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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the longlist for the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books, and Philippa Joly's A Kid’s Guide to Plants of the Pacific...

The 2023 Governor General's Literary Awards have been announced. In the poetry category, Harbour Publishing author Robert Bringhurst is a finalist for his book, The Ridge, which is intensely focused on the e...

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 ...

We would like to recognize this Day for Truth and Reconciliation. As publishers, we will continue to work to bring the truths of Indian Residential Schools—as well as the truths about the infringement of the...

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 ...

The winners for the sixth annual Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs) were announced today, and Harbour Publishing would like to congratulate Samantha Beynon and Lucy Trimble, recognized in the Published graphic ...

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!

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.