Congratulations to all of our faculty and alumni nominated for this year’s BC Book Prizes. Nominees include:
Bookseller’s Choice Award: A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World, by Susan Musgrave (lecturer). Vancouver Vanishes, including adjunct instructor Caroline Adderson and alumna Bren Simmers.
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize: Specimen, by alumna Irina Kovalyova
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Where the words end and my body begins, by Amber Dawn (lecturer). Fire Extinguisher by Miranda Pearson (alumna).
Best Illustrated Children’s Book: Peace is an Offering, by alumna Annette LeBox. This is Sadie, by alumna Sara O’Leary.
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize: We Are All Made of Molecules, by Susin Nielsen.
Winners will be announced April 30th, 2016.