by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Out of the Dark Julie LawsonPublisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited Book Description A follow-up of the bestselling, Geoffrey Bilson Award—and Victoria Book Prize—nominated A Blinding Light, focusing on the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion and the onset of the Great...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Crushed Wild Mint Jess HoustyPublisher: Nightwood Editions Book Description Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet’s motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
A Season in Chezgh’un Darrel J. McLeodPublisher: Douglas & McIntyre Book Description A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien. James,...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Maybe A Whale Kirsten Pendreigh, and illustrated by Crystal SmithPublisher: Groundwood Books Ltd. Book Description After Grandpa dies, a girl and her mother take the trip he had planned for her, kayaking along the Pacific west coast to look for the whales that he...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Sep 24, 2023
Robin Stevenson Winner of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence Statement from the jury on the selection of Robin Stevenson:”The Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence recognizes a writer who has produced a substantial body...
