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

Sam Wiebe has received a silver medal at the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards for his book, Hell and Gone—part of the critically-acclaimed Wakeland Detective Series Hell and Gone is a mystery book about Dave Wakeland, a PI who has his life upended after he’s caught in a shooting.

Délani Valin has been shortlisted for the 2023 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for her book, Shapeshifters.

Vancouver Island author Robin Fisher has been shortlisted for the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Wilson Duff: Coming Back, a Life (Harbour Publishing, 2022). The prize recognizes an outstanding scholarly book...

Luschiim Arvid Charlie and Nancy J. Turner have won the 2022 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for their book, Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicine 

Amanda Swinimer has been announced as a finalist for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for her book, The Science and Spirit of Seaweed: Discovering Food, Medicine and Purpose in the Kelp Forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Barry Gough has been shortlisted for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for his book, Possessing Meares Island: A Historian’s Journey into the Heart of Clayoquot Sound

Recipients of the fifth annual Indigenous Voices Awards have been announced, and Selina Boan has won the published poetry in English category for her book, Undoing Hours (Nightwood Editions).

The shortlists for the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes have been announced, and several Harbour Publishing books have been included. Luschiim Arvid Charlie and Nancy J. Turner are shortlisted for the Roder...

The 2022 Ryga Award shortlist has been announced, and three Harbour books have been included: Becoming Vancouver, Possessing Meares Island, and Creeland.

British Columbia in Flames: Stories from a Blazing Summer, written by Claudia Cornwall, has been named a finalist for the 2022 Jeanne Clark Award. This award is presented annually by the Prince George Public Library to individuals or groups for outstanding contributions in the preservation and promotion of local history in the categories of Publication and Service. 

Retired paramedic and author Graeme Taylor has won a bronze medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards for A Paramedic’s Tales: Hilarious, Horrible and Heartwarming True Stories. This BC bestseller ...