Lynn Coady is a Canadian novelist and journalist.
Brian Fawcett was a Canadian writer and cultural analyst. He was awarded the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2003 for his book Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown. He was also nominated for the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in 2012 for Human Happiness.
Michael Turner is a Canadian musician, and writer of poetry, prose and opera librettos. His writing is noted for including detailed and purposeful examination of ordinary things.
Laurali Rose "Bunny" Wright was a Canadian writer of mainstream fiction and mystery novels. Many of her stories are set on the coast of British Columbia.
Frederick James Wah, OC, is a Canadian poet, novelist, scholar and former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
Keith Maillard is a Canadian-American novelist, poet, and professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia. He moved to Canada in 1970 and became a Canadian citizen in 1976.
Anosh Irani is an Indo-Canadian novelist and playwright, born and raised in Mumbai.
B.C. BookWorld is a British Columbia-based quarterly newspaper about the book trade. It was established in 1987.
(Barbara) Anne Cameron was a Canadian novelist, poet, screenwriter, short story and children's book writer.
Cynthia Flood is a Canadian short-story writer and novelist. The daughter of novelist Luella Creighton and historian Donald Creighton, she grew up primarily in Toronto. After attending the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley she spent some years in the United States, where she married Maurice Flood before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1969.
Silas White is a Canadian publisher, editor, author, musician, songwriter and politician.
The Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award is a literary prize awarded annually by the BC Book Prizes for the "best book in terms of public appeal, initiative, design, production and content." The prize is shared by the author and publisher. To qualify, the publisher must be located in British Columbia or the Yukon and in full creative control. The winner, unlike the other prizes which are determined by judges, is selected by ballot sent to bookstores across the province of British Columbia.
Patrick Blennerhassett is a Canadian journalist and author who currently lives in Hong Kong.
Andrew Neil Gray is a Scottish-born Canadian short story writer and novelist. In 2014, he was the Creative Writing Program Coordinator at the University of British Columbia, and founder and director of the university's low-residency Master of Fine Arts program.
David Hamilton Stouck is a Canadian literary critic and biographer, formerly Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.
Claire Battershill is a Canadian fiction writer and literary scholar. On September 15, 2017, Battershill was honoured by receiving a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Talent Award from Governor General David Johnston.
Margaret McNaughton was a Scottish Canadian author and historian. Her account of her husband's experiences travelling across Canada to the Cariboo gold fields was the second non-fiction book published by a woman in British Columbia.
Lilian Broca is a Canadian artist and art educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Cecily Nicholson is a Canadian poet, arts administrator, independent curator, and activist. Originally from Ontario, she is now based in British Columbia. As a writer and a poet, Nicholson has published collections of poetry, contributed to collected literary works, presented public lectures and readings, and collaborated with numerous community organizations. As an arts administrator, she has worked at the Surrey Art Gallery in Surrey, British Columbia, and the artist-run centre Gallery Gachet in Vancouver.
Chelene Knight is a Canadian writer and poet.
