News & Events
January 29, 2009
The Ontario First Nation public library community has honoured Sono Nis Press’ Which Way Should I Go? by Sylvia Olsen as the 2009 First Nation Communities Read selection.
The Chocolate Lily Awards for Young Readers has released its nominations for 2009. Included in the category of Novel/Chapter Book are Tradewind Books’ The Eco-Diary of Kiran Singer and Honey Cake, Orca Book Publishers’ I, Bruno, Lucky Mountain, Rebel’s Tag and Shadows on the Train, and Annick Press’ Baboon.
In the Picture Book category Greystone Books’ Boy in Motion and Orca’s titles Jeffrey and Sloth, Mechanimal and The Summer of Marco Polo have been selected.
Baboon by David Jones was a finalist for the 2008 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize; and Jeffrey and Sloth by Kari-Lynn Winters and Ben Hodson was a 2008 finalist for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize.
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January 29, 2009
Thanks to an unprecedented level of participation by BC’s writing and publishing community, the West Coast Book Prize Society is pleased to announce that the BC Book Prizes received a record number of entries this year: 336.
This high submission level is the continuation of a trend, a 30% jump from the level of submissions five years ago. The number of submissions has increased each year but one over the past five years.
All of these submissions are now with the judges and five finalists will be announced March 12, 2009 for each of the following prizes:
- Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
- BC Booksellers’ Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
On April 18, the start of BC Book & Magazine Week, the recipient of the 2009 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence will be announced. This award was established in 2003 by the Honourable Iona Campagnolo to recognize British Columbia writers who have contributed to the development of literary excellence in the province. In 2008, the fifth annual award was presented to Gary Geddes by BC’s new Lieutenant Governor, The Honourable Steven L. Point, OBC.
Winners of the 25th Annual BC Book Prizes in the seven categories listed above will be announced on Saturday, April 25th at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prizes Gala at the Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel in Vancouver, marking the end of BC Book & Magazine Week. Between April 11 and 24, several of the finalists will tour, reading to audiences in various communities around BC.
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January 20, 2009
The Governor General has appointed Don McKay of St. John’s, Newfoundland a Member of the Order of Canada “For his contributions to Canadian literature as a nature poet and mentor of many emerging writers from coast to coast.”
Don McKay is the co-founder of Brick Books and was the winner of the 2007 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for his book, Strike/Slip.
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January 07, 2009
Congratulations to Janet Dupuis of New Westminster. She was drawn randomly from the BC Book Prizes mailing list and will receive a copy of Jeffrey and Sloth by Kari-Lynn Winters; Illustrated by Ben Hodson.
If you would like to be eligible for our Monthly Draw, simply sign up for our mailing list to receive information about the BC Book Prizes. Don’t worry, we keep your information private and will never sell or share your email with anyone.
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