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.
The award is named after novelist and short story writer Ethel Wilson, author of Swamp Angel (1954) and The Innocent Traveller (1949).
Year | Author | Titles | Result | Ref. |
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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 | Shortlist | ||
L. R. Wright | The Suspect | Shortlist | ||
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 | |
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 | ||
Anne Fleming | Pool-Hopping and Other Stories | Shortlist | ||
2000 | Michael Turner | The Pornographer's Poem | Winner | |
Caroline Adderson | A History of Forgetting | Shortlist | ||
Zsuzsi Gartner | All the Anxious Girls on Earth | Shortlist | ||
Keith Harrison | Furry Creek | Shortlist | ||
Alan R. Wilson | Before the Flood | Shortlist | ||
2001 | Eden Robinson | Monkey Beach | Winner | |
Anita Rau Badami | The Hero's Walk | Shortlist | ||
Barbara Lambert | A Message for Mr. Lazarus | Shortlist | ||
Peter Trower | The Judas Hills | Shortlist | ||
Jack Whyte | Uther | Shortlist | ||
2002 | Madeleine Thien | Simple Recipes | Winner | |
Rebecca Godfrey | The Torn Skirt | Shortlist | ||
Andrew Gray | Small Accidents | Shortlist | ||
Gayla Reid | All the Seas of the World | Shortlist | ||
Timothy Taylor | Stanley Park | Shortlist | ||
2003 | Carol Shields | Unless | Winner | |
Kevin Armstrong | Nightwatch | Shortlist | ||
Bill Gaston | Mount Appetite | Shortlist | ||
Nancy Lee | Dead Girls | Shortlist | ||
Gayla Reid | Closer Apart | Shortlist | ||
2004 | Caroline Adderson | Sitting Practice | Winner | |
Claudia Casper | The Continuation of Love by Other Means | Shortlist | ||
Steven Galloway | Ascension | Shortlist | ||
Kevin Patterson | Country of Cold | Shortlist | ||
Janet Warner | Other Sorrows, Other Joys | Shortlist | ||
2005 | Pauline Holdstock | Beyond Measure | Winner | |
Bill Gaston | Sointula | Shortlist | ||
Theresa Kishkan | A Man in a Distant Field | Shortlist | ||
Annabel Lyon | The Best Thing for You | Shortlist | ||
Patrick Taylor | The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty | Shortlist | ||
2006 | Charlotte Gill | Ladykiller | Winner | |
Clint Burnham | Smoke Show | Shortlist | ||
Lydia Kwa | The Walking Boy | Shortlist | ||
John Lent | So It Won't Go Away | Shortlist | