As a tribute to the robust scholarship undertaken by its members and to recognize their publication achievements, the Society for Socialist Studies awards an annual book prize for a significant contribution to socialist research in Canada.
We solicit nominations of books that facilitate and encourage research and analysis with an emphasis on socialist, feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial/decolonial, and ecological points of view. The prize is for single or jointly authored original books — excluding edited collections, textbooks, and translations — published in the previous two years and that have not been previously nominated for this award (ie any specific book can be nominated once only, but can be nominated in one of two years).
The prize includes an award of $500 and is presented at the annual meeting of the Society. The winner is invited to present a keynote address at the next Society meeting (ie. in 2027).
Nominations must include: the full publication information including copyright date; confirmation that the nominator has secured permission from the author(s) for the nomination; the E-mail addresses of the author(s) and publishers. Nominators and authors must ensure that the publishers send one copy of the book to each of the 8 members of the Book Prize committee by the deadline of December 5, 2025. (If a publisher is not prepared to provide such books, these could come from its allotment of copies to an author and will be returned to the author by the jury). For the 2026 award, a book must have a copyright date of 2024 or 2025 and cannot have been previously nominated for this award.
Nominations should be sent to the chair of the Book Prize committee: Phil Henderson (phil.henderson@utoronto.ca), who will provide publishers with the contact information for all committee members.
* The deadline for submission of books is December 5, 2025. Books published between December 7th and December 31st are eligible, provided that members of the jury are informed of the date of mailing.