Year Awarded
|
Author(s)
|
Book
|
Publisher
|
Ref.
|
1998
|
Curtis Gillespie
|
The Progress of an Object in Motion
|
Coteau Books
|
[6]
|
Joanne Gerber
|
In the Misleading Absence of Light
|
Coteau Books
|
|
Janina Hornosty
|
Snackers
|
Oolichan Books
|
Shree Ghatage
|
Awake When All the World is Asleep
|
House of Anansi Press
|
|
David Manicom
|
Ice in Dark Water
|
Véhicule Press
|
1999
|
Dennis Bock
|
Olympia
|
Bloomsbury USA
|
[7]
|
Judith Kalman
|
The County of Birches
|
Douglas & McIntyre
|
[8]
|
Murray Logan
|
The King of Siam
|
The Porcupine's Quill
|
Anne Fleming
|
Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
|
Polestar
|
|
Nora Gold
|
Marrow and Other Stories
|
Warwick Publishing
|
Sally Ito
|
Floating the Shore
|
The Mercury Press
|
2000
|
Mike Barnes
|
Aquarium
|
The Porcupine's Quill
|
[9]
|
Elyse Gasco
|
Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby?
|
Picador
|
[10]
|
Russell Smith
|
Young Men
|
Anchor Canada
|
Zsuzsi Gartner
|
All the Anxious Girls on Earth
|
Patrick Crean Editions
|
|
Maureen Hull
|
Righteous Living
|
Turnstone Press
|
Alissa York
|
Any Given Power
|
Arbeiter Ring Publishing
|
2001
|
Barbara Lambert
|
A Message for Mr. Lazarus
|
Cormorant Books
|
[11]
|
Ivan E. Coyote
|
Close to Spiderman
|
Arsenal Pulp Press
|
[12]
|
Terence Young
|
Rhymes with Useless
|
Raincoast Books
|
Alexandra Leggat
|
Pull Gently, Tear Here
|
Insomniac Press
|
[12]
|
Annabel Lyon
|
Oxygen
|
McClelland & Stewart
|
2002
|
Gloria Sawai
|
A Song for Nettie Johnson
|
Coteau Books
|
[13]
|
Rick Maddocks
|
Sputnik Diner
|
Knopf Canada
|
|
Madeleine Thien
|
Simple Recipes
|
Little Brown & Company
|
Aislinn Hunter
|
What's Left Us
|
Polestar Book Publishers
|
|
Nadine McInnes
|
Quicksilver
|
Raincoast Books
|
Adam Lewis Schroeder
|
Kingdom of Monkeys
|
Raincoast Books
|
2003
|
Lee Henderson
|
The Broken Record Technique
|
Penguin Canada
|
[14]
|
Timothy Taylor
|
Silent Cruise
|
Counterpoint
|
[15]
|
Nancy Lee
|
Dead Girls
|
McClelland & Stewart
|
Tamas Dobozy
|
When X Equals Marylou
|
Arsenal Pulp Press
|
[16]
|
Shaena Lambert
|
The Falling Woman
|
Vintage Canada
|
Emily Schultz
|
Black Coffee Night
|
Insomniac Press
|
2004
|
Jacqueline Baker
|
A Hard Witching & Other Stories
|
Harper Flamingo Canada
|
[1]
|
Jonathan Bennett
|
Veranda People
|
Raincoast Books
|
[1]
|
Susan Rendell
|
In the Chambers of the Sea
|
Killick Press
|
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
|
Way Up: Stories
|
Goose Lane Editions
|
Cory Doctorow
|
A Place So Foreign and 8 More
|
Four Walls Eight Windows
|
[1]
|
Melanie Little
|
Confidence: Stories
|
Thomas Allen Publishers
|
2005
|
David Bezmozgis
|
Natasha and Other Stories
|
Harper Flamingo Canada
|
[1]
|
Ramona Dearing
|
So Beautiful
|
The Porcupine's Quill
|
[1]
|
Kelly Cooper
|
Eyehill
|
Goose Lane Editions
|
Caroline Shepard
|
Off Centre
|
Oberon Press
|
[1]
|
Carrie Snyder
|
Hair Hat
|
Penguin Canada
|
2006
|
Charlotte Gill
|
