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, Rajha Ghazi Al-Hashmi, board president Rob Bittner, Michelle Chang, and Alan Woo), and BC and Yukon Book Prizes executive director Sharon Bradley.
