| Year
|
Author
|
Titles
|
Result
|
Ref.
|
| 1985
|
Audrey Thomas
|
Intertidal Life
|
Winner
|
[1]
|
| Mary Ellen Collura
|
Winners
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Charles Lillard
|
A Coastal Range
|
| 1986
|
Keath Fraser
|
Foreign Affairs
|
Winner
|
|
| Brian Fawcett
|
The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
|
Shortlist
|
|
| George Ryga
|
In the Shadow of the Vulture
|
| L. R. Wright
|
The Suspect
|
| 1987
|
Leona Gom
|
Housebroken
|
Winner
|
|
| Paulette Jiles
|
Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Rona Murray
|
The Indigo Dress and Other Stories
|
| 1988
|
George McWhirter
|
Cage
|
Winner
|
|
| Jane Rule
|
Memory Board
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Robin Skelton
|
The Parrot Who Could
|
| 1989
|
Bill Schermbrucker
|
Mimosa
|
Winner
|
|
| William Goede
|
Love In Beijing
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Robert Harlow
|
Saxophone Winter
|
| 1990
|
Keith Maillard
|
Motet
|
Winner
|
|
| Jane Rule
|
After the Fire
|
Shortlist
|
|
| 1991
|
Audrey Thomas
|
Wild Blue Yonder
|
Winner
|
|
| Sky Lee
|
Disappearing Moon Cafe
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Caroline Woodward
|
Disturbing the Peace
|
| 1992
|
Don Dickinson
|
Blue Husbands
|
Winner
|
|
| M.A.C. Farrant
|
Sick Pigeon
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Maureen Moore
|
The Illuminations of Alice Mallory
|
| 1993
|
W.D. Valgardson
|
The Girl with the Botticelli Face
|
Winner
|
|
| Jane Eaton Hamilton
|
July Nights and Other Stories
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Linda Svendsen
|
Marine Life
|
| 1994
|
Caroline Adderson
|
Bad Imaginings
|
Winner
|
|
| Keith Maillard
|
Light in the Company of Women
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Carol Windley
|
Visible Light
|
| 1995
|
Gayla Reid
|
To Be There With You
|
Winner
|
|
| Grant Buday
|
Under Glass
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Patricia Robertson
|
City of Orphans
|
| 1996
|
Audrey Thomas
|
Coming Down From Wa
|
Winner
|
|
| Joy Kogawa
|
Rain Ascends
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Lorraine Vernon
|
Through the Canyon
|
| 1997
|
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
|
The Cure for Death by Lightning
|
Winner
|
|
| Nick Bantock
|
The Venetian's Wife
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Shani Mootoo
|
Cereus Blooms at Night
|
| 1998
|
Marilyn Bowering
|
Visible Worlds
|
Winner
|
|
| Sally Ireland
|
Fox's Nose
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Holley Rubinsky
|
At First I Hope for Rescue
|
| 1999
|
Jack Hodgins
|
Broken Ground
|
Winner
|
|
| Loranne Brown
|
The Handless Maiden
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Anne Fleming
|
Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
|
| 2000
|
Michael Turner
|
The Pornographer's Poem
|
Winner
|
|
| Caroline Adderson
|
A History of Forgetting
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Zsuzsi Gartner
|
All the Anxious Girls on Earth
|
| Keith Harrison
|
Furry Creek
|
| Alan R. Wilson
|
Before the Flood
|
| 2001
|
Eden Robinson
|
Monkey Beach
|
Winner
|
|
| Anita Rau Badami
|
The Hero's Walk
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Barbara Lambert
|
A Message for Mr. Lazarus
|
| Peter Trower
|
The Judas Hills
|
| Jack Whyte
|
Uther
|
| 2002
|
Madeleine Thien
|
Simple Recipes
|
Winner
|
|
| Rebecca Godfrey
|
The Torn Skirt
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Andrew Gray
|
Small Accidents
|
| Gayla Reid
|
All the Seas of the World
|
| Timothy Taylor
|
Stanley Park
|
| 2003
|
Carol Shields
|
Unless
|
Winner
|
|
| Kevin Armstrong
|
Nightwatch
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Bill Gaston
|
Mount Appetite
|
| Nancy Lee
|
Dead Girls
|
| Gayla Reid
|
Closer Apart
|
| 2004
|
Caroline Adderson
|
Sitting Practice
|
Winner
|
|
| Claudia Casper
|
The Continuation of Love by Other Means
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Steven Galloway
|
Ascension
|
| Kevin Patterson
|
Country of Cold
|
| Janet Warner
|
Other Sorrows, Other Joys
|
| 2005
|
Pauline Holdstock
|
Beyond Measure
|
Winner
|
|
| Bill Gaston
|
Sointula
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Theresa Kishkan
|
A Man in a Distant Field
|
| Annabel Lyon
|
The Best Thing for You
|
| Patrick Taylor
|
The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty
|
| 2006
|
Charlotte Gill
|
Ladykiller
|
Winner
|
|
| Clint Burnham
|
Smoke Show
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Lydia Kwa
|
The Walking Boy
|
| John Lent
|
So It Won't Go Away
|
| Audrey Thomas
|
Tattycoram
|
| 2007
|
