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The Science Writers and Communicators of Canada (SWCC) is pleased to announce the 2023 SWCC Book Award recipients. We congratulate these talented authors and illustrators for their outstanding contributions to science writing and invaluable role in advancing science communication.

General Category: Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe by Shohini Ghose (Random House Canada) 

Youth Category: Polar by L. E. Carmichael and Byron Eggenschwiler (Kids Can Press)

Paradigm Prize: Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas by Karen Pinchin (Knopf Canada)

The SWCC sincerely congratulates Shohini Ghose, L.E. Carmichael, Byron Eggenschwiler, and Karen Pinchin for their exceptional contributions to Canadian science literature. 

SWCC eagerly anticipates more exceptional science writing examples when the competition reopens for submissions in October 2024!


2023 Book Awards SHORTLIST


The Science Writers and Communicators of Canada (SWCC) is pleased to announce the shortlist of the 2023 SWCC Book Awards.


Youth Category

Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super

Heather Camlot 

Victor Wong

(Owlkids Books)



A Kid's Guide to Plants of the Pacific Northwest
Philippa Joly
(Harbour Publishing)



Polar 
L. E. Carmichael
Byron Eggenschwiler
(Kids Can Press)

2023 book awards longlist

We are pleased to announce that over 50 titles entered the SWCC Book Awards competition for 2023! Check out all our amazing entries below. A downloadable pdf of the 2023 longlist is here.  

    Youth Category


     

    Françoise Vulpé
    (Firefly Books)




    Brian Koonoo

    Joseph Starkey

    (Inhabit Media)



    Maria Birmingham

    Drew Shannon

    (Orca Book Publishers)



    Rachelle Delaney

    (Tundra Books)




    Heather Camlot

    Victor Wong

    (Owlkids Books)



    David Suzuki and Tanya Lloyd Kyi

    Qin Leng

    (Greystone Books)



    Nicole F. Smith

    (Orca Book Publishers)




    Yolanda Ridge

    Dane Thibeault

    (Annick Press)



    Erin Silver

    Suharu Ogawa

    (Orca Book Publishers)


    Frances Backhouse

    (Orca Book Publishers)




    Philippa Joly

    (Harbour Publishing)




    Julie Roberge

    Aless MC

    (Orca Book Publishers)



    Anne Bernard-Lenoir

    (Québec Amérique)




    Maria Birmingham

    Raz Latif

    (Owlkids Books)



    Monique Polak

    Catherine Chan

    (Orca Book Publishers)


    Bambi Edlund

    (Kids Can Press)



    L. E. Carmichael

    Byron Eggenschwiler

    (Kids Can Press)


    Keltie Thomas

    (Firefly Books)




    Nicola Jones

    Alexandra Finkeldey

    (Kids Can Press)


    Dr. Dave Williams and Linda Pruessen

    Sho Uehara

    (Annick Press)


    Tiffany Stone

    Ashley Spires

    (Greystone Kids )


    Amanda Swinimer

    (Harbour Publishing)



    Lisa Deresti Betik

    Alexander Mostov

    (Kids Can Press)


    Joan Marie Galat

    (Orca Book Publishers)




    Pierre Chastenay

    Thom 

    (la courte échelle)



    Tanya Lloyd Kyi

    Rachel Qiuqi

    (Greystone Kids )



    Linda L. Richards

    (Orca Book Publishers)


    General Category



    The Back Story on Spine Care: A Surgeon’s Insights on Relieving Pain & Advocating for the Right Treatment to Get Your Life Back
    Dr. Drew Bednar
    (ECW Press)



    The Calf With Two Heads: Transatlantic Natural History in the Canadas
    Louisa Blair
    (Baraka Books)




    Computing the Climate

    Steve M. Easterbrook

    (Cambridge University Press)



    Does Coffee Cause Cancer?: And 8 more myths about the Food we Eat
    Dr. Christopher Labos
    (ECW Press)




    The Deepest Map
    Laura Trethewey
    (Goose Lane Editions)




    Drawing Botany Home: A Rooted Life
    Lyn Baldwin
    (Rocky Mountain Books)




    Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth
    Claire Horn
    (House of Anansi Press)




    Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast
    John Vaillant

    (Knopf Canada)




    The Future of Us
    Jay Ingram
    (Simon & Schuster Canada )




    Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
    Shohini Ghose

    (Random House Canada)



    It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People

    Rueben George and Michael Simpson

    (Allen Lane Canada)




    Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
    Karen Pinchin
    (Knopf Canada)




    Knife on Snow
    Alice Major
    (Turnstone Press)




    Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist
    Holly Hogan
    (Knopf Canada)




    Paths of Pollen
    Stephen Humphrey
    (McGill-Queen's University Press)




    Powerhouse: Protect Your Energy, Optimize Your Health and Supercharge Your Performance
    Greg Wells
    (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.)



    Quantum Physics Made Me Do It: A Simple Guide to the Fundamental Nature of Everything
    Jérémie Harris
    (Viking Canada)



    The Quantum Revolution: Art, Technology, Culture
    Arthur Kroker and David Cook
    (University of Toronto Press)




    Reaching and Teaching Neurodivergent Learners in STEM: Embracing Uniquely Talented Problem Solvers
    Jodi Asbell-Clarke
    (Routledge/Taylor&Francis)



    Representations and Rights of the Environment
    Sandy Lamalle

    Peter Stoett
    (Cambridge University Press)



    Ring of Fire: High-Stakes Mining in a Lowlands Wilderness
    Virginia Heffernan
    (ECW Press)




    Streams of Consequence: Dispatches from the Conservation World
    Lorne Fitch
    (Rocky Mountain Books)




    The Weekender Effect II: Fallout
    Robert William Sandford
    (Rocky Mountain Books)




    Wildlife of the North: Animals of the High Latitudes of North America and Europe

    Hälle Flygare, Valerius Geist, Geoffrey Holroyd, Wayne Lynch

    (Firefly Books)


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