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Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. The award is named after novelist and short story writer Ethel Wilson Ethel Davis Wilson, (January 20, 1888 – December 22, 1980) was a Canadian writer of short stories and novels. Her works include ''Hetty Dorval'' (1947), ''The Innocent Traveller'' (1949), ''Swamp Angel'' (1954) and ''Mrs Golightly and Other St ..., author of '' Swamp Angel'' (1954) and ''The Innocent Traveller'' (1949). Winners and nominees References {{Reflist External linksEthel Wilson Fiction Prize official website BC and Yukon Book Prizes Awards established in 1985 1985 establishments in British Columbia Canadian fiction awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC And Yukon Book Prizes
The BC Book & Yukon Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers and publishers. The prizes, as well as the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, are presented annually at the Lieutenant Governor's BC Book Prize Gala in April. The prizes are administered and awarded by the West Coast Book Prize Society. Publicity, organization of the awards and fundraising for the Gala and prize pool was handled by Vancouver marketing and publicity firm, Rebus Creative until the end of 2018. In early 2019, Sean Cranbury was appointed as Executive Director by the Board of the West Coast Book Prize Society to take over production and promotion of the BC & Yukon Book Prizes. In 2021, Sharon Bradley took over as Executive Director, and Megan Cole was hired as the Director of Programming and Communications. In 2019, the prizes announced a name change from BC Book Prizes to BC & Yukon Book Prizes. The award criteria has always been open to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Skelton
Robin Skelton (12 October 1925 – 22 August 1997) was a British-born academic, writer, poet, and anthologist. Biography Born in Easington, Yorkshire, Skelton was educated at the University of Leeds and Cambridge University. From 1944 to 1947, he served with the Royal Air Force in India. He later taught at Manchester University, where he was a founder member of The Peterloo Group. In 1963, he emigrated to Canada, and began teaching at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Skelton was an authority on Irish literature. He is well known for his work as a literary editor; he was a founder and editor, with John Peter, of ''The Malahat Review'', and a translator. Known as a practising Wicca Wicca () is a modern Pagan religion. Scholars of religion categorise it as both a new religious movement and as part of the occultist stream of Western esotericism. It was developed in England during the first half of the 20th century and w ...n, Skelton also published a number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Gail Kathryn Anderson-Dargatz (born November 14, 1963) is a Canadian novelist."Gail Anderson-Dargatz" , February 20, 2007. Anderson-Dargatz was born in , , and grew up in . She studied creative writing at the |
Joy Kogawa
Joy Nozomi Kogawa (born June 6, 1935) is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent. Life Kogawa was born Joy Nozomi Nakayama on June 6, 1935, in Vancouver, British Columbia, to first-generation Japanese Canadians Lois Yao Nakayama and Gordon Goichi Nakayama. She grew up in a predominantly white, middle-class community. During World War II, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and twelve weeks later Kogawa was sent with her family to the internment camp for Japanese Canadians at Slocan during World War II. After the war she resettled with her family in Coaldale, Alberta, where she completed high school. In 1954 she attended the University of Alberta, and in 1956, the Anglican Women's Training College and The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She moved back to Vancouver in 1956 and married David Kogawa there in 1957, with whom she had two children: Gordon and Deirdre. The couple divorced in 1968, and the same year K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gayla Reid
Gayla Reid (born 12 May 1945) is an Australian-born Canadian writer. Biography Born and raised in Armidale, New South Wales, Reid was educated at the University of New England, Australian National University and the University of British Columbia. Remaining in Canada, she was active in the country's feminist movement, editing the newspaper '' Kinesis'' and the literary journal '' Room of One's Own'' and teaching women's studies at Vancouver Community College. She began publishing fiction in the early 1990s, winning the Journey Prize in 1993 for her short story "Sister Doyle's Men". In 1994, she published her first short story collection, ''To Be There With You'', which was a winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1995. ''All the Seas of the World'' and ''Closer Apart'' were finalists for the Ethel Wilson fiction prize in 2001 and 2002. ''Come from Afar'' was published to critical acclaim in 2011. According to jury citation, Gayla Reid stands out for her stunningly beauti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Windley
Carol Ann Windley (born 18 June 1947) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. Biography Carol Ann Windley was born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta. Her debut short story collection, ''Visible Light'' (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She followed in 1998 with her first novel, ''Breathing Underwater''. In 2002, Windley won a Western Magazine Award for "What Saffi Knows", which later featured as the opening story in her short story collection ''Home Schooling'' (2006). That book was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Windley has also taught creative writing at Malaspina University-College Vancouver Island University (abbreviated as VIU, formerly known as Malaspina University-College and earlier as Malaspina College) is a Canadian public university serving Vancouver Island and coastal British Colum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Adderson
