The Saskatchewan Book Awards offers up to 14 awards annually to celebrate, promote and reward Saskatchewan authors and publishers worthy of recognition. For the 2026 award season, a jury of three industry professionals per award category will select up to five finalists, including the winner, for each of the following awards:
- Book of the Year
- Children’s Literature (alternates every two years with Young Adult Literature Award )
- Fiction
- First Book
- Indigenous Peoples Writing
- Non-Fiction
- Poetry
- Regina Book
- Saskatoon Book
- Scholarly Writing
- Indigenous Peoples Publishing
- Publishing
- Publishing in Education
Award winners are determined through a jury process of the highest integrity, by high-calibre jurors who are recognized as leaders with significant expertise in each award. In order to ensure the integrity of its award adjudication process, the staff and board each year recruits members of the writing and publishing community outside Saskatchewan, with one exception, to adjudicate the titles submitted for each award competition and select short-listed and winning titles.
Books submitted for each award category will be sent out to respective jury members in mid-November after the 2026 Call for Entries/Submissions closes on Friday, November 7, 2025. Jury members selected for adjudication will have up to 75 days to read titles submitted in their respective award categories and are expected to maintain confidentiality until the awards for each category are announced at the annual award ceremony. The SBA will arrange for jurors to meet by Zoom to select final shortlisted titles for consideration for prizes. Jurors will be able to keep the books reviewed; a small honorarium calculated to the number of books read will be provided.
All eligible titles adjudicated and shortlisted as finalists for 2026 Book Awards will be announced at the annual SBA Shortlist Announcement in March, 2026. Finalists and winners of the 2026 Book Awards will be honoured at the annual SBA Gala and Award Ceremony on Friday, May 1, 2026 in Regina.
For more information on the Saskatchewan Book Awards’ Policies and Procedures pertaining to the Jury Selection and Adjudication Processes, 
click here.