Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Doubleday Canada)Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Doubleday Canada)

  • A photograph of the poet, a man with his chin in his hand and looking toward the right of the frame, against a periwinkle-blue background. Recess - Beyond hopscotch chalked-out boxes, / gravel started, then a diamond by David O'Meara

Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Doubleday Canada)Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Doubleday Canada)

Amazon Canada and The Walrus are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award is Alicia Elliott for And Then She Fell.

Learn more about the winning novel and the entire shortlist.


  • First Novel category The Return Home - This year’s nominees for Amazon Canada’s First Novel Award explore what it means to lose one’s home and find it again by The Walrus Lab
  • A Strong Narrative - How stories—even the tiniest ones—allow the nominees for this year’s Amazon Canada Youth Short Story Award to brave all of life’s plot twists by The Walrus Lab
  • Unlocking Human Potential - Discover the revolutionary impact of brain-computer interfaces and uncover benefits, challenges, and ethical considerations shaping the future of human-computer interaction by The Walrus Lab

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