BC Book Prizes

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Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts

The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts takes place this year on August 13-16, 2009.

Don’t miss performances by great Canadian talents, including BC writers such as Daphne Bramham (finalist for the 2009 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize), Steven Galloway (finalist for the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize), Katherine Gordon (finalist in 2005 and 2007), Andrew Nikiforuk (finalist for the 2009 BC Booksellers’ Choice Award), and Andreas Schroeder (finalist for the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize).

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Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival

A number of BC Book Prize nominated (and winning) authors will be attending the Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival this year from July 13-19, 2009.

Hosted by CBC’s Mark Forsythe, some of the writers include Steven Galloway (2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist), Jack Hodgins (winner of the 2006 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence), Gabor Maté (winner of the 2009 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize), Mary Novik (winner of the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize), Harold Rhenisch (finalist in 2007 and 2001), and Ronald Wright (finalist for the 2009 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize).

Don’t miss out on meeting and hearing some of these talented BC authors. Visit the Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival website for more details.

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Elise Partridge Wins CAA Award

Congratulations are in order for Elise Partridge, finalist for this year’s Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her book, Chameleon Hours, has won the Canadian Author Association Poetry Award.

Well done, Elise!

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June Monthly Book Draw

Congratulations Margrit Garzitto from Surrey, BC. She is the proud new owner of a copy of Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America by Chris Wood.

To enter our Monthly Draws for BC books, simply join our mailing list on the sidebar (left).

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More Awards and Nominations for BC Book Prize Authors

BC Book Prize authors have been receiving many accolades recently. Here is a run down of the winning and nominated authors!

Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize finalist, Daphne Bramham’s book, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect, has been nominated for the Best Non-Fiction at the 2009 Arthur Ellis Awards presented by the Crime Writers of Canada.

Iain Lawrence’s book The Séance has been short listed for the Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award. Lawrence is also Shelia A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize finalist!

Bill Slavin and Linda Bailey were nominated for the 2009 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award, for Stanley at Sea, which was a finalist for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize.

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanass has won Gold in the Storyteller of the Year category at the Independent Publishers IPPY Awards this year for Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment. Flight of the Hummingbird was also a finalist for the BC Bookseller’s Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie.

Congratulations to all!

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Simon Fraser Lecture Series in Vancouver, New Westminister

Stephen Hume is wrapping up his Simon Fraser Lecture Series this Saturday, June 6th with a lecture at noon at the New Westminster Public Library. Later, at 7pm, Hume will be speaking at SFU’s downtown campus’s Segal Center. The lecture is sure to be full of information from Hume’s Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize winning book, Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia.

Both of these events are free, and sure to be very interesting, so check them out this weekend.

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Elise Partridge and Stephen Bown Up for CAA Literary Awards

Congratulations are in order for Stephen Bown and Elise Partridge!

Bown’s BC Bookseller’s Choice award-winning book, Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver, has been nominated for the CAA/Lela Common Award for Canadian History by the Canadian Author Association Literary Awards. Chameleon Hours,  Partridge’s Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize norminated collection is nominated for the CAA Award for Poetry.

Winners will be announced June 6th in Toronto. Congratulations and best of luck to these two great BC books and writers!

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