in 2012 with Thorazine Beach, while Shannon Mullally was co-winner with Meghan Austin in 2004 for Love Block and won as a solo writer in 2017 for The Second Detective. One winning novel, Marc Diamond's Momentum, was also a shortlisted finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Winners 1979 – Tom Walmsley, Dr. Tin () 1981 – Ray Serwylo, Accordion Lessons () 1982 – bpNichol, Still () 1983 – Jeff Doran, This Guest of Summer () 1984 – Jim Curry, Nothing So Natural () 1985 – Marc Diamond, Momentum () 1986 – Candas Jane Dorsey and Nora Abercrombie, Hardwired Angel () 1987 – James Dunn, Starting Small () 1988 – Pat Dobie, Pawn to Queen () 1989 – Stephen E. Miller, Wastefall () 1990 – Bill Dodds, O Father () 1992 – Hayden Trenholm, Circle of Birds () 1993 – Steve Lundin and Mitch Parry, Stolen Voices/Vacant Rooms () 1995 – Loree Harrell, Body Speaking Words () 1996 – Todd Klinck, Tacones () 1997 – P. G. Tarr, The Underwood () 1998 – Bradley Harris, Ruby Ruby () 1999 – Bonnie Bowman, Skin () 2000 – Chris Millis, Small Apartments () 2001 – David Zimmerman, Socket () 2002 – Geoffrey Bromhead, Struck () 2004 – Meghan Austin and Shannon Mullally, Love Block () 2005 – Jan Underwood, Day Shift Werewolf () 2006 – Brendan McLeod, The Convictions of Leonard McKinley () 2007 – John Kupferschmidt, In the Garden of Men () 2008 – Jason Rapczynski, The Videographer () 2009 – Mark Sedore, Snowmen () 2010 – Jennifer K. Chung, Terroryaki! ( / ebook ) 2011 – Kayt Burgess, Heidegger Stairwell ( / ebook ) 2012 – Bradley Harris, Thorazine Beach () 2013 – Rachel Slansky, Moss-Haired Girl () 2014 – Craig Savel, Traversing Leonard’s Bubbles () 2015 – Doug Diaczuk, Chalk () 2016 – Mark Wagstaff, Attack of the Lonely Hearts () 2017 – Shannon Mullally, The Second Detective () 2018 – Daniel Sanders, The Loop () 2019 – Doug Diaczuk, Just Like a Real Person () 2020 – Emma Côté, Unrest See also Lune Spark Young Writers' Short Story Contest National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students National Novel Writing Month PBS Kids Writers Contest References External links Three-Day Novel Contest Awards established in 1979 1979 establishments in British Columbia Canadian fiction awards Literary awards honoring unpublished books or writers