Carol Windley
|
Home Schooling
|
Winner
|
|
| Marilyn Bowering
|
What It Takes to Be Human
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Bill Gaston
|
Gargoyles
|
| Anosh Irani
|
The Song of Kahunsha
|
| Adam Lewis Schroeder
|
Empress of Asia
|
| 2008
|
Mary Novik
|
Conceit
|
Winner
|
|
| Heather Burt
|
Adam's Peak
|
Shortlist
|
|
| David Chariandy
|
Soucouyant
|
| Shaena Lambert
|
Radiance
|
| Claire Mulligan
|
The Reckoning of Boston Jim
|
| 2009
|
Lee Henderson
|
The Man Game
|
Winner
|
|
| Steven Galloway
|
The Cellist of Sarajevo
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Paul Headrick
|
That Tune Clutches My Heart
|
| Patrick Lane
|
Red Dog, Red Dog
|
| Andreas Schroeder
|
Renovating Heaven
|
| 2010
|
Cathleen With
|
Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison
|
Winner
|
[2]
|
| Annabel Lyon
|
The Golden Mean
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Michael Turner
|
8 x 10
|
| Ian Weir
|
Daniel O'Thunder
|
| Deborah Willis
|
Vanishing and Other Stories
|
| 2011
|
Gurjinder Basran
|
Everything Was Good-Bye
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
| Rifet Bahtijaragic
|
Chernovs’ Toil and Peace
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Jack Hodgins
|
The Master of Happy Endings
|
| Meredith Quartermain
|
Recipes from the Red Planet
|
| Jack Whyte
|
The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
|
| 2012
|
Esi Edugyan
|
Half-Blood Blues
|
Winner
|
[4]
|
| Michael Christie
|
The Beggar's Garden
|
Shortlist
|
[5]
|
| Frances Greenslade
|
Shelter
|
| Steven Price
|
Into the Darkness
|
| D. W. Wilson
|
Once You Break a Knuckle
|
| 2013
|
Bill Gaston
|
The World
|
Winner
|
[6]
|
| C. P. Boyko
|
Psychology and Other Stories
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Anne Fleming
|
Gay Dwarves of America
|
| Anakana Schofield
|
Malarky
|
| Yasuko Thanh
|
Floating Like the Dead
|
| 2014
|
Ashley Little
|
Anatomy of a Girl Gang
|
Winner
|
[7]
|
| Théodora Armstrong
|
Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Janie Chang
|
Three Souls
|
| Cynthia Flood
|
Red Girl Rat Boy
|
| Kathryn Para
|
Lucky
|
| 2015
|
Aislinn Hunter
|
The World Before Us
|
Winner
|
[8]
|
| Caroline Adderson
|
Ellen in Pieces
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Kathy Page
|
Paradise & Elsewhere
|
| Brian Payton
|
The Wind is Not a River
|
| Michael Springate
|
The Beautiful West & the Beloved of God
|
| 2016
|
Alix Hawley
|
All True Not a Lie in It
|
Winner
|
[9]
|
| Pauline Holdstock
|
The Hunter and the Wild Girl
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Irina Kovalyova
|
Specimen
|
| Nasreen Pejvack
|
Amity
|
| Anakana Schofield
|
Martin John
|
| 2017
|
Jennifer Manuel
|
The Heaviness of Things That Float
|
Winner
|
[10]
|
| Joan Haggerty
|
The Dancehall Years
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Anosh Irani
|
The Parcel
|
| Jen Sookfong Lee
|
The Conjoined
|
| Ashley Little
|
Niagara Motel
|
| 2018
|
David Chariandy
|
Brother
|
Winner
|
[11]
|
| Andrea MacPherson
|
What We Once Believed
|
Shortlist
|
[12]
|
| Zoey Leigh Peterson
|
Next Year, For Sure
|
| Eden Robinson
|
Son of a Trickster
|
| Daniel Zomparelli
|
Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person
|
| 2019
|
Eden Robinson
|
Trickster Drift
|
Winner
|
|
| Amber Dawn
|
Sodom Road Exit
|
Shortlist
|
|
| Erin Frances Fisher
|
That Tiny Life
|
| Alex Leslie
|
We All Need to Eat
|
| Kathy Page
|
Dear Evelyn
|
| 2020
|
Stephen Price
|
Lampedusa
|
Winner
|
[13]
|
| Michael Christie
|
Greenwood
|
Shortlist
|
[14]
|
| Nazanine Hozar
|
Aria
|
| Alix Ohlin
|
Dual Citizens
|
| Rhea Tregebov
|
Rue des Rosiers
|
| 2021
|
Shaena Lambert
|
Petra
|
Winner
|
[15]
|
| Susan Sanford Blades
|
Fake It So Real
|
Shortlist
|
[16]
|
| Michelle Good
|
Five Little Indians
|
| Aislinn Hunter
|
The Certainties
|
| Annabel Lyon
|
Consent
|
| 2022
|
Ruth Ozeki
|
The Book of Form and Emptiness
|
Winner
|
[17]
|
| Cedar Bowers
|
Astra
|
Shortlist
|
[18]
|
| Carrie Jenkins
|
Victoria Sees It
|
| Rahela Nayebzadah
|
Monster Child
|
| Alix Ohlin
|
We Want What We Want
|
| 2023
|
Billy-Ray Belcourt
|
A Minor Chorus
|
Winner
|
[19]
|
| Marion Ehrenberg
|
The Language of Dreams
|
Shortlist
|
[20]
|
| Tsering Yangzom Lama
|
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
|
| Janice Lynn Mather
|
Uncertain Kin
|
| Danny Ramadan
|
The Foghorn Echoes
|
| 2024
|
Darrel J. McLeod
|
A Season in Chezgh’un
|
Winner
|
[21]
|
| Geoffrey D. Morrison
|
Falling Hour
|
Shortlist
|
[22]
|
| Hazel Jane Plante
|
Any Other City
|
| Brandon Reid
|
Beautiful Beautiful
|
| Chelsea Wakelyn
|
What Remains of Elsie Jane
|
