BC Book Prizes

27th annual Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prizes Gala

The 27th annual Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prize Gala will take place April 21, 2011 at the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver. See event information for details.

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BC Book Prizes AGM

Please join us for The BC Book Prizes’ Annual General Meeting.

Thursday, March 17, 2011
6:00 pm
Alliance for Arts & Culture
Board Room –Suite 100
938 Howe Street, Vancouver

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Winners of the Win the Winners Contest

Thank you to everyone who entered the BC Book Prizes’ Win the Winners Contest. We had a phenomenal amount of entries and are so excited to see people supporting their local independent bookstores.

• People’s Co-op Bookstore drew Philip Tatcher from North Vancouver
• Book Warehouse drew Eric McNab from Vancouver
• Bolen Books drew [winner pending]
• Tanner’s Books drew Margaret Miller from Sidney
• Laughing Oyster Bookstore drew Dan Kirk from Courtenay
• Black Bond Books drew Gina Vander Eyden from New Westminster
• Hooked on Books drew Shirley Ducharme from Penticton

Congratulations to all the winners!

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Congratulations Stan Persky

Stan Persky has been named as the 2010 recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.

As the jury said, “we have chosen Stan Persky as the recipient of the 2010 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence because of the intellectual and moral integrity he brings to his work as a writer who engages with some of the most difficult questions facing society, and because of the great contributions he has made to the literary canon of Canada and British Columbia.” Read more…

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Download 2010 BC Book Prize materials

This promotional material is available for anyone to download and help us promote the BC Book Prizes 2010.

For any of the PDFs, please email Monica at monica[at]rebuscreative.com as they are too large to upload here. Thank you!

• Finalist poster (.pdf)
• Soirée evite (.jpg)
• Northern Tour poster (.pdf)
• Northern Tour postcard (.pdf)
• Northern Tour evites
  • Terrace (.jpg)
  • Kitimat (.jpg)
  • Hazelton (.jpg)
  • Prince Rupert (.jpg)
  • Prince George (.jpg)
  • Quesnel (.jpg)
  • Smithers (.jpg)

• Southern Tour poster (.pdf)

• Southern Tour postcard (.pdf)

• Southern Tour evites

  • Nelson (.jpg)
  • Rossland (.jpg)
  • Cranbrook (.jpg)
  • Oliver (.jpg)
  • Sidney (.jpg)

• Okanagan/Island Tour poster (.pdf)

• Okanagan/Island Tour postcard (.pdf)

• Okanagan/Island Tour evites

  • Penticton (.jpg)
  • Courtenay (.jpg)
  • Nanaimo (.jpg)
  • Sidney (.jpg)

• Winner poster (coming soon)

• Winner bookmark (coming soon)

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Chapters/Indigo promotion April 5 - May 9, 2010

Visit any BC Chapters, Indigo, or Coles store between April 5 and May 9,2010 to receive 10% on BC Book Prize 2010 finalist titles. After the winners are announced on Saturday, April 24, you can save 20% on any winning title.

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More Congratulations for Lee Henderson

Lee Henderson’s novel The Man Game has won the 2009 Vancouver Book Award. Earlier this year Lee Henderson won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for The Man Game. The award was presented this afternoon at City Hall.

The finalists for the 2009 award also included Gabor Maté, who won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and Meredith Quartermain for Nightmarker.

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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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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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Congratulations Brad Cran, Vancouver’s new Poet Laureate

Our congratulations to Vancouver’s second Poet Laureate, Brad Cran. While we are sad to say goodbye to Vancouver’s inaugural Poet Laureate, George McWhirter, we are excited to see what Brad Cran will be championing during his honourary two-year term.

The Poet Laureate Program is a partnership of the City of Vancouver, Vancouver Public Library and the Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival.

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