The Kobo Emerging Writer Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented since 2015 by online e-book and audiobook retailer and eReader manufacturer Rakuten Kobo.
Awardees receive a $10,000 prize, and are provided with support in marketing their books. Three prizes are awarded each year to debut books published in the prior calendar year in literary fiction, non-fiction, and one of 3 genre fiction categories. Each year a different genre is honoured in the genre fiction category, rotating between mystery, romance, and speculative fiction. Since 2023, the genre fiction category has been open to books published since the prize last accepted submissions in that genre.
| Year | Author | Title | Genre | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Circus | Literary fiction | ||
| Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noir | Mystery | |||
| Nonfiction | ||||
| 2016 | Specimen | Literary fiction | ||
| Fury’s Kiss | Romance | |||
| The Reason You Walk | Nonfiction | |||
| 2017 | The Translation of Love | Literary fiction | ||
| A Keeper's Truth | Speculative fiction | |||
| In-Between Days | Nonfiction | |||
| 2018 | American War | Literary fiction | ||
| The Lost Ones | Mystery | |||
| Trust No Aunty | Nonfiction | |||
| 2019 | How Far We Go and How Fast | Fiction | ||
| Steeped in Love | Romance | |||
| Lands of Lost Borders | Nonfiction | |||
| 2020 | Frying Plantain | Fiction | ||
| Different Beasts | Speculative fiction | |||
| From the Ashes | Nonfiction | |||
| 2021 | Five Little Indians | Fiction | ||
| The Woman in the Attic | Mystery | |||
| They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life and Growing Up | Nonfiction | |||
| 2022 | Ghost Forest | Fiction | ||
| New Girl in Little Cove | Romance | |||
| Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance | Nonfiction | |||
| 2023 | Tear | Fiction | ||
| The Petting Zoos | Speculative Fiction | |||
| Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery | Nonfiction | |||
| 2024 | Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday | Fiction | ||
| The Mythmakers | Mystery | |||
| Quantum Physics Made Me Do It: A Simple Guide to the Fundamental Nature of Everything | Nonfiction |