Congratulations to faculty and alumni nominated and winners of this year’s BC Book Prizes.
MFA Alumna Annette LeBox, won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize for Peace is an Offering, illustrated by Stephanie Graegin.
Susan Musgrave, MFA Poetry Lecturer won the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for her first cookbook A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World.
BC Book Prizes 2016 finalists include:
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Irina Kovalyava MFA 2013
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Miranda Pearson MFA 1998
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
- Sara O’Leary MFA Creative Writing 1998
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
- Caroline Adderson BEd 1986, Creative Writing Instructor
- Brenda “Bren” Simmers MFA Creative Writing 2007