The Autumn issue of our BC BookWorld newspaper is here, featuring Howard White (Douglas & McIntyre), Susan Juby (HarperCollinsCa), Christopher Cheung (UBC Press), Nancy Marguerite Anderson (Ronsdale Press), Carly Butler (Caitlin Press) and many more: bcbooklook.com/latest-issue/

Junie Désil has been named the 2024 Ellen and Warren Tallman writer-in-residence at SFU! Congratulations, Junie! sfu.ca/english/writer…

Eeeeeee I'm speaking to 600 high school students (and their teachers etc) -- most terrifying audience ever!! Send thoughts and prayers 😃😅😳

Tonight! I'd love to see you there!

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Congrats to all of the finalists of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes! We're especially excited to see these books from our favourite local BC publishers and authors being recognized. @harbour_publish @nightwooded @arsenalpulp Greystone Books Heritage House Douglas & McIntyre @talonbooks

Hey look! It's poets-in-(ok, outside, but very near)-transit! Andrea Scott, Tiffany Scott, Svetlana Ischenko, Christopher Levenson, Bradley Peters, Michelle Brown and Dina Del Beano! Thank you to The Association of Book Publishers of BC and TransLink BC for bringing us another year of Poetry in Transit!

I was saying with most awards it feels like I’m always the bridesmaid never the bride. Well, shucks… I just became a literary wifey - I won a BC Yukon Book Prize last night yall 🥲🥹 straight.com/living/here-ar… via Georgia Straight

Congratulations to Keith Maillard, the winner of the 2024 Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. Keith Maillard is the author of fifteen novels, a book of poetry, and two memoirs. He continues to mentor of writers at UBC’s School of Creative Writing.

Congratulations to the Kluane First Nations Elders, the winners of the 2024 Borealis Prize! Individually and together, members of the Kluane First Nation Elders have contributed to the storytelling, literary, and publishing community in Yukon for decades.

Congratulations to Jess Housty whose debut poetry collection, Crushed Wild Mint, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award!

For those who wish to know. Also, great to see Darrel at the top of the list!

Congratulations to Jess H̓áust̓i on winning the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize! If you'd like to learn more about the book, here's my interview with Jess for Read Local BC: readlocalbc.ca/2024/03/13/a-f…

BRAVA Jess H̓áust̓i !! #poetry Nightwood Editions

Fire Weather John Vaillant ! Well deserved awards are great, but even better would be people reading and heeding its message

Congratulations to this year's BC and Yukon Book Prize winners, including our affiliates John Vaillant, Ian Kennedy & Jordan Scott.

The BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2024 winners are available at NNELS in #AlternateFormats! You can learn more about the winners here: nnels.ca/news/bc-and-yu… or visit the 2024 nominees collection at NNELS: nnels.ca/relations/bc-a…

The West Coast Book Prize Society has announced the winners of the 2024 BC and Yukon Book Prizes. Learn more at bit.ly/3Nb6Fp3

Great book news! 📚 🎉 A huge congratulations to "Hopeless in Hope" by Wanda John-Kehewin, who was announced as a Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize winner this week! Thank you to BC and Yukon Book Prizes for recognizing this amazing book on family and forgiveness. #bookprize #HWP