Saskatchewan Book Awards 2026 winners

The Saskatchewan Book Awards were announced on May 1 at the 33rd Saskatchewan Book Awards Gala in Regina.

The prizes honour excellence in writing and publishing, and include the City of Regina Book Award and the City of Saskatoon Book Award. The winners in 13 categories were chosen from a shortlist announced in March.

Book of the Year Award

Touching Grass by Kristy Jackson and Rhael McGregor, illus. (HarperCollins)

Children’s Literature Award

Mortified by Kristy Jackson and Rhael McGregor, illus. (HarperCollins)

Fiction Award

The Paper Birds by Jeanette Lynes (HarperAvenue/HarperCollins)

First Book Award Honouring Brenda MacDonald Riches

Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe (House of Anansi Press)

Indigenous Peoples Writing Award

Joe by Carol Rose GoldenEagle (BookLand Press)

Non-Fiction Book Award

Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road by Ken Wilson (University of Regina Press)

SK-Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski

How I Bend Into More by Tea Gerbeza (Anstruther Books/Palimpsest Press)

Indigenous Peoples Publishing Award

Maddy’s Sash by Marion Gonneville (Gabriel Dumont Institute Press)

Creative Saskatchewan Publishing Award

Tunnel Island by Bill Gaston (Thistledown Press)

SaskBooks Publishing In Education Award

The A Word: A Global History of the Abortion Struggle by Elizabeth Casillas and Higinia Garay; Karen Simon, trans. (University of Regina Press)

Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award

Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community by Cheryl Troupe (University of Manitoba Press)

City of Regina Book Award