| Angie Abdou | The Bone Cage | NeWest Press |
| Kimmy Beach | In Cars | Turnstone Press |
| Mary Borsky | Cobalt Blue | Thomas Allen Publishers |
| Wendy Brandts | Collective Iron Works | Rideau Review Press |
| Kit Brennan | The Invisibility of Eileen | Playwrights Canada |
| Veryl Cognill | Make Me | Thistledown Press |
| Paulette Dubé | First Mountain | Thistledown Press |
| Bernice Friesen | The Book of Beasts | Coteau Books |
| Shree Ghatage | Il destino è sveglio mentre il mondo dorme | Il Punto d’Incontro |
| Lorri Neilsen Glenn | Combustion | Brick Books |
| Saved String | Rubicon Press | |
| Susan Andrews Grace | Love and Tribal Basketball | BuschekBooks |
| Louise Halfe | The Crooked Good | Coteau Books |
| Maureen Harris | The Raven and the Writing Desk | Jack Pine Press |
| Pat Krause | Acts of Love: A Memoir | Coteau Books |
| Alison Lohans | This Land We Call Home (Nitty Gritty Novel series) | Pearson Education |
| Jeanette Lynes | The Crisp Day Closing on my Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Ghost Works: Improvisations in Letters and Poems | Jack Pine Press | |
| Neil McArthur | David Hume’s Political Theory: Law, Commerce and the Constitution of Government | University of Toronto Press |
| Susan McMaster | The Gargoyle’s Left Ear: Writing in Ottawa | Black Moss Press |
| Allison Muri | The Enlightenment Cyborg: A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660-1830 | University of Toronto Press |
| Curtis Parkinson | Death in Kingsport | Tundra Books |
| Ruth Roach Pierson | Aide-Mémoire | BuschekBooks |
| Sheila Peters | The Weather from the West | Creekstone Press |
| Marion Quednau | The Gift of Oden | Annick Press |
| Kelly-Anne Riess | Saskatchewan Book of Everything | MacIntyrePurcell |
| Kate Sutherland | All in Together Girls | Thistledown Press |
| Richard Van Camp | Welcome Song for Baby | Orca Books |