The 2024 Winners

Children’s/Early Readers:

Secrets of the Under-Under World: Water

P.S. Whatever

Sci-Fi/Fantasy:

Ares

Jayson Adams

Children’s:

My S’s are Messes

Sherry McMillan

Fiction:

What the Living Do

Susan Wadds

Romance:

Love ad Lib

Evie Alexander

Mystery/Thriller:

Fortune Favors the Dead

Susan Jane Wright

Non-Fiction/Memoir:

Still I Cannot Save YouFortune Favors the Dead

Kelly S. Thompson

Anthology/Short Story:

awfully hilarious: period pieces

Heather Hendrie

YA:

The Quiet Limit

Trista Lundquist

Poetry:

Letters to Untitled

Tósìn Peters

Spirituality/Health & Wellness

Jane’s Jam: Inspiration To Create Your Super Awesome Life

Jane Enright

Honourable Mention

2024 Finalists

FICTION

Among the Opaki – John S. Taylor (Friesen Press)

House Filler Tong Ge (Ronsdale Press)

NONFICTION/MEMOIR

Don’t Ever Call Me Mother – Helen Martin (Friesen Press)

My Father, Fortune Tellers and Me – Eufemia Fantetti (Mother Tongue Publishing)

SPIRITUALITY/ HEALTH & WELLNESS

Be Who You Needed – Rachel Weinstock  (Independently Published)

Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound – Adriana Barton (Greystone Books)

BUSINESS/SELF HELP

Self Sabotage No More – Jennie Potter (Successin100Pages)

To Call Myself Beloved: A Story of Hope, Healing, and Coming Home – Leisse Wilcox (fempower Publications)

ANTHOLOGY/SHORT STORY

Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness – Danila Botha (Guernica Editions)

Surrey Shares – Noel Bentley & Jessika Houstin (TSPA The Self Publishing Agency Inc)

ROMANCE

Kilometro Cero – James Walter Lee (Zennea Press)

The Work Boyfriend – Rebecca Mardon (RE:Books)

MYSTERY/THRILLER

JuleBord – David Oybo (Guernica World Editions)

Man at the Door – Desomond P Ryan (Level Best Books)

FANTASY/SCI-FI

Project Hemisphere – T.S. Simons (4 Horsemen Publications)

Sagaman Kessler – Maggie Kirton (Independently Published)

POETRY

Unheard – Bhavini Bhargava (White Falcon Publishing)

Here Was – John P. Portelli (Word and Deed Publishing)

CHILDREN’S

Can We Get A Rhinoceros – Christian Kueng (Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.)

Please oh please don’t squeeze your cheese! – John Nursall (Independently Published)

EARLY READERS

Into the Wind – William Loizeaux (One Elm Books)

The Magical Adventures of Quizzle and Pinky Palm – Teresa Mae Waterland (Friesen Press)

YA

Prairie Girls – Barbara Wyatt (Friesen Press)

Gwen Iver and Pendragon’s Puzzle – Mark O Piggott (Curious Corvid Publishing)

NONFICTION/EDUCATION

Toxic Infertility: Detoxification Solutions to Improve Natural Fertility – Deidre Bloomquist (TSPA The Self Publishing Agency Inc)

North Star: The Legacy of Jean-Marie Mouchet – John Firth (Friesen Press)