Tag: Award News

Taste Canada Awards recognizes Canada’s culinary writers and food culture, and this year, the awards celebrate 20 years. Go to full post …read more

Local historian Rolf Knight has been announced as the 2017 recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award, the province’s most prestigious literary honour.Go to full post …read more

BC’s young readers’ choice award, the Chocolate Lily Award, was awarded in three categories on June 9Go to full post …read more

Nisga’a writer Jordan Abel has won the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize for his latest collection of poetry, Injun, an erasure book-length poem about racism and the representation of Indigenous peoples.Go to full post …read more

The jury agreed that Bearskin Diary is an important book telling the story of one of thousands of Aboriginal children taken from their families by provincial governments during the “Sixties Scoop”.Go to full post …read more

Writers’ Trust of Canada announced Kai Cheng Thom winner of the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.Go to full post …read more

The Canadian Historical Association has announced the 2017 winners of the CHA Awards. Go to full post …read more

Photographer and anthropologist Wade Davis was named the 2017 recipient for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature for Wade Davis: Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre).
The George Ryga Award recognizes a BC writer who has achieved an outstanding degree Go to full post …read more

Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control by Alex Marland (UBC Press) was shortlisted on April 11, 2017 for the Donner Prize, which recognizes the best public policy book by a Canadian.
Earlier today, May 15, Go to full post …read more

The seven winners of the 33rd annual BC Book Prizes were announced at a gala in Vancouver on April 29, 2017. Go to full post …read more

The 2016/2017 shortlist for the Donner Prize, the award recognizing the best public policy book by a Canadian, was announced April 11, 2017 by Kenneth Whyte, Chair of the Donner Canadian Foundation.
Among the five finalists is Brand Command: Canadian Politics Go to full post …read more

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the USA. Go to full post …read more