Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize

Theresa Kishkan, Phantom Limb; Robert Bringhurst, Everywhere Being Is Dancing; Patricia Roy, The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941–67; J. B. MacKinnon and Alisa Smith, The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating; Don Gayton, Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

David Chariandy, Soucouyant; Heather Burt, Adam’s Peak; Shaena Lambert, Radiance; Claire Mulligan, The Reckoning of Boston Jim; Mary Novik, Conceit

Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

Tim Bowling, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture; Chris Harris, Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo-Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape; Barry Gough, Fortune’s a River: The Collision of Empires in the Pacific Northwest; J. B. MacKinnon and Alisa Smith, The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating; Ian McAllister, The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Rain Forest

Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize

Gayle Friesen, For Now; Polly Horvath, The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane; David Jones, Baboon: A Novel; Meg Tilly, Porcupine; John Wilson, The Alchemist’s Dream

Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize

Lisa Cinar, The Day It All Blew Away; Nan Gregory and Luc Melanson, Pink; Robert Heidbreder and Kady MacDonald Denton, A Sea-Wishing Day; Ron Smith and Ruth Campbell, Elf the Eagle; Kari-Lynn Winters and Ben Hodson, Jeffrey and Sloth

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

George McWhirter, The Incorrection; Christopher Patton, Ox; Arleen Paré, Paper Trail; Gillian Wigmore, Soft Geography; Rita Wong, Forage

Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award

Grant Arnold, Michael Turner, and the Vancouver Art Gallery, Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs; Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier; Chris Harris, Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo-Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape; Ian McAllister, The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Rain Forest; Mike McCardell, The Blue Flames That Keep Us Warm

The winners will be announced on April 26 at the Lieutenant-Governor’s B.C. Book Prize Gala. See www.bcbookprizes.ca/ for complete info.