#DrawtheWord Spring Book Challenge
Highlights
Prizes
- A stack of great Canadian books for four winning artists
- $500 for the top four featured book authors
Contact
Charlie Foran
cforan@writerstrust.com
Together with the Writers' Trust of Canada, authors Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas, and Jenny Heijun Wills challenge Canadians to buy and read a Canadian book published in spring 2020.
Enter our spring book challenge by using #DrawtheWord on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook to share an original drawing inspired by any Canadian book published March-June 2020. Your drawing can be digital artwork, sketched on paper, a creative make-up look, an artsy photo, or any other visual art piece. Be sure to tag and nominate a couple of readers to join the contest when you enter.
After the contest closes on June 30, 2020, challengers Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas, and Jenny Heijun Wills will select their favourite drawings. The top four entrants will each win a stack of Canadian reads, and the book authors featured in the art pieces will each receive $500 to help them write another. This project aims to mitigate current pressures on the Canadian book industry by offering a promotional opportunity for Canadian books launched during the global health crisis.
Use the list of spring books below to help you choose your next great Canadian read.
Rules
- Buy and read a Canadian book published in spring 2020.
- Draw something inspired by the book on a page, on a screen, on your face, with a camera, or any other visual medium.
- Post your work of book art on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram using #DrawtheWord, tag @writerstrust, and nominate two more readers to take part by tagging their handles.
- Win books! Win money! Atwood, Christmas, and Wills will select four winners after the deadline. The winning artists will each receive a package of Canadian books. The authors of the books featured in the drawings will each receive $500 to help them write another.
*Please note the contest has now closed.
2020 Canadian Spring Book List
Fiction
Running from the Dead: A Crime Novel by Mike Knowles
The Amber Garden: The Alchemists’ Council, Book 3 by Cynthea Masson
Mysterious Dreams of the Dead by Terry Watada
Fontainebleau by Madeline Sonik
Borderline by Marie-Sissi Labreche trans. Melissa Bull
The Lily Pad and the Spider by Claire Legendre, trans. David Homel
Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Things Worth Burying by Matt Mayr
A Stab at Life by Richard King
Aubrey McKee by Alex Pugsley
I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind by Marianne Apostolides
The Neptune Room by Bertrand Laverdure, translated by Oana Avasilichioae
Some People's Children by Bridget Canning
Melt by Heidi Wicks
The Eyelid by S.D. Chrostowska
The Subtweet: A Novel by Vivek Shraya
Misconduct of the Heart: A Novel by Cordelia Strube
The Silence of Bones by June Hur
Deadly Curious by Cindy Anstey
The Dark In-Between by Elizabeth Hrib
The Woman in the Attic by Emily Hepditch
The Liars by Ida Linehan Young
Watershed by Doreen Vanderstoop
Speechless by Anne Simpson
A Song from Faraway by Deni Béchard
Where the Waters Meet by Stéphanie Boulay, translated from French by Ghislaine LeFranc
Against the Machine by Brian Van Norman
Itzel II by Sarah Xerar Murphy
Shattered Fossils by Sharon Lax
The Comic by Stan Rogal
The Foundations of Kindness by Richard Vission
The Quantum Theory of Love and Madness by Jerry Levy
The Transaction by Guglielmo D'Izzia
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Stay Where I Can See You by Katrina Onstad
Midnight Train to Prague by Carol Windley
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
The Library of Legends by Janie Chang
The War Widow by Tara Moss
Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa
The Girl He Left Behind by Beatrice MacNeil
The Diamond House by Dianne Warren
Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson
All I Ask by Eva Crocker
You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Jamie Chang
Dirty Birds by Morgan Murray
Carousel by April Ford
Filthy Sugar by Heather Babcock
Mina's Child by Paul Butler
The House of Izieu by Jan Rehner
A Diary in the Age of Water by Nina Munteanu
The Union of Smokers by Paddy Scott
Swimmers in Winter by Faye Guenther
You Can't Catch Me by Catherine McKenzie
Sorry I Missed You by Suzy Krause
If Tenderness Be Gold by Eleanor Albanese
Keepers of the Faith by Shaukat Ajmeri
Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier
In Veritas by C.J. Lavigne
Rolling Thunder by A.J. Devlin
The Weight of the Heart by Theresa Kishkan
The Benjamenta College of Art by Alan Reed
How a Woman Becomes a Lake by Marjorie Celona
Last Impressions by Joseph Kertes
The Brideship Wife by Leslie Howard
The Last High by Daniel Kalla
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
What Unbreakable Looks Like by Kate McLaughlin
Fair by Ed Seaward
A Match Made for Murder: A Lane Winslow Mystery #7 by Iona Whishaw
Good Mothers Don't by Laura Best
Apple S by Éric Plamondon, trans. Dimitri Nasrallah
Archaic Torso of Gumby by Geoffrey Morrison and Matthew Tomkinson
Once a Storm by Janet Trull
Kill All the Lawyers: A Mystery by William Deverell
The Goliath Run by Brad Smith
The Wild Heavens by Sarah Louise Butler
Before the Usual Time: Collection of Indigenous stories and poems by ed. Darlene Naponse
The Complex Arms by Dolly Dennis
Postmark Berlin: A Mystery by Anne Emery
Bitter Paradise: A Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery by Ross Pennie
Mission Road: A Frank Yakabuski Mystery by Ron Corbett
Closing Time by Brenda Chapman
Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J Sawyer
The End of Me by John Gould
The Handsome Man by Brad Casey
Columbus and the Fat Lady by Matt Cohen
Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
Hunger Moon by Traci Skuce
Seeking Shade by Frances Boyle
The Swan Suit by Katherine Fawcett
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
In the Beggarly Style Imitation by Jean Marc Ah-Sen
Poetry
Pineapple Express by Evelyn Lau
Hearts Amok by Kevin Spenst
The Headless Man by Peter Dubé
Low Centre of Gravity by Michael Dennis
My Art is Killing Me and Other Poems by Amber Dawn
The Gospel of Breaking by Jillian Christmas
Gardens of the Interregnum by Norm Sibum
day/break by Gwen Benaway
Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill, Kristen Renee Miller
Nought by Julie Joosten
Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart by Beatriz Hausner
Narrow Cradle by Wade Kearley
POP by Simina Banu
Miscreations: Poems by Grant Loveys
Riven: Poems by Catherine Owen
In the Vicinity of Riches by Chris Hutchinson
Everyone at This Party by Tanja Bartel
Night Lunch by Mike Chaulk
I know something you don't know by Amy LeBlanc
Crito Di Volta by Marc di Saverio
Journeys by Christine Tipper and Nadine Latif
Mummyjihad by Earl Fowler
Squall by Chad Norman
Swoon by Elana Wolff
The Haunted Hand by Donald Winkler and Louise Dupre
We Shed Our Skins Like Dynamite by Conyer Clayton
Watching a Man Break a Dog's Back by Tom Wayman
As Far As You Know by A.F. Moritz
Roguelike by Matthew Henderson
Junebat by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Gold Rush by Claire Caldwell
OO: Typewriter Poems by Dani Spinosa
Burning Province by Michael Prior
The Dyzgraph*st by Canisia Lubrin
What Hurts Going Down by Nancy Lee
Washes, Prays by Noor Naga
Different Wolf by Deborah-Anne Tunney
Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace by Bronwen Wallace, edited by Carolyn Smart
The Broken Boat by Daniela Elza
Disappearing Minglewood Blues by M.C. Warrior
Lullabies in the Real World by Meredith Quartermain
The Response of Weeds by Bertrand Bickersteth
Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation by Curtis LeBlanc
Body Count by Kyla Jamieson
Pluviophile by Yusuf Saadi
Mythical Man by David Ly
Democratically Applied Machine by Robert Colman
Ceaseless Rain by Dorothy Mahoney
Tablet Fragments by Tamar Rubin
The Lost Cafeteria by Joel Robert Ferguson
The Blue Moth of Morning by P.C. Vandall
The Manhattan Project by Ken Hunt
Field Notes for the Self by Randy Lundy
The Outer Wards by Sadiqa de Meijer
All I Have Learned is Where I Have Been by Joe Fiorito
Fields of Light and Stone by Angeline Schellenberg
Drama
The Art of the Fall by Veronique Cote et. Al trans. Danielle Le Saux-Farmer
Triplex Nervosa Trilogy by Marianne Ackerman
Quick Bright Things by Christopher Cook
Speed Dating for Sperm Donors by Natalie Meisner
Bar Mitzvah Boy by Mark Leiren-Young
Bears by Matthew MacKenzie
Bronte: The World Without by Jordi Mand
The Enchanted Loom by Suvendrini Lena
Amaryllis & Little Witch by Pascal Brullemans, translated by Alexis Diamond
The Runner by Christopher Morris
Lo ( or Dear Mr. Wells) by Rose Napoli
Some Blow Flutes by Mary Vingoe
The Orchard (After Chekhov) by Sarena Parmar
Dragonfly by Lara Rae
Nonfiction
The Proximity Paradox: How to Create Distance from Business as Usual and Do Something Truly Innovative by Alex Varricchio and Kiirsten May
Great Clients by David Ullman
Leading Meaningful Change by Beverley Patwell
The Subscription Boom by Adam Levinter
Toronto's Lost Villages by Ron Brown
Kings of Friday by A.J.B. Johnston
Take Back the Tray: Revolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions by Joshna Maharaj
Talking to Strangers by Marianne Boucher
Patchwork Society by Sharon Johnston
On the Cusp of Contact by Jean Barman
Toe Blake: Winning Is Everything by Paul Logothetis, foreword by Scotty Bowman
The Declutter Challenge by Cassandra Aarssen
Anthem: Rush in the ’70s by Martin Popoff
Almighty Voice by Bill Waiser
The Home Stretch: A Father, a Son, and All the Things They Never Talk About by George K. Ilsley
Chronicles of a High School English Teacher and the Smartass Students Who Schooled Him by Paul Bae
Free of 'Incurable' Cancer, Living in Overtime by Susan Paton
Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty by Bahar Orang
No Place for a Woman by Antony Berger
A Happy Life in an Open Relationship by Susan Wenzel
Any Night of the Week: A D.I.Y. History of Toronto Music, 1957-2001 by Jonny Dovercourt.
The Better Half by Sharon Moalem
The Bullet: Stories from the Newfoundland Railway by Robert Hunt
Fish Wrapped by David Sherman
It's Attachment by Annette Kussin
Pictura by Juliana Pivato
Open House by Jane Christmas
Next by Darrell Bricker
The Rebel Mama's Handbook for (Cool) Moms by Aleks Jassem and Nikita Stanley
This Lovely City by Louise Hare
From Internationalism to Postcolonialism by Rossen Djagalov
Life of Ill Repute by Maria Serena Mazzi
Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation edited by Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, and Giorgio Riello
Techno-Fixers by Sean F. Johnston
À qui la fortune sourit by Laurence B. Mussio
Whom Fortune Favours by Laurence B. Mussio
Stikeman Professorship by David S. Mulder, preface by Suzanne Fortier
Secret History by Simon Ball
China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability edited by Rebecca Clothey and Richardson Dilworth
Green Meat? edited by Ryan M. Katz-Rosene and Sarah J. Martin
Carbon Blues by Mike Mason
Poetic Imperative by Johanna Skibsrud
Up and to the Right by Craig Toomey
Teaching Anticommunism by Hubert Villeneuve
Objectively Engaged Journalism by Stephen J.A. Ward
Being at Large by Santiago Zabala
Seven Absolute Rights by Ryan Alford
Framing Risky Choices by Ece Özlem Atikcan, Richard Nadeau, and Éric Bélanger
Haldane by John Campbell
Uninvited by Carrie Jenkins and Carla Nappi
Suspended Conversations by Martha Langford
Cry of Vertières by Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky
We Resist by Edited by Cynthia Levine-Rasky and Lisa Kowalchuk
Net Privacy by Sacha Molitorisz
Unsettling Spirit by Denise M. Nadeau
Frequencies edited by Gregory Taylor and Catherine Middleton
Unplanned Visitors by Olivier Vallerand
Populism and Ethnicity by Raanan Rein
Geopolitical Amnesia edited by Vibeke Schou Tjalve
Our Fundamental Problem by Nicholas Maxwell
