An Evening with Marion McKinnon Crook and Scott Alexander Howard, finalists for the 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prizes

Join the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and Windowseat Books on Thursday, June 12th at 6pm for an in-person evening with the finalists of the 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prizes.

Marion McKinnon Crook (author of Always on Call: Adventures in Nursing, Ranching, and Rural Living) and Scott Alexander Howard (author of The Other Valley) will be reading from their shortlisted books. They will also answer audience questions,

Windowseat Books is located at 6-321 Wesley Street, Nanaimo, BC

Funding for the this event is thanks to Heritage Canada, Creative BC, the Government of BC, Access Copyright and the Canada Council for the Arts. The BC and Yukon Book Prizes is also grateful for the support of community partners like Windowseat Books.

About the authors:

Marion McKinnon Crook is a nurse, an educator, and the author of more than twenty-five books, including the bestselling Always Pack a Candle, which won the BC Historical Federation’s Community History Book Award. In addition to her nursing degree, McKinnon Crook holds a master’s in liberal studies and a PhD in education. Now a full-time writer, she also writes the British Book Tour mystery series under the name of Emma Dakin. She lives on the Sunshine Coast in BC.

Scott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his work focused on the relationship between memory, emotion, and literature. The Other Valley is his first novel.