Photo Gallery: Celebrating the winners and finalists of the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes at the 38th annual Gala
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Dr. Heather Commodore
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Carrie Jenkins, author of Victoria Sees it (finalist for the 2022 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize).
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shauna paull, author of blue gait (finalist for the 2022 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize); Mona Fertig, publisher of Mother Tongue Publishing; Joseph Planta, editor and host of The Commentary; and Richard Mackie of BC Review.
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Cedar Bowers, author of Astra (finalist for the 2022 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize); Danielle Geller, author of Dog Flowers (finalist for the 2022 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the 2022 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); and Isabella Wang, author of Pebble Swing (finalist for the 2022 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize).
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Joanne Sasvari, co-author of Island Eats: Signature Chefs' Recipes from Vancouver Island and the Salish Sea (finalist for the 2022 Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award); Darrel J. McLeod, author of Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity (finalist for the 2022 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the 2022 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); Iona Whishaw, author of Lethal Lesson (finalist for the 2022 Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award); Chris Labonte, publisher at Figure 1 Publishing (finalist for the 2022 Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award); and Heidi Waechtler, director of sales & distribution at Figure 1 Publishing.
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Tanya Christenson, author of A Soft Place to Fall (finalist for the 2022 Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize).
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Barry Gough, author of Possessing Meares Island: A Historian’s Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound (finalist for the 2022 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize).
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Shane Goth, author of The Midnight Club (finalist for the 2022 Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize); and Tori Elliott, acting publisher at TouchWood Edition (finalist for the 2022 Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award).
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Angela Ahn, author of Peter Lee's Notes from the Field (finalist for the 2022 Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize).
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jaye simpson, author of it was never going to be okay; Jillian Christmas, Gala MC and author of The Gospel of Breaking; and Harsha Walia, author of Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (winner of the 2022 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes).
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Barbara Nickel, author of Dear Peter, Dear Ulla (finalist for the 2022 Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize); and Nicola I. Campbell, author of Spíləx̣m: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence (finalist for the 2022 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes).
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Audrey Thomas, author of Intertidal Life and winner of the 2022 Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence; and Rob Bittner, BC and Yukon Book Prizes board president.
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Darrel J. McLeod, author of Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity (finalist for the 2022 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the 2022 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); Danielle Geller, author of Dog Flowers (finalist for the 2022 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the 2022 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); Harsha Walia, author of Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (winner of the 2022 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); Catherine Nolin, co-editor of Testmonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala (finalist for the 2022 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); Sirish Rao, BC and Yukon Book Prizes board member; and Jillian Christmas, Gala MC and author of The Gospel of Breaking.
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Henry Doyle, author of No Shelter (finalist for the 2022 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize).
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Suzanne Simard, author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (winner of the 2022 Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award).
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Megan Ferguson, Harbour Publishing, accepting the 2022 Roderick Haig-Brown on behalf of Dr. Luschiim Arvid Charlie and Nancy J. Turner for Luschiim's Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines. Harbour Publishing was also a finalist for the 2022 Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award for A is for Anemone by Roy Henry Vickers and Lucky Budd.
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BC and Yukon Book Prizes Board (Sirish Rao, Kathie Shoemaker, Michael Murphy, Susan Safyan, board president Rob Bittner, Michelle Chang, and Alan Woo), and BC and Yukon Book Prizes executive director Sharon Bradley.
