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Sunset and Jericho Shortlisted for the 2024 Peter Robinson Award for Best Crime Novel
Sunset and Jericho Shortlisted for the 2024 Peter Robinson Award for Best Crime Novel

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...

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Wayne McCrory co-winner of the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature for Wild Horses of the Chilcotin
Wayne McCrory co-winner of the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature for Wild Horses of the Chilcotin

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...

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Wayne McCrory wins 2024 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize for Wild Horses of the Chilcotin
Wayne McCrory wins 2024 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize for Wild Horses of the Chilcotin

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 ...

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Tim Blackett shortlisted for Two Saskatchewan Book Awards
Tim Blackett shortlisted for Two Saskatchewan Book Awards

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.

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Sunset and Jericho
Sunset and Jericho Shortlisted for 2023 Crime Fiction Lover Award

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 ...

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The Science and Superpower of Seaweed Nominated for Yellow Cedar Award
The Science and Superpower of Seaweed Nominated for Yellow Cedar Award

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-...

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Harbour Titles Recognized by Moonbeam Awards
Harbour Titles Recognized by Moonbeam Awards

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 ...

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Maleea Acker's poetry collection, Hesitating Once to Feel Glory--a book cover with a dark background and a hand holding a crumpled ball of read yarn--is featured underneath the words
Hesitating Once to Feel Glory shortlisted for the Butler Prize

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.

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The Rooftop Garden makes Giller Prize longlist
The Rooftop Garden makes Giller Prize longlist

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 ...

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Robin Fisher Wins 2022 Lieutenant-Governor’s Award from the British Columbia Historical Federation
Robin Fisher Wins 2022 Lieutenant-Governor’s Award from the British Columbia Historical Federation

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 ...

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Workboats for the World book cover, with book title and line drawing of ship, set in silver against a navy blue background
Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story wins John Lyman Book Award

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

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Cover of the Big Melt by Emily Riddle with Griffin Prize - Canadian First Book Award winner seal on it
Nightwood Editions author Emily Riddle Wins Griffin Prize's First Canadian 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!

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