Category | Winner | Nominated |
Fiction | Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night[2] | |
Non-fiction | Graeme Wood, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State[2] | - Sharon Butala, Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope
- Sarah de Leeuw, Where It Hurts
- Elaine Dewar, The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational
- Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
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Poetry | Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood[2] | |
Drama | Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm[2] | |
Children's literature | Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves[2] | |
Children's illustration | David Robertson and Julie Flett, When We Were Alone[2] | |
French to English translation | Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (Bertrand Laverdure, Lectodôme)[2] | |