Ladykiller
|
Thomas Allen Publishers
|
[1]
|
Craig Davidson
|
Rust and Bone
|
Viking Canada
|
[1]
|
Jacqueline Honnet
|
Limbo
|
Turnstone Press
|
Goran Simic
|
Yesterday's People
|
Biblioasis
|
[1]
|
Vivette Kady
|
Most Wanted
|
The Porcupine's Quill
|
2007
|
Nathan Sellyn
|
Indigenous Beasts
|
Raincoast Books
|
[1]
|
Vincent Lam
|
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
|
Doubleday
|
[1]
|
Russell Wangersky
|
The Hour of Bad Decisions
|
Coteau Books
|
Anar Ali
|
Baby Khaki's Wings
|
Penguin Canada
|
[1]
|
Krista Bridge
|
The Virgin Spy
|
Douglas & McIntyre
|
2008
|
Andrew Hood
|
Pardon Our Monsters
|
Esplanade Books
|
[1]
|
Roberta Rees
|
Long After Fathers
|
Coteau Books
|
[1]
|
Valeria Stetson
|
The Year I Got Impatient
|
Oolichan Books
|
[1]
|
Liane Keightley
|
Seven Openings of the Head
|
Conundrum Press
|
[1]
|
Tom Wayman
|
Boundary Country
|
Thistledown Press
|
[1]
|
2009
|
Pasha Malla
|
The Withdrawal Method
|
House of Anansi Press
|
[1]
|
Ian Colford
|
Halifax for Evidence
|
The Porcupine's Quill
|
[1]
|
Rebecca Rosenblum
|
Once
|
Biblioasis
|
[1]
|
Ahmad Saidullah
|
Happiness and other Disorders
|
Key Porter Books
|
[1]
|
Betsy Trumpener
|
The Butcher of Penetang
|
Caitlin Press
|
[1]
|
2010
|
Sarah Roberts
|
Wax Boats
|
Caitlin Press
|
[1]
|
Deborah Willis
|
Vanishing and Other Stories
|
Penguin Canada
|
[1]
|
Joey Comeau
|
Overqualified (withdrawn)1
|
ECW Press
|
[1]
|
2011
|
Billie Livingston
|
Greedy Little Eyes[17]
|
Vintage Canada
|
[1]
|
Darcie Friesen Hossack
|
Mennonites Don't Dance
|
Thistledown Press
|
[1]
|
Alexander MacLeod
|
Light Lifting
|
Biblioasis
|
[1]
|
R. W. Gray
|
Crisp
|
NeWest Press
|
[1]
|
Teri Vlassopoulos
|
Bats or Swallows
|
Invisible Publishing
|
[1]
|
2012
|
Ian Williams
|
Not Anyone's Anything[18][19][20]
|
Freehand Books
|
[1]
|
Jessica Westhead
|
And Also Sharks
|
Cormorant Books
|
[1]
|
Daniel Griffin
|
Stopping for Strangers
|
Véhicule Press
|
[1]
|
Andrew J. Borkowski
|
Copernicus Avenue
|
Cormorant Books
|
[1]
|
Johanna Skibsrud
|
This Will Be Difficult to Explain
|
Hamish Hamilton Canada
|
[1]
|
2013
|
Rebecca Lee
|
Bobcat and other stories
|
Hamish Hamilton
|
[1]
|
Anton Piatigorsky
|
The Iron Bridge
|
Goose Lane Editions
|
[1]
|
John Vigna
|
Bull Head
|
Arsenal Pulp Press
|
[1]
|
Paul Marlowe
|
Ether Frolics
|
Sybertooth
|
[1]
|
Yasuko Thanh
|
Floating Like the Dead
|
McClelland & Stewart
|
[1]
|
2014
|
Paul Carlucci
|
The Secret Life of Fission
|
Oberon Press
|
|
Astrid Blodgett
|
You Haven't Changed a Bit
|
University of Alberta Press
|
|
Eufemia Fantetti
|
A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love
|
Mother Tongue Publishing
|
Theodora Armstrong
|
Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
|
House of Anansi
|
|
Lisa Bird-Wilson
|
Just Pretending
|
Coteau Books
|
2015
|
Rivka Galchen
|
American Innovations
|
HarperCollins
|
|
Eliza Robertson
|
Wallflowers
|
Hamish Hamilton
|
|
Mireille Silcoff
|
Chez l'Arabe
|
House of Anansi
|
Claire Battershill
|
Circus
|
McClelland and Stewart
|
|
Janine Alyson Young
|
Hideout Hotel
|
Caitlin Press
|
2016
|
Heather O'Neill
|
Daydreams of Angels
|
HarperCollins
|
[21]
|
Andrew Forbes
|
What You Need
|
Invisible Publishing
|
[21]
|
Kevin Hardcastle
|
Debris
|
Biblioasis
|
Gerard Beirne
|
In a Time of Drought and Hunger
|
Oberon Press
|
[22]
|
Hugh Graham
|
Last Words
|
Exile Editions
|
2017
|
Kris Bertin
|
Bad Things Happen
|
Biblioasis
|
[23]
|
Kerry Lee Powell
|
Willem deKooning's Paintbrush
|
HarperCollins
|
[23]
|
Laura Trunkey
|
Double Dutch
|
Astoria
|
Lyse Champagne
|
The Light That Remains
|
Enfield & Wizenty
|
[23]
|
André Narbonne
|
Twelve Miles to Midnight
|
Black Moss Press
|
2018
|
Norma Dunning
|
Annie Muktuk and Other Stories
|
University of Alberta Press
|
|
Dawn Dumont
|
Glass Beads
|
Thistledown Press
|
[24]
|
David Huebert
|
Peninsula Sinking
|
Biblioasis
|
Camilla Grudova
|
The Doll's Alphabet
|
Coach House Books
|
[24]
|
Lori McNulty
|
Life on Mars
|
Goose Lane Editions
|
2019
|
Carrianne Leung
|
That Time I Loved You
|
HarperCollins
|
[25]
|
Paige Cooper
|
Zolitude
|
Biblioasis
|
[25]
|
Erin Frances Fisher
|
That Tiny Life
|
House of Anansi
|
Djamila Ibrahim
|
Things Are Good Now
|
House of Anansi
|
[26]
|
Marianne Micros
|
Eye
|
Guernica Editions
|
2020
|
Zalika Reid-Benta
|
Frying Plantain
|
Astoria
|
[27]
|
Christy Ann Conlin
|
Watermark
|
Astoria
|
[27]
|
Terry Doyle
|
Dig
|
Breakwater Books
|
Darci Bysouth
|
Lost Boys
|
Thistledown Press
|
[28]
|
Kat Cameron
|
The Eater of Dreams
|
Thistledown Press
|
2021
|
Jack Wang
|
We Two Alone
|
Astoria
|
[29]
|
Kaie Kellough
|
Dominoes at the Crossroads
|
Esplanade Books
|
[29]
|
Souvankham Thammavongsa
|
How to Pronounce Knife
|
McClelland & Stewart
|
Frances Boyle
|
Seeking Shade
|
The Porcupine's Quill
|
[29]
|
Sidura Ludwig
|
You Are Not What We Expected
|
Astoria
|
2022
|
Arnolda Dufour Bowes
|
20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis
|
Gabriel Dumont Institute Press
|
[30]
|
Silmy Abdullah
|
Home of the Floating Lily
|
Dundurn Press
|
[30]
|
Gillian Wigmore
|
Night Watch: The Vet Suite
|
Invisible Publishing
|
Helen Chau Bradley
|
Personal Attention Roleplay
|
Metonymy Press
|
[31]
|
Meg Todd
|
Exit Strategies
|
Signature Editions
|
2023
|
Kim Fu
|
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
|
Coach House Books
|
[32]
|
Nada Alic
|
Bad Thoughts
|
Vintage Books
|
[32]
|
Saeed Teebi
|
Her First Palestinian
|
House of Anansi Press
|
Kathy Friedman
|
All the Shining People
|
House of Anansi Press
|
[33]
|
Rawi Hage
|
Stray Dogs
|
Knopf Canada
|
2024
|
Lisa Alward
|
Cocktail
|
Biblioasis
|
[34]
|
Paola Ferrante
|
Her Body Among Animals
|
Book*hug
|
[32]
|
Rebecca Hirsch Garcia
|
The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories
|
ECW Press
|
Idman Nur Omar
|
The Private Apartments
|
House of Anansi Press
|
[35]
|
Kathryn Mockler
|
Anecdotes
|
Book*hug
|