The Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book is awarded annually to a Manitoba author whose first professionally published book is deemed the best written. The book must have been published in 2007. The author will be awarded a cash prize of $1,500, donated by Manitoba children’s author Eileen McTavish Sykes through the Winnipeg Foundation. The book may be fiction, non-fiction, children’s literature, young adult, drama or poetry. Academic textbooks and reference books are not eligible. The author may have prior publication credits such as magazines, literary journals, newspapers or chapbooks.

This is a selection of our Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author 2008 Shortlist section. To find a specific book or author, or just to browse, please use the search box.

Framing Identity - trade paperback

By Susan Close - $29.95 - add to cart

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Framing Identity examines how Canadian women used photography as a social practice to establish identity. Specifically, Close studies the photographic practice of four, turn-of-the-twentieth-centur...

 

Infuenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg - trade paperback

By Esyllt W. Jones - $27.95 - add to cart

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The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 killed as many as fifty million people worldwide and affected the vast majority of Canadians. Yet the pandemic, which came and left in one season, never to recur...

 

Wolf Tree - trade paperback

By Alison Calder - $14.95 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba AuthorA first collection of sharp, clever, wicked poems ...