First Book (Brenda MacDonald Riches Award)
Criteria For This Award
- 2009 — Off Road — George Epp (Xlibris Corporation)
- 2008 — Mostly Happy — Pam Bustin (Thistledown Press)
- 2007 — Life on the Refrigerator Door — Alice Kuipers (Harper Collins Canada)
- 2006 — Stolen — Annette Lapointe (Anvil Press)
- 2005 — The Darkness Beneath All Things — Eric Greenway (Hagios Press)
- 2004 — The Beauty Box — Bonnie Dunlop (Thistledown Press)
- 2003 — Grasslands — Michael Hetherton (Coteau Books)
- 2002 — Earth After Rain — Sheri Benning (Thistledown Press)
- 2001 — Ring Finger, Left Hand — Katherine Lawrence (Coteau Books)
- 2000 — The World Is Our Witness — Tom Molloy (Fifth House)
- 1999 — The Walnut Tree — Martha Blum (Coteau Books)
- 1998 — The Lavender Child — Harriet Richards (Thistledown Press)
- 1997 — In the Misleading Absence of Light — Joanne Gerber (Coteau Books)
- 1996 — Catching the Wind in a Net: The Religious Vision of Robertson Davies — Dave Little (ECW Press)
- 1995 — Summer Reading — Kate Sutherland (Thistledown Press)
- 1994 — It's A Hard Cow — Terry Jordan (Thistledown Press)