Caroline Adderson (born September 9, 1963) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She has published four novels, two short story collections and two books for young readers. Personal life and career Caroline Adderson was born on September 9, 1963 in Edmonton, Alberta. She studied at the University of British Columbia, receiving a degree in education in 1982. Her first short story collection, ''Bad Imaginings'' (1993), was nominated for the Governor General's Award and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her second novel, ''Sitting Practice'' (2003), also won the award. Adderson has won the CBC Literary Competition three times. In 2006, she received the Marian Engel Award, given annually to an outstanding Canadian female writer in mid-career in recognition of her body of work. Awards and honours *1993 – Nominee, Governor General's Award, for ''Bad Imaginings'' *1994 – Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for ''Bad Imaginings'' *1999 – Shortlisted, Rogers Writers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Svendsen
Linda Svendsen (born Vancouver, 1954) is a Canadian screenwriter and author. Biography She has lived in her birth city for most of her life. Her works include many critically acclaimed short stories. Her stories were anthologized and published in magazines such as ''Atlantic Monthly'' and '' Saturday Night.'' She won first prize in the American Short Story Contest in 1980, and was a three-time finalist for the O. Henry Awards. In 1992, she published a book called ''Marine Life,'' which was also translated into German which was a finalist for the 1993 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In 2000, ''Marine Life'' was adapted into a film starring Cybill Shepherd and Peter Outerbridge."UBC prof's Marine Life now an Anne Wheeler film". ''Vancouver Sun'', December 10, 1999. Svendsen wrote the television film adaptation of ''The Diviners,'' as well as the miniseries ''Human Cargo'' and the television film '' At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story.'' She won a Gemini Award for the ''H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Eaton Hamilton
Eaton Hamilton (born July 19, 1954) is a Canadian short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet, who goes by "Hamilton", 2021 legal name “Eaton Hamilton" and uses they/their pronouns. Hamilton has published the novel ''Weekend'' (Arsenal Pulp Press 2016), three books of poetry, ''Body Rain'' (Brick Books 1992) and ''Steam-Cleaning Love'' (Brick Books 1993), ''Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes'' (Caitlin Press, 2014), a poetry chapbook (''Going Santa Fe'', winner of the League of Canadian Poets Poetry Chapbook prize) and two volumes of short fiction ''July Nights and Other Stories'', (Douglas and McIntyre, 1991) and ''Hunger'', (Oberon, 2001). They are also the author, under the pseudonymous name of Ellen Prescott, of the memoir ''Mondays are Yellow, Sundays are Grey'' retitled ''No More Hurt'' which was included on the Guardian's Best Book of the Year list and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Their books have been shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes, the ReLit Award, the V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Dickinson
Don Dickinson (born December 27, 1974) is a Canadian writer and actor, born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on December 27, 1947. He was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1991 Governor General's Awards for his short story collection ''Blue Husbands'', and for the 1993 Books in Canada First Novel Award for his novel ''The Crew''. ''Blue Husbands'' was also a winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1992. Dickinson has published one other short story collection and three novels. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia, he worked primarily as a school teacher in Lillooet, British Columbia. He served on the jury for the Governor General's Awards in 1996."Striking it rich in Canada's literary sweepstakes". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Lee
Sky Lee (born September 15, 1952 as Sharon Lee) is a Canadian artist and novelist. Lee has published both feminist fiction and non-fiction and identifies as lesbian. Personal life Lee was born September 15, 1952 in Port Alberni, British Columbia. Her mother, Wong Mowe Oi, was a homemaker and her father, Lee Gwei Chang, was a millworker. Moving to Vancouver in 1967 to attend university, she received a B.A. in Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia and a Diploma in Nursing from Douglas College. She became a member of the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. Lee lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Career Lee was first published as the illustrator of 1983's children's book, ''Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter!'' by Paul Yee. The book is a collection of four stories exploring what it is like to grow up as a Chinese-Canadian in a community with links to both Asian-Canadian and Anglo-Canadian cultures. Reviewer Robert W. Bruinsma argued the book was "modestly illustrated." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Bowering
Marilyn Bowering (born April 13, 1949) is a Canadian poet, novelist and playwright. As well as several adventure novels and many books of poetry, Bowering has also scripted a number of dramatic works and a libretto. Early life Bowering was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. She studied English at the University of Victoria, and graduated with a Master of Arts degree. Career In 1987, Bowering wrote a book of poetic monologues, titled ''Anyone Can See I Love You'', which was later adapted as a radio drama. In 1998 she wrote an adventure story, ''Visible Worlds'', which received positive reviews.Juliana De Nooy. Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Look Twice'. Palgrave Macmillan UK; 21 June 2005. . p. 161–.H.W. Wilson Company. Book review digest'. Vol. 95. H.W. Wilson Co.; 1999. p. 186. In 2012, her book of poetry, ''Soul Mouth'', was published. In 2013 Bowering worked with composer Gavin Bryars to create the libretto for a chamber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |