The West Coast Book Prize Society awarded literary prizes in eight categories at the lieutenant-governor’s B.C. Book Prizes Gala in Vancouver on April 29. Recipients included Deborah Campbell, Monique Gray Smith and Julie Flett, and Richard Wagamese (posthumously). See photos from the gala below:
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- Non-fiction Prize finalist Carol Shaben and Fiction Prize finalist Anosh Irani (Monica Miller)
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- Adèle Barclay and Nightwood Editions president Silas White (Monica Miller)
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- Poets Raoul Fernandes and Miranda Pearson flanking Adèle Barclay (Monica Miller)
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- Harbour Publishing co-founder Howard White and David Pitt-Brooke (Monica Miller)
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- Ashley LIttle, Cynara Geissler, and Booksellers' Choice Award finalist Aaron Chapman (Monica Miller)
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- Arsenal Pulp Press marketing manager Cynara Geissler, Fiction Prize finalist Ashley LIttle, and author Jesse Donaldson (Monica Miller)
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- Juliane Okot Bitek, author Dina Del Bucchia, Adèle Barclay, and Caitlin Press publicist Michael Despotovic (Monica Miller)
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- Kids' book creator Norma Charles and literary agent Carolyn Swayze (Monica Miller)
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- Arts consultant and former Vancouver Writers and Readers Festival artistic director Alma Lee, Granville Island Publishing publisher Jo Blackmore, and writer Anna Ling Kaye (Monica Miller)
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- Illustrated Children's Literature Prize winners Julie Flett and Monique Gray Smith with Poetry Prize finalist Anne Fleming (Monica Miller)
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- Regional Prize finalist David Pit Brooke and Greystone Books associate publisher Nancy Flight (Monica Miller)
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- Poetry Prize finalists Rob Taylor, Juliane Okot Bitek, and Richard Therrien with Vancouver Community College dean of library, teaching, and learning services Shirley Lew (second from right) (Monica Miller)
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- Booksellers' Choice Award finalist Aaron Chapman and Non-fiction Prize finalist Mark Leiren-Young (Monica Miller)
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- Literary Excellence Award winner Douglas Coupland, journalist Sarah Keenleyside, and Non-fiction Prize winner Deborah Campbell (Monica Miller)
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- Children's Literature Prize finalists Kathleen Cherry and Robin Stevenson (Monica Miller)
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- Illustrated Children's Literature Prize finalist Margriet Ruurs, Children's Literature Prize finalist Kit Pearson, and Fiction Prize winner Jennifer Manuel (Monica Miller)
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- Fiction Prize finalist Jen Sookfong Lee, Poetry Prize finalist Anne Fleming, and Poetry Prize winner Adèle Barclay. (Monica Miller)
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