The West Coast Book Society has announced shortlists for the annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes.

The prizes celebrate the achievements of B.C. and Yukon writers, illustrators, and publishers. Winners in the awards’ eight categories will be announced at a gala in Vancouver on September 28.

The shortlists are:

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for literary fiction

• A Season in Chezgh’un by Darrel J. McLeod (Douglas & McIntyre)
• Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison (Coach House Books)
• Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• Beautiful Beautiful by Brandon Reid (Nightwood Editions)
• What Remains of Elsie Jane by Chelsea Wakelyn (Dundurn Press)

Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

• If you lie down in a field, she will find you there by Colleen Brown (Radiant Press)
• Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein (Knopf Canada)
• Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott (Knopf Canada)
• Skid Dogs by Emelia Symington-Fedy (Douglas & McIntyre)
• Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast by John Vaillant (Vintage Canada)

Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

• Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia by Jennifer Bonnell (Royal BC Museum Publications)
• The Best Loved Boat: The Princess Maquinna by Ian Kennedy (Harbour Publishing)
• The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future by Wayne McCrory (Harbour Publishing)
• A Complex Coast: A Kayak Journey from Vancouver Island to Alaska by David Norwell (Heritage House)
• This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands by Katherine Palmer Gordon (Harbour Publishing)

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

• Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier (icehouse poetry)
• Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty (Nightwood Editions)
• A Family of Dreamers by Samantha Nock (Talonbooks)
• Sonnets from a Cell by Bradley Peters (Brick Books)
• Dream House by Cathy Stonehouse (Nightwood Editions)

Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes

• Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott (Knopf Canada)
• JAJ: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
• Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt (Greystone Books)
• Landbridge: Life in fragments by Y-Dang Troeung (Alchemy by Knopf Canada)
• Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality by Lindsay Wong (Penguin Canada)

Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize

• When Stars Arise by E. G. Alaraj and Martyna Czub, ill. (Orca Book Publishers)
• Maybe a Whale by Kirsten Pendreigh and Crystal Smith, ill. (Groundwood Books)
• The Song That Called Them Home by David A. Robertson and Maya McKibben, ill. (Tundra Books)
• What to Bring by Lorna Schultz Nicholson and Ellen Rooney, ill. (Owlkids)
• My Baba’s Garden by Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith, ill. (Neal Porter Books)

Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize

• Obaasan’s Boots by Janis Bridger and Lara Jean Okihiro (Second Story Press)
• Pine Island Visitors by Polly Horvath (Puffin Canada)
• Hopeless in Hope by Wanda John-Kehewin (HighWater Press)
• Out of the Dark by Julie Lawson (Nimbus Publishing)
• Rise Up and Sing! Power, Protest, and Activism in Music by Andrea Warner and Louise Reimer, ill (Greystone Books)

Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award

• The Fire Still Burns: Life In and After Residential School by Sam George, with Jill Yonit Goldberg, Liam Belson, Dylan MacPhee, and Tanis Wilson (Purich Books/UBC Press)
• Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty (Nightwood Editions)
• Fleece and Fibre: Textile Producers of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands by Francine McCabe (Heritage House)
• JAJ: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
• White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver by Henry Tsang (Arsenal Pulp Press)