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.[citation needed]

The award is named after novelist and short story writer Ethel Wilson, author of Swamp Angel (1954) and The Innocent Traveller (1949).

Winners and finalists

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winners and finalists
Year Author Titles Result Ref.
1985 Audrey Thomas Intertidal Life Winner [1]
Mary Ellen Collura Winners Shortlist
Charles Lillard A Coastal Range
1986 Keath Fraser Foreign Affairs Winner
Brian Fawcett The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie Shortlist
George Ryga In the Shadow of the Vulture
L. R. Wright The Suspect
1987 Leona Gom Housebroken Winner
Paulette Jiles Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola Shortlist
Rona Murray The Indigo Dress and Other Stories
1988 George McWhirter Cage Winner
Jane Rule Memory Board Shortlist
Robin Skelton The Parrot Who Could
1989 Bill Schermbrucker Mimosa Winner
William Goede Love In Beijing Shortlist
Robert Harlow Saxophone Winter
1990 Keith Maillard Motet Winner
Jane Rule After the Fire Shortlist
1991 Audrey Thomas Wild Blue Yonder Winner
Sky Lee Disappearing Moon Cafe Shortlist
Caroline Woodward Disturbing the Peace
1992 Don Dickinson Blue Husbands Winner
M.A.C. Farrant Sick Pigeon Shortlist
Maureen Moore The Illuminations of Alice Mallory
1993 W.D. Valgardson The Girl with the Botticelli Face Winner
Jane Eaton Hamilton July Nights and Other Stories Shortlist
Linda Svendsen Marine Life
1994 Caroline Adderson Bad Imaginings Winner
Keith Maillard Light in the Company of Women Shortlist
Carol Windley Visible Light
1995 Gayla Reid To Be There with You Winner
Grant Buday Under Glass Shortlist
Patricia Robertson City of Orphans
1996 Audrey Thomas Coming Down from Wa Winner
Joy Kogawa Rain Ascends Shortlist
Lorraine Vernon Through the Canyon
1997 Gail Anderson-Dargatz The Cure for Death by Lightning Winner
Nick Bantock The Venetian's Wife Shortlist
Shani Mootoo Cereus Blooms at Night
1998 Marilyn Bowering Visible Worlds Winner
Sally Ireland Fox's Nose Shortlist
Holley Rubinsky At First I Hope for Rescue
1999 Jack Hodgins Broken Ground Winner
Loranne Brown The Handless Maiden Shortlist [2]
Anne Fleming Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
2000 Michael Turner The Pornographer's Poem Winner
Caroline Adderson A History of Forgetting Shortlist
Zsuzsi Gartner All the Anxious Girls on Earth
Keith Harrison Furry Creek
Alan R. Wilson Before the Flood
2001 Eden Robinson Monkey Beach Winner
Anita Rau Badami The Hero's Walk Shortlist
Barbara Lambert A Message for Mr. Lazarus
Peter Trower The Judas Hills
Jack Whyte Uther
2002 Madeleine Thien Simple Recipes Winner
Rebecca Godfrey The Torn Skirt Shortlist
Andrew Gray Small Accidents
Gayla Reid All the Seas of the World
Timothy Taylor Stanley Park
2003 Carol Shields Unless Winner
Kevin Armstrong Nightwatch Shortlist
Bill Gaston Mount Appetite
Nancy Lee Dead Girls
Gayla Reid Closer Apart
2004 Caroline Adderson Sitting Practice Winner
Claudia Casper The Continuation of Love by Other Means Shortlist
Steven Galloway Ascension
Kevin Patterson Country of Cold
Janet Warner Other Sorrows, Other Joys
2005 Pauline Holdstock Beyond Measure Winner
Bill Gaston Sointula Shortlist
Theresa Kishkan A Man in a Distant Field
Annabel Lyon The Best Thing for You
Patrick Taylor The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty
2006 Charlotte Gill Ladykiller Winner
Clint Burnham Smoke Show Shortlist
Lydia Kwa The Walking Boy
John Lent So It Won't Go Away
Audrey Thomas Tattycoram
2007 Carol Windley Home Schooling Winner
Marilyn Bowering What It Takes to Be Human Shortlist
Bill Gaston Gargoyles
Anosh Irani The Song of Kahunsha
Adam Lewis Schroeder Empress of Asia
2008 Mary Novik Conceit Winner
Heather Burt Adam's Peak Shortlist
