Geoffrey Bilson Award

The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year. The award is named after Geoffrey Bilson, a writer of historical fiction for youth and a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan who died suddenly in 1987. Each year's winner receives $1000.

Winners

• 1988 – Carol Matas, Lisa
• 1989 – Martyn Godfrey, Mystery in the Frozen Lands and Dorothy Perkyns, Rachel’s Revolution
• 1990 – Kit Pearson, The Sky is Falling
• 1991 – Marianne Brandis, The Sign of the Scales
• 1992 – No award
• 1993 – Celia Barker Lottridge, Ticket to Curlew
• 1994 – Kit Pearson, The Lights Go On Again
• 1995 – Joan Clark, The Dream Carvers
• 1996 – Marianne Brandis, Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada
• 1997 – Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale
• 1998 – Irene N. Watts, Good-Bye Marianne
• 1999 – Iain Lawrence, The Wreckers
• 2000 – deferred to next year
• 2001 – Sharon McKay, Charlie Wilcox
• 2002 – Virginia Frances Schwartz, If I Just Had Two Wings
• 2003 – Joan Clark, The Word for Home