B.C. Books Shortlisted for 2024 BC Yukon Book Prizes

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.

 

BC Yukon Book Prizes 2024 Shortlist

 

The shortlists from B.C. publishers and authors are:

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for literary fiction

Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

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

Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes

Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize

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

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