Longlist & Shortlist | Finalists & Winners
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Longlist for 2026 Writing for Children Competition Shortlist will be announced in September Written evaluations for the entries will be sent in November August 20: CANSCAIP is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2026 Writing for Children Competition. More than 600 entries were submitted, with Picture Books representing about 80% of the total. A unique benefit of entering is that every entry receives a written evaluation. Entries are evaluated anonymously, so the Competition readers don't know the names of the writers. PICTURE BOOK LONGLIST The Perfect Nest: How Birds Around the World Keep Their Eggs Safe and Warm – Danielle Anderson My Moving Picture Garden – Hali Belanger Good Morning/Good Night – Andrea Bishop A Boy Went in Search of a Bear – Ann Meredith Brown Adventures of the Missing Sock – Laurie Crookell What to Expect When You're Expecting...an Ogre?! – Lyndsey Dangerfield Spring Was Here – Maliya Dansereau Libby, the Library Bat – Elena Dee Where I Bloom – Sophie Delage A Special String – Deborah Dinshaw Eliot's Distraction Dilemma – Carla Epp A Mongoose Is Not a Bird – Carla Epp Just Like That – Kinga Molina Fuentes Under the Green Sky – Mona Ghali The Giraffe Tree – Chris Holdaway Grandmother Moon – Sue Kelly & Jack Payette Aani Finds Her Words – Prabhjot Kaur A Bag Full of Songs – Prabhjot Kaur Letters Are Like Cats – Lukasz Kornas Wiggles – Lukasz Kornas Meeting Joey – Mandy Lam Dotty Wants Stripes – Mandy Lam The Floating Giant – Mandy Lam It Smells! – Jing Lang The Centipede Sisters – Erin Lee I Love You More Than Chocolate – Carol Macpherson The French Pastry Garden – Lison McCullough Carol and the Backpack of Feelings – Kyla McGrath Summer's Last Stand – Sonia Mendes Pastel Ghost – Kendall Moisey How the Trout Got Its Fur – Jane Mullis Sweet Dreams Jungle Friends – Alison Murray Birdie's Nest – Martha Nicol Colour Convoy! – Sheryl Niebergall Celebrations – Sylvia Olson Directions: A Teaching Story from Turtle Island – John Payette Karavaki – Konstantina Pirkas My Loud Brave Voice – Konstantina Pirkas Saffron's Spectacular Sneezes – Lizabeth Pirstl Precious Puddle – Laura Polasek From the Gecko – Rylie Prentice The Cork – Michale Raske This Book is Not Ready...Yet! – Tanya Reid Franken-Treats – Monica Sanchez Kittens Everywhere! – Andrea Schutz Shhh! Garden Helpers Sleeping! – Susan Sheard Where the Ocean Meets the Forest – Annely So My Sister’s Coat – Annely So Grandma’s Invisible Dog – Joanna Stonechapel The Tiger Who Tapped the World – Anastasia Subryan-Powell Grandpa's Garage – Savannah Tries Ready for Tiramisu – Diana Vumbaca The Blade Crusade – Kathryn Weihrer It's Just a Big Word...Perseverance – Charmaine Wright Just Like Glue – Natasha Zarin MIDDLE GRADE LONGLIST The Witch of Muskeg Bog – Shauna Forsberg Izzy's World – Arielle Goldman Nightmare – Kellyanne Hart Ethan and Gramps – Terry McDonald The AP Science Guide to Pulling Off an Octopus Heist – Camille Pavlenko Once Upon a Glitch – Allie Smith Zap: Video Game Hacker – Alyx Steel Carry the Mountain – Jennifer Szende Ari's Secret – Sally Wylie YOUNG ADULT LONGLIST Mark of Peril – Tawnia Courage Views to Die for – Yvonne Denomy Finding Alice – Simone Garneau Echoes – Jessica Litwin Like Sisters – Michela Myles The Falcon's Call – Matt Stephens These CANSCAIP Members are volunteer readers for the Competition entries: Jen Lynn Bailey, Saumiya Balasubramaniam, Lea Beddia, Laura Bontje, Louise Bradford, Lana Button, Nancy Cohen, Tziporah Cohen, Peggy Collins, Marcus Cutler, Natali de Mello, Jillian Dobson, MaryLou Driedger, Nan Forler, Loretta Garbutt, Joyce Grant, Kathryn Harper, Jennifer Harris, Theo Heras, Naseem Hrab, Kate Jenks, Etta Kaner, Tanya Kyi, Lynn Leitch, Marla Lesage, Amanda Lewis, Sidura Ludwig, Cynthia Mackey, Jean Mills, Jennifer Mook-Sang, Corinne Mordaunt, Monica Nawrocki, Danny Neville, Lara Okihiro, Kenneth Oppel, Karen Rankin, Gillian Richardson, Judy-Ann Sadler, Valerie Sherrard, Karen Spafford-Fitz, Kerry Sparrow, Michael Stewart, Wanda Taylor, Pauline Thompson, Teresa Toten, Chieri Uegaki, Nadia Umadat, Rebecca Upjohn, Treslyn Vassel, Kira Vermond, Jane Baird-Warren, Christine Welldon, Amberlea Williams, Tamla Young and Danielle Younge-Ullman. In addition, Tracey Brown, Yewande Daniel-Ayoade and Jean E Pendziwol manage the Competition’s logistics. |
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