Fearless by Janice McDonald
Reclaiming Our Students by Hannah Beach and Tamara Neufeld Strijack
Start to Figure by Andrew Dubois
Dead Mom Walking by Rachel Matlow
Overdose by Benjamin Perrin
Nerve by Eva Holland
Cultivated by Christin Geall
Shame on Me by Tessa McWatt
Collected: City + Country by Sarah Richardson
Tapping the West: How Alberta’s Craft Beer Industry Bubbled Out of an Economy Gone Flat by Scott Messenger
In the Spirit of ’68 by Joel Belliveau; translated by Käthe Roth
The Impossible Clinic by Ariane Hanemaayer
The Shoe Boy by Duncan McCue
Geography of British Columbia by Brett McGillivray
No Place for the State edited by Christopher Dummitt and Christabelle Sethna
Culture and the Soldier edited by H. Christian Breede
Making the Best of It edited by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw
War Junk by Alex Souchen
Crossing Law’s Border by Shauna Labman
Inside the Campaign edited by Alex Marland and Thierry Giasson
Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times edited by Deborah R. Brock
From Wardship to Rights by Jim Reynolds
The Aging–Disability Nexus edited by Katie Aubrecht, Christine Kelly, and Carla Rice
He Thinks He's Down by Katharine Bausch
The Tenth Justice by Carissima Mathen and Michael Plaxton
Law and Neurodiversity by Dana Lee Baker, Laurie A. Drapela, Whitney Littlefield
Out of Milk by Lesley Frank with foreword by Monika Dutt
Canada 1919 edited by Tim Cook and J.L. Granatstein
Canada's Legal Pasts edited by Lyndsay Campbell, Ted McCoy, and Mélanie Méthot
The Loss of Indigenous Eden and the Fall of Spirituality by Blair Stonechild
None of the Above: Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada by Joel Thiessen & Sarah Wilkens-Laflamme
Nature's Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis by Paul Huebener
Uncertain Harvest: The Future of Food on a Warming Planet by Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, and Evan D.G. Fraser
Reclaiming Tom Longboat: Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport by Janice Forsyth
Talking to a Portrait: Tales of an Art Curator by Pepall
Fort Henry: An Illustrated History by Stephen Mecredy
The Attack on Nova Scotia Schools: The story behind 25 years of tumultuous change by Grant Frost
The Canadian Labour Movement by Craig Heron
The Rat People by Patrick Saint-Paul
Reclaiming Tom Longboat by Janice Forsyth
Government House Halifax: A Place of History and Gathering by Christopher McCreery
Cataline: Life of BC's Legendary Packer by Irene Bjerky
Mary Pickford, Queen of the Silent Film Era by George A. Walker
Acadian Driftwood by Tyler LeBlanc
Feasting Wild by Gina Rae La Cerva
Uncertain Harvest by Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, and Evan D.G. Fraser
Rethink Chronic Pain: Relieve Suffering, Heal Your Body, Own Your Health by Gaétan Brouillard (translated by David Warriner)
The PCOS Plan: Prevent and Reverse Polycystic Ovary Syndrome through Diet and Fasting by Nadia Brito Pateguana and Jason Fung
How to Be Miserable in Your Twenties by Randy J. Paterson, PhD
Nanaimo Girl by Prudence Emery
Peculiar Lessons: How Nature and the Material World Shaped a Prairie Childhood by Lois Braun
Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood by Emma Hansen
Choosing Hope by Munira Premji
Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River by Philip Lee
Raising Your Kids Without Losing Your Cool by Shantelle Bisson
Adventures with Adoptable Dogs by Rachael Rodgers
The Future of Capitalism by Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Yanis Varoufakis, Arthur Brooks, and David Brooks
Gideon’s Bible: A Father & Son Discuss God, the Bible and Life by Rick Salutin and Gideon Salutin, illustrated by Dušan Petričić
No More Nice Girls: Gender, Power and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules by Lauren McKeon
The Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of André the Giant by Bertrand Hébert and Pat Laprade with Tony Stabile
Loving Large by Patti M. Hall
The Home Stretch by George K. Ilsley
