Name	Grant MacEwan Literary Awards
Description	Entries are now invited for the Grant MacEwan Author's Award. This award was created by the government of Alberta to honour the life and contributions of the late Dr. Grant MacEwan. Guidelines : http://www.cd.gov.ab.ca/funding_partnerships/awards_scholarships/MacEwan/ YngWriter_ltr.pdf
Deadline	December 29, 2005.
URL	http://www.cd.gov.ab.ca/funding_partnerships/awards_scholarships/index.asp# Grant%20MacEwan
Prize	$25,000
Eligibility	Open to residents of Alberta only

Name	The Kiriyama Prize
Description	The Kiriyama Prize was established in 1996 to recognize outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this vast and culturally diverse region. The Prize consists of a cash award of US $30,000, which is split equally between the fiction and nonfiction winners.
Deadline	October
URL	http://www.kiriyamaprize.org/
Prize	$30,000
Eligibility	Open to any writer

Name	Governor General's Literary Awards
Description	The Governor General's Literary Awards are given annually to the best English-language and the best French-language book in each of the seven categories of Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature (text), Children's Literature (illustration) and Translation (from French to English).
Deadline	- 15 March 2006. - 7 August 2006.
URL	http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla/zu127826964756111003.htm
Prize	＄15,000
Eligibility	Canada

Name	Educator's Award
Description	The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International maintains an Educator's Award Fund for the stimulation of educational research and writing. This award recognizes outstanding women authors whose work may influence the direction of thought and action necessary to meet the needs of today's complex society. The content must be of more than local interest with relationship, direct or implied, to education everywhere.
Deadline	February 1
URL	http://www.deltakappagamma.org/International/whatwedo/educators_award/
Prize	$1,500

Name	Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction
Description	Born April 30, 1945, Annie Dillard is best known for her nature-themed writing. She has explored her past and present dealings with nature through poetry, essays and novels. Often compared to Thoreau and other transcendentalist writers,
Deadline	March 15, 2006
URL	http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~bhreview/anniedillard.htm
Prize	$1,000
Eligibility	Open to any writer

Name	Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor documentary prize
Description	The year 2006 marks the sixteenth anniversary of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor documentary prize, a $20,000 award given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies. First announced a year after the Center's founding at Duke University, the prize was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. In 1941 Lange and Taylor published An American Exodus, a book that renders human experience eloquently in text and images and remains a seminal work in documentary studies. The Lange-Taylor Prize honors their important collaborative work.
Deadline	All required materials must be submitted under one cover during the month of January and postmarked no later than January 31, 2006.
URL	http://cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/index.html
Prize	The amount of the award is $10,000.

Name	Independent Publisher Book Awards
Description	Calling All Independent Authors and Publishers!  The 10th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards, conducted to honor the year's best independently published titles are accepting nominees for books with 2005 copyrights or that were released in 2005. This year we are offering 60 categories and best fiction and non-fiction awards in ten (10) new North American regions. Discounted pricing is available for a limited time. Enter today!  The Independent Publisher Book Awards (The IPPYs) are a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry, and are open to authors and publishers who produce books intended for the North American market.
Deadline	All entries must be postmarked by April 1, 2006.
URL	http://www.independentpublisher.com/ipaward.lasso
Eligibility	Open to any published writer

Name	ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award
Description	ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award was established to bring increased attention from librarians and booksellers to the literary achievements of independent publishers and their authors. A jury of librarians, booksellers and reviewers are selected to judge the categories for entry, and they select winners and finalists based on editorial excellence and professional production as well as the originality of the narrative and the value the book adds to its genre.
Deadline	Entries must be postmarked by January 17, 2006
URL	http://www.writerstrust.com/
Prize	$1,500 cash prize
Eligibility	Open to any writer

Name	The Writers' Trust Awards
Description	Guidelines : http://www.writerstrust.com/pdf/Trust_Guidelines.pdf   The Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize The Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize The Writers' Trust of Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing The Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature The Brownwen Wallace Memorial Award The Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize The Marian Engel Award The Timothy Findley Award The Matt Cohen Award W.O. Mitchell Litera Prize
Deadline	March 31, 2006.
URL	http://www.writerstrust.com/
Eligibility	Open to Canadian residents only

Name	The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Description	This award may recognize work in the fields of history, philosophy, and religion; these fields are conceived in sufficiently broad terms to permit the inclusion of appropriate work in related fields such as anthropology and the social sciences. Biographies of public figures may be eligible if their critical emphasis is primarily on the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
URL	http://www.pbk.org/scholarships/books.htm
Prize	＄2,500
Eligibility	Open only to original works in English, and authors of US residency and publication