Winners and Finalists

Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award

 

**Winner: 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

By Bob Joseph

Publisher: Page Two

 

Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

By Darrel J. McLeod

Publisher:: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer

By Eve Lazarus

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island

By Robert Amos

Publisher: Touchwood Editions

 

Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize

 

**Winner: Sparks!

By Ian Boothby

Illustrated by Nina Matsumoto

Publisher: Scholastic Canada

 

Sterling
By Aidan Cassie

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

Sir Simon

By Cale Atkinson

Publisher: Penguin Random House Young Readers

 

Robert Bateman: The Boy Who Painted Nature

By Margriet Ruurs

Illustrated by Robert Bateman

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

The Nameless City: The Divided Earth

By Faith Erin Hicks

Publisher: First Second

 

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

 

**Winner: Our Familiar Hunger

By Laisha Rosnau

Publisher: Nightwood Editions

 

Beholden

By Fred Wah and Rita Wong

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

Quarrels

By Eve Joseph

Publisher: Anvil Press

 

The Small Way

By Onjana Yawnghwe

Publisher: Caitlin Press

 

Port of Being

By Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Publisher: Invisible Publishing

 

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

 

**Winner: Trickster Drift

By Eden Robinson

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Dear Evelyn

By Kathy Page

Publisher: Biblioasis

 

Sodom Road Exit

By Amber Dawn

Publisher : Arsenal Pulp Press

 

That Tiny Life

By Erin Frances Fisher

Publisher: House of Anansi Press

 

We All Need to Eat: Stories

By Alex Leslie

Publisher: Book*hug Press

 

Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

**Winner: The Woo Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids Demos, and My Crazy Chinese Family

By Lindsay Wong

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood

By Bill Gaston

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

 

Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir In Music

By Ian Hampton

Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill

 

Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road

By Kate Harris

Publisher: Knopf Canada

 

A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC

By Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman

Publisher: Heritage House

 

Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

 

**Winner: Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro

By Sarah Cox

Publisher: On Point Press, UBC Press

Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood

By Bill Gaston

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

 

Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Tree

By Harley Rustad

Publisher: House of Anansi Press

 

Atlii Gwaii: Upholding Haida Law at Lyell Island

By Council of the Haida Nation

Publisher: Locarno Press

 

Beau Dick: Revolutionary Sprit

By Darrin Martens

Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing

 

Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize

 

**Winner: No Fixed Address

By Susin Nielsen

Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers

 

Very Rich

By Polly Horvath

Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers

 

The Journey Forward

By Monique Gray Smith and Richard Van Camp

Publisher: McKellar and Martin Publishing Group Ltd.

 

Learning to Breath

By Janice Lynn Mather

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Canada

 

Nice Try, Jane Sinner

By Lianne Oelke

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

 

**Winner

Brother

By David Chariandy

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

 

Next Year For Sure

By Zoey Leigh Peterson

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

 

What We Once Believed

By Andrea MacPherson

Publisher: Caitlin Press

 

Son of a Trickster

By Eden Robinson

Publisher: Knopf Canada

 

Everything is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person

By Daniel Zomparelli

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

 

**Winner

Prison Industrial Complex Explodes

By Mercedes Eng

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

Frequent, small loads of laundry

By Rhonda Ganz

Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing

 

An Honest Woman

By Jónína Kirton

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

The Rules of the Kingdom

By Julie Paul

Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press

 

Fragments, Desire

By Onjana Yawnghwe

Publisher: Oolichan Books

 

Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

 

**Winner

The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land Rebuilding the Economy

By Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson

Publisher: James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers

 

Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father

By Carys Cragg

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

Euclid’s Orchard & Other Essays

By Theresa Kishkan

Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing

 

The Sacred Herb/The Devils Weed

By Andrew Struthers

Publisher: New Star Books

 

Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

By Paul Watson

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

 

Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

 

**Winner

Changing Tides

By Kotaro Hayashi, Fumio “Frank” Kanno, Henry Tanaka, and Jim Tanaka

Publisher: Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre

 

Where It Hurts

By Sarah de Leeuw

Publisher: NeWest Press

 

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws

By Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace

Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press

 

Fighting for Space

By Travis Lupick

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

Surrey: A City of Stories

By K. Jane Watt

Publisher: City of Surrey

 

Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize

 

**Winner

Zero Repeat Forever

By G. S. Prendergast

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

 

Saying Good-bye to London

By Julie Burtinshaw

Publisher: Second Story Press

 

Runner

By Norma Charles

Publisher: Red Deer Press

 

The Goat

By Anne Fleming

Publisher: Groundwood Books

 

Heartwood Hotel

By Kallie George

Publisher: Harper Collins Publisher Ltd.

 

Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize

 

**Winner

The Nameless City: The Stone Heart

By Faith Erin Hicks

Publisher: First Second

 

A Day with Yayah

By Nicola Campbell, illustrated by Julie Flett

Publisher: Tradewind Books

 

Charles

By S. E. Hume, illustrated by Jessica Bromley Bartram

Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside

 

Wolf Island

By Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

The Alphabet Thief

By Bill Richardson, illustrated by Roxanne Bikadoroff

Publisher: Groundwood Books

 

Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award

 

**Winner

On Island

By Pat Carney

Publisher: TouchWood Editions

 

Bad Endings

By Carleigh Baker

Publisher Anvil Press

 

Spindrift

By Anita Hadley and Michael L. Hadley (editors)

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Dirty Windshields

By Grant Lawrence

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Hello Humpback!

By Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

 

 

 

2017

ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Claudia Cornwall, Alma Lee and Peter Such

 

WINNER
The Heaviness of Things That Float

by Jennifer Manuel

Publisher: Douglas and McIntyre

The Dancehall Years

by Joan Haggerty

Publisher: Mother Tongue Press

The Parcel

by Anosh Irani

Publisher: Knopf Canada

 

Niagara Motel

by Ashley Little

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

The Conjoined

by Jen Sookfong Lee

Publisher: ECW Press

HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Brad Cran, George Fetherling, JJ Lee

 

WINNER
A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War

by Deborah Campbell

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love and Forgiveness After Trauma

by Carmen Aguirre

Publisher: Random House Canada

The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey form Cairo’s Scorpion Prison to Freedom

by Mohamed Fahmy with Carol Shaben

Published: Random House Canada

Gently to Nagasaki

by Joy Kogawa

Publisher: Caitlin Press

The Killer Whale Who Changed the World

by Mark Leiren-Young

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE

JURORS: Trevor Carolan, Raoul Fernandes and Miranda Pearson

 

WINNER
If I Were In a Cage I’d Reach Out For You

by Adèle Barclay

Publisher: Nightwood Editions

 

poemw

by Anne Fleming

Publisher: Pedlar Press

 

The News

by Rob Taylor

Publisher: Gaspereau Press

 

Stepping in Tall Grass

by Richard Therrien

Publisher: University of Alberta Press

100 Days

by Juliane Okot Bitek

Publisher: University of Alberta Press

 

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE

JURORS: Jon Bartlett, Briony Penn and Jennifer Pike

 

WINNER
Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History

by Neil J. Sterritt

Publisher: Creekstone Press

 

The Recorded History of the Laird Basin 1790-1910: Where British Columbia joins the Yukon and N.W.T.

By Anthony Kenyon

Publisher: Fort Nelson News

 

A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island

by Michael Layland

Publisher: Touchwood Editions

 

Crossing Home Ground: A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia

by David Pitt-Brooke

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam

by Christopher Pollon, illustrated with photos by Ben Nelms

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Marian Keen, Schot Richie and Gina McMurchy-Barber

 

WINNER

The Skeleton Tree

by Iain Lawrence

Publisher: Tundra Books

 

Everyday Hero

by Kathleen Cherry

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

The Rahtrum Chronicles: The Dream

by R.K. McLay

Publisher: Fifth House Publishers

 

A Day of Signs and Wonders

by Kit Pearson

Publisher: HarperCollins Publihsers

 

Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle

by Robin Stevenson

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Karen Autio, Julie McLaughlin and Jordan Stratford

 

WINNER
My Heart Fills with Happiness

by Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Julie Flett

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

Peace Dancer

by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd; illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Today

by Julie Morstad

Publisher: Simply Read Books

 

Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey

by Margriet Ruurs, illustrated by Nizar Ali Badr

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Deep Roots: How Trees Sustain Our Planet

by Nikki Tate

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

 

BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD

JURORS: Members of the BC Booksellers’ Association

 

WINNER
Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations

by Richard Wagamese

Publisher: Douglas and McIntyre

 

Peace Dancer

by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd; illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Wade Davis: Photographs

by Wade Davis

Publisher: Douglas and McIntyre

 

The Last Gant in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang

by Aaron Chapman

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island

by Michael Layland

Publisher: Touchwood Editions

 

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE

JURORS: Alan Twigg, Mary-Ann Yazedjian and Sheryl MacKay

SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC

 

Douglas Copeland

 

 

2016

ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Friesens

SPONSOR: Chelsea Rooney, John Vigna, Pam Withers

 

All True Not a Lie in It

by Alix Hawley

Publisher: Knopf Canada

 

Amity

by Nasreen Pejvack

Publisher: Inanna Publications

 

The Hunter and the Wild Girl

by Pauline Holdstock

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions

 

Martin John

by Anakana Schofield

Publisher: Biblioasis

 

Specimen

by Irina Kovalyova

Publisher: House of Anansi Press

 

2016

HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: BC Teachers’ Federation

SPONSOR: Vivien Bowers, Dawne Murray, David Stouck

 

Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and A Scattershot World

by Brian Brett

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes

by Emily Urquhart

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

 

Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture

by Maria Tippett

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan

by Briony Penn

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books

 

That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away

by Lorimer Shenher

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

2016

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE

JURORS: Kayla Czaga, Christopher Levenson, Cecily Nicholson

SPONSOR: Anonymous

 

Transmitter and Receiver

by Raoul Fernandes

Publisher: Nightwood Editions

 

The Fire Extinguisher

by Miranda Pearson

Publisher: Oolichan Books

 

Foreign Park

by Jeff Steudel

Publisher: Anvil Press

 

Twoism

by Ali Blythe

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions

 

Where the words end and my body begins

by Amber Dawn

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

2016

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE

JURORS: Dan Francis, Margaret Horsfield, Christine Lowther

SPONSOR: Marquis, Victoria Bindery, and First Choice Books

 