Menno Moto by Cameron Dueck
The Last Goldfish by Anita Lahey
Radical Acts of Love by Janie Brown
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder by Sarah Kurchak
That's Why I'm a Doctor by Mark Bulguth
I Know You Rider by Leslie Stein
Alone: A Love Story by Michelle Parise
Moments of Glad Grace: A Memoir by Alison Wearing
They Said this Would be Fun by Eternity Martis
One Good Reason by Sean McCain and Andrea Aragon
Saltwater Chronicles by Lesley Choyce
Show Me the Honey: Adventures of an Accidental Apiarist by Dave Doroghy
You Suck, Sir by D.G. Fraser
The Smallest Object by Sharon Kirsch
Since Joel by Julie L. Schwartz
The Abortion Caravan by Karin Wells
Our 100 Years by Dianne Dodd
Lost in Newfoundland by Michael Winsor (photography)
Nature
The Prairie Gardener's Go-To Guide for Vegetables by Janet Melrose and Sheryl Normandeau
The Prairie Gardener's Go-To Guide for Pests and Diseases by Janet Melrose and Sheryl Normandeau
Familiar Face by Michael DeForge
Wendy, Master of Art by Walter Scott
Megabat Is a Fraidybat by Anna Humphrey and Kass Reich
The Gryphon’s Lair by Kelley Armstrong
Louder Than Words by Kathy Kacer
Geology of New Brunswick and PEI by Sandra Barr and Martha Hickman Hild
Hikes of Newfoundland by Mary Smyth, Fred Hollingshurst, Katie Broadhurst, Alexandra Fortun
Taking a Break from Saving the World by Stephen Legault
Old Man’s Garden by Annora Brown
Popular Wildflowers of the Canadian Prairies by Neil L. Jennings
Popular Wildflowers of Alberta and the Canadian Rockies by Neil L. Jennings
Popular Wildflowers of Coastal British Columbia and Vancouver Island by Neil L. Jennings
Popular Wildflowers of South-Central British Columbia by Neil L. Jennings
Travel & Culinary
Family Walks and Hikes in the Canadian Rockies – Volume 2 by Andrew Nugara
Family Walks and Hikes on Greater Vancouver’s North Shore by Harrison (Harry) Crerar
Road Trips, Journeys in the Unspoiled World by Trevor Carolan
The Okanagan Wine Tour Guide by John Schreiner and Luke Whitall
Flat Out Delicious: Your Definitive Guide to Saskatchewan's Food Artisans by Jenn Sharp
Buck Naked Kitchen by Kristen Buck
Love is Served by Seizan Dreux Ellis and Café Gratitude
Gather at Home by Monika Hibbs
A Spicy Touch: Family Favourites from Noorbanu Nimji’s Kitchen by Noorbanu Nimji and Karen Anderson
Baking with Bruno: a French baker’s North American love story by Bruno Feldeisen
Flat Out Delicious: Your Definitive Guide to Saskatchewan's Food Artisans by Jenn Sharp
Children's Literature
The Keeper of Wild Words by Brooke Smith, illustrated by Madeline Kloepper
The Word for Friend by Aidan Cassie, illustrated by Aidan Cassie
Peter & Ernesto: Sloths in the Night by Graham Annable
Science Comics: Crows by Kyla Vanderklugt
Peter and the Tree Children by Peter Wohlleben, translated by Jane Billinghurst and illustrated by Cale Atkinson
Hey Little Rockabye: A Lullaby for Pet Adoption by Buffy Sainte-Marie, illustrated by Ben Hodson
West Coast Wild Babies by Deborah Hodge, illustrated by Karen Reczuch
Weekend Dad by Naseeum Hrab, illustrated by Frank Viva
Our Corner Store by Robert Heidbreder, illustrated by Chelsea O'Byrne
A Forest in the City by Andrea Curtis, illustrated by Pierre Pratt
War at the Snow White Motel and Other Stories by Tim Wynne-Jones
Son of Happy by Cary Fagan, illustrated by Milan Pavlovic
Once Upon a Unicorn's Horn by Beatrice Blue
Con Quest! by Sam Maggs
Run Salmon Run by Bobs & LoLo, illustrated by Lori Joy Smith
Little Cheetah's Shadow by Marianne Dubuc
Explore Canada by Jocey Asnong
My First 100 Art Words by Chris Ferrie, illustrated by Lindsay Dale-Scott
My First 100 Engineering Words by Chris Ferrie, illustrated by Lindsay Dale-Scott
My First 100 Mathematics Words by Chris Ferrie, illustrated by Lindsay Dale-Scott
My First 100 Science Words by Chris Ferrie, illustrated by Lindsay Dale-Scott
My First 100 Technology Words by Chris Ferrie, illustrated by Lindsay Dale-Scott
I Heart Pluto by Chris Ferrie and Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely, illustrated by Lizzy Doyle
