This weekend, B.C.’s book publishing industry will celebrate the 2024 BC and Yukon Book Prizes celebrating the achievements of B.C. and Yukon writers, illustrators, and publishers. Winners in the awards’ eight categories will be announced at a gala in Vancouver on September 28, 2024.
The shortlists from B.C. publishers and authors are:
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for literary fiction
- A Season in Chezgh’un by Darrel J. McLeod Douglas & McIntyre
- Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante Arsenal Pulp Press
- Beautiful Beautiful by Brandon Reid Nightwood Editions
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
- Skid Dogs by Emelia Symington-Fedy Douglas & McIntyre
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia by Jennifer Bonnell Royal BC Museum Publications
- The Best Loved Boat: The Princess Maquinna by Ian Kennedy Harbour Publishing
- The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future by Wayne McCrory Harbour Publishing
- A Complex Coast: A Kayak Journey from Vancouver Island to Alaska by David Norwell Heritage House
- This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands by Katherine Palmer Gordon Harbour Publishing
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty Nightwood Editions
- A Family of Dreamers by Samantha Nock Talonbooks
- Dream House by Cathy Stonehouse Nightwood Editions
Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes
- JAJ: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Douglas & McIntyre
- Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt Greystone Books
- Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality by Lindsay Wong Penguin Canada
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
- When Stars Arise by E. G. Alaraj and Martyna Czub, ill. Orca Book Publishers
- My Baba’s Garden by Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith, ill. Neal Porter Books
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
- Hopeless in Hope by Wanda John-Kehewin HighWater Press
- Pine Island Visitors by Polly Horvath Puffin Canada
- Out of the Dark by Julie Lawson Nimbus Publishing
- Rise Up and Sing! Power, Protest, and Activism in Music by Andrea Warner and Louise Reimer, ill Greystone Books
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
- The Fire Still Burns: Life In and After Residential School by Sam George, with Jill Yonit Goldberg, Liam Belson, Dylan MacPhee, and Tanis Wilson Purich Books/UBC Press
- Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty Nightwood Editions
- Fleece and Fibre: Textile Producers of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands by Francine McCabe Heritage House
- JAJ: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Douglas & McIntyre
- White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver by Henry Tsang Arsenal Pulp Press
