Awards - University of Calgary Press

Book cover Image Canadian Mountain Assessment

The Canadian Mountain Assessment: Walking Together to Enhance Understanding of Mountains in Canada

Graham McDowell, Madison Stevens, Shawn Marshall, et al.

2024 | SHORTLISTED Alberta Book Publishing Scholarly & Academic Book of the Year

Book cover Image Remembering Our Relations

Remembering Our Relations: Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation with Sabina Trimble and Peter Fortna

2024 | SHORTLISTED Alberta Book Publishing Scholarly & Academic Book of the Year

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000

Edited by Michele Hardy, Timothy Long, and Julia Krueger

2024 | HONOURABLE MENTION Art Libraries Society of North America Melva J. Dwyer Award
2024 | FINALIST Alberta Book Publishing Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year
2024 | WINNER High Plains Book Award for Art & Photography

We Need to Do This: A History of the Women's Shelter Movement in Alberta and the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters

Alexandra Zabjek

2024 | SHORLISTED Alberta Book Publishing Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year
2023 | SHORTLISTED Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction

Muster Points

Lucas Crawford

2024 | SHORTLISTED Alberta Book Publishing Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry
2023 | SILVER MEDAL PubWest Design Awards, Small-Format Cover

A Stunning Backdrop: Alberta in the Movies, 1917-1960

By Mary Graham

2023 | WINNER - Alberta Book Publishing Regional Book of the Year
2023 | Shortlisted - Alberta Book Publishing Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year
2022 | Bronze Medal - PubWest Award for Design of a Historical Book

Book cover Image Voices from the Digital Classroom

Voices from the Digital Classroom: 25 Interviews about Teaching and Learning in the Face of a Global Pandemic

Edited by Sandra Abegglen, Fabian Neuhaus, and Kylie Wilson

2023 | Selection - AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, Cover Design
2023 | Selection - AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, Scholarly and Typographic Design

Book cover Image Traces of the Animal Past

Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History

Edited by Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj

2023 | NiCHE Prize for Best Book Chapter for "Making Tracks: A Grizzly and Entangled History,” by Colleen Campbell and Tina Loo

Five Stalks of Grain

Written by Adrian Lysenko, Illustrated by Ivanka Theodosia Galadza

2023 | Shortlisted: KOBZAR Book Award
2023 | Shortlisted: Alberta Book Publishing Awards Graphic Novel of the Year

Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For

Leslie Greentree

2023 | SHORTLISTED High Plains Book Award for Short Stories

Book cover Image American Western in Canadian Literature

The American Western in Canadian Literature

Joel Deshaye

2023 | Shortlisted - ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Literary Criticism

Book cover Image Joint Arctic Weather Stations

The Joint Arctic Weather Stations: Science and Sovereignty in the High Arctic, 1946-1972

Daniel Heidt and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

2023 | Shortlisted - Alberta Book Publishing Awards Scholarly & Academic Book of the Year
2022 | Runner-Up - ASLI's CHOICE Award for History Monograph Related to Atmospheric Science
2022 | Honourable Mention - CSN-REC Best Book in Canadian Studies

A Kid Called Chatter

Chris Kelly

2023 | Shortlisted, the ReLit Novel Award

the book of smaller

rob mclennan

2023 | Bronze Medal - PubWest Design Award, Poetry/Short Stories

In Singing, He Composed a Song

Jeremy Stewart

2022 | Long Shortlist, ReLit Award for Poetry

Sustainability Matters: Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada’s Petro-City

Noel Keough with Geoff Ghitter

2022 | SHORTLISTED Alberta Book Publishing Regional Book of the Year

Happy Sands

Barb Howard

2022 | SHORTLISTED Alberta Book Publishing Awards - Trade Fiction Book of the Year

Unlocking

Amy LeBlanc

2022 | SHORTLISTED - Alberta Book Publishing Awards - Trade Fiction Book of the Year

Phillis

Alison Clarke

2020 | Author Award: National Black Coalition of Canada - Edmonton, Fil Fraser Award for the Literary, Performing, and Visual Arts

Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories

Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, Michael Thomas Taylor, and Annette F. Timm

2021 | Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The Manhattan Project

Ken Hunt

2020 | Gold Medal Winner, PubWest Design Awards

Farmers "Making Good": The Development of Abernethy District, Saskatchewan, 1880-1920

Lyle Dick

1990 | CO-WINNER, CHA Clio Prize - The Prairies

Book cover Image Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert

The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert

Edited by Lindsey Sharman

2019 | WINNER, ARLIS Melva J. Dwyer Award
2018 | FINALIST, High Plains Book Award for Art & Photography
2018 | BRONZE MEDAL, PubWest Design Awards - Jacket/Cover, Large