Let's Fly a Plane! by Chris Ferrie
Let's Get Moving! by Chris Ferrie
Let's Make a Rainbow! by Chris Ferrie
Let's Ride a Wave! by Chris Ferrie
Eels by Rachel Poliquin and Nicholas John Frith
Houndsley and Catina at the Library by James Howe, illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay
Mermaids Are Real! by Holly Hatam
The Postman from Space by Guillaume Perrault
Knot Cannot by Tiffany Stone and Mike Lowery
Prairie Fire by E.K. Johnston
Bringing Back the Wolves by Jude Isabella
Wanted: Criminals of the Animal Kingdom by Heather Tekavec
Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd
The Great Grizzlies Go Home by Judy Hilgemann
The Sasquatch, the Fire and the Cedar Baskets by Joseph Dandurand
Alien Nate by Dave Whamond
Canadian Women Now and Then by Elizabeth MacLeod
The Boreal Forest by L. E. Carmichael
Nature All Around: Plants by Pamela Hickman
Consent: Deal with it before boundaries get crossed by Keisha Evans and N.B. Gonsalvez, illustrated by Jenny Chan
The Little Red Shed by Adam and Jennifer Young
Middle Grade
Megabat Is a Fraidybat by Anna Humphrey and Kass Reich
The Gryphon’s Lair by Kelley Armstrong
Louder Than Words by Kathy Kacer
A Beginner's Guide to Goodbye by Melanie Mosher
The Rise and Fall of Derek Cowell by Valerie Sherrard
The Case of the Missing Auntie by Michael Hutchinson
My Name is Konisola by Alisa Siegel
Music for Tigers by Michelle Kadarusman
Young Adult
Crossing the Farak River by Michelle Aung Thin
My Long List of Impossible Things by Michelle Barker
In Good Hands by Stephanie MacKendrick
Lucy Crisp and the Vanishing House by Janet hill
Followers by Raziel Reid
Hunted by the Sky by Tanaz Bhathena
Under the Radar by Judith Clark
Messenger 93 by Barbara Radecki
You Don't Have to Die in the End by Anita Daher
The Automatic Age by GMB Chomichuk
The Secret of White Stone Gate by Julia Nobel
Dark Skies by Danielle L. Jensen
Picture Books
Margot and the Moon Landing by A.C. Fitzpatrick, illustrated by Erika Medina
Running Wild: Awesome Animals in Motion by Galadriel Warson, illustrated by Samantha Dixon
Salma the Syrian Chef by Danny Ramadan, illustrated by Anna Bron
The Truth About Wind by Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert, illustrated by Dusan Petricic
I Got You a Present! by Mike Erskine-Kellie and Susan McLennan
A Stopwatch from Grampa by Loretta Garbutt
Going Up! by Sherry J. Lee
What Grew in Larry’s Garden by Laura Alary
The Book of Selkie: A Paper Doll Book by Briana Corr
Summer Feet by Sheree Fitch
Natsumi’s Song of Summer by Robert Paul Weston and Misa Saburi
If I Couldn’t Be Anne by Kallie George and Genevieve Godbout
When Emily Was Small by Lauren Soloy
Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean’s Biggest Secret by Jess Keating
The Girl with the cat by Beverly Brenna, illustrated by Brooke Kerrigan
David Jumps In by Alan Woo
My Ocean is Blue by Darren Lebeuf
What if Bunny's NOT a Bully? by Lana Button
Window by Marion Arbona
I Want to Be... by Farida Zaman
I Am Violet by Tania Duprey Stehlik and Vanja Vuleta Jovanovic
Nibi is Water by Joanne Robertson
The Train by Jodie Callaghan and Georgia Lesley
Graphic Novels
Familiar Face by Michael DeForge
Wendy, Master of Art by Walter Scott
Photography
The Little Book of Peggy's Cove and the South Shore by Len Wagg
Along the Western Front by Leah Hennel
#DrawtheWord Conflict of Interest Guidelines
While there are no limitations on who can participate in the #DrawtheWord challenge, there are a few conflicts that disqualify an entrant from being considered for the book prize pack and the prize money awarded to the author of the book represented in the entry.
The following conflicts disqualify an entrant and their associated author from contest prize consideration:
a. The entrant, or their spouse, domestic partner, or family member, is the author of the book represented in the challenge.
b. The entrant has a financial or personal connection with: i. The publisher of the book represented in the challenge; ii. A member of Writers’ Trust staff.