The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, also known as the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour or just the Leacock Medal, is an annual Canadian literary award presented for the best book of humour written in English by a Canadian writer, published or self-published in the previous year. The silver medal, designed by sculptor Emanuel Hahn, is a tribute to well-known Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) and is accompanied by a cash prize of $25,000 (CAD). It is presented in the late spring or early summer each year, during a banquet ceremony in or near Leacock’s hometown of Orillia, Ontario.
Paul Lewis Quarrington was a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator.
William Stener Ferguson is a Canadian travel writer and novelist who won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel 419.
Antanas Sileika is a Canadian-Lithuanian novelist and critic.
Trevor Cole is a Canadian novelist and journalist. He has published five novels; the first two, Norman Bray in the Performance of his Life (2004) and The Fearsome Particles (2006), were nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
Rawi Hage is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist, novelist, and photographer based in Canada.
Brian Francis is a Canadian writer best known for his 2004 debut novel Fruit.
Freehand Books is a Canadian literary imprint started in 2007 by Broadview Press, a Canadian academic publisher. Freehand publishes literary fiction, literary non-fiction, memoir and poetry.
Ian Williams is a Canadian poet and fiction writer. His collection of short stories, Not Anyone's Anything, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and his debut novel, Reproduction, was awarded the 2019 Giller Prize. His work has ben shortlisted for various awards, as well.
Uzma Jalaluddin is a Canadian writer and teacher, known for her 2018 debut novel Ayesha At Last.
Ali Bryan is a Canadian novelist, and personal trainer. Her second novel, "The Figgs", was shortlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.
Jas M. Morgan is an Indigenous Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers in 2019.
Cathal Kelly is a Canadian novelist and sports columnist for The Globe and Mail. He won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2019 for his childhood memoir Boy Wonders.
Split Tooth is a 2018 novel by Canadian musician Tanya Tagaq. Based in part on her own personal journals, the book tells the story of a young Inuk woman growing up in the Canadian Arctic in the 1970s.
Joelle Barron is a Canadian poet and activist, whose debut poetry collection Ritual Lights was published in 2018. The book was a longlisted nominee for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2019, and Barron was a shortlisted finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada's 2019 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers.
Chelene Knight is a Canadian writer and poet.
Indians on Vacation is a novel by Canadian writer Thomas King, published in 2020 by HarperCollins. The novel focuses on Bird and Mimi, a First Nations couple who are travelling in Europe following the discovery of a trove of old postcards from Mimi's late uncle Leroy, who absconded with a valuable family heirloom 100 years earlier but never returned.
Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine is an autobiographical book by Canadian doctor James Maskalyk about his work and reflections on working in emergency departments in St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, and Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as well as work in Cambodia and Bolivia.
Dimitri Nasrallah is a Lebanese Canadian writer and academic. He is most noted for his 2022 novel Hotline, which was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize.
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me is a 2019 memoir by journalist Anna Mehler Paperny about her experience of major depressive disorder and suicidal ideation. It was nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2019.
