The Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, formerly known as the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, is a Canadian literary award presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada after an annual juried competition of works submitted by publishers. Alongside the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and the Giller Prize, it is considered one of the three main awards for Canadian fiction in English. Its eligibility criteria allow for it to garland collections of short stories as well as novels; works that were originally written and published in French are also eligible for the award when they appear in English translation.
The award was first presented in 1997. It was renamed in January 2021, in order to honour the Canadian writers Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson. Concurrently with the renaming, the prize package was increased from $50,000 to $60,000, matching the amount currently presented by its sibling, the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The prize is sponsored by Jim Balsillie.
Nominees and recipients
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!Jury
!Author
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
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! rowspan="5" | 1997
! rowspan="5" | Matt Cohen<br>Elisabeth Harvor<br>Ann Ireland
|Austin Clarke
|The Origin of Waves
|Winner
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|Elizabeth Hay
|Small Change
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Brian Moore
|The Magician's Wife
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|Mordecai Richler
|Barney's Version
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|Jane Urquhart
|The Underpainter
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! rowspan="5" |1998
! rowspan="5" |Joan Clark<br>Austin Clarke<br>Trevor Ferguson
|Greg Hollingshead
|The Healer
|Winner
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|André Alexis
|Childhood
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Barbara Gowdy
|The White Bone
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|Wayne Johnston
|The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
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|Alice Munro
|The Love of a Good Woman
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! rowspan="5" |1999
! rowspan="5" |Lynn Coady<br>Sylvia Fraser<br>Eric Wright
|Peter Oliva
|The City of Yes
|Winner
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|Caroline Adderson
|A History of Forgetting
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Elyse Gasco
|Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
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|Judy MacDonald
|Jane
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|Alistair MacLeod
|No Great Mischief
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2000
! rowspan="5" |Cynthia Holz<br>Janice Kulyk Keefer<br>Peter Oliva
|Helen Humphreys
|Afterimage
|Winner
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|Todd Babiak
|Choke Hold
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Lynn Coady
|Play the Monster Blind
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|Douglas Glover
|16 Categories of Desire
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|Michael Winter
|This All Happened
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! rowspan="5" |2001
! rowspan="5" |Lesley Choyce<br>Eliza Clark<br>Olive Senior
|Margaret Sweatman
|When Alice Lay Down with Peter
|Winner
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|Alice Munro
|Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Elizabeth Ruth
|Ten Good Seconds of Silence
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|Timothy Taylor
|Stanley Park
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|Thomas Wharton
|Salamander
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! rowspan="5" |2002
! rowspan="5" |Joan Barfoot<br>Brian Brett<br>Sarah Sheard
|Paulette Jiles
|Enemy Women
|Winner
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|Terry Griggs
|Rogues' Wedding
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Ann Ireland
|Exile
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|Lori Lansens
|Rush Home Road
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|Nino Ricci
|Testament
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! rowspan="5" |2003
! rowspan="5" |Kevin Chong<br>Lisa Moore<br>Diane Schoemperlen
|Kevin Patterson
|Country of Cold
|Winner
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|Jacqueline Baker
|A Hard Witching & Other Stories
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Gil Courtemanche
|A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
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|Barbara Gowdy
|The Romantic
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|Judith McCormack
|The Rule of Last Clear Chance
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! rowspan="5" |2004
! rowspan="5" |Sylvia Fraser<br>Zsuzsi Gartner<br>Michael Redhill
|Alice Munro
|Runaway
|Winner
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|Michael Helm
|In the Place of Last Things
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Colin McAdam
|Some Great Thing
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|Jeffrey Moore
|The Memory Artists
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|Russell Smith
|Muriella Pent
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2005
! rowspan="5" |Anita Rau Badami<br>Lewis DeSoto<br>Mary Swan
