Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry

• Kink Bands by David Martin (NeWest Press)
• Monitoring Station by Sonja Ruth Greckol (University of Alberta Press)
• there’s more by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (University of Alberta Press)
• Muster Points by Lucas Crawford (University of Calgary Press)

Children’s and Young Adult Book of the Year

• Flip Flop Flapjack: Wildhorse Jack and the First Stampede Breakfast by Brenda Joyce Leahy and Melissa Bruglemans-LaBelle, ill. (Red Barn Books)
• Secrets of Jarrow by Bill Slavin (Renegade Arts Entertainment)

Graphic Novel of the Year

• Alice of Spades by Chase Kantor and Tiffany Tate, Christopher Peterson, and Lucas Gattoni, ill. (Renegade Arts Entertainment)
• Secrets of Jarrow by Bill Slavin (Renegade Arts Entertainment)

Scholarly and Academic Book of the Year

• Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine, Jeremy Wildeman and M. Muhannad Ayyash, eds. (University of Alberta Press)
• The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel’s Moral Universe by Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman (University of Alberta Press)
• The Canadian Mountain Assessment: Walking Together to Enhance Understanding of Mountains in Canada by Graham McDowell, Madison Stevens, Shawn Marshall, et al. (University of Calgary Press)
• Remembering Our Relations: Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park by Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation with Sabina Trimble and Peter Fortna (University of Calgary Press)

• Last But Not Least: A Guide to Proofreading Text by Leslie Vermeer (Brush Education)
• Truth and Reconciliation Through Education: Stories of Decolonizing Practices by Yvonne Poitras Pratt and Sulyn Bodnaresko, eds. (Brush Education)
• Wheeling in Good Hands: Holistic Massage for Wheelchair Users by Christine Sutherland (Brush Education)

Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction

• Super-Earth Mother: The AI that Engineered a Brave New World by Guy Immega (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
• The Passion of Ivan Rodriguez by Hayden Trenholm (Tyche Books)
• Saltwater Sorrows, Rhonda Parrish, ed. (Tyche Books)
• Flicker by Lori Hahnel (University of Calgary Press)

Regional Book of the Year

• Reimagining Fire: The Future of Energy by Eveline Kolijn, ed. (Durvile & UpRoute Books)
• Oldman’s River: New and Collected Poems by Sid Marty; Kit Dobson, ed. (NeWest Press)
• We Need to Do This: A History of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Alberta and the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters by Alexandra Zabjek (University of Calgary Press)

Book Cover Design of the Year

• Whistle at Night and They Will Come: Indigenous Horror Stories Volume II by Alex Soop, design by Austin Andrews (Durvile & UpRoute Books)
• Exit Strategies by Paul Cresey, design by Natalie Olsen/Kisscut Design (Freehand Books)
• I (Athena) by Ruth DyckFehderau, design by Natalie Olsen/Kisscut Design (NeWest Press)
• Matara: The Elephant Play by Conni Massing, design by Natalie Olsen/Kisscut Design (NeWest Press)

Book Design of the Year

• Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling by Joshua Whitehead, in dialogue with Angie Abdou, design by Brnesh Berhe, interior design by Natalie Olsen/Kisscut Design (Athabasca University Press)
• The Abduction of Seven Forgers by Sean Dixon, design by Natalie Olsen/KisscutDesign (Freehand Books)
• Oldman’s River: New and Collected Poems by Sid Marty, design by Natalie Olsen/Kisscut Design (NeWest Press)

Book Illustration of the Year

• Flip Flop Flapjack: Wildhorse Jack and the First Stampede Breakfast by Brenda Joyce Leahy and Melissa Bruglemans-LaBelle, ill. (Red Barn Books)
• Secrets of Jarrow by Bill Slavin (Renegade Arts Entertainment)

• Laberinto Press
• University of Alberta Press