Kobzar Literary Award

KOBZAR Book Award is a biennial literary award that "recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts by authors who develop a Ukrainian Canadian theme with literary merit". The prize is . It is awarded in one of several genres: literary non-fiction, fiction, poetry, young readers' literature, plays, screenplays and musicals. The award was established in 2003 by the Shevchenko Foundation and the inaugural ceremony was held in 2006.

In 2020, the Shevchenko Foundation also launched a Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition, setting the groundwork for new writers to explore the short prose form with unpublished entries, and to one day aspire to submit an entry to the main KOBZAR Book Award.

Winners KOBZAR Book Award 2006: Danny Schur, Strike: The Musical (co-winner) 2006: Laura Langston, Lesia's Dream (co-winner) 2008: Janice Kulyk Keefer, The Ladies' Lending Library 2010: Randall Maggs, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems 2012: Shandi Mitchell, Under This Unbroken Sky 2014: Diane Flacks, playwright, in collaboration with Andrey Tarasiuk and Luba Goy for the play Luba, Simply Luba 2016: Maurice Mierau, Detachment: An Adoption Memoir. 2018: Lisa Grekul and Lindy Ledohowski (Editors), Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home. 2020: Laisha Rosnau, Our Familiar Hunger 2022: Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear

Shevchenko Foundation Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition 2020: Tanya Berezuk, "Grafting" 2021: Adrian Lysenko, "Carpathian Spruce" 2022: Matthew Kruchak, “Business Men’s Lunch” 2023: Melissa Morelli Lacroix, Ivan and Irene 2024: Camille Pavlenko, The Cure for Breathlessness

Kobzar Literary Award

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