This weekend, B.C.’s book publishing industry celebrated 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 were announced at a gala in Vancouver on September 28, 2024.
The winners 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
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- The Best Loved Boat: The Princess Maquinna by Ian Kennedy Harbour Publishing
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty Nightwood Editions
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
- 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
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
- Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty Nightwood Editions
Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
- Keith Maillard
