This prestigious Award is the province’s leading award for literature. The quality of Ontario authors and writing speaks for itself with the international acclaim achieved by past Trillium winners including Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Timothy Findley and Anne Michaels.

Submissions for the Trillium Book Award for eligible titles published in 2024 (and 2023 titles for the Trillium Book Award for Children’s Literature in French language only) are now being accepted by Ontario Creates.

Deadline: January 31, 2025 – for titles published in November and December 2024

Publishers should note that:

• one (1) eBook of each title in EPUB or PDF format must be uploaded to Ontario Creates’ online submission form
• two (2) paper copies of each title must be submitted along with a hard copy completed submission form
• publishers are responsible for ensuring that the author(s) of titles being submitted meet the residence eligibility criteria as outlined in the guidelines.

The Trillium Award is open to books in any genre: fiction, non-fiction, drama, children’s books and poetry. Anthologies and translations are not eligible. A jury of writers and figures from the literary community judges all submissions and selects the winning titles.