Quarry

Tanis Franco

2019 | SHORTLISTED, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
2019 | GOLD MEDAL, PubWest Book Design Awards - Poetry, Short Stories & Anthologies
2019 | BRONZE MEDAL, Forward Review INDIES - LGBTQ Non-Fiction

The Comedian

Clem Martini

2018-2019 | SHORTLISTED, Reader Views Annual Reader's Choice Awards
2019 | SHORTLISTED, WGA Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction

Book cover Image Environmental Activism on the Ground

Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing

Edited by Jonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper

2020 | Honourable Mention, Alana Bondar Memorial Book Prize

Exhibit

Paul Zits

2020 | SHORTLISTED, Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry
2020 | SELECTION, AUPresses Book, Jacket and Journal Show - Poetry & Literature

Scattering Chaff: Canadian Air Power and Censorship During the Kosovo War

Bob Bergen

2019 | C.P. Stacey Award for Canadian Military History

Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880

Graham D. Taylor

2020 | SHORTLISTED, Alberta Publishing Award for Best Scholarly & Academic Book
2020 | WINNER, Petroleum History Society Book of the Year

The Red Chesterfield

Wayne Arthurson

2020 | WINNER, BPAA Alberta Publishing Award for Trade Fiction
2020 | FINALIST, High Plains Book Award for Best Indigenous Writer
2020 | WINNER, Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novella

Legislating Love: The Everett Klippert Story

Natalie Meisner

2023 | WINNER - Playwrights Guild of Canada Carol Bolt Award

Air Salt: A Trauma Mémoire as a Result of the Fall

Ian Kinney

2020 | SHORTLISTED, Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry

Book cover Image True Face of Sir Isaac Brock

The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock

Guy St-Denis

2019 | LONGLISTED, British Art Journal William MB Berger Prize
2019 | BRONZE MEDAL, PubWest Book Design Awards - Small Format Jacket & Cover

Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada

Edited by Joanna Dean,, Darcy Ingram, and, Christabelle Sethna

2018 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Cover Design

Throwing the Diamond Hitch

Emily Ursuliak

2018 | WINNER, 2018 High Plains Book Award for Poetry

Fail Safe

Nikki Sheppy

2018 | SILVER MEDAL, PubWest Design Award - Short Stories / Poetry / Anthology
2018 | WINNER, BPAA Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book of the Year
2018 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Book Design
2018 | SELECTION, AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show - Poetry and Literature

Baffin Island: Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67

Jack D. Ives

2017 | SILVER MEDAL, PubWest Design Awards: Historical or Biographical Book

The Frontier of Patriotism: Alberta and the First World War

Edited by Adriana A. Davies and Jeff Keshen

2017 | GOLD MEDAL, PubWest Design Awards, Historical or Birographical Book
2017 | WINNER, BPAA Alberta Publishing Award for Book Design

Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History

Edited by Ben Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin M. Coates

2017 | WINNER, Heritage Toronto Historical Writing: Short Publications Award for the chapter "Soils and Subways: Excavating Environments during the Building of Rapid Transit in Toronto, 1944-1968" by Jay Young

Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory

Edited by Arn Keeling and John Sandlos

2016 | WINNER, CSN-RÉC Best Edited Collection in Canadian Studies

Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73

Emil Bessels, Edited and Translated by William Barr

2016 | HONOURABLE MENTION, NASOH John Lyman Award for Naval and Maritime Science and Technology

From Realism to Abstraction: The Art of J. B. Taylor

Adriana Davies

2015 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Trade Non-fiction
2015 | SHORTLISTED, ARLIS/NA Melva J. Dwyer Award

L'Alberta Autophage: Identités, mythes et discours du pétrole dans l'Ouest canadien

Dominique Perron

2015 | WINNER, Fédération des sciences humaines Prix du Canada en sciences sociales

Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art

Edited by Steven Loft, and Kerry Swanson

2015 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Award for Scholarly and Academic Book

Fishing for a Solution: Canada's Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013

Donald Barry, Bob Applebaum, and Earl Wiseman

2015 | HONOURABLE MENTION, NASOH John Lyman Book Award for Canadian Naval and Maritime History

Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir

By Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles

2014 | SHORTLISTED, FHSS Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
2014 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Scholarly and Academic Book

John C. Parkin, Archives and Photography: Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture

Linda Fraser, Michael McMordie, and Geoffrey Simmins

2014 | SHORTLISTED, ARLIS/NA Melva J. Dwyer Award

Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer

P.J. Capelotti

2014 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Scholarly and Academic Book

Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy

Ann Davis, , Elizabeth Herbert, , Jennifer Salahub, and , Christine Sowiak

2014 | BRONZE MEDAL, PubWest Design Awards: Jacket/Cover Design - Large Format
2014 | SHORTLISTED, ARLIS/NA Melva J. Dwyer Award

