Also shortlisted:

• Sara Tilley – Skin Room
• Marie Wadden – Where the Pavement Ends: Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation

Also shortlisted:

• Elizabeth Brewster – Footnotes To The Book Of Job
• Anne Szumigalski & Marie Elyse St. George – Voice

Also shortlisted:

• John Livingstone Clark – Prayers and Other Unfinished Letters
• John V. Hicks – Overheard by Conifers

Also shortlisted:

• William Robertson – Somewhere Else
• Allan Safarik – All Night Highway

Also shortlisted:

• Elizabeth Brewster – Garden of Sculpture
• Susan Andrews Grace – Ferry Woman's History of the World
• Louise Bernice Halfe – Blue Marrow
• Don Kerr – Autodidactic
• Glen Sorestad – Icons of Flesh

Also shortlisted:

• John Livingstone Clark – Stream Under Flight
• Barbara Klar – The Blue Field
• Tim Lilburn – To the River
• Paul Wilson – The Long Landscape

Also shortlisted:

• Allan Safarik – How I Know the Sky Is a River
• Steven Ross Smith – The Book of Emmett
• Maury Wrubleski – Controlled Burn

Also shortlisted:

• Gerald Hill – The Man from Saskatchewan
• Shelley A. Leedahl – Talking Down the Northern Lights
• Dave Margoshes – Purity of Absence
• Glen Sorestad – Leaving Holds Me Here

Also shortlisted:

• Brenda Schmidt – A Haunting Sun

Also shortlisted:

• Hilary Clark – The Dwelling of Weather
• John Livingstone Clark – Body and Soul
• Tim Lilburn – Kill-site
• Lynda Monahan – What My Body Knows
• Allan Safarik – Bird Writer's Handbook

Also shortlisted:

• Laura Burkhart – Venus Rising
• Jeanne-Marie de Moissac – Slow Curve
• Garry Radison – Under a Small Moon
• Dolores Reimer – Stone Baby
• Allan Safarik – Blood of Angels