brighton Press);
2nd prize: JULIE ESPINASSE (Atelier Mille Mille) | designer of Mappemonde: la littérature en temps et lieux, by Daniel Canty (Les Éditions du Noroît)
Honourable Mention: CS RICHARDSON | designer of The Idea of Canada: Letters to a Nation, by David Johnston (Signal/McClelland & Stewart)
REFERENCE
1st prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN | designer of Araxi: Roots to Shoots: Farm Fresh Recipes, by James Walt (Figure 1 Publishing);
2nd prize: COMPAGNIE ET CIE | designers of Un tour du monde en 75 cocktails, by Romain Cavelier (Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur);
3rd prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN | designer of Ottawa Cooks: Signature Recipes from the Finest Chefs of Canada’s Capital Region, by Anne DesBrisay (Figure 1 Publishing)
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Judges
Teresa Bubela, Denise Lapointe, and Paul Roelofs
CHILDREN
1st prize (tie): MICHAEL SOLOMON | designer of A Year Without Mom, by Dasha Tolstikova (Groundwood Books);
1st prize (tie): ROBIN MITCHELL CRANFIELD | designer of Bluebird, by Lindsey Yankey (Simply Read Books)
2nd prize: MICHAEL SOLOMON | designer of Sidewalk Flowers, by JonArno Lawson (Groundwood Books);
3rd prize (tie): FRANK VIVA | designer of Outstanding in the Rain, by Frank Viva (Tundra Books);
3rd prize (tie): KELLY HILL | designer of The Adventures of Miss Petitfour, by Anne Michaels (Tundra Books);
Honourable mention: KELLY HILL | designer of This is Sadie, by Sara O’Leary (Tundra Books)
LIMITED EDITIONS
1st prize: CRISPIN ELSTED | designer of Fancy: 8 Odes of John Keats (Barbarian Press);
2nd prize: CATHERINE D’AMOURS & JOLIN MASSON | designers of Pourquoi tu me shootes pas? by Catherine D’Amours (Catherine D’Amours);
3rd prize: JASON DEWINETZ | designer of KOBAYASHI, the Will, by Jake Kennedy (Greenboathouse Press)
Honourable mentions:
JUDITH POIRIER & JULIEN HÉBERT | designers of La chose imprimée 2010-2014, by Judith Poirier, Maryse Andraos, Joséane Beaulieu-April, Laura Fredducci & Laurence Olivier (La chose imprimée)
SIGRID ALBERT | designer of Getting to Know You, by Christopher Levenson (New Leaf Editions)
CAMERON MCKAGUE | designer of The Missing Novella, by Jon Davies & Derek Sullivan (Oakville Galleries)
PICTORIAL
1st prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN | designer of Anna Banana: 45 Years of Fooling Around with A Banana, by Michelle Jacques (Figure 1 Publishing & Art Gallery of Greater Victoria);
2nd prize (tie): CHÉLANIE BEAUDIN-QUINTIN & ÉMILIE MANNERING | designers of L’envers du décor, by Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin, Guillaume Corbeil & Émilie Mannering (Les Éditions Michel Quintin);
2nd prize (tie): ROBERT TOMBS | designer of Robert Tombs: Index, by Michael Davidge, Ingrid Jenkner, Gemey Kelly & Marina Roy (Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University);
3rd prize: EA (ZAB) HOBART | designer of Sarah Angelucci: Provenance Unknown, curated by Emalie Chhangur (Art Gallery of York University)
POETRY
1st prize: ANDREW STEEVES | designer of Keeping Watch at the End of the World, by Harry Thurston (Gaspereau Press);
2nd prize: ANDREW STEEVES | designer of The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl, by Sue Goyette (Gaspereau Press);
3rd prize: TATJANA PETKOVIC | designer of My Banjo, & Tiny Drawings, by Phil Hall (Flat Singles Press);
Honourable mentions:
ANDREW STEEVES | designer of The Year of Our Beautiful Exile, by Monica Kidd (Gaspereau Press),
MARK LALIBERTE & GUSTAVE MORIN | designers of Clean Sails, by Gustave Morin (New Star Books),
NATALIE OLSEN | designer of A Revision of Forward, by Wendy McGrath (NeWest Press),
CHLOË FILSON | designer of Rom Com, by Dina Del Bucchia & Daniel Zomparelli (Talon Books)
NATALIE OLSEN | designer of We Can’t Ever Do This Again, by Amber McMillan (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers)
PROSE FICTION
1st prize: TERRI NIMMO | designer of Harmless, by James Grainger (McClelland & Stewart);
2nd prize: ANDREW STEEVES | designer of I Am What I Am Because You Are What You Are, by Carole Glasser Langille (Gaspereau Press);
3rd prize (tie): INGRID PAULSON | designer of The Society of Experience, by Matt Cahill (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers);
3rd prize (tie): NATALIE OLSEN | designer of The Swallows Uncaged: a Narrative in Eight Panels, by Elizabeth McLean (Freehand Books);
Honourable mention: ANDREW STEEVES | designer of German Mills, by John Steffler (Gaspereau Press)
PROSE NON-FICTION
1st prize: CS RICHARDSON | designer of In Flanders Fields: 100 Years, edited by Amanda Betts (Knopf Canada);
2nd prize: ANDREW STEEVES | designer of Hector Maclean, edited by Jo Currie, Keith Mercer, & John G Reid (Gaspereau Press);
3rd prize: TERRI NIMMO | designer of Sixty: a Diary of My Sixty-first Year, by Ian Brown (Random House Canada);
Honourable mentions:
ANDREW STEEVES | designer of My Life With Trees, by Gary L Saunders (Gaspereau Press),
DUNCAN CAMPBELL | designer of The Education of Augie Merasty, by Joseph Auguste Merasty, with David Carpenter (University of Regina Press),
PETER COCKING & NAYELI JIMENEZ | designers of The School of Sophisticated Drinking, by Kerstin Ehmer & Beate Hindermann (Greystone Books)
PROSE NON-FICTION ILLUSTRATED
1st prize: CS RICHARDSON | designer of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Decoded, by David Day (Doubleday Canada);
2nd prize: AINSLEY JOHNSTON & AMANDA AUSTIN | designers of Warehouse Journal, Vol 24, edited by Amanda Austin & Ainsley Johnston (University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture);
3rd prize: ROBERTO DOSIL | designer of Closing Time, by Daniel Francis (Douglas & McIntyre)
Honourable mention: INGRID PAULSON | designer of The Ward, edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg & Tatum Taylor (Coach House Books)
REFERENCE
1st prize (Tie): CS RICHARDSON & ANDREW ROBERTS| designers of The Last Schmaltz: a Very Serious Cookbook by Anthony Rose & Chris Johns (Appetite by Random House);
1st prize (Tie): JESSICA SULLIVAN| designer of Lure: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the West Coast by Ned Bell with Valerie Howes (Figure 1 Publishing);
2nd prize: LISA JAGER| designer of Earth to Table Every Day: Cooking with Good Ingredients Through the Seasons by Jeff Crump & Bettina Schormann (Penguin Canada/Penguin Random House Canada);
3rd prize: ELENA VAN RENEN & BEATNIK DESIGN| designers of Petits déjeuners autour du monde by Vanessa Lewis (Edition les 400 coups)