@bcyukonbookprizes
Our mission is to recognize and promote the achievements of the book community in BC and Yukon through the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and related programs. The 10 Prizes are presented annually recognizing authors, illustrators, and publishers.
Access Copyright Foundation is accepting applications for its Marian Hebb Research Grant program until Feb. 15.
If you're hoping to undertake research to result in a publishable work & looking for support, we hope you'll consider applying for a grant.
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Writers, do you interview for your fiction projects?
Doing interviews can sometimes feel intimidating. Does that ever stop you?
I'm creating my Federation of BC Writers presentation on the subject and would like to hear from you.
#writingcommunity #CanLit #writersky #writershelpingwriters
This week we’re looking at new, accessible hi-lo books for middle-graders and teens, designed to build up a striving reader’s confidence, skill and love of reading!
Read the Educator Newsletter: conta.cc/452FhCV
Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott).
It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!
Dear @theglobeandmail.com Please bring back poetry reviews that reflect the complexity and deep engagement of our thriving CanPo world! We need discussion, critique, and space not mini synopses, and coverage of primarily non Canadian writers.
The Vancouver Writers Fest (@writersfest.bc.ca) is almost here!
From Oct. 20-26, over 130 authors will descend upon Granville Island for 87 events.
The Tyee has covered many of the participating festival authors. Check this thread for more! 🧵📖🚀
Are you interested in helping to choose the winners and shortlists for the 2026 BC and Yukon Book Prizes? Nominations are now open! Nominate yourself or someone you know. For more information visit: bcyukonbookprizes.com/juror-nomina...
On September 30, we share links to resources for National Truth and Reconciliation Day.
The Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection: https://bit.ly/3PPLIRI
#UAlberta Press books: https://bit.ly/4e7NHMb
Department of Canadian Heritage: https://bit.ly/3o5GDZa
#TRC #NTRD @abbookpub.bsky.social
Today and every day, we have a responsibility to learn the ongoing impacts of colonization on this land colonially known as "Canad". Here are some books to read for National Truth and Reconciliation Day and all days with titles: 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #DiverseCanLit
(5/5) 🏆 Dana Claxton and Dr. Curtis Collins have won the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for “Curve!: Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast” (@figure1publishing.bsky.social)
(4/5) 🏆 Sarah Leavitt has won the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes for “Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love” (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social)
(3/5) 🏆 Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson and Robert Davidson have won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for “A Haida Wedding” (@heritagehouse.bsky.social)
(2/5) 🏆 Vancouver poet Fred Wah is recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence. Fred Wah has a long publishing history with @talonbooks.bsky.social.
🏆 Talonbooks' Leanne Dunic has also won an award - the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for “wet”
Congratulations to Leanne Dunic on winning the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (@bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social) for her book "Wet."
You can read my interview with Leanne about the book over at @readlocalbc.bsky.social:
(1/5) The West Coast Book Prize Society announced the winners of the 41st @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social. 🏆 Congratulations to our members, @talonbooks.bsky.social, @heritagehouse.bsky.social, @arsenalpulp.bsky.social, and @figure1publishing.bsky.social!
More details below and at buff.ly/ZxafZpf
I decided to read and review each of my fellow nominees for the BC Yukon Book Prize. Some seriously good books here! 😃 @cormorantbooks.bsky.social @sharigreen.bsky.social @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social
Beyond Canadian classics, contemporary authors like John Green and Emily Henry also have titles on the list.
#Books with 2SLGBTQ+ themes like Gender Queer and Two Boys Kissing are also deemed sexually explicit and will be removed.
In #Edmonton, more than 200 books deemed sexually explicit are slated for removal from library shelves for students in kindergarten to Grade 12.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's hard to watch our neighbours to the East ban books that aren't just important teaching tools, but also have helped students see themselves and build community. We stand with authors and readers who deserve the freedom to read!
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Mark your calendars! September 21st is @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social 's 41st Gala! 🎉 More details and tickets here: buff.ly/6T4ZAeh
Really looking forward to meeting the other local writers and readers at this event. In Enderby, BC, September 13! Let me know if you'll be there too!
We’re thrilled to welcome these authors to #VWF2025 in October!
∙ Linda Bailey
∙ Martha Bátiz @mbatiz.bsky.social
∙ Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social
∙ Vince Beiser @vincebeiser.bsky.social
∙ Billy-Ray Belcourt
∙ Michael Bennett
Browse the full list: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
Submissions are open! If you published, wrote, or illustrated a book in 2025, be sure to consider submitting it for the 42 BC and Yukon Book Prizes! For more information visit: bcyukonbookprizes.com/how-to-enter/
Congratulations to our affiliates: @sarahbleav.bsky.social & @zoewhittall.bsky.social on being shortlisted for this year's Lambda Literary Awards!
Artisanal Writer's Sabyasachi Nag talks to Dallas Hunt about his newest poetry collection: Teeth artisanalwriter.com/2025/07/05/t...
Introducing Barbour Books. Logo of a blue rocket ship blasting towards green stars.
NeWest Press is excited to announce the launch of Barbour Books, our new speculative fiction imprint. Edited by award-winning author and scholar Jenna Butler. Authors looking to submit manuscripts to the imprint can do so now at our manuscript site.
#NeWestPress #BarbourBooks #CanadianSciFi #CanLit
Applications due in ten days!
Have you heard the most recent episodes of Writing the Coast? Over the past few weeks we've featured conversations with Kayla Czaga, Loghan Paylor, and Minelle Mahtani. Listen to these episodes and more here: soundcloud.com/bcyukonbookp...
Loved listening in to my neighbour, author Marion Crook, talk about her memoir in the new season of Writing the Coast! (I met her in line to vote and was probably the only person thrilled with the 2-hour wait)
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Pride Month is an opportunity to uplift and celebrate LGBTQ+ voices! From an alphabet book and fiction with SEL connections to nonfiction books that support health curriculums, read the Educator Newsletter to discover books that will support an inclusive collection for all ages.
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