BC Book Prizes On Tour: 2008 Authors Announced
The West Coast Book Prize Society is thrilled to announce the following shortlisted authors will be travelling around the province with BC Book Prizes On Tour:
Northern Leg
(April 13-18, 2008)
- Nan Gregory: Pink (Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize)
- Theresa Kishkan: Phantom Limb (Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize)
- Mary Novik: Conceit (Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize)
- Kari-Lynn Winters: Jeffrey and Sloth (Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize)
Lower Mainland Leg
(April 14-18, 2008)
- Lisa Cinar: The Day It All Blew Away (Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize)
- Robert Hiedbreder: A Sea-Wishing Day
(Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize) - Shaena Lambert: Radiance (Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize)
- Gillian Wigmore: Soft Geography (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)
Southern Leg
(April 21-25, 2008)
- Ruth Campbell and Ron Smith: Elf the Eagle (Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize)
- Don Gayton: Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden
(Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize) - Claire Mulligan: The Reckoning of Boston Jim (Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize)
- Arleen Paré: Paper Trail (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)
Kootenays Leg
(April 21-25, 2008)
- Heather Burt: Adam’s Peak (Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize)
- David Jones: Baboon: A Novel (Sheila A Egoff Children’s Literature Prize)
- Meg Tilly: Porcupine (Sheila A Egoff Children’s Literature Prize)
- Rita Wong: Forage (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)
Thanks to all of these artists for putting their lives on hold for a week this April to visit book lovers around the province.
