Winners

Alcuin Awards for Book Design winners are listed here. For more details visit our Catalogues page.

  • 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

    Great Scoops: Recipes from a Neighborhood Ice Cream Shop

    Design: Naomi MacDougall

    Photography: Christian Lalonde

    Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing

  • 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).

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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),

    ALAN HINDLE & ALANA GREEN | designers 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)