Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

Last updated September 29, 2025

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 ]}

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	Shortlist
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	Shortlist
1988	George McWhirter	Cage	Winner
	Jane Rule	Memory Board	Shortlist
	Robin Skelton	The Parrot Who Could	Shortlist
1989	Bill Schermbrucker	Mimosa	Winner
	William Goede	Love In Beijing	Shortlist
	Robert Harlow	Saxophone Winter	Shortlist
1990	Keith Maillard	Motet	Winner
1990	Jane Rule	After the Fire	Shortlist
1991	Audrey Thomas	Wild Blue Yonder	Winner
	Sky Lee	Disappearing Moon Cafe	Shortlist
	Caroline Woodward	Disturbing the Peace	Shortlist
1992	Don Dickinson	Blue Husbands	Winner
	M.A.C. Farrant	Sick Pigeon	Shortlist
	Maureen Moore	The Illuminations of Alice Mallory	Shortlist
1993	W.D. Valgardson	The Girl with the Botticelli Face	Winner
	Jane Eaton Hamilton	July Nights and Other Stories	Shortlist
	Linda Svendsen	Marine Life	Shortlist
1994	Caroline Adderson	Bad Imaginings	Winner
	Keith Maillard	Light in the Company of Women	Shortlist
	Carol Windley	Visible Light	Shortlist
1995	Gayla Reid	To Be There with You	Winner
	Grant Buday	Under Glass	Shortlist
	Patricia Robertson	City of Orphans	Shortlist
1996	Audrey Thomas	Coming Down from Wa	Winner
	Joy Kogawa	Rain Ascends	Shortlist
	Lorraine Vernon	Through the Canyon	Shortlist
1997	Gail Anderson-Dargatz	The Cure for Death by Lightning	Winner
	Nick Bantock	The Venetian's Wife	Shortlist
	Shani Mootoo	Cereus Blooms at Night	Shortlist
1998	Marilyn Bowering	Visible Worlds	Winner
	Sally Ireland	Fox's Nose	Shortlist
	Holley Rubinsky	At First I Hope for Rescue	Shortlist
1999	Jack Hodgins	Broken Ground	Winner
	Loranne Brown	The Handless Maiden	Shortlist	^[2]
	Anne Fleming	Pool-Hopping and Other Stories	Shortlist	^[2]
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

References

↑ 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.
↑ "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.
↑ "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.
↑ 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.
↑ "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.
↑ Medley, Mark (2012-03-08). "Esi Edugyan to face husband Steven Price for Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize". National Post . Retrieved 2023-04-22.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ "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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ "Bolster your fall book list with these B.C. award-winners". Vancouver Sun , September 24, 2020.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Harowitz, Sarah (2023-09-25). "BC and Yukon Book Prizes announce 2023 winners" . Retrieved 2024-03-25.
↑ 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.
↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Darrel J. McLeod, John Vaillant among BC and Yukon Book Prize winners". Quill & Quire , September 30, 2024.
↑ Kristi Alexandra, "BC and Yukon Book Prizes reveals shortlist". The Georgia Straight , April 11, 2024.

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[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.

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Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

Contents

Winners and finalists

References

External links