The West Coast Book Society has announced the finalists for the 2023 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes. The winners of each of the eight categories will be announced at a gala in Vancouver on September 24.

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

• Marion Ehrenberg, The Language of Dreams (Friesen Press)
• Billy-Ray Belcourt, A Minor Chorus (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Tsering Yangzom Lama, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Janice Lynn Mather, Uncertain Kin (Doubleday Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes (Viking/Penguin Random House Canada)

Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize

• Karen Bakker, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants (Princeton University Press)
• Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods (Greystone Books)
• Michael J. Hathaway, What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make (Princeton University Press)
• Harrison Mooney, Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery (Patrick Crean Editions/HarperCollins Canada)
• Jody Wilson-Raybould, True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)

Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

• Dempsey Bob and Sarah Milroy (ed.), Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice (Figure 1 Publishing)
• Erika Dyck and Jesse Donaldson, The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital (Anvil Press)
• Caitlin Gordon-Walker (ed.), Pam Brown, Jisgang Nika Collison, Anthony Alan Shelton, and Jodi Simkin (curators), in collaboration with the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Knowledge Within: Treasures of the Northwest Coast (Figure 1 Publishing)
• Cole Pauls, Kwändǖr (Conundrum Press)
• Roy Henry Vickers, Ben the Sea Lion (Harbour Publishing)

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

• Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, A is for Acholi (Wolsak & Wynn)
• Megan Fennya Jones, The Program (Goose Lane Editions)
• Cecily Nicholson, HARROWINGS (Talonbooks)
• Tolu Oloruntoba, Each One a Furnace (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)
• Sheryda Warrener, Test Piece (Coach House Books)

Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes

• Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, A is for Acholi (Wolsak & Wynn)
• Michael J. Hathaway, What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make (Princeton University Press)
• Tsering Yangzom Lama, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)
• Harrison Mooney, Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery (Patrick Crean Editions/HCP)
• Y-Dang Troeung, Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (Temple University Press)

Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize

• Linda Bailey and Isabelle Follath (ill.), Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock (Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Nathan Fairbairn and Michele Assarasakorn (ill.), PAWS: Mindy Makes Some Space (Razorbill/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Guojing, The Flamingo (Random House Studio/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Buffy Sainte-Marie and Julie Flett (ill.), Still This Love Goes On (Greystone Books)
• Jessika Von Innerebner, That’s My Sweater! (Scholastic Canada Ltd)

Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize

• Haley Healey and Kimiko Fraser (ill.), Her Courage Rises: 50 Trailblazing Women of British Columbia and the Yukon (Heritage House Publishing)
• Rachel Hartman, In the Serpent’s Wake (Penguin Teen Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Susan Juby, Me Three (Puffin Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Emily Seo and Gracey Zhang (ill.), The Science of Boys (Tradewind Books)
• Kim Spencer, Weird Rules to Follow (Orca Book Publishers)

Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award

• Monique Gray Smith, Dolores Greyeyes Sand (trans.), and Gabrielle Grimard (ill.), I Hope /nipakosêyimon (Orca Book Publishers)
• Chief Robert Joseph, Namwayut: We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation (Page Two Books)
• Grant Lawrence, Return to Solitude: More Desolation Sound Adventures with the Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, the Spaghetti Bandit and Others (Harbour Publishing)
• Eve Lazarus, Cold Case BC: The Stories behind the Province’s Most Intriguing Murder and Missing Persons Cases (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• Gary Wyatt with Robert Davidson, Echoes of the Supernatural: The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson (Figure 1 Publishing)