Book cover Image Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870-1939

A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870-1939

Gordon W. Smith, Edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer

2015 | WINNER, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Scholarly and Academic Book
2015 | WINNER, CNRS Keith Matthews Award
2014 | WINNER, NASOH John Lyman Book Award for Canadian Naval and Maritime History

Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil

David J. Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig

2014 | WINNER, NASOH John Lyman Book Award for U.S. Naval History

Petropolitics: Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History

Alan MacFadyen and G. Campbell Watkins

2014 | WINNER, Petroleum History Society Book of the Year

The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977

Wendy Dathan

2013 | WINNER, CHA CLIO Prize - The North
2013 | WINNER, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Scholarly and Academic Book

Always an Adventure: An Autobiography

Hugh A. Dempsey

2012 | WINNER, ASA Alan D. Ridge Award of Merit - Publications

Book cover Image Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011

A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011

Edited by Claire Campbell

2012 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year

Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930

Dan Azoulay

2012 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year

Happyland: A History of the "Dirty Thirties" in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937

Curtis McManus

2012 | WINNER, Saskatchewan Book Award for Nonfiction
2012 | SHORTLISTED, Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing
2012 | SHORTLISTED, Saskatchewan Book Award for First Book
2012 | SHORTLISTED, Saskatchewan Book Award - Book of the Year

Somebody Else's Money: The Walrond Ranch Story, 1883 1907

Warren Elofson

2009 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Readers' Choice
2009 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Scholarly and Academic Book

Book cover Image 100 Years of Anne with an ‘e’

100 Years of Anne with an 'e': The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables

Edited by Holly Blackford

2009 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Readers' Choice

Dark Storm Moving West

Barbara Belyea

2007 | FINALIST, CGPS Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
2008 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year

Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Woman's Journey into the Great War

Debbie Marshall

2008 | SHORTLISTED, Canadian Author's Association - Alberta Branch Exporting Alberta Award

Rabbis and their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930

Ira Robinson

2008 | WINNER, J.I. Segal Award for Canadian Jewish Studies

Zhorna: Material Culture of the Ukrainian Pioneers

Roman Fodchuk

2008 | SHORTLISTED, UCFTS Kobzar Literary Award

Alberta Formed Alberta Transformed (Vols I and II)

Edited by Michael Payne,, Donald Wetherell, and, Catherine Cavanaugh

2007 | WINNER, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Book Design
2007 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Book Illustration
2007 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year

Book cover Image Letters of Margaret Butcher

The Letters of Margaret Butcher: Missionary-Imperialism on the North Pacific Coast

Edited by Mary-Ellen Kelm

2007 | SECOND PRIZE, British Columbia Historical Federation Writing Competition

Nouveau roman de l'energie nationale: Analyse des discours promotionnels d'Hydro-Quebec de 1964 a 1997

Dominique Perron

2007 | SHORTLISTED, Prix Raymond-Klibansky for the best French-language book in the humanities (Aid to Scholarly Publications Program, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences)

Reta Summers Cowley

Terry Fenton

2007 | SHORTLISTED, Saskatchewan Book Awards - Saskatoon Book Award

Writing the Terrain: Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets

Edited by Robert Stamp

2006 | WINNER, BPAA Alberta Publishing Award for Cover Design

"I Will Fear No Evil": Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940

Susan Elaine Gray

2006 | WINNER, MHS Margaret McWilliams Award - Scholarly History
2006 | WINNER, AMA Manitoba Day Award

My Own Places: Poems On John Constable

Don Kerr

2006 | SHORTLISTED, Saskatchewan Book Award - Poetry

Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990

John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith, and Randy W. Widdis

2008 | WINNER, CHA/AHA Albert B. Corey Prize in Canadian-American Relations
2008 | SHORTLISTED, Association of Borderlands Studies Book Award

Staying Human Through the Holocaust

Teréz Mózes, , Edited and translated by Maureen Wise, , Anna Hercz, and , Oren Hercz, With , Additional Translation by Audrey Demarcisco

2006 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Book Publishing Award for Book Design

Book cover Image Bar U and Canadian Ranching History

The Bar U and Canadian Ranching History

Simon Evans

2004 | WINNER, CHA CLIO Prize - The Prairies
2005 | WINNER, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year
2005 | SELECTION, AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show - Cover Design

Passages: Explorations of the Contemporary City

Graham Livesey

2005 | SELECTION, AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show - Scholarly Illustrated

Roughnecks, Rock Bits, and Rigs: The Evolution of Oil Well Drilling Technology in Alberta, 1883-1970

Sandy Gow

2005 | WINNER, Petroleum History Society of Canada Book of the Year

Songs of the North Woods as sung by O.J. Abbott and collected by Edith Fowke

Lászl- Vikár and Jeanette Panagapka

2005 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Cover Design
2005 | SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Publisher of the Year