News & Events
June 29, 2009
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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June 18, 2009
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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June 10, 2009
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 10, 2009
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.
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June 04, 2009
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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June 04, 2009
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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June 02, 2009
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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May 25, 2009
A Notable Night of Poetry and Prose: Novelist Paul Headrick and poet Robert Bringhurst will be reading at the UBC Bookstore at Robson Square this Thursday, May 28 at 7:00pm. Admission is free. Visit the Robson Reading Series Event Page for more information.
Paul Headrick, finalist for the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, teaches literature and creative writing at Langara College. His fiction and creative non-fiction have been published in many journals, including The Malahat Review, The Antigonish Review, Image, and The Vincent Brothers Review. His charming first novel, That Tune Clutches My Heart (Gaspereau Press), explores the nature of us-and-them conflicts, told through the experiences of May Sutherland, a 1948 high school student caught between warring factions of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby fans.
Robert Bringhurst, recipient of the 2005 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, is a poet, prose writer, typographer and linguist. His manual The Elements of Typographic Style (Hartley and Marks) has been translated into ten languages and is now one of the world’s most influential texts on typographic design. Bringhurst’s latest book, Selected Poems (Gaspereau Press), brings together selections from several of his collections of poetry and a series of new poems, “The Living.”
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May 15, 2009
The BC Historical Federation celebrates The Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing.
Yesterday they presented the awards and Margaret Horsfield won second prize for Voices from the Sound: Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino, 1899-1929 (also shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize) and Stephen Hume received third prize for Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia, which won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize this year.
More congratulations to Margaret and Stephen!
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May 11, 2009
Alan Twigg, MC for the evening, reflects on 25 years of BC’s literary history:
Howard White of Harbour Publishing presented the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. He recalls Hubert Evans’ appreciation for having a literary prize named after him:
Gabor Maté, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: A Close Encounter with Addiction, won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Here, Gabor speaks about addiction and the Downtown Eastside as well as his lifelong love of books:
Stephen Hume, author of Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia, won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize:
Mona Fertig of Mother Tongue Publishing presented the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She shares how Dorothy Livesay inspired and mentored her:
Daphne Marlatt, author of The Given, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She speaks about the beauty and diversity of the voices within writing and fiction from Vancouver:
Katarina Jovanovic, author of The King Has Goat Ears, won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize. Katarina speaks about her enjoyment for writing for children as well as overcoming language barriers:
The Honourable Steven L. Point, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. He spoke about the relevance of this year’s winning books, the impact of literacy in the First Nations community, and presented Terry Glavin with the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence:
Audio provided by Sheryl MacKay of CBC Radio’s North by Northwest. Thank you so much Sheryl!
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