News & Events
June 15, 2010
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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April 08, 2010
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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April 02, 2010
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
Southern Tour poster (.pdf)
Southern Tour postcard (.pdf)
Southern Tour evites
Okanagan/Island Tour poster (.pdf)
Okanagan/Island Tour postcard (.pdf)
Okanagan/Island Tour evites
Winner poster (coming soon)
Winner bookmark (coming soon)
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March 31, 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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November 03, 2009
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 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.
To enter our Monthly Draws for BC books, simply join our mailing list on the sidebar (left).
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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!
Posted by Martha Carscadden | Filed under: Announcements | Permalink
April 30, 2009
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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April 26, 2009
Congratulations to the winners of the 25th annual BC Book Prizes:
- Lee Henderson, The Man Game
- Daphne Marlatt, The Given
- Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
- Stephen Hume, Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia
- Katarina Jovanovic & Philippe Béha, The King Has Goat Ears
- Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures
- Stephen R. Bown and Douglas & McIntyre, Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
Visit our 2009 Prizes page for details on all the titles that were recognized this year.
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April 23, 2009
The Canadian Booksellers Association celebrates the “Best in the Business”, and the Libris Awards are voted on by members of the book industry. The Shortlist was announced April 22, and the winners will be announced on June 20, 2009. We’d like to extend our congratulations to all those shortlisted for the 2009 awards, especially those representing BC!
- Steven Galloway’s novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo (Knopf Canada) is up for Fiction Book of the Year
- Andrew Nikiforuk’s book, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (Greystone Books) is up for the Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- UBC Bookstore in Vancouver is shortlisted for the Campus Bookseller of the Year
- Raincoast Books / Book Express, located in Vancouver, are up for Distributor of the Year
- Two Vancouver bookstores are up for Specialty Bookseller of the Year: Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium and Vancouver Kidsbooks
- Talonbooks, located in Vancouver, is up for Small Press Publisher of the Year
Congratulations everyone!
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