David Chariandy Soucouyant
Shaena Lambert Radiance
Claire Mulligan The Reckoning of Boston Jim
2009 Lee Henderson The Man Game Winner
Steven Galloway The Cellist of Sarajevo Shortlist
Paul Headrick That Tune Clutches My Heart
Patrick Lane Red Dog, Red Dog
Andreas Schroeder Renovating Heaven
2010 Cathleen With Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison Winner [3]
Annabel Lyon The Golden Mean Shortlist
Michael Turner 8 x 10
Ian Weir Daniel O'Thunder
Deborah Willis Vanishing and Other Stories
2011 Gurjinder Basran Everything Was Good-Bye Winner [4]
Rifet Bahtijaragic Chernovs' Toil and Peace Shortlist
Jack Hodgins The Master of Happy Endings
Meredith Quartermain Recipes from the Red Planet
Jack Whyte The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
2012 Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues Winner [5]
Michael Christie The Beggar's Garden Shortlist [6]
Frances Greenslade Shelter
Steven Price Into the Darkness
D. W. Wilson Once You Break a Knuckle
2013 Bill Gaston The World Winner [7]
C. P. Boyko Psychology and Other Stories Shortlist
Anne Fleming Gay Dwarves of America
Anakana Schofield Malarky
Yasuko Thanh Floating Like the Dead
2014 Ashley Little Anatomy of a Girl Gang Winner [8]
Théodora Armstrong Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility Shortlist
Janie Chang Three Souls
Cynthia Flood Red Girl Rat Boy
Kathryn Para Lucky
2015 Aislinn Hunter The World Before Us Winner [9]
Caroline Adderson Ellen in Pieces Shortlist
Kathy Page Paradise & Elsewhere
Brian Payton The Wind is Not a River
Michael Springate The Beautiful West & the Beloved of God
2016 Alix Hawley All True Not a Lie in It Winner [10]
Pauline Holdstock The Hunter and the Wild Girl Shortlist
Irina Kovalyova Specimen
Nasreen Pejvack Amity
Anakana Schofield Martin John
2017 Jennifer Manuel The Heaviness of Things That Float Winner [11]
Joan Haggerty The Dancehall Years Shortlist
Anosh Irani The Parcel
Jen Sookfong Lee The Conjoined
Ashley Little Niagara Motel
2018 David Chariandy Brother Winner [12]
Andrea MacPherson What We Once Believed Shortlist [13]
Zoey Leigh Peterson Next Year, For Sure
Eden Robinson Son of a Trickster
Daniel Zomparelli Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person
2019 Eden Robinson Trickster Drift Winner
Amber Dawn Sodom Road Exit Shortlist
Erin Frances Fisher That Tiny Life
Alex Leslie We All Need to Eat
Kathy Page Dear Evelyn
2020 Stephen Price Lampedusa Winner [14]
Michael Christie Greenwood Shortlist [15]
Nazanine Hozar Aria
Alix Ohlin Dual Citizens
Rhea Tregebov Rue des Rosiers
2021 Shaena Lambert Petra Winner [16]
Susan Sanford Blades Fake It So Real Shortlist [17]
Michelle Good Five Little Indians
Aislinn Hunter The Certainties
Annabel Lyon Consent
2022 Ruth Ozeki The Book of Form and Emptiness Winner [18]
Cedar Bowers Astra Shortlist [19]
Carrie Jenkins Victoria Sees It
Rahela Nayebzadah Monster Child
Alix Ohlin We Want What We Want
2023 Billy-Ray Belcourt A Minor Chorus Winner [20]
Marion Ehrenberg The Language of Dreams Shortlist [21]
Tsering Yangzom Lama We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
Janice Lynn Mather Uncertain Kin
Danny Ramadan The Foghorn Echoes
2024 Darrel J. McLeod A Season in Chezgh'un Winner [22]
Geoffrey D. Morrison Falling Hour Shortlist [23]
Hazel Jane Plante Any Other City
Brandon Reid Beautiful Beautiful
Chelsea Wakelyn What Remains of Elsie Jane
2025 Shashi Bhat Death by a Thousand Cuts Winner [24]
Billy-Ray Belcourt Coexistence Shortlist [25]
Deirdre Simon Dore A Reluctant Mother
Scott Alexander Howard The Other Valley
Cynthia LeBrun Black Sunflowers
2026 Sarah Louise Butler Rufous and Calliope Shortlist [26]
Bill Gaston Tunnel Island
Susan Juby Contemplation of a Crime
Maria Reva Endling
Sam Wiebe The Last Exile

References

  1. ↑ Rosenthal, Caroline (2003). Narrative Deconstructions of Gender in Works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich. Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-267-3.
  2. ↑ "B.C. Book Prize nominees named: Veteran writer Jack Hodgins is among the nominees in six categories honouring the best in B.C. books from the past year". Vancouver Sun, April 3, 1999.
  3. ↑ "Canadian Awards: First Novel; BC Book; Schwartz Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. 2010-04-30. Archived from the original on 2022-12-10. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  4. ↑ Sherlock, Tracy (2011-04-22). "Dual-culture novel garners BC Book Prize fiction award". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2011-05-31. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
  5. ↑ "Victoria writer Esi Edugyan wins the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award". Times Colonist. 2012-05-13. Archived from the original on 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
  6. ↑ Medley, Mark (2012-03-08). "Esi Edugyan to face husband Steven Price for Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize". National Post. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  7. ↑ Chamberlain, Adrian (2013-05-03). "Victoria author Bill Gaston among B.C. Book Prizes winners". Times Colonist. Archived from the original on 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2013-05-08.
  8. ↑ Sherlock, Tracy (2014-05-04). "Double wins for two B.C. authors at B.C. Book Awards". The Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2014-07-05. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
  9. ↑ Sherlock, Tracy (2015-04-26). "Vancouver's Aislinn Hunter wins Ethel Wilson fiction prize". The Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2015-04-29. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
  10. ↑ Sherlock, Tracy (2016-05-02). "Daniel Boone story wins coveted book prize". The Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2016-05-10.
  11. ↑ "Deborah Campbell, Richard Wagamese and Jennifer Manuel among B.C. Book Prize winners". CBC Books. 2017-05-01. Archived from the original on 2017-05-03. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  12. ↑ Beattie, Steven W. (2018-05-07). "David Chariandy and Arthur Manuel among winners of the 2018 B.C. Book Prizes". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  13. ↑ Johnston, Patrick (2018-03-12). "2018 B.C. Book Prize finalists announced". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2022-02-05. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  14. ↑ "Bolster your fall book list with these B.C. award-winners". Vancouver Sun, September 24, 2020.
  15. ↑ Harris, Aleesha (2020-03-12). "Finalists announced for B.C., Yukon Book awards". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  16. ↑ Qiao, Vicky (2021-09-28). "Billy-Ray Belcourt and Shaena Lambert among BC & Yukon Book Prizes winners". CBC Books. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  17. ↑ Porter, Ryan (2021-04-08). "Eight shortlists announced for BC and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  18. ↑ Drudi, Cassandra (2022-09-26). "2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes winners announced". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2022-10-07. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  19. ↑ Drudi, Cassandra (2022-04-13). "Shortlists announced for 2022 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  20. ↑ Harowitz, Sarah (2023-09-25). "BC and Yukon Book Prizes announce 2023 winners". Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  21. ↑ Gee, Dana (2023-04-13). "B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes finalists announced". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2023-04-14. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  22. ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Darrel J. McLeod, John Vaillant among BC and Yukon Book Prize winners". Quill & Quire, September 30, 2024.
  23. ↑ Kristi Alexandra, "BC and Yukon Book Prizes reveals shortlist". The Georgia Straight, April 11, 2024.
  24. ↑ "Sarah Leavitt, Minelle Mahtani and Li Charmaine Anne among 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prizes winners". CBC Books, September 23, 2025.
  25. ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Finalists announced for 2025 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill & Quire, April 10, 2025.
  26. ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Finalists announced for 2026 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill & Quire, April 14, 2026.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Wilson_Fiction_Prize