BC and Yukon Book PrizesFinalist

Given by West Coast Book Prize Society

Other Names: BC Book Prize, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award, Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award, Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, Sheila A. Egoff Children's Book Prize, Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
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The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. One of the B.C. Book Prizes, the award was show more originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. In 1989, it was renamed after poet Dorothy Livesay, whose Day and Night (1944) and Poems for People (1947) received the Governor General's Award for Poetry show less
Stages:
All, Winner (218), Finalist (114), Shortlist (419)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (4), 2017 (4), 2016 (4), 2015 (4), 2014 (4), 2013 (4), 2012 (3), 2011 (4), 2010 (4), 2009 (4), 2008 (4), 2007 (4), 2006 (4), 2005 (4), 2004 (4), 2003 (4), 2002 (4), 2001 (4), 2000 (4), 1999 (2), 1998 (2), 1997 (2), 1996 (2), 1995 (2), 1994 (2), 1993 (2), 1992 (2), 1991 (2), 1990 (2), 1989 (2), 1988 (2), 1987 (2), 1986 (1), 1985 (2)

Finalist 114

WorkCategoryYear
Rebent Sinner by Ivan CoyoteJim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes2020
On/Me by Francine CunninghamJim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes2020
How She Read by Chantal GibsonJim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes2020
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane PlanteJim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes2020
Mistakes to Run With: A Memoir by Yasuko ThanhJim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes2020
E. J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island by Robert AmosBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2019
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob JosephBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2019
Murder by Milkshake: an Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer. by Eve LazarusBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2019
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeodBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2019
One Eagle Soaring (First West Coast Books) by Roy Henry VickersBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2019
Bad Endings by Carleigh BakerBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2018
Spindrift: A Canadian Book of the Sea by Anita HadleyBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2018
Dirty Windshields : The Best and Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries by Grant LawrenceBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2018
Hello Humpback! by Roy Henry VickersBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2018
The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang by Aaron ChapmanBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2017
Wade Davis: Photographs by Wade DavisBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2017
A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island by Michael LaylandBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2017
Peace Dancer by Roy Henry VickersBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2017
Vancouver Vanishes by Caroline AddersonBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2016
Orca Chief by Robert BuddBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2016
Cold case Vancouver : the city's most baffling unsolved murders by Eve LazarusBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2016
Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper by Caroline WoodwardBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2016
The Sobo Cookbook: Recipes from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road by Lisa AhierBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2015
The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia by Richard BeamishBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2015
A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist by Alicia PriestBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2015
Cloudwalker by Roy Henry VickersBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2015
This Day in Vancouver by Jesse DonaldsonBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2014
The Land of Heart's Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island by Michael LaylandBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2014
Raven Brings the Light by Roy Henry VickersBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2014
The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous by Paula WildBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2014
Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History by Daniel FrancisBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2013
British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas by Derek HayesBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2013
Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide by Harold KalmanBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2013
Bruno and the Beach: Beachcombers at 40 by Marc StrangeBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2013
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe by Charlotte GillBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2012
Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen by Robert J. WiersemaBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2012
Into That Darkness by Steven PriceFiction2012
Voices of British Columbia by Robert BuddBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2011
Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow by Zsuzsi GartnerBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2011
Fishing with Gubby by Gary KentBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2011
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven by Ross KingBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2011
Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC's Japanese Canadian Fishermen by Masako FukawaBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2010
One More Time: The Dal Richards Story by Dal RichardsBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2010
Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names by Andrew ScottBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2010
Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll YahgulanaasBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2010
British Columbia: Spirit of the People by Jean BarmanBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2009
Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet by Cathy ConverseBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2009
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent by Andrew NikiforukBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2009
Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment by Michael Nicoll YahgulanaasBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2009
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael BeahBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2008
Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin's Forgotten Landscape by Chris HarrisBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2008
Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs by Fred HerzogBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2008
The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell's Favourite Stories by Mike McCardellBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2008
Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art by Daina AugaitisBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2007
Vancouver Remembered by Michael KlucknerBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2007
Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids by Lynne Van LuvenBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2007
Yetsa's Sweater by Sylvia OlsenBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2007
Terry by Douglas CouplandBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2006
Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas by Sheila HarringtonBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2006
Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds And Selected Fishes by Andy LambBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2006
Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness by Juri PeepreBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2006
Souvenir of Canada 2 by Douglas CouplandBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2005
Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia (Raincoast Chronicles) by Stephen HumeBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2005
Home : Tales of a Heritage Farm by Anny ScoonesBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2005
Tree: A Life Story by David SuzukiBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2005
From the Wheelhouse: Tugboaters Tell Their Own Stories by Doreen ArmitageBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2004
Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia by David NunukBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2004
Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor's Raincoast by Bill ProctorBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2004
Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of Stewart Marshall by Andrew ScottBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2004
Historical Atlas of Canada by Derek HayesBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2003
Dear Sad Goat: A Roundup of Truly Canadian Tales and Letters by Bill RichardsonBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2003
E. J. Hughes by Ian M. ThomBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2003
The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island by Alison WattBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2003
A Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas by Keith Thor CarlsonBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2002
Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures by Wade DavisBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2002
How to Be a Canadian by Will FergusonBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2002
Ranchland: British Columbia's Cattle Country by Diana FrenchBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2002
City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver by Douglas CouplandBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2001
The Last Great Sea by Terry GlavinBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2001
Wild West Women: Travellers, Adventurers and Rebels by Rosemary NeeringBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2001
The Bear's Embrace: A True Story of Surviving a Grizzly Bear Attack by Patricia Van TighemBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2001
Mountains of the Coast: Photographs of Remote Corners of the Coast Mountains by John BaldwinBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2000
Lions Gate by Lilia D'AcresBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2000
Oar & Sail : An Odyssey of the West Coast by Kenneth Macrae LeightonBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2000
First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy. by Faith MoosangBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award2000
The Clouded Leopard: A Book of Travels by Wade DavisBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1999
Guiding Lights: BC's Lighthouses and Their Keepers by Chris JaksaBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1999
Haida Gwaii: Journeys Through the Queen Charlotte Islands by Ian GillBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1998
Dangerous Waters: Wrecks and Rescues off the BC Coast by Keith KellerBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1998
Sailing Back in Time by Maria CoffeyBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1997
Over Beautiful British Columbia: An Aerial Adventure by Bruce ObeeBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1997
HR : a biography of H.R. MacMillan by Ken DrushkaBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1996
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays by Candace SavageBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1996
The Good Company: An Affectionate History of the Union Steamships by Tom HenryBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1995
Picassos Woman a Breast Cancer Story by Rosalind MacPheeBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1995
Grizzlies & White Guys: The Stories of Clayton Mack by Clayton MackBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1994
Emerald Sea: Exploring the Underwater Wilderness O by Dale SandersBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1994
Nemiah: The Unconquered Country by Terry GlavinBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1993
Vancouver: A Visual History by Bruce MacdonaldBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1993
Coastal Villages by Liv KennedyBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1992
Coastal Wildlife of British Columbia by Bruce ObeeBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1992
Spilsbury's Album: Photographs and Reminiscences of the BC Coast by Jim SpilsburyBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1991
Webster! : an autobiography by Jack WebsterBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1991
The Coast of British Columbia by Rosemary NeeringBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1990
Chilcotin and Beyond by Paul St. PierreBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1990
Never chop your rope: A story of British Columbia logging and the people who logged by Joe GarnerBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1989
Life In the Country by Bruce HutchisonBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1989
Rick Hansen Man in Motion by Ph.D. Rick HansenBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1988
Spilsbury's Coast: Pioneer Years in the Wet West (Spilsbury Saga) by Howard WhiteBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1988
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian by Philip CroftBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1987
Wisdom of the Elders: Native Traditions on the Northwest by Ruth KirkBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1987
Touch the Magic: A Photographic Essay of Greater Vancouver by Philip HerseeBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1986
The Roman Cookery of Apicius by John EdwardsBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1985
Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians by Hilary StewartBill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award1985

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The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. One of the B.C. Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. In 1989, it was renamed after poet Dorothy Livesay, whose Day and Night (1944) and Poems for People (1947) received the Governor General's Award for Poetry (English, Member-written)
The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize is awarded annually as one of the BC Book Prizes for the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. (English, Member-written)
The shortlist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, which is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of the province of British Columbia, Canada. (English, Member-written)
The Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize is awarded annually for the best juvenile or young adult novel or work of non-fiction by a resident of British Columbia or the Yukon, Canada. (English, Member-written)
The Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for Canadian authors and illustrator of picture books, picture story books, and illustrated non-fiction books (English, Member-written)

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