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The Science Writers and Communicators of Canada (SWCC) is excited to celebrate the recipients of the 2024 SWCC Book Awards! These authors and illustrators have made outstanding contributions to science writing and to advancing science communication in Canada. Congratulations to our 2024 winners:

    General Category: Mind the Science: Saving your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry by Jonathan N. Stea (Random House Canada)

    Youth Category:  I Am Wind written by Rachel Poliquin and illustrated by Rachel Wada (Tundra Books)

    Paradigm Prize: The Honey Trap: How the Good Intentions of Urban Beekeepers Risk Ecological Disaster by Dana L. Church (Sutherland House Books)

    SWCC warmly congratulates Jonathan N. Stea, Rachel Poliquin & Rachel Wada, and Dana L. Church for their exceptional contributions to Canadian science literature. 

    The competition will reopen for submissions in October 2025. We look forward to welcoming more great science writing then!


    2024 book awards shortlist


    The Science Writers and Communicators of Canada (SWCC) is pleased to announce the shortlist of the 2024 SWCC Book Awards.


    Youth Category

    A Planet Is a Poem
    Amanda West Lewis
    Oliver Averill 
    (Kids Can Press)



    Candace Savage

    Rachel Hudson

    (Greystone Books)



    Rachel Poliquin

    Rachel Wada

    (Tundra Books)



    Katherine Hocker
    Natasha Donovan

    (Candlewick Press)


    2024 book awards Full list of entries

    We are pleased to announce that over 60 titles entered the SWCC Book Awards competition for 2024! Check out all our amazing entries below. 

      Youth Category

      Scroll down to see all of the entries and click our Goodreads list for this category.

      A Planet Is a Poem

      Amanda West Lewis
      Oliver Averill (Kids Can Press)


      All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet
      Erin Silver
      Suharu Ogawa
      (Orca Book Publishers)

      Candace Savage

      Rachel Wada

      (Greystone Books)



      Animal Minds: What Are They Thinking?
      Dana L. Church
      (Orca Book Publishers)


      Animals Illustrated: Raven
      Monica Ittusardjuat
      Kagan McLeod
      (Inhabit Media)


      Be a Close-up Nature Detective
      Peggy Kochanoff
      (Nimbus Publishing)

      The Bee Mother
      Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson)

      Natasha Donovan

      (HighWater Press)



      Mark Peck

      (Firefly Books)


      Stephanie Gibeault
      Jaclyn Sinquett

      (Candlewick Press (MIT Kids Press))



      Emily Posts
      Tanya Lloyd Kyi

      (Tundra Books)



      Get Outside: How Humans Connect with Nature
      Leah Payne
      (Orca Book Publishers)


      Jason Logan

      (Candlewick Press)




      Candace Savage

      Rachel Hudson

      (Greystone Books)



      Rachel Poliquin

      Rachel Wada

      (Tundra Books)


      Katherine Hocker
      Natasha Donovan

      (Candlewick Press)



      Danielle Daniel

      Matt James

      (Tundra Books)



      Rachel Salt

      (Firefly Books)



      Farah Qaiser and Hajer Nakua
      Natalya Tariq

      (Second Story Press)



      Stephen Aitken

      (Orca Book Publishers)



      Joan Marie Galat

      (Simon & Schuster Canada)



      Stephanie Gibeault

      Raz Latif

      (Owlkids Books)



      Erin Silver
      Hayden Maynard

      (Orca Book Publishers)



      Kim Tait

      (Firefly Books)


      Dana L. Church

      (Scholastic Focus)




      Kallie George

      Sara Gillingham

      (Greystone Books)



      Frances Backhouse

      (Orca Book Publishers)



      Rachelle Delaney
      (Tundra Books)



      Danielle Daniel

      (Tundra Books)



      Monique Polak
      Valéry Goulet

      (Orca Book Publishers)



      Sheryl Normandeau

      (Orca Book Publishers)



      Lauren Wright Vartanian with text from Keltie Thomas

      (Firefly Books)



      Merrie-Ellen Wilcox
      Amanda Key

      (Orca Book Publishers)



      Rosemary Mosco
      Anna Pirolli

      (Tundra Books)



      Monica Franklin and Erin Della Mattia
      Amanda Key

      (Second Story Press)



      Christine D.U. Chung and Salwa Majoka
      (Tundra Books)



      India Desjardins
      Nathalie Dion

      (Orca Book Publishers)



      Yolanda Ridge

      (Orca Book Publishers)



      Rowena Rae
      Paige Stampatori

      (Orca Book Publishers)


      Joan Marie Galat

      (Orca Book Publishers)


      General Category

      Scroll down to see all of the entries and click our Goodreads list for this category.

      A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream
      Marc Garneau
      (Signal)



      All in Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women’s Mental Health
      Misty Pratt
      (Greystone Books)




      Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

      Dr. Jen Gunter

      (Random House Canada)



      The Carbon Tax Question: Clarifying Canada’s Most Consequential Policy Debate
      Thomas F. Pedersen
      (Harbour Publishing)



      Climate Hope: Stories of Action in an Age of Global Crisis
      David Geselbracht
      (Douglas & McIntyre)




      The Essence of Invention: Medicine and the Joy of Creativity
      Dr. Kieran Murphy
      (Dundurn Press Ltd.)




      The Exclusion Effect: How the Sciences Discourage Girls & Women & What to do about it
      Kirsty Duncan
      (Sutherland House Books)



      Fur, Fleas, and Flukes: The Fascinating World of Parasites
      Michael Stock

      (Aevo UTP)




      Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work
      Kate Neville
      (University of Regina Press )




      Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada
      Jane Philpott

      (Signal)





      The Honey Trap: How the Good Intentions of Urban Beekeepers Risk Ecological Disaster
       Dana L. Church

      (Sutherland House Books)



      I Heard There Was A Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
      Daniel J. Levitin
      (Allen Lane Canada)




      Intervention Earth: Life-Saving Ideas from the World's Climate Engineers
      Gwynne Dyer

      (Random House Canada)



      Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey toward Personal and Ecological Healing
      Dr. Jennifer Grenz
      (Knopf Canada)



      Mind the Science: Saving your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry

      Jonathan N. Stea, PhD
      (Random House Canada)



      Orangutans: Their History, Natural History and Conservation
      Ronald Orenstein
      (Firefly Books)




      Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests
      Diana Beresford-Kroeger
      (Random House Canada)




      Rough Magic: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
      Miranda Newman
      (McClelland & Stewart)




      Runaway Climate: What the Geological Past Can Tell Us about the Coming Climate Change Catastrophe
      Steven Earle
      (New Society Publishers)



      Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
      Amorina Kingdon
      (Crown Publishing (Penguin Random House))




      The Story of Upfront Carbon: How a Life of Just Enough Offers a Way Out of the Climate Crisis
      Lloyd Alter
      (New Society Publishers)



      Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex

      Dr. Joe Schwarcz

      (ECW Press)




      Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sports
      Madeleine Orr
      (Bloomsbury Sigma)



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