|Joseph Boyden
|Three Day Road
|Winner
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|Michael Crummey
|The Wreckage
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Lauren B. Davis
|The Radiant City
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|Allan Donaldson
|Maclean
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|Rabindranath Maharaj
|A Perfect Pledge
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2006
! rowspan="5" |Karen Connelly<br>Jeffrey Moore<br>Anna Porter
|Kenneth J. Harvey
|Inside
|Winner
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|Peter Behrens
|The Law of Dreams
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Rawi Hage
|De Niro's Game
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|Catherine Hanrahan
|Lost Girls and Love Hotels
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|Mary Lawson
|The Other Side of the Bridge
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! rowspan="5" |2007
! rowspan="5" |Kevin Major<br>Kim Moritsugu<br>Madeleine Thien
|Lawrence Hill
|The Book of Negroes
|Winner
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|Shaena Lambert
|Radiance
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Robert Hough
|The Culprits
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|Nancy Huston
|Fault Lines
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|M.G. Vassanji
|The Assassin's Song
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2008
! rowspan="5" |Lawrence Hill<br>Annabel Lyon<br>Heather O'Neill
|Miriam Toews
|The Flying Troutmans
|Winner
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|Rivka Galchen
|Atmospheric Disturbances
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Rawi Hage
|Cockroach
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|Lee Henderson
|The Man Game
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|Patrick Lane
|Red Dog, Red Dog
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! rowspan="5" |2009
! rowspan="5" |Marina Endicott<br>Miriam Toews<br>R.M. Vaughan
|Annabel Lyon
|The Golden Mean
|Winner
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|Nicole Brossard
|Fences in Breathing
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Douglas Coupland
|Generation A
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|Alice Munro
|Too Much Happiness
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|Andrew Steinmetz
|Eva's Threepenny Theatre
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! rowspan="5" |2010
! rowspan="5" |Andrew Pyper<br>Eden Robinson<br>Lisa Moore
|Emma Donoghue
|Room
|Winner
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|Trevor Cole
|Practical Jean
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Michael Helm
|Cities of Refuge
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|Kathleen Winter
|Annabel
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|Michael Winter
|The Death of Donna Whalen
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! rowspan="5" |2011
! rowspan="5" |Emma Donoghue<br>Rabindranath Maharaj<br>Margaret Sweatman
|Patrick deWitt
|The Sisters Brothers
|Winner
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|Clark Blaise
|The Meagre Tarmac
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Michael Christie
|The Beggar's Garden
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|Esi Edugyan
|Half-Blood Blues
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|Dan Vyleta
|The Quiet Twin
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2012
! rowspan="5" |Esi Edugyan<br>Lynn Coady<br>Drew Hayden Taylor
|Tamas Dobozy
|Siege 13
|Winner
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|Tim Bowling
|The Tinsmith
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Rawi Hage
|Carnival
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|Alix Ohlin
|Inside
|-
|Linda Spalding
|The Purchase
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2013
! rowspan="5" |Caroline Adderson<br>Alison Pick<br>Miguel Syjuco
|Colin McAdam
|A Beautiful Truth
|Winner
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|Krista Bridge
|The Eliot Girls
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
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|Lynn Coady
|Hellgoing
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|Cary Fagan
|A Bird's Eye
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|Lisa Moore
|Caught
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2014
! rowspan="5" |Neil Bissoondath<br>George Murray<br>Helen Humphreys
|Miriam Toews
|All My Puny Sorrows
|Winner
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|André Alexis
|Pastoral
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
|rowspan=4|
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|Steven Galloway
|The Confabulist
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|K. D. Miller
|All Saints
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|Carrie Snyder
|Girl Runner
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2015
! rowspan="5" |Aislinn Hunter<br>Shani Mootoo<br>Richard Wagamese
|André Alexis
|Fifteen Dogs
|Winner
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|Elizabeth Hay
|His Whole Life
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
|rowspan=4|
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|Pamela Mordecai
|Red Jacket
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|Russell Smith
|Confidence
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|John Vaillant
|The Jaguar's Children
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2016
