Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
The Kobo Emerging Writer Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented since 2015 by online e-book and audiobook retailer and eReader manufacturer Rakuten Kobo.
Awardees receive a $10,000 prize, and are provided with support in marketing their books. Three prizes are awarded each year, for literary fiction, non-fiction, and genre fiction. Each year, a different genre is honoured in the genre fiction category, rotating between mystery, romance and speculative fiction.
Winners
| Year | Author | Title | Genre | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Claire Battershill | Circus | Literary fiction | |
| Sam Wiebe | Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noir | Mystery | ||
| Robyn Doolittle | Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story | Nonfiction | ||
| 2016 | Irina Kovalyova | Specimen | Literary fiction | |
| Nicola R. White | Fury’s Kiss | Romance | ||
| Wab Kinew | The Reason You Walk | Nonfiction | ||
| 2017 | Lynne Kutsukake | The Translation of Love | Literary fiction | |
| Dee Willson | A Keeper's Truth | Speculative fiction | ||
| Teva Harrison | In-Between Days | Nonfiction | ||
| 2018 | Omar El Akkad | American War | Literary fiction | |
| Sheena Kamal | The Lost Ones | Mystery | ||
| Maria Qamar | Trust No Aunty | Nonfiction | ||
| 2019 | 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 | Zalika Reid-Benta | Frying Plantain | Fiction | |
| J. R. McConvey | Different Beasts | Speculative fiction | ||
| Jesse Thistle | From the Ashes | Nonfiction | ||
| 2021 | Michelle Good | Five Little Indians | Fiction | |
| Emily Hepditch | The Woman in the Attic | Mystery | ||
| Eternity Martis | They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life and Growing Up | Nonfiction | ||
| 2022 | Pik-Shuen Fung | Ghost Forest | Fiction | |
| Damhnait Monaghan | New Girl in Little Cove | Romance | ||
| Jesse Wente | Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance | Nonfiction | ||
| 2023 | Erica McKeen | Tear | Fiction | |
| K.S. Covert | The Petting Zoos | Speculative Fiction | ||
| Harrison Mooney | Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery | Nonfiction |