Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Explained

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 to debut books published in the prior calendar year in literary fiction, non-fiction, and one of 3 genre fiction categories. Each year a different genre is honoured in the genre fiction category, rotating between mystery, romance, and speculative fiction. Since 2023, the genre fiction category has been open to books published since the prize last accepted submissions in that genre.

Winners

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Year Author Title Genre Reference
2015 Circus Literary fiction
Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noir Mystery
Nonfiction
2016 Specimen Literary fiction
Fury’s Kiss Romance
The Reason You Walk Nonfiction
2017 The Translation of Love Literary fiction
A Keeper's Truth Speculative fiction
In-Between Days Nonfiction
2018 American War Literary fiction
The Lost Ones Mystery
Trust No Aunty Nonfiction
2019 How Far We Go and How Fast Fiction
Steeped in Love Romance
Lands of Lost Borders Nonfiction
2020 Frying Plantain Fiction
Different Beasts Speculative fiction
From the Ashes Nonfiction
2021 Five Little Indians Fiction
The Woman in the Attic Mystery
They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life and Growing Up Nonfiction
2022 Ghost Forest Fiction
New Girl in Little Cove Romance
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance Nonfiction
2023 Tear Fiction
The Petting Zoos Speculative Fiction
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery Nonfiction
2024 Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday Fiction
The Mythmakers Mystery
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It: A Simple Guide to the Fundamental Nature of Everything Nonfiction