The George Ryga Award is annually presented to a BC writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness in a new book published in the preceding calendar year.
This year the 14th annual George Ryga Award competition has attracted a record number of entries – 52 titles – judged by Vancouver Public Library – Joe Fortes Branch library head Jane Curry; author and professor Trevor Carolan; and freelance journalist and art critic Beverly Cramp.
Here is the 2018 longlist for the 14th annual George Ryga Award:
- Susan Boyd, Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada (Fernwood, 2017)
- David Doyle, Louis Riel: Let Justice Be Done (Ronsdale, 2017)
- Gary Geddes, Medicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care (Heritage House, 2017)
- Monique Gray Smith, Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation (Orca Book Publishers, 2017)
- Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace, Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws (McGill-Queens, 2017)
- Travis Lupick, Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017)
- Arthur Manuel with Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, The Reconciliation Manifesto (Lorimer, 2017)
- Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, A River Captured: The Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change (RMB | Rocky Mountain Books, 2017)
- Howard Macdonald Stewart, Views of the Salish Sea: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia (Harbour Publishing, 2017)
- David Suzuki and Ian Hanington, Just Cool It! The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do (Greystone Books, 2017)
The George Ryga Award is sponsored by Pacific BookWorld News Society, Yosef Wosk, and Vancouver Public Library. The award will be presented at a ceremony in June.