Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Since 2015 online retailer Rakuten has awarded Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes for three different genres.
Awardees receive a $10,000 prize, and are provided with support in marketing their books.
Prizes are awarded to an author for literary fiction, for non-fiction, and for genre fiction. Each year a different genre is honoured.
| author | title | genre | notes |
| Claire Battershill | Circus | Literary Fiction |
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| Sam Wiebe | ' | Mystery | |
| Robyn Doolittle | ' | Non-Fiction |
| author | title | genre | notes |
| Irina Kovalyova | Specimen | Literary Fiction | based on her work as a professor of biochemistry |
| Nicola R. White | Fury’s Kiss | Romance | |
| Wab Kinew | The Reason You Walk | Non-Fiction |
| author | title | genre | notes |
| Lynne Kutsukake | The Translation of Love | Literary Fiction | |
| Dee Willson | A Keeper's Truth | Speculative Fiction | |
| Teva Harrison | In-Between Days | Non-Fiction |
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| author | title | genre | notes |
| Omar el Akkad | American War | Literary Fiction | |
| Sheena Kamal | The lost ones | Mystery | |
| Maria Qamar | Trust no aunty | Non-fiction |
| author | title | genre | notes |
| Nora Decter | How Far We Go and How Fast | fiction | |
| Julie Evelyn Joyce | Steeped in Love | romance | |
| Kate Harris | Lands of Lost Borders | nonfiction |