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KOBZAR Book Award 2022 Call for submissions

Feb 10, 2021 | Featured, Arts & Culture

Shevchenko Foundation.

The Shevchenko Foundation is now accepting submissions for the KOBZAR Book Award 2022.

Presented biennially the KOBZAR Book Award recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts by authors who write on a topic with a tangible connection to the Ukrainian Canadian experience. The award includes a $25,000 prize of which $20,000 is awarded to the author and $5,000 to the publisher of the winning title. Genres include literary non-fiction, fiction, poetry, young readers’ literature, play, screenplay and musical. Distinctive to this Award is monetary payment to the winner’s publisher, in addition to the winning author.

Past winners include “Our Familiar Hunger” by Laisha Rosnau (2020), “Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home” edited by Lisa Grekul and Lindy Ledohowski (2018), and “Detachment: An Adoption Memoir” by Maurice Mierau (2016). Please visit the KOBZAR Book Award website (kobzarbookaward.com) for terms, conditions, and guidelines.

Submission deadline is May 31, 2021.

The Shevchenko Foundation launched the KOBZAR Literary Award at Hart House in Toronto on May 14, 2003. The inaugural Award Ceremony was held in March 2006 in Toronto. At the Award Ceremony of March, 2018, the Shevchenko Foundation announced a change in the name of the award to KOBZAR Book Award to better reflect the many different genres of works submitted for award consideration.

The Award fills a very important “niche” in the Canadian and North American book and literary awards scene. It impacts the lives of authors by giving them recognition, and providing resources to enable them to continue their work. It also creates a place for the Ukrainian Canadian experience and its stories.

In a world where we are bombarded with information, sound bites, and uncurated content, the KOBZAR Book Award carves out an avenue to have a record of the stories and history of Ukrainian culture in Canada.

The KOBZAR Book Award is named for the travelling 19th century minstrel wanderers, “Kobzars”, who narrated and sang a repertoire of historic epics, religious and folk songs, and stories of the day to the instrumental accompaniment of a bandura or kobza.

For more information, contact:

Bohdana Bashuk, Executive Director
p. (204) 944-9128
[email protected]

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