! rowspan="5" |Lauren B. Davis<br>Trevor Ferguson<br>Pasha Malla
|Yasuko Thanh
|Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
|Winner
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|Michael Helm
|After James
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
|rowspan=4|
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|Anosh Irani
|The Parcel
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|Kerry Lee Powell
|Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush
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|Katherena Vermette
|The Break
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2017
! rowspan="5" |Michael Christie<br>Christy Ann Conlin<br>Tracey Lindberg
|David Chariandy
|Brother
|Winner
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|Carleigh Baker
|Bad Endings
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
|rowspan=4|
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|Claire Cameron
|The Last Neanderthal
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|Omar El Akkad
|American War
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|Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
|This Accident of Being Lost
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! rowspan="5" |2018
! rowspan="5" |Ann Y. K. Choi<br>Mireille Silcoff<br>Robert Wiersema
|Kathy Page
|Dear Evelyn
|Winner
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|Craig Davidson
|The Saturday Night Ghost Club
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
|rowspan=4|
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|Esi Edugyan
|Washington Black
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|Rawi Hage
|Beirut Hellfire Society
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|Jen Neale
|Land Mammals and Sea Creatures
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2019
! rowspan="5" |Dennis Bock<br>Michael Kaan<br>Suzette Mayr
|André Alexis
|Days by Moonlight
|Winner
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|Sharon Butala
|Season of Fury and Wonder
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
|rowspan=4|
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|Michael Crummey
|The Innocents
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|Téa Mutonji
|Shut Up, You're Pretty
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|Alix Ohlin
|Dual Citizens
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2020
! rowspan="5" |Elisabeth de Mariaffi<br>Waubgeshig Rice<br>Yasuko Thanh
|Gil Adamson
|Ridgerunner
|Winner
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|Zsuzsi Gartner
|The Beguiling
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
|rowspan=4|
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|Rivka Galchen
|Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
|rowspan=4| Shortlist
|rowspan=4|
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|Alix Ohlin
|We Want What We Want
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|Miriam Toews
|Fight Night
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|Guy Vanderhaeghe
|August Into Winter
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2022
! rowspan="5" |David Bergen<br>Norma Dunning<br>Andrew Forbes
|Nicholas Herring
|Some Hellish
|Winner
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|Rima Elkouri (tr. Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott)
|Manam
| rowspan=4| Shortlist
| rowspan=4|
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|Kevin Lambert (tr. Donald Winkler)
|Querelle of Roberval
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|Darcy Tamayose
|Ezra's Ghosts
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|Saeed Teebi
|Her First Palestinian
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! rowspan="5" |2023
! rowspan="5" |Francesca Ekwuyasi<br>Alix Hawley<br>M. G. Vassanji
| Kai Thomas
| In the Upper Country
| Winner
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| Emma Donoghue
| Learned by Heart
| rowspan=4| Shortlist
| rowspan=4|
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| Amanda Peters
| The Berry Pickers
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| Michelle Porter
| A Grandmother Begins the Story
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| Thomas Wharton
| The Book of Rain
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2024
! rowspan="5" |Saeed Teebi<br>Joan Thomas<br>Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
| Sheung-King
| Batshit Seven
| Winner
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| Éric Chacour (tr. Pablo Strauss)
| What I Know About You
| rowspan=4| Shortlist
| rowspan=4|
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| Conor Kerr
| Prairie Edge
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| Canisia Lubrin
| Code Noir
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| Fawn Parker
| Hi, It's Me
|-style=background:#FAEB86
! rowspan="5" |2025
! rowspan="5" |Gary Barwin<br>Ali Bryan<br>Jasmine Sealy
| Maria Reva
| Endling
| Winner
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| Tim Bowling
| Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand
| rowspan=4| Shortlist
| rowspan=4|
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| Robert McGill
| Simple Creatures
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| Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
| We, the Kindling
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| Aurora Stewart de Peña
| Julius Julius
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