Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

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Since 2015 online retailer Rakuten has awarded Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes for three different genres. Awardees receive a $10,000 prize, and are provided with support in marketing their books.[1] Prizes are awarded to an author for literary fiction, for non-fiction, and for genre fiction. Each year a different genre is honoured.[2]

2015 Kobo Emerging Writers
author title genre notes
Claire Battershill Circus Literary Fiction
Sam Wiebe Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noir Mystery
Robyn Doolittle Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story Non-Fiction
2016 Kobo Emerging Writers
author title genre notes
Irina Kovalyova Specimen Literary Fiction based on her work as a professor of biochemistry
Nicola R. White Fury’s Kiss Romance
Wab Kinew The Reason You Walk Non-Fiction
2017 Kobo Emerging Writers
author title genre notes
Lynne Kutsukake The Translation of Love Literary Fiction
Dee Willson A Keeper's Truth Speculative Fiction
Teva Harrison In-Between Days Non-Fiction
  • an account, in comic form, of Harrison's life with terminal cancer.[7]
  • Harrison passed away, at 42, in June 2019.[8]
2018 Kobo Emerging Writers
author title genre notes
Omar el Akkad American War Literary Fiction [9]
Sheena Kamal The lost ones Mystery
  • Prior to becoming a writer Kamal spent time trying to break into acting, and this decades helped inform her writing of this novel.[10]
Maria Qamar Trust no aunty Non-fiction [11]
2019 Kobo Emerging Writers[12]
author title genre notes
Nora Decter How Far We Go and How Fast fiction
Julie Evelyn Joyce Steeped in Love romance
Kate Harris Lands of Lost Borders nonfiction
2020 Kobo Emerging Writers[12]
author title genre notes
Zalika Reid-Benta Frying Plantain Fiction [14]
J. R. McConvey Different Beasts Speculative fiction
Jesse Thistle From the Ashes Nonfiction
2021 Kobo Emerging Writers[12]
author title genre notes
Michelle Good Five Little Indians Fiction [15]
Emily Hepditch The Woman in the Attic Mystery
Eternity Martis They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life and Growing Up Nonfiction

References

  1. Ryan Porter (2019-05-02). "Tanya Tagaq, Kate Harris, and Uzma Jalaluddin among shortlisted authors for Kobo Emerging Writer Prize". Quill and Quire. https://quillandquire.com/omni/tanya-tagaq-kate-harris-and-uzma-jalaluddin-among-shortlisted-authors-for-kobo-emerging-writer-prize/. Retrieved 2019-05-03. "The winners will be announced at an event in Toronto on June 27. Each winner will receive $10,000 and marketing support." 
  2. "Second Annual Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winners Announced". Kobo. 2016-06-21. https://news.kobo.com/news-releases/second-annual-kobo-emerging-writer-prize-winners-announced. Retrieved 2019-06-11. "The Kobo Emerging Writer prize is eligible to Canadian citizens or legal residents of Canada who published debut books during the 2015 calendar year in the categories of Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction (Romance this year; a different genre is highlighted each year), or Non-Fiction." 
  3. "Inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winners Announced". Kobo. 2015-07-07. https://www.kobo.com/news/inaugural-kobo-emerging-writer-prize-winners-announced. Retrieved 2019-06-11. "Kobo, a Rakuten company and leading innovator in the digital reading space, today announced the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize winners, all of whom have been awarded a $10,000 CAD cash prize as well as promotional, marketing, and communications support to help kick-start their budding careers." 
  4. "Battershill, Wiebe, Doolittle win inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill and Quire. July 8, 2015. http://www.quillandquire.com/awards/2015/07/08/battershill-wiebe-doolittle-win-inaugural-kobo-emerging-writer-prizes/. Retrieved September 28, 2016. 
  5. "Banting Fellow and fiction writer nets national SSHRC Talent Award". Simon Fraser University. 2017-09-15. https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2017/09/banting-fellow-and-fiction-writer-nets-national-sshrc-talent-awa.html. Retrieved 2019-06-11. "Claire Battershill, an award-winning fiction writer who holds a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship in English at SFU, is being honoured with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) prestigious Talent Award." 
  6. "SAM WIEBE: AWARD-WINNING VANCOUVER CRIME WRITER". http://samwiebe.com/. Retrieved 2022-12-08. "Wiebe’s work has won the Crime Writers of Canada award and the Kobo Emerging Writers prize, and been shortlisted for the Edgar, Hammett, Shamus, and City of Vancouver book prizes." 
  7. "Third Annual Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winners Announced". Kobo. 2017-06-28. https://news.kobo.com/news-releases/second-annual-kobo-emerging-writer-prize-winners-announced. Retrieved 2019-06-11. "Last night Rakuten Kobo announced this year’s Emerging Writer Prize recipients. A winner in each of the Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Non-Fiction categories received a $10,000 CAD cash prize as well as promotional, marketing, and communications support to help kick off their burgeoning careers." 
  8. Jane van Koeverden (2019-04-28). "Teva Harrison, award-winning Toronto cartoonist, dead at 42". CBC Books. https://www.cbc.ca/books/teva-harrison-award-winning-toronto-cartoonist-dead-at-42-1.5114613. Retrieved 2019-04-30. 
  9. "HERE ARE THE WINNERS OF THE 2018 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE". Auburn Lane. 2018-05-21. https://www.auburnlane.com/2018/06/21/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2018-kobo-emerging-writer-prize/. Retrieved 2019-06-11. 
  10. Sheena Kamal (2017-02-09). "A cautionary tale about the Canadian dream". Irish Times. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-cautionary-tale-about-the-canadian-dream-1.2968367. Retrieved 2019-06-11. "I came to crime fiction in a roundabout way. I’d spent about a decade in the film and television industry trying to break into acting and screen writing. It’s a journey that began after university when I realised I’d been hiding my light for far too long in a creaky old institution. I thought, Lord save me from strained eyesight! I’ve had enough of these sensible shoes! I’m going to be an actress, darling, and nobody can stop me." 
  11. Samraweet Yohannes (2018-06-19). "Omar El Akkad, author of American War, among winners of $10K Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/books/omar-el-akkad-author-of-american-war-among-winners-of-10k-kobo-emerging-writer-prizes-1.4712968. Retrieved 2019-06-11. 
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 "26 Canadian books that won awards in the first half of 2019". CBC News. 2019-07-08. https://www.cbc.ca/books/26-canadian-books-that-won-awards-in-the-first-half-of-2019-1.5198575. Retrieved 2019-07-10. 
  13. "Nora Decter: English". University of Winnipeg. https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/english/faculty-staff/faculty-profiles/nora-decter.html. Retrieved 2019-07-10. "Nora Decter is a writer, musician and educator from the North End of Winnipeg." 
  14. Sue Carter (2020-06-25). "Jesse Thistle, Zalika Reid-Benta, J.R. McConvey win Kobo’s Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill & Quire. https://quillandquire.com/omni/151988/. Retrieved 2022-12-08. 
  15. Deborah Dundas (2021-06-22). "Michelle Good wins Kobo Emerging Writer fiction prize — making it three wins for the three noms she got on that big day in May". Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2021/06/22/michelle-good-wins-kobo-emerging-writer-fiction-prize-making-it-three-wins-for-the-three-noms-she-got-on-that-big-day-in-may.html. Retrieved 2022-12-08. 

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