The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan

by Briony Penn

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books

 

Ground-Truthing: Reimagining the Indigenous Rainforests of BC’s North Coast

by Derrick Stacey Denholm

Publisher: Caitlin Press

 

Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia

by John Thistle

Publisher: UBC Press

 

Soviet Princeton: Slim Evans and the 1932-33 Miners’ Strike

by Jon Bartlett, Rika Ruebsaat

Publisher: New Star Books

 

Tod Inlet: A Healing Place

by Gwen Curry

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books

 

2016

SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Tanya Lloyd Kyi, Diane Tullson, Irene Watts

SPONSOR: BC Library Association, Friends of Sheila Egoff, BC Books for Kids, and the University of Victoria Libraries

 

The Truth Commission

by Susan Juby

Publisher: Razorbill

 

Are You Seeing Me?

by Darren Groth

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book 1)

by Jordan Stratford

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

 

Seven Dead Pirates

by Linda Bailey

Publisher: Tundra Books

 

We Are All Made of Molecules

by Susin Nielsen

Publisher: Tundra Books

 

2016

CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Nancy Hundal, Sophia Hunter, Sharlene Sharma

SPONSOR: Kate Walker and Vancouver Kidsbooks

 

Peace is an Offering

by Annette LeBox

Illustrated by Stephanie Graegin

Publisher: Dial Books

 

Orca Chief

by Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd

Illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

The Red Bicycle: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Bicycle

by Jude Isabella

Illustrated by Simone Shin

Publisher: Kids Can Press

 

Song for a Summer Night: A Lullaby

by Robert Heidbreder

Illustrated by Qin Leng

Publisher: Groundwood Books

 

This is Sadie

by Sara O’Leary

Illustrated by Julie Morstad

Publisher: PUBLISHER

 

2016

BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD

JURORS: members of the BC Booksellers’ Association

SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association, Sandhill Book Marketing, Ampersand Inc., Canadian Manda Group Inc., and the Western Book Reps Association

 

A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World

by Susan Musgrave

Publisher: Whitecap Books

 

Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders

by Eve Lazarus

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper

by Caroline Woodward

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Orca Chief

by Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival

by Caroline Adderson, John Atkin, Kerry Gold, Evelyn Lau, Eve Lazarus, John Mackie, Elise & Stephen Partridge, and Bren Simmers with an introduction by Michael Kluckner and photographs by Tracey Ayton and Caroline Adderson

Publisher: Anvil Press

 

2016

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE

JURORS: Betty Keller, Peter Darbyshire, Barbara Pope

SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC

 

Alan Twigg

 

2015

ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Anne Giardini, Paul Headrick, Sirish Rao

SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom

 

The World Before Us

by Aislinn Hunter

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

 

The Beautiful West & The Beloved of God

by Michael Springate

Publisher: Guernica Editions

 

Ellen in Pieces

by Caroline Adderson

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

 

Paradise & Elsewhere

by Kathy Page

Publisher: Biblioasis

 

The Wind is Not a River

by Brian Payton

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

 

2015

HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Stuart Derdeyn, Joan Givner, Jane Silcott

SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation

 

In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying

by Eve Joseph

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

 

Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America

by Nancy J. Turner

Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press

 

The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest

by Barry Gough

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation

by Kevin Chong

Publisher: Viking

 

Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World

by Julie Angus

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

2015

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE

JURORS: Daniela Elza, Gillian Jerome, Renée Sarojini Saklikar

SPONSOR:  Anonymous

 

From the Poplars

by Cecily Nicholson

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

Dreamland Theatre

by Rob Budde

Publisher: Caitlin Press

 

For Your Safety Please Hold On

by Kayla Czaga

Publisher: Nightwood Editions

 

School

by Jen Currin

Publisher: Coach House Books

 

Washita

by Patrick Lane

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

2015

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE

JURORS: Derek Hayes, Deb McVittie, Paul Whitney

SPONSOR: Marquis, Victoria Bindery, and First Choice Books

The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia

by Richard Beamish, Gordon McFarlane (editors)

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Born Out of This

by Christine Lowther

Publisher: Caitlin Press

 

Great Bear Wild: Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest

by Ian McAllister

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1901-07

by Jay Sherwood

Publisher: Caitlin Press

 

Tofino and Clayoquot Sound: A History

by Margaret Horsfield, Ian Kennedy

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

2015

SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Ashley Little, Robin Stevenson, Beryl Young

SPONSOR: Friends of Sheila Egoff

 

Rabbit Ears

by Maggie de Vries

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

 

Blue Gold

by Elizabeth Stewart

Publisher: Annick Press

 

Capricious

by Gabrielle Prendergast

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

Finding Grace

by Becky Citra

Publisher: Second Story Press

 

Sophie, in Shadow

by Eileen Kernaghan

Publisher: Thistledown Press

 

2015

CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Kim La Fave, Julie Morstad, Shannon Ozirny

SPONSOR:Kate Walker and Kidsbooks

 

Dolphin SOS

by Roy Miki, Slavia Miki

Illustrated by Julie Flett

Publisher: Tradewind Books

 

Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin

by Chieri Uegaki

Illustrated by Qin Leng

Publisher: Kids Can Press

 

The Most Magnificent Thing

by Ashley Spires

Illustrated by Ashley Spires

Publisher: Kids Can Press

 

Norman, Speak!

by Caroline Adderson

Illustrated by Qin Leng

Publisher: Groundwood Books

 

Stop, Thief!

by Heather Tekavec

Illustrated by Pierre Pratt

Publisher: Kids Can Press

 

2015

BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD

JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association

SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association

 

Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver’s Historic Commodore Ballroom

by Aaron Chapman

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

Cloudwalker

by Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist

by Alicia Priest

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia

by Richard Beamish, Gordon McFarlane (editors)

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

The Sobo Cookbook: Recipes from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road

by Lisa Ahier, with Andrew Morrison

Publisher: Appetite by Random House

 

2015

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE

JURORS: Kit Pearson, Michael Kluckner, Sandra Singh

SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC

 

Betty Keller

 

2014

ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Steven Price, Mary Schendlinger, Kate Walker

SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom

 

Anatomy of a Girl Gang

by Ashley Little

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility

by Théodora Armstrong

Publisher: House of Anansi Press

 

Lucky

by Kathryn Para

Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing

 

Red Girl Rat Boy

by Cynthia Flood

Publisher: Biblioasis

 

Three Souls

by Janie Chang

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

2014

ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Steven Price, Mary Schendlinger, Kate Walker
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom

 

Anatomy of a Girl Gang

by Ashley Little

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility

by Théodora Armstrong

Publisher: House of Anansi Press

 

Lucky

by Kathryn Para

Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing

 

Red Girl Rat Boy

by Cynthia Flood

Publisher: Biblioasis

 

Three Souls

by Janie Chang

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

 

2014

HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Rod Mickleburgh, Ian Milgrew, Lynne van Luven
SPONSOR: AbeBooks

 

Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life

by David Stouck

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Everything Rustles

by Jane Silcott

Publisher: Anvil Press

 

The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway

by Arno Kopecky

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be

by J.B. MacKinnon

Publisher: Random House of Canada

 

They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

by Bev Sellars

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

2014

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE

JURORS: Kate Braid, Sarah de Leeuw, Rob Taylor
SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation and Rebus Creative

 

The Place of Scraps

by Jordan Abel

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain

by Russell Thornton

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections

by Renée Sarojini Saklikar

Publisher: Nightwood Editions

 

The Lost Letters

by Catherine Greenwood

Publisher: Brick Books

 

Wood

by Jennica Harper

Publisher: Anvil Press

 

2014

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE

JURORS: Celia Duthie, Richard Hopkins, Scott Steedman
SPONSOR: Marquis, Victoria Bindery, and First Choice Books

 

Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life

by David Stouck

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Charles Edenshaw

by Robin K. Wright and Daina Augaitis (editors), with Haida Advisors Robert Davidson and James Hart

Publisher: Vancouver Art Gallery and Black Dog Publishing

 

Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History

by Sean Kheraj

Publisher: University of British Columbia Press

 

Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics

by Graeme Truelove

Publisher: New Star Books

 

Voyage Through the Past Century

by Rolf Knight

Publisher: New Star Books

 

2014

SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Norma Charles, Pamela Porter, John Wilson
SPONSOR: Kidsbooks and Tourism Vancouver

 

The New Normal

by Ashley Little

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

If Only

by Becky Citra

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

The Path of Names

by Ari Goelman

Publisher: Scholastic Canada

 

Record Breaker

by Robin Stevenson

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

Victoria

by Silvana Goldemberg, translated by Emilie Smith

Publisher: Tradewind Books

 

2014

CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Norma Charles, Pamela Porter, John Wilson
SPONSOR: Kidsbooks and Tourism Vancouver

 

How To

by Julie Morstad

Illustrated by Julie Morstad

Publisher: Simply Read Books

 

The Great Bear Sea: Exploring the Marine Life of a Pacific Paradise

by Ian McAllister, Nicholas Read

Illustrated by Ian McAllister

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

Not Your Typical Dragon

by Dan Bar-el

Illustrated by Tim Bowers

Publisher: Viking Children’s Books

 

When I Was Eight

by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard

Publisher: Annick Press

 

Wild Berries

by Julie Flett

Illustrated by Julie Flett

Publisher: Simply Read Books

 

2014

BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD

JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association

 

The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie

by Grant Lawrence

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous

by Paula Wild

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

The Land of Heart’s Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island

by Michael Layland

Publisher: TouchWood Editions

 

Raven Brings the Light

by Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

This Day in Vancouver

by Jesse Donaldson

Publisher: Anvil Press

 

2014

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE

JURORS: Sarah Ellis, Sheila Peacock, Jessica Walker
SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC

 

Kit Pearson

2013

ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Joy Gugeler, Theresa Kishkan, Andreas Schroeder
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom

 

The World

by Bill Gaston

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada, Penguin Group Canada

 

Floating Like the Dead

by Yasuko Thanh

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.

 

Gay Dwarves of America

by Anne Fleming

Publisher: Pedlar Press

 

Malarky

by Anakana Schofield

Publisher: Biblioasis

 

Psychology and Other Stories

by C.P. Boyko

Publisher: Biblioasis

 

2013

HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Brian Lynch, Mark Stanton, Sylvia Taylor
SPONSOR: AbeBooks, Victoria Bindery and First Choice Books

 

The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975

by Geoff Meggs, Rod Mickleburgh

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop

by Carol Shaben

Publisher: Random House Canada

 

Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page

by Sandra Djwa

Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press

 

The Light through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming

by Luanne Armstrong

Publisher: Caitlin Press

 

Pinboy

by George Bowering

Publisher: Cormorant Books

 

2013

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE

JURORS: Larissa Lai, Susan Musgrave, John Pass
SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation

 

Geographies of a Lover

by Sarah de Leeuw

Publisher: NeWest Press

 

A Grain of Rice

by Evelyn Lau

Publisher: Oolichan Books

 

IKMQ

by Roger Farr

Publisher: New Star Books

 

Night-Eater

by Patricia Young

Publisher: Quattro Books

 

The Properties

by Colin Browne

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

2013

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE

JURORS: Sybil Harrison, Grant Lawrence, Sheryl MacKay
SPONSOR: Marquis

 

British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas

by Derek Hayes

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40

by Jackson Davies, Marc Strange

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Liquor, Lust, and the Law: The Story of Vancouver’s Legendary Penthouse Nightclub

by Aaron Chapman

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom

by Leslie A. Robertson, Kwagu’l Gixsam Clan

Publisher: The University of British Columbia Press

 

Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru – An Illustrated History

by Ali Kazimi

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

2013

SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Glen Huser, Sheryl McFarlane, Pam Withers
SPONSOR:BC Library Association

 

Middle of Nowhere

by Caroline Adderson

Publisher: Groundwood Books

 

Mimi Power and the I-Don’t-Know-What

by Victoria Miles

Publisher: Tradewind Books

 

The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls

by John Lekich

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

by Susin Nielsen

Publisher: Tundra Books

 

Seraphina

by Rachel Hartman

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

 

2013

CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Dianna Bonder, Marguerite Ruurs, Yukiko Tosa
SPONSOR: Ampersand Inc. and Kate Walker

 

Maggie’s Chopsticks

by Alan Woo

Illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant

Publisher: Kids Can Press

 

Gift Days

by Kari-Lynn Winters

Illustrated by Stephen Taylor

Publisher: Fitzhenry & WhitesideR

 

Hey Canada!

by Vivien Bowers

Illustrated by Milan Pavlovic

Publisher: Tundra Books

 

Rainbow Shoes

by Tiffany Stone

Illustrated by Stefan Czernecki

Publisher: Tradewind Books

 

What’s Up, Bear?: A Book About Opposites

by Frieda Wishinsky

Illustrated by Sean L. Moore

Publisher: Owlkids Books

 

2013

BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD

JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association

 

Making Headlines: 100 Years of The Vancouver Sun

by Shelley Fralic, with research by Kate Bird

Publisher: The Vancouver Sun

 

British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas

by Derek Hayes

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40

by Jackson Davies, Marc Strange

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide

by Harold Kalman, Robin Ward

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History

by Daniel Francis

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

2013

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE

JURORS: Brian Brett, Lynn Copeland, Alma Lee
SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC

 

Lorna Crozier

2012

ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Gurjinder Basran, Tracy Sherlock, Paul Whitney
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom

 

Half-Blood Blues

by Esi Edugyan

Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers

 

The Beggar’s Garden

by Michael Christie

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

 

Into That Darkness

by Steven Price

Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers

 

Once You Break a Knuckle

by D.W. Wilson

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada, Penguin Group Canada

 

Shelter

by Frances Greenslade

Publisher: Random House Canada

 

2012

HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Ria Bleumer, Derek Lundy, Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
SPONSOR: AbeBooks

 

Eating Dirt

by Charlotte Gill

Publisher: Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation

 

Drink the Bitter Root

by Gary Geddes

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Publishers Inc.

 

The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit

by JJ Lee

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.

 

Mnemonic: A Book of Trees

by Theresa Kishkan

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions

 

Something Fierce

by Carmen Aguirre

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Publishers Inc.

 

2012

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE

JURORS: Daphne Marlatt, Russell Thornton, Hannah Main-van der Kamp
SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation

 

crawlspace

by John Pass

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane

by Patrick Lane, Edited by Russell Morton Brown & Donna Bennett, Afterword by Nicholas Bradley

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Demeter Goes Skydiving

by Susan McCaslin

Publisher: The University of Alberta Press

 

Discovery Passages

by Garry Thomas Morse

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

Oyama Pink Shale

by Sharon Thesen

Publisher: House of Anansi Press

 

2012

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE

JURORS: Katherine Gordon, Stephen Hume, Lee Trentadue
SPONSOR: Transcontinental Printing

 

The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver

by Chuck Davis

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests

by Andrew Nikiforuk

Publisher: Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation

 

Fred Herzog: Photographs

by Fred Herzog

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Publishers Inc.

 

The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton [#4 in the Unheralded Artists of BC Series]

by Sheryl Salloum, Foreword by Sherrill Grace

Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing

 

Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and Their Contemporaries

by Scott Watson, Edited by Naomi Sawada & Jana Tyner

Publisher: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia

 

2012

SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Rob Bittner, Sylvia Olsen, Cathleen With
SPONSOR: BC Library Association

 

Blood Red Road

by Moira Young

Publisher: Doubleday Canada Publishing Group

 

I’ll Be Watching

by Pamela Porter

Publisher: Groundwood Books

 

Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest

by Caitlyn Vernon

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

The Runaway

by Glen Huser

Publisher: Tradewind Books

 

What is Real

by Karen Rivers

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

2012

CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Julie Flett, Dionne Risler, Judith Saltman
SPONSOR: Ampersand Inc.

When I Was Small

by Sara O’Leary

Illustrated by Julie Morstad

Publisher: Simply Read Books

 

Dalen & Gole: Scandal in Port Angus

by Mike Deas

Illustrated by ILLUSTRATOR

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

Grandpa’s Girls

by Nicola I. Campbell

Illustrated by Kim La Fave

Publisher: Groundwood Books

 

Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been?

by Dan Bar-el

Illustrated by Rae Maté

Publisher: Simply Read Books

 

Shake Awakes

by Robert Heidbreder

Illustrated by Marc Mongeau

Publisher: Tradewind Books

 

2012

BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD

JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association

 

The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver

by Chuck Davis

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Eating Dirt

by Charlotte Gill

Publisher: Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation

 

Fred Herzog: Photographs

by Fred Herzog

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Publishers Inc.

 

Island Wineries of British Columbia

by Gary Hynes

Publisher: TouchWood Editions

 

Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen

by Robert J. Wiersema

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

2012

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE

JURORS: George Bowering, Max Wyman, Evelyn Gillespie
SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC

 

Brian Brett

2011

ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Ann Cowan, Sean Cranbury, Michael Turner
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom

 

Everything Was Good-Bye

by Gurjinder Basran

Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing

 

Chernovs’ Toil and Peace

by Rifet Bahtijaragic

Illustrated by Bill Hoopes

Publisher: Publish America

 

The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace

by Jack Whyte

Publisher: Viking Canada

 

The Master of Happy Endings

by Jack Hodgins

Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers

 

Recipes from the Red Planet

by Meredith Quartermain

Publisher: BookThug

 

2011

HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Jean Barman, Evelyn Gillespie, Terry Glavin
SPONSOR: AbeBooks

 

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

by John Vaillant

Publisher: Knopf Canada

 

Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America

by Derek Lundy

Publisher: Knopf Canada

 

Marshall McLuhan

by Douglas Coupland

Publisher: Penguin Canada

 

Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life

by Morris Bates, Jim Brown

Publisher: Fox Music Books

 

Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me

by Sarah Leavitt

Publisher: Freehand Books

 

2011

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE

JURORS: Tammy Armstrong, Heidi Greco, Fred Wah
SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation

 

On the Material

by Stephen Collis

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

Decompositions

by Ken Belford

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

The Inquisition Yours

by Jen Currin

Publisher: Coach House Books

 

My Darling Nellie Grey

by George Bowering

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

The Secret Signature of Things

by Eve Joseph

Publisher: Brick Books

 

2011

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE

JURORS: Nikita Collison, Rosemary Neering, Andrew Scott
SPONSOR: Transcontinental Printing

 

Images from the Likeness House

by Dan Savard

Publisher: Royal BC Museum

 

Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound

by Grant Lawrence

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History

by Aaron Glass, Aldona Jonaitis

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Visions of BC: A Landscape Manual

by Bruce Grenville, Scott Steedman (editors)

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater

by Sylvia Olsen

Publisher: Sono Nis Press

 

2011

SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Sarah Ellis, Carrie Mac, Shannon Orzirny
SPONSOR: BC Library Association

 

Hunger Journeys

by Maggie de Vries

Publisher: HarperCollins Canada

 

Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom

by Susin Nielsen

Publisher: Tundra Books

 

Fatty Legs: A True Story

by Christy Jordon-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

Illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes

Publisher: Annick Press

 

Free as a Bird

by Gina McMurchy-Barber

Publisher: Dundurn Press

 

Northward to the Moon

by Polly Horvath

Publisher: Groundwood Books

 

2011

CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Nan Gregory, Robert Heidbreder, Cynthia Nugent
SPONSOR: Kate Walker and Company

 

Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet / Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: L’alfabet di Michif

by Julie Flett

Illustrated by ILLUSTRATOR

Publisher: Simply Read Books

 

The Cowboy Fisherman

by Seiji Hiroe

 

Fraser Bear: A Cub’s Life

by Maggie de Vries

Illustrated by Renné Benoit

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest

by Ian McAllister, Nicholas Read

Illustrated by Ian McAllister

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

Up We Grow! A Year in the Life of a Small, Local Farm

by Deborah Hodge

Illustrated by Brian Harris

Publisher: Kids Can Press

 

2011

BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD

JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association

 

Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound

by Grant Lawrence

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow

by Zsuzsi Gartner (editor)

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

by Ross King

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, co-published with McMichael Canadian Art Collection

 

Fishing with Gubby

by Gary Kent

Illustrated by Kim La Fave

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier

by Robert Budd

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

2011

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE

JURORS: Jane Davidson, Rob Sanders, Audrey Thomas
SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC

 

George Bowering

2010

ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Claudia Casper, Lee Henderson, Ann McDonell
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom

 

Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison

by Cathleen With

Publisher: Penguin Group Canada

 

8 × 10

by Michael Turner

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

 

Daniel O’Thunder

by Ian Weir

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

The Golden Mean

by Annabel Lyon

Publisher: Random House Canada

 

Vanishing and Other Stories

by Deborah Willis

Publisher: Penguin Group Canada

 

2010

HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Ron Smith, Rex Weyler, Gudrun Will
SPONSOR: Abebooks

 

Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

by Lorna Crozier

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness

by Brian Payton

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

 

Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes

by Ehor Boyanowsky

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life

by Brian Brett

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

Vancouver Special

by Charles Demers

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

2010

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE

JURORS: Wayde Compton, Carla Funk, Betsy Warland
SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation

 

is a door

by Fred Wah

Publisher: Talonbooks

 

Automaton Biographies

by Larissa Lai

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

The Fly in Autumn

by David Zieroth

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Harbour

by Miranda Pearson

Publisher: Oolichan Books

 

Red Nest

by Gillian Jerome

Publisher: Nightwood Editions

 

2010

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE

JURORS: John Lent, Rebecca Wigod, Daniel Wood
SPONSOR: 

Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia

by Andrew Scott

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

All That We Say Is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation

by Ian Gill

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Jacob’s Prayer

by Lorne Dufour

Publisher: Caitlin Press

 

A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future

by Larry Campbell, Lori Culbert, Neil Boyd

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life

by Brian Brett

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

2010

SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Lois Brymer, John Burns, Ann Walsh
SPONSOR: BC Library Association

 

The Gryphon Project

by Carrie Mac

Publisher: Penguin Group Canada

 

Counting on Hope

by Sylvia Olsen

Publisher: Sono Nis Press

 

Inferno

by Robin Stevenson

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

Return to Bone Tree Hill

by Kristin Butcher

Publisher: Thistledown Press

 

The Ship of Lost Souls

by Rachelle Delaney

Publisher: HarperTrophyCanada

 

2010

CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Rae Maté, Phyllis Simon, Maggie de Vries
SPONSOR: Kate Walker and Company

 

Maggie Can’t Wait

by Frieda Wishinsky

Illustrated by Dean Griffiths

Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside

 

Bubble Homes and Fish Farts

by Fiona Bayrock

Illustrated by Carolyn Conahan

Publisher: Charlesbridge

 

Ella’s Umbrellas

by Jennifer Lloyd

Illustrated by Ashley Spires

Publisher: Simply Read Books

 

On My Walk

by Kari-Lynn Winters

Illustrated by Christina Leist

Publisher: Tradewind Books

 

Vanishing Habitats

by Robert Bateman with Nancy Kovacs

Illustrated by Robert Bateman

Publisher: Scholastic Canada / Madison Press

 

2010

BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD

JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: Duthie family and independent BC bookstores

 

Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life

by Brian Brett

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia

by Andrew Scott

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

One More Time: The Dal Richards Story

by Dal Richards with Jim Taylor

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Red: A Haida Manga

by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen

by Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

2010

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE

JURORS: Terry Glavin, Lynne van Luven, Robert Wiersema

SPONSORS: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC

 

Stan Persky

2009

ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Caroline Adderson, Richard Hopkins, and James Irvine

SPONSORS: Friesens and Webcom

 

The Man Game

by Lee Henderson

Publisher: Penguin Group (Canada)

 

The Cellist of Sarajevo

by Steven Galloway

Publisher: Knopf Canada

 

Red Dog, Red Dog

by Patrick Lane

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.

 

Renovating Heaven

by Andreas Schroeder

Publisher: Oolichan Books

 

That Tune Clutches My Heart

by Paul Headrick

Publisher: Gaspereau Press

 

2009

HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Robert Brighurst, Barbara Jo May, and Jan Whitford

SPONSORS: Abebooks

 

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

by Gabor Mate, MD

Publisher: Knopf Canada

 

Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America

by Chris Wood

Publisher: Raincoast Books

 

Going Home: Essays

by Tim Lilburn

Publisher: House of Anansi Press

 

The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message

by Rex Weyler

Publisher: House of Anansi Press

 

What is America? A Short History of the New World Order

by Ronald Wright

Publisher: Knopf Canada

 

2009

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE

JURORS: Margaret Gunning, Evelyn Lau, and Billeh Nickerson

SPONSORS: BC Teachers’ Federation

 

The Given

by Daphne Marlatt

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.

 

Chameleon Hours

by Elise Partridge

Publisher: House of Anansi Press

 

Shirin and Salt Man

by Nilofar Shidmehr

Publisher: Oolichan Books

 

Vancouver: A Poem

by George Stanley

Publisher: New Star Books

Water Strider

by Karen Hofmann

Publisher: Frontenac House Ltd.

 

2009

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE

JURORS: Janis McKenzie, Joseph Stewart, and Eric Swanick

SPONSORS: 

 

Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia

by Stephen Hume

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

by Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

The Peace: A History in Photographs

by Donald A. Pettit

Illustrated by Barbara Swail

Publisher: Peace photoGraphics Inc.

 

The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect

by Daphne Bramham

Publisher: Random House Canada

 

Voices from the Sound: Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino 1899–1929

by Margaret Horsfield

Publisher: Salal Books

 

2009

SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Janice Douglas, James Heneghan, and Tonya Martin

SPONSORS: BC Library Association

 

My One Hundred Adventures

by Polly Horvath

Publisher: Groundwood Books

 

Bonechiller

by Graham McNamee

Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books, distributed by Random House of Canada

 

The Lit Report

by Sarah N. Harvey

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

The Séance

by Iain Lawrence

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, distributed by Random House of Canada

 

A Thousand Shades of Blue

by Robin Stevenson

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

2009

CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Ron Jobe, Kari-Lynn Winters, and Bonne Zabolotney

SPONSORS: Kate Walker and Company

 

The King Has Goat Ears

by Katarina Jovanovic

Illustrated by Philippe Beha

Publisher: Tradewind Books

 

Good-bye Marianne

by Irene N. Watts

Illustrated by Kathryn E. Shoemaker

Publisher: Tundra Books

 

Polar Worlds: Life at the Ends of the Earth

by Robert Bateman

Publisher: Scholastic Canada Ltd.

 

Rosie and Buttercup

by Chieri Uegaki

Illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch

Publisher: Kids Can Press

 

Stanley At Sea

by Linda Bailey

Illustrated by Bill Slavin

Publisher: Kids Can Press

 

2009

BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD

JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association

SPONSORS: BC Booksellers’ Association and Duthie Books

 

Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver

by Stephen Bown

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

British Columbia: Spirit of the People

by Jean Barman

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment

by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet

by Cathy Converse

Publisher: TouchWood Editions

 

Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

by Andrew Nikiforuk

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

2009

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE

JURORS: Ellen Godfrey, David Hill, Sheryl MacKay

SPONSORS: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC

 

Terry Glavin

2008

ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Margaret Gunning, Rob Wiersema and Carol Windley

SPONSORS: Friesens, Transcontinental and Webcom

 

Conceit

by Mary Novik

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

 

Adam’s Peak

by Heather Burt

Publisher: The Dundurn Group

 

Radiance

by Shaena Lambert

Publisher: Random House Canada

 

The Reckoning of Boston Jim

by Claire Mulligan

Publisher: Brindle & Glass

 

Soucouyant

by David Chariandy

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

 

2008

HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE

JURORS: Kirk LaPointe, Rita Moir and Harold Rhenisch

SPONSORS: Abebooks

 

Everywhere Being is Dancing

by Robert Bringhurst

Publisher: Gaspereau Press

 

The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating

by J. B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith

Publisher: Random House Canada

 

Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden

by Don Gayton

Publisher: Thistledown Press

 

Phantom Limb

by Theresa Kishkan

Publisher: Thistledown Press

 

The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67

by Patricia E. Roy

Publisher: UBC Press

 

2008

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE

JURORS: Elizabeth Bachinsky, Kate Braid and John Pass

SPONSORS: BC Teachers’ Federation

 

Forage

by Rita Wong

Publisher: Nightwood Editions

 

The Incorrection

by George McWhirter

Publisher: Oolichan Books

 

Ox

by Christopher Patton

Publisher: Véhicule Press

 

Paper Trail

by Arleen Paré

Publisher: NeWest Press

 

Soft Geography

by Gillian Wigmore

Publisher: Caitlin Press

 

2008

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE

JURORS: David Lester, Kate Walker and Judith Williams

SPONSORS: BC 150

 

The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating

by J. B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith

Publisher: Random House Canada

 

Fortune’s a River: The Collision of Empires in the Pacific Northwest

by Barry Gough

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest

by Ian McAllister

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture

by Tim Bowling

Publisher: Nightwood Editions

 

Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape

by Chris Harris

Publisher: Country Light Publishing

 

2008

SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Julie Burtinshaw, Shelley Hrdlitschka and David Ward

SPONSORS: BC Library Association

 

The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane

by Polly Horvath

Publisher: Groundwood Books

 

The Alchemist’s Dream 

by John Wilson

Publisher: Key Porter Book

 

Baboon: A Novel 

by David Jones

Publisher: Annick Press

 

For Now

by Gayle Friesen

Publisher: Kids Can Press

 

Porcupine 

by Meg Tilly

Publisher: Tundra Books

 

2008

CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE

JURORS: Alison Acheson, Kathryn Shoemaker and John Wilson

SPONSORS: Kate Walker and Company

 

A Sea-Wishing Day

by Robert Heidbreder

Illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton

Publisher: Kids Can Press

 

The Day It All Blew Away

by Lisa Cinar

Publisher: Simply Read Books

 

Elf the Eagle 

by Ron Smith

Illustrated by Ruth Campbell

Publisher: Oolichan Books

 

Jeffrey and Sloth

by Kari-Lynn Winters

Illustrated by Ben Hodson

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

 

Pink

by Nan Gregory

Illustrated by Luc Melanson

Publisher: Groundwood Books

 

2008

BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD

JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association

SPONSORS: BC Booksellers’ Association and Duthie Books

 

The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest

by Ian McAllister

Publisher: Greystone Books

 

The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell’s Favourite Stories

by Mike McCardell

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

 

Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs

by Grant Arnold, Michael Turner

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre and Vancouver Art Gallery

 

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

 

Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape

by Chris Harris

Publisher: Country Light Publishing

 

2008

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE

JURORS: Carla Funk, Margaret Reynolds, Mel Bolen

SPONSORS: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC

 

Gary Geddes