Please join us in congratulating members of the UBC Creative Writing community who won or were nominated for 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prizes.
The BC and Yukon Book Prizes celebrate the outstanding work that is written, illustrated and published in the region. Prizes are awarded annually to recognize the achievements of BC and Yukon authors, illustrators, and publishers. Award winners are selected through a juried system, with five finalists in each prize category, including the winner selected in each prize category.
Winners
- Li Charmaine Anne, BFA, received the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize for her YA novel, Crash Landing.
- Leanne Dunic, MFA, received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for her poetry collection, wet.
- Sarah Leavitt, Associate Professor, received the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes for her illustrated graphic memoir, Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love.
- Minelle Mahtani, MFA student and Associate Professor in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, received the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize for her memoir, May it Have a Happy Ending: A Memoir of Finding my Voice as my Mother Lost Hers.
Finalists
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, Associate Professor, finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes for his short story collection, Coexistence: Stories.
- Loghan Paylor, MFA, finalist for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes for their historical novel, The Cure for Drowning.
