BC Book Prizes

Gillian Wigmore Wins 2008 ReLit Poetry Award

We are very pleased to extend our congratulations to Gillian Wigmore, whose book, Soft Geography, won the 2008 ReLit Poetry Award. The ReLit Awards were founded in 2000 as an alternative to the big-money prizes. The awards are open to books published by independent Canadian literary publishers. ReLit is short for “Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, Relighting Literature…”. More about the ReLit Awards.

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Congrats to our July BC Book Draw Winner

Laina Purcell is the lucky winner of a copy of Fortune’s A River: The Collision of Empires in the Pacific Northwest by Barry Gough. This title was a finalist for this year’s Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize.

Congratulations, Laina, and happy reading!

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Audrey Thomas made Officer of the Order of Canada

On July 1, 2008, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, announced 75 new appointments to the Order of Canada. The new appointees include five Companions (C.C.), 26 Officers (O.C.), and 43 Members (C.M.), as well as one Honorary Officer. Among the Officers is three-time Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winner, Audrey Thomas. The Galiano Island and Victoria-based short story writer and novelist won BC Book Prizes for Intertidal Life(1985), Wild Blue Yonder (1991) and Coming Down from Wa (1996). Her novel, Tattycoram, was shortlisted in 2006. Ms. Thomas has also received the $15,000 W.O. Mitchell Award (2001), the Marian Engel Award (1987), the $3,000 Canada-Australia Prize (1989), the Canada-Scotland Literary Fellowship (1985-86) and a National Magazine Award. More than 25 of her plays and stories have been broadcast on CBC. Congratulations, Audrey. More

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Lisa Cinar’s work at ECIAD til July 28

Author and book designer Celia King has curated an exhibit of art books now on display in the Concourse Gallery of Emily Carr University (1399 Johnston St., Granville Island.) Among the popup books, sculptural books, fine press and more, you’ll find work by Lisa Cinar, whose book The Day It All Blew Away, featuring an odd-shaped protagonist called Mr. Tadaa, was shortlisted for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize. Says Cinar, “When I was in school I always found myself doing my classes and doodling on my books. The characters came from all these doodles, and it was natural for the characters to look like that.” The exhibition opens July 10 and runs daily from 10 am to 6 pm. www.eciad.ca

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