| Year
|
Category
|
Author
|
Title
|
Award
|
| 2018
|
Alternative Format
|
Mich Cota
|
Musical Selections
|
Winner
|
| Mika Lafond
|
Nipê Wânîn
|
Winner
|
| Keith Barker
|
This is How We Got Here
|
Finalist
|
| Cliff Cardinal
|
Huff & Stitch
|
Finalist
|
| English Poetry
|
Billy-Ray Belcourt
|
This Wound Is a World
|
Winner
|
| Tenille K. Campbell
|
#IndianLovePoems
|
Finalist
|
| Joshua Whitehead
|
Full-Metal Indigiqueer
|
Finalist
|
| English Prose
|
Aviaq Johnston
|
Those Who Run in the Sky
|
Winner
|
| Carleigh Baker
|
Bad Endings
|
Finalist
|
| Dawn Dumont
|
Glass Beads
|
Finalist
|
| Joanne Robertson
|
The Water Walker
|
Finalist
|
| French Prose
|
J. D. Kurtness
|
De Vengeance
|
Winner
|
| Naomi Fontaine
|
Manikanetish
|
Finalist
|
| Unpublished English Poetry
|
Smokii Sumac
|
#haikuaday and other poems
|
Winner
|
| David Agecoutay
|
Poetic Selections
|
Finalist
|
| Brandi Bird
|
Two Poems
|
Finalist
|
| Francine Merasty
|
Poetry of a Northern Rez Girl
|
Finalist
|
| Unpublished French Poetry
|
Marie-Andrée Gill
|
Uashteu
|
Winner
|
| Unpublished Prose
|
Elaine McArthur
|
Queen Bee
|
Winner
|
| Treena Chambers
|
Hair Raizing
|
Finalist
|
| Nazbah Tom
|
The Hand Trembler
|
Finalist
|
| Amanda Peters
|
Pejipug (Winter Arrives)
|
Finalist
|
| 2019[6]
|
Alternative Format
|
Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan
|
Surviving the City
|
Winner
|
| Kìzis
|
Wàsakozi
|
Finalist
|
| English Poetry
|
Smokii Sumac
|
You are Enough: Love Poems for the End of the World
|
Winner
|
| Wanda John-Kehewin
|
Seven Sacred Truths
|
Finalist
|
| Jules Arita Koostachin
|
Unearthing of Secrets, Gathering of Truths
|
Finalist
|
| English Prose
|
Tanya Tagaq
|
Split Tooth
|
Winner
|
| Lindsay Nixon
|
nîtisânak
|
Finalist
|
| Joshua Whitehead
|
Jonny Appleseed
|
Finalist
|
| French Prose
|
Joséphine Bacon
|
Uiesh, Quelque Part
|
Winner
|
| Pierrot Ross-Tremblay
|
Nipimanitu – L’esprit de l’eau
|
Winner
|
| Indigenous Language
|
Francine Merasty
|
Iskotew Iskwew
|
Winner
|
| Unpublished English Poetry
|
Elaine McArthur
|
Brush of a Bustle
|
Winner
|
| Autumn Schnell
|
FemmNDN Commandments
|
Finalist
|
| Craig Commanda
|
My Ghosts Roam this Land and other poems
|
Finalist
|
| Unpublished English Prose
|
Francine Cunningham
|
Teenage Asylums
|
Winner
|
| Blair Yoxall
|
Little Bull
|
Finalist
|
| Brittany Johnson
|
Transit
|
Finalist
|
| 2020[7]
|
Alternative Format
|
Elaine McArthur
|
Elizabeth Dances Pow-wow
|
Winner
|
| Phyllis Webstad
|
Phyllis’s Orange Shirt
|
Finalist
|
| English Poetry
|
Michelle Sylliboy
|
Kiskajeyi—I am Ready
|
Winner
|
| Arielle Twist
|
Disintegrate / Dissociate
|
Winner
|
| Brandi Bird
|
I Am Still Too Much
|
Finalist
|
| Francine Cunningham
|
On/Me
|
Finalist
|
| English Prose
|
Jesse Thistle
|
From the Ashes
|
Winner
|
| Helen Knott
|
In My Own Moccasins
|
Finalist
|
| Kaitlyn Purcell
|
ʔbédayine
|
Finalist
|
| French Poetry
|
Maya Cousineau Mollen
|
Bréviaire du matricule 082
|
Winner
|
| Marie-Andrée Gill
|
Chauffer le dehors
|
Winner
|
| French Prose
|
Naomi Fontaine
|
Shuni — Ce que tu dois savoir, Julie
|
Winner
|
| J. D. Kurtness
|
Aquariums
|
Finalist
|
| Indigenous Language
|
Rene Meshake
|
Injichaag: My Soul in Story
|
Winner
|
| Cole Pauls
|
Dakwäkãda Warriors
|
Winner
|
| Unpublished Poetry in English
|
Keely Shirt
|
Two Little Foxes, Buttertown Beach, and I Will Never Be Happier
|
Winner
|
| David Agecoutay
|
Willow A Quartet
|
Finalist
|
| Corri Daniels
|
A Memory of Mary
|
Finalist
|
| Unpublished Prose in English
|
Cody Caetano
|
Half-Bads in White Regalia
|
Winner
|
| Treena Chambers
|
Forest Fires and Falling Stars
|
Finalist
|
| Steven Hall
|
Gatzi Naka
|
Finalist
|
| 2021
|
English Prose
|
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler
|
Ghost Lake
|
Winner
|
| Jenn Ashton
|
People Like Frank
|
Finalist
|
| Michelle Good
|
Five Little Indians
|
Finalist
|
| Michael Hutchinson
|
The Case of the Missing Auntie
|
Finalist
|
| Katłįà Land-Water-Sky
|
Ndè-Tı-Yat’a
|
Finalist
|
| English Creative Nonfiction and Life-Writing
|
Bevann Fox
|
Genocidal Love
|
Winner
|
| Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane
|
Powwow: A Celebration through Song and Dance
|
Finalist
|
| Michelle Porter
|
Approaching Fire
|
Finalist
|
| English Poetry
|
jaye simpson
|
it was never going to be okay
|
Winner
|
| Norma Dunning
|
Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity
|
Finalist
|
| shalan joudry
|
Waking Ground
|
Finalist
|
| Tyler Pennock
|
Bones
|
Finalist
|
| French Poetry
|
Shayne Michael
|
Fif et sauvage
|
Winner
|
| Félix Perkins
|
Boiteur des bois
|
Finalist
|
| French Prose
|
Émilie Monnet
|
Okinum
|
Winner
|
| Jocelyn Sioui
|
Mononk Jules
|
Finalist
|
| Graphic Novels, Comics, and Illustrated Books
|
Brianna Jonnie with Nahanni Shingoose, Neal Shannacappo (illus.)
|
If I Go Missing
|
Winner
|
| Lisa Boivin
|
I Will See You Again
|
Finalist
|
| Tasha Spillett, with Natasha Donovan (illus.)
|
From the Roots Up: Surviving the City Vol. 2
|
Finalist
|
| Indigenous Language
|
Zacharias Kunuk with Megan Kyak-Monteith (illus.)
|
The Shaman's Apprentice: Inuktitut
|
Winner
|
| Unpublished Poetry in English
|
Samantha Martin-Bird
|
the indian (adultery) act & other poems
|
Winner
|
| Brandi Bird
|
Ode to Diabetes
|
Finalist
|
| Erica Violet Lee
|
A Manifesto for the Morning and Forever After
|
Finalist
|
| Shaya MacDonald
|
She Said to Me
|
Finalist
|
| Unpublished Prose in English
|
Amanda Peters
|
Waiting for the Long Night Moon
|
Winner
|
| Troy Sebastian
|
The Mission
|
Finalist
|
| Deanna M. Jacobson
|
Hockey and Hot Chocolate
|
Finalist
|
| 2022
|
English Prose
|
Brian Thomas Isaac
|
All the Quiet Places
|
Winner
|
| Sheryl Doherty
|
Finding Izzy
|
Finalist
|
| English Poetry
|
Selina Boan
|
Undoing Hours
|
Winner
|
| Tenille K. Campbell
|
nedí nezų
|
Finalist
|
| Dallas Hunt
|
Creeland
|
Finalist
|
| Diana Hope Tegenkamp
|
Girl running
|
Finalist
|
| French Language
|
Édouard Itual Germain
|
Ni kistisin / Je me souviens
|
Winner
|
| Andrée Levesque Sioui
|
Chant(s)
|
Finalist
|
| Daniel Sioui
|
Indien stoïque
|
Finalist
|
| Graphic Novels, Comics, and Illustrated Books
|
Aimée Craft
|
Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow
|
Winner
|
| Lisa Boivin
|
We Dream Medicine Dreams
|
Finalist
|
| Teoni Spathelfer with Natassia Davies (illus.)
|
White Raven
|
Finalist
|
| Indigenous Language
|
Brittany Luby with Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley (illus.) and Alvin Ted Corbiere (trans.) and Alan Corbiere (trans.)
|
Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know
|
Winner
|
| Jodie Callaghan, with Georgia Lesley (illus.) and Joe Wilmot (trans.)
|
Ga’s / The Train
|
Finalist
|
| Sharon King
|
Amik
|
Finalist
|
| Unpublished Prose in English
|
Leslie Butt
|
Tanked
|
Winner
|
| David Agecoutay
|
It’s For the Best
|
Finalist
|
| Jenn Ashton
|
Hail Mary, Mother of Pearl
|
Finalist
|
| Bianca Martin
|
Paqt’sm / I Was Born with the Spirit of the Wolf
|
Finalist
|
| Unpublished Poetry in English
|
Meghan Eaker
|
mistahi maskikiy
|
Winner
|
| Brandi Bird
|
A Dawn
|
Finalist
|
| Jacqueline Gibbon
|
tante ohci kiya / Displaced Métis Iskwew
|
Finalist
|
| Samantha Martin-Bird
|
Poems for White Men
|
Finalist
|
| 2023
|
English Prose
|
Cody Caetano
|
Half-Bads in White Regalia
|
Winner
|
| Francine Cunningham
|
God Isn't Here Today
|
Finalist
|
| Frances Koncan
|
Women of the Fur Trade
|
| Kim Spencer
|
Weird Rules to Follow
|
| Chelsea Vowel
|
Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
|
| Joshua Whitehead
|
Making Love with the Land
|
| French Prose
|
Carole Labarre
|
L'Or des mélèzes
|
Winner
|
| J. D. Kurtness
|
Bienvenue
|
Finalist
|
| Jocelyn Sioui
|
Frétillant et agile
|
| English Poetry
|
Emily Riddle
|
The Big Melt
|
Winners
|
| Matthew James Weigel
|
Whitemud Walking
|
| Justene Dion-Glowa
|
Trailer Park Shakes
|
Finalist
|
| Ashley Qilavaq-Savard
|
Where the Sea Kuniks the Land
|
| Délani Valin
|
Shapeshifters
|
| French Poetry
|
Maya Cousineau Mollen
|
Enfants du lichen
|
Winner
|
| Rita Mestokosho
|
Atik u utei
|
Finalist
|
| Indigenous Language
|
Solomon Awa
|
Animals Illustrated: Narwhal
|
Winner
|
| George Paul, Loretta Gould, Barbara Sylliboy
|
The Honour Song
|
Finalist
|
| Unpublished prose in English
|
David Agecoutay
|
"Frank"
|
Winner
|
| Brandi Bird
|
"Home"
|
Finalist
|
| Kerissa Dickie
|
"Seh Woo – My Teeth"
|
| Henry Heavyshield
|
"Settler Birds and Social NDNs in the City"
|
| Scarlet Scott
|
"In the Morning"
|
| Unpublished poetry in English
|
Cooper Skjeie
|
"Scattered Oblations"
|
Winner
|
| Leah Baptiste
|
"Rez Girls Are Forever"
|
Finalist
|
| Kelsey Borgford
|
"Once the Smudge Is Lit"
|
| Kaitlyn Purcell
|
"A Child Called Dream"
|
| Graphic novels
|
Samantha Beynon, Lucy Trimble
|
Oolichan Moon
|
Winner
|
| Raeann Brown
|
Bedtime in Nunatsiavut
|
Finalist
|
| Babah Kalluk
|
Niitu and Chips
|
| Cole Pauls
|
Kwändǖr
|
| Willie Poll with Chief Lady Bird
|
Together We Drum, Our Hearts Beat as One
|
| 2024
|
English Prose
|
Alicia Elliott
|
And Then She Fell
|
Winner
|
| Caleigh Crow
|
There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow
|
Finalist
|
| Michelle Good
|
Truth Telling
|
| Peggy Janicki
|
The Secret Pocket
|
| Tiffany Morris
|
Green Fuse Burning
|
| Angela Sterritt
|
Unbroken
|
| English Poetry
|
Brandi Bird
|
The All + Flesh
|
Winner
|
| Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber
|
The Star Poems
|
Finalist
|
| Jamesie Fournier
|
Elements
|
| Cara-Lyn Morgan
|
Building a Nest from the Bones of My People
|
| French Prose
|
J. D. Kurtness
|
La vallée de l’étrange
|
Winner
|
| Georges Pisimopeo
|
Piisim Napeu
|
| Moira-Uashteskun Bacon
|
Envole-toi, Mikun
|
Finalist
|
| French Poetry/Drama
|
Soleil Launière
|
Akuteu
|
Winner
|
| Alexis Vollant
|
Nipinapunan
|
| Émilie Monnet
|
Marguerite, le feu
|
Finalist
|
| Unpublished Prose
|
Dennis Allen
|
Kristopher with a K
|
Winner
|
| Jenn Ashton
|
Hungry
|
| Henry Heavyshield
|
Our Rez Anomaly
|
| Kaitlyn Purcell
|
łuk'é náte
|
| Unpublished Poetry
|
Leah Baptiste
|
Coming of Age
|
Winner
|
| Hannah Big Canoe
|
Nanabush Trails and Four Others
|
| sakâw laboucan
|
styrofoam love
|
| Jordan Redekop-Jones
|
On the Threshold, I Taste Lightning
|
