Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People

The Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, colloquially called the Vicky, is given annually at the Writers' Trust Awards to a writer or illustrator whose body of work has been "inspirational to Canadian youth". It is a top honour for Template:C and Template:C.

Vicky Metcalf, a Canadian librarian,<ref name=":3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> established the award "in 1963 to stimulate the writing of literature for Canadian children."<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Before 2013, the prize was known as the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature. The award is sponsored by the Metcalf Foundation,<ref name=":2" /> whose objective "is to enhance the effectiveness of people and organizations working together to help Canadians imagine and build a just, healthy and creative society."<ref name=":1" /> In 2002, the award was taken over by the Writers' Trust of Canada from the Canadian Authors Association.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

To be eligible for the award, recipients must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents, have published a minimum of four English-language children's book, and have published at least one first-edition book in the previous three years.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> Winners are selected by a three-person jury<ref name=":2" /> and receive $25,000 CAD.<ref name=":1" />

Winners

21st Century

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2011	Template:Sortname	The Winter Pony Gemini Summer The Convicts The Smugglers The Wreckers	<ref name=":4" />
2012	Template:Sortname	Money Boy Dead Man’s Gold and Other Stories Ghost Train Tales from Gold Mountain Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter!	<ref name=":4" />
2013	Template:Sortname	The Night Before Christmas Picture a Tree Perfect Snow The Party Sing a Song of Mother Goose	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2014	Template:Sortname	The Show to End All Shows Mr. Zinger’s Hat Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas Thing-Thing The Market Wedding	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2015	Template:Sortname	Kyle Goes Alone This is My Planet I Found a Dead Bird The Rumor The Wildlife 123	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2016	Template:Sortname	Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend Tilt Dear Sylvia After Sylvia The Secret Life of Owen Skye	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2017	Template:Sortname	Dear Canada: These Are My Words Dog Tracks Little Voice Silent Words Honour the Sun	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2018	Template:Sortname	The Journey of Little Charlie The Madman of Piney Woods Elijah of Buxton Bud, Not Buddy The Watsons Go to Birmingham	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2019	Template:Sortname	No Fixed Address Optimists Die First We Are All Made of Molecules Word Nerd	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020	Template:Sortname	The Lion and the Bird The Bus Ride Up the Mountain Path Otto and Pio Little Cheetah's Shadow	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2021	Template:Sortname	Stanley's Party Toads on Toasy The Tiny Hero of Ferny Creek Library Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein Princesses Versus Dinosaurs	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	Template:Sortname	Le Grand Antonio (2014) / The Great Antonio (2017)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023	Template:Sortname	Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli Operatic It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way	<ref>Nicole Thompson, "Kai Thomas wins Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for debut novel". Toronto Star, November 21, 2023.</ref>
2024	Template:Sortname		<ref>"Sheung-King, Martha Baillie among Writers' Trust literary prize winners". CBC Books, November 19, 2017.</ref>
2025	Template:Sortname		<ref>Cassandra Drudi, "Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Maria Reva, Roza Nozari among Writers’ Trust award winners". Quill & Quire, November 13, 2025.</ref>

External links

• CAA VM award page Template:Webarchive
• Writers' Trust of Canada