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BC and bestselling author Sam Wiebe has been nominated for the 2024 Peter Robinson Award for Best Crime Novel for his work Sunset and Jericho (Harbour Publishing, 2023). The Peter Robinson Award, sponsored b...

Wildlife biologist Wayne McCrory is the co-winner of the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature for his book, Wild Horses of the Chilcotin (Harbour Publishing), with Helen Knott, author of Beco...

Wayne McCrory has won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for his book The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future. The $3,500 prize, given by UBC ...

Nightwood Editions author Tim Blackett has been shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards—the Fiction Award and the First Book Award—for his debut story collection, Grandview Drive. The shortlist was presented in partnership with the Regina Public Library on Friday, March 1, 2024.

The readers have voted, and Sam Wiebe’s Sunset and Jericho has made the shortlist for a Crime Fiction Lover Award. Sunset and Jericho is the fourth installment of the Wakeland detective series that explores ...

Amanda Swinimer's book, The Science and Superpowers of Seaweed: A Guide for Kids has been nominated for the Forest of Reading® Yellow Cedar Award for nonfiction aimed at grades 5-8. This colourful, activity-...

BC authors Samantha Beynon, Philippa Joly, and Amanda Swinimer Awarded Top Honours in the 2023 Moonbeam Prize! Gold Medal in the Cultural Experience Category Oolichan Moon by Samantha Beynon, illustrated ...

The Victoria Book Prize Society has announced the shortlist for the 2023 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Maleea Acker’s poetry collection Hesitating Once to Feel Glory (Nightwood Editions, 2022) has been shortlisted for the award.

Menaka Raman-Wilms' novel, The Rooftop Garden, has been longlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. “The Rooftop Garden adroitly weaves the themes of friendship, responsibility, and climate change into ...

Harbour Publishing would like to congratulate Robin Fisher on winning the 40th annual Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing. On Saturday, former Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon presented the ...

Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story wins John Lyman Book Award Harbour Publishing would like to congratulate Robert G. Allan and Peter A. Robson for winning the John Lyman Book Award

Griffin Poetry Prize has announced that The Emily Riddle, author of The Big Melt, is the winner of the 2023 Canadian First Book Prize!