The Saskatchewan Book Award for First Book is presented to a Saskatchewan author (or authors) for the best first book based on the quality of writing. Genres include children's, drama, fiction, poetry, and some non-fiction.

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2010

• Amy Jo Ehman – Prairie Feast

Also shortlisted:

• Chris Clinton – Next Year Perhaps
• Dianne Greenlay – Quintspinner
• Phyllis Nakonechny – Vidh
• Bernadette Wagner – this hot place

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2009

• George Epp – Off Road

Also shortlisted:

• Jo-Ann Episkenew – Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing
• K. E. Olsen – Osemo the Rainbow Zebra

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2008

• Pam Bustin – Mostly Happy

Also shortlisted:

• Kelly Fournel – Great Women from our First Nations
• Teri Hofford – A Good Day for Seeding (Illustrated by Stephanie Besselt-O'Leary)
• Lori Kohlman – Her Father's Will
• David McLennan – Our Towns: Saskatchewan Communities from Abbey to Zenon Park
• Jeanne Pelletier – The Story of the Rabbit Dance (Illustrated by J.D. Panas)
• Carey Rigby-Wilcox – My Mummy Couldn't Read
• Maureen Ulrich – Power Plays

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2007

• Alice Kuipers – Life on the Refrigerator Door

Also shortlisted:

• Shirley Harris – Forgotten Gardens, Abandoned Landscapes & Remarkable Restorations
• Mary-Ann Kirkby – I Am Hutterite
• Barb Pacholik and Jana G. Pruden – Sour Milk and Other Saskatchewan Crime Stories
• Anne Patton and Wilfred Burton – Fiddle Dancer (Michif translation by Norman Fleury; illustrated by Sherry Farrell Racette)
• Joanne Weber – The Pear Orchard

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2006

• Annette Lapointe – Stolen

Also shortlisted:

• Doris Bircham – Where Blue Grama Grows
• Leeann Minogue – Dry Streak
• Jennifer Still – Saltations
• Daniel Scott Tysdal – Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method
• Jim Warren and Kathleen Carlisle – On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan

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2005

• Eric Greenway – The Darkness Beneath All Things

Also shortlisted:

• Joe Campbell – Take Me Out of the Ball Game
• John Chaput – Saskatchewan Sports Legends
• Doug Cuthand – Tapwe: Selected Columns of Doug Cuthand
• Tracy Hamon – This is Not Eden
• Rob Harasymchuk – The Joining of Dingo Radish
• Bonnie J. Lawrence and Anna L. Leighton – Prairie Phoenix (Lilium philadelphicum): The Red Lily in Saskatchewan

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2004

• Bonnie Dunlop – The Beauty Box

Also shortlisted:

• Holly Luhning – Sway
• Ruth Wright Millar – Saskatchewan Heroes and Rogues
• David M. Quiring – CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan
• Michael Snook – Fishing Saskatchewan

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2003

• Michael Hetherton – Grasslands

Also shortlisted:

• Rita Ryland-Savidan & Darlene Polachic – Our Candle in the Dark
• Marie-Louise Ternier-Gommers – Finding the Treasure Within

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2002

• Sheri Benning – Earth After Rain

Also shortlisted:

• Ron Evans – Coming Home: Saskatchewan Remembered
• Frances Greenslade – A Pilgrim in Ireland
• Norman Henderson – Rediscovering the Great Plains
• Harold Johnson – Billy Tinker

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2001

• Katherine Lawrence – Ring Finger, Left Hand

Also shortlisted:

• Warren Goulding – Just Another Indian
• Gerry Jones – SaskScandal
• Al Scholz – Don't Turn Out the Lights

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2000

• Tom Molloy – The World Is Our Witness

Also shortlisted:

• Gordon L. Barnhart – Peace, Progress and Prosperity
• David Edney – The Three Figaro Plays
• Patricia Elliott – The White Umbrella
• Jennifer Wynne Webber – Defying Gravity
• Maury Wrubleski – Controlled Burn

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1999

• Martha Blum – The Walnut Tree

Also shortlisted:

• Brenda Baker – The Maleness of God
• Warren Cariou – The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs
• Treena Kortje – Variations of Eve

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1998

• Harriet Richards – The Lavender Child

Also shortlisted:

• Bill Barry – People/Places: Saskatchewan and its Names
• Ross Gordon Green – Justice in Aboriginal Communities
• Mary-Kate MacDonald – Carving my Name
• Helen Mourre – Landlocked
• Vicki Summerfeldt – Women Who Dream Tigers

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1997

• Joanne Gerber – In the Misleading Absence of Light

Also shortlisted:

• Anne M. Dooley – Plane Death
• Minh Thanh Nguyen – Leaving Vietnam
• Edward Willett – Soulworm

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1996

• Dave Little – Catching the Wind in a Net: The Religious Vision of Robertson Davies

Also shortlisted:

• Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen – Clay Birds
• Sylvia Legris – Circuitry of Veins
• Allison Muri – The Hystery of the Broken Fether

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1995

• Kate Sutherland – Summer Reading

Also shortlisted:

• Betty Fitzpatrick Dorion – Melanie Bluelake's Dream
• Sherry Johnson – Pale Grace
• Connie Sampson – Buried in the Silence
• Eugene Stickland – Some Assembly Required

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1994

• Terry Jordan – It's A Hard Cow

Also shortlisted:

• Louise Bernice Halfe – Bear Bones & Feathers