Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

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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 ]

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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
YearAuthorTitlesResultRef.
1985 Audrey Thomas Intertidal LifeWinner [1]
Mary Ellen Collura WinnersShortlist
Charles Lillard A Coastal Range
1986 Keath Fraser Foreign AffairsWinner
Brian Fawcett The Secret Journal of Alexander MackenzieShortlist
George Ryga In the Shadow of the Vulture
L. R. Wright The Suspect
1987 Leona Gom HousebrokenWinner
Paulette Jiles Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma KolaShortlist
Rona Murray The Indigo Dress and Other Stories
1988 George McWhirter CageWinner
Jane Rule Memory BoardShortlist
Robin Skelton The Parrot Who Could
1989 Bill Schermbrucker MimosaWinner
William Goede Love In BeijingShortlist
Robert Harlow Saxophone Winter
1990 Keith Maillard MotetWinner
Jane Rule After the FireShortlist
1991 Audrey Thomas Wild Blue YonderWinner
Sky Lee Disappearing Moon CafeShortlist
Caroline Woodward Disturbing the Peace
1992 Don Dickinson Blue HusbandsWinner
M.A.C. Farrant Sick PigeonShortlist
Maureen Moore The Illuminations of Alice Mallory
1993 W.D. Valgardson The Girl with the Botticelli FaceWinner
Jane Eaton Hamilton July Nights and Other StoriesShortlist
Linda Svendsen Marine Life
1994 Caroline Adderson Bad ImaginingsWinner
Keith Maillard Light in the Company of WomenShortlist
Carol Windley Visible Light
1995 Gayla Reid To Be There With YouWinner
Grant Buday Under GlassShortlist
Patricia RobertsonCity of Orphans
1996 Audrey Thomas Coming Down From WaWinner
Joy Kogawa Rain AscendsShortlist
Lorraine Vernon Through the Canyon
1997 Gail Anderson-Dargatz The Cure for Death by Lightning Winner
Nick Bantock The Venetian's WifeShortlist
Shani Mootoo Cereus Blooms at Night
1998 Marilyn Bowering Visible WorldsWinner
Sally Ireland Fox's NoseShortlist
Holley Rubinsky At First I Hope for Rescue
1999 Jack Hodgins Broken GroundWinner
Loranne Brown The Handless MaidenShortlist
Anne Fleming Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
2000 Michael Turner The Pornographer's PoemWinner
Caroline Adderson A History of ForgettingShortlist
Zsuzsi Gartner All the Anxious Girls on Earth
Keith Harrison Furry Creek
Alan R. Wilson Before the Flood
2001 Eden Robinson Monkey BeachWinner
Anita Rau Badami The Hero's Walk Shortlist
Barbara LambertA Message for Mr. Lazarus
Peter Trower The Judas Hills
Jack Whyte Uther
2002 Madeleine Thien Simple RecipesWinner
Rebecca Godfrey The Torn SkirtShortlist
Andrew Gray Small Accidents
Gayla Reid All the Seas of the World
Timothy Taylor Stanley Park
2003 Carol Shields Unless Winner
Kevin ArmstrongNightwatchShortlist
Bill Gaston Mount Appetite
Nancy Lee Dead Girls
Gayla Reid Closer Apart
2004 Caroline Adderson Sitting PracticeWinner
Claudia Casper The Continuation of Love by Other MeansShortlist
Steven Galloway Ascension
Kevin Patterson Country of Cold
Janet Warner Other Sorrows, Other Joys
2005 Pauline Holdstock Beyond MeasureWinner
Bill Gaston SointulaShortlist
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 LadykillerWinner
Clint Burnham Smoke ShowShortlist
Lydia Kwa The Walking Boy
John Lent So It Won't Go Away
Audrey Thomas Tattycoram
2007 Carol Windley Home SchoolingWinner
Marilyn Bowering What It Takes to Be HumanShortlist
Bill Gaston Gargoyles
Anosh Irani The Song of Kahunsha
Adam Lewis Schroeder Empress of Asia
2008 Mary Novik Conceit Winner
Heather Burt Adam's PeakShortlist
David Chariandy Soucouyant
Shaena Lambert Radiance
Claire Mulligan The Reckoning of Boston Jim
2009 Lee Henderson The Man GameWinner
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' PrisonWinner [2]
Annabel Lyon The Golden MeanShortlist
Michael Turner 8 x 10
Ian Weir Daniel O'Thunder
Deborah Willis Vanishing and Other Stories
2011 Gurjinder Basran Everything Was Good-ByeWinner [3]
Rifet Bahtijaragic Chernovs’ Toil and PeaceShortlist
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 [4]
Michael Christie The Beggar's GardenShortlist [5]
Frances Greenslade Shelter
Steven Price Into the Darkness
D. W. Wilson Once You Break a Knuckle
2013 Bill Gaston The WorldWinner [6]
C. P. Boyko Psychology and Other StoriesShortlist
Anne Fleming Gay Dwarves of America
Anakana Schofield Malarky
Yasuko Thanh Floating Like the Dead
2014 Ashley Little Anatomy of a Girl GangWinner [7]
Théodora Armstrong Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% VisibilityShortlist
Janie Chang Three Souls
Cynthia Flood Red Girl Rat Boy
Kathryn Para Lucky
2015 Aislinn Hunter The World Before UsWinner [8]
Caroline Adderson Ellen in PiecesShortlist
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 ItWinner [9]
Pauline Holdstock The Hunter and the Wild GirlShortlist
Irina Kovalyova Specimen
Nasreen Pejvack Amity
Anakana Schofield Martin John
2017 Jennifer Manuel The Heaviness of Things That FloatWinner [10]
Joan Haggerty The Dancehall YearsShortlist
Anosh Irani The Parcel
Jen Sookfong Lee The Conjoined
Ashley Little Niagara Motel
2018 David Chariandy BrotherWinner [11]
Andrea MacPherson What We Once BelievedShortlist [12]
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 DriftWinner
Amber Dawn Sodom Road ExitShortlist
Erin Frances Fisher That Tiny Life
Alex Leslie We All Need to Eat
Kathy Page Dear Evelyn
2020 Stephen Price LampedusaWinner [13]
Michael Christie GreenwoodShortlist [14]
Nazanine Hozar Aria
Alix Ohlin Dual Citizens
Rhea Tregebov Rue des Rosiers
2021 Shaena Lambert PetraWinner [15]
Susan Sanford Blades Fake It So RealShortlist [16]
Michelle Good Five Little Indians
Aislinn Hunter The Certainties
Annabel Lyon Consent
2022 Ruth Ozeki The Book of Form and Emptiness Winner [17]
Cedar Bowers AstraShortlist [18]
Carrie Jenkins Victoria Sees It
Rahela Nayebzadah Monster Child
Alix Ohlin We Want What We Want
2023 Billy-Ray Belcourt A Minor ChorusWinner [19]
Marion Ehrenberg The Language of DreamsShortlist [20]
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’unWinner [21]
Geoffrey D. Morrison Falling HourShortlist [22]
Hazel Jane Plante Any Other City
Brandon Reid Beautiful Beautiful
Chelsea Wakelyn What Remains of Elsie Jane

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