Amazon Canada First Novel AwardTag

The Finalists Have Been Named for the 2026 Amazon First Novel Award

One of Canada’s most closely watched literary prizes for emerging writers is back with a fresh shortlist, as the 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award finalists have officially been announced.Now approaching ...

Alicia Elliott Wins the 2024 Amazon First Novel Award

Last night at the Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto, Alicia Elliott won the forty-eighth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award. The bestselling essayist won for And Then She Fell (Doubleday Canada), ...

Pik-Shuen Fung Wins 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

It was a good night for Penguin Random House Canada's new Strange Light imprint last night, when Pik-Shuen Fung took home the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Ghost Forest. The imprint identifies ...

Amazon Canada First Novel Award Shortlist Announced

Yesterday, Amazon Canada and The Walrus announced the shortlist for the forty-sixth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award, which rewards the debut novel judged to be the finest of the year based on literary ...

Michelle Good Wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Her Multi-Award Nominated Debut, Five Little Indians

Michelle Good's Five Little Indians (HarperCollins Canada) was undoubtedly one of the biggest books of 2020, snagging nominations for two of the largest fiction awards in the country: the Scotiabank ...

Casey Plett Wins $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award for Little Fish

Last night at a ceremony in Toronto, Casey Plett captured the prestigious Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Little Fish (Arsenal Pulp Press). The author of a previous short story collection, A Safe ...