Carleigh Baker knows this better than most. As a celebrated BC author and two-time BC and Yukon Book Prize finalist — for Bad Endings and Last Woman — she’s experienced firsthand what it means to have your work seen, celebrated, and championed by the people around you.
That recognition changes things. It keeps writers writing. It keeps stories alive.
But for students in rural and remote communities across BC and Yukon, that world can feel very far away. Many of them have never met an author. Never heard someone say I grew up somewhere like this, and I wrote this for you.
That’s what we’re here to change.
In 2025, your support brought authors like Carleigh into classrooms from the Lower Mainland to the Peace Region. In 2026, we want to reach further — 80 classrooms, 12 authors, and a new generation of readers who know their stories matter.
Stories don’t survive on their own. They need communities willing to fight for them — to say that a child in the Kootenays deserves the same access to living, breathing authors as anyone else. That a debut writer in BC deserves to know people believe in their work.
You are that community.