KOBZAR Book Award is a biennial literary award that "recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts by authors who develop a Ukrainian Canadian theme with literary merit".[1] The prize is CA$25,000.[1] It is awarded in one of several genres: literary non-fiction, fiction, poetry, young readers' literature, plays, screenplays and musicals.[1] The award was established in 2003 by the Shevchenko Foundation and the inaugural ceremony was held in 2006.[1]
In 2020, the Shevchenko Foundation also launched a CA$1,500 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition, setting the groundwork for new writers to explore the short prose form with unpublished entries, and to one day aspire to submit an entry to the main KOBZAR Book Award.[2]