Awards

We have the honour of announcing that KOKHUM’S ROYAL BANNOCK by Wilfred Burton is a finalist for the High Plains International Book Awards! The Indigenous Writer Award honors the best book by an indigenous writer in any category. Please join us in congratulating Wilfred as well as the other nominees! Learn more at https://highplainsbookawards.org/finalists/

Thistledown Press is honoured to announce that we have won the Publishing Award at the 2026 Saskatchewan Book Awards for Tunnel Island: Stories by Bill Gaston. The Creative Saskatchewan Publishing Award is presented to Saskatchewan publisher of the best book, based on literary or artistic value, the quality of editing, book design, production and content. This is

Tunnel Island: Stories by Bill Gaston is a finalist for the 2026 BC and Yukon Book Prizes! Bill is one of five finalists for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, which is awarded to the author of the best work of literary fiction. The BC and Yukon Book Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British

We are happy to announce that Food for the Journey: A Life in Travel by Elizabeth J. Haynes has been shortlisted for the Memoir Award by the Writer’s Guild of Alberta! The Alberta Literary Awards were founded in 1982 to recognize excellence in writing by Alberta authors. Learn more about the finalists here. The winners

Thistledown Press is so excited to announce that four of our titles have been shortlisted for the 2026 Saskatchewan Book Awards. Congratulations to Lloyd, Bill, Caroline, and Wilfred, and to all of the finalists! Read the press release and full list of finalists here. For media inquiries or to arrange an interview with the author,

It is our pleasure to announce that Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene won two prestigious prizes at the 2025 Saskatchewan Book Awards last Friday: the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award and Non-fiction Book Award! ”It’s another year to celebrate the amazing diversity of our

We’re so proud of E. McGregor, whose poetry collection What Fills Your House Like Smoke has been nominated for the Indigenous Voices Awards’ Published Poetry in English award. Says the jury: “McGregor’s What Fills Your House Like Smoke offers us a portrait in verse not only of her grandmother, but of the face and lifelines

We’re very excited to announce that E. McGregor’s What Fills Your House Like Smoke has been longlisted for The League of Canadian Poets’ 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize! The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, for a debut book of poetry, is given in the memory of Gerald Lampert, an arts administrator who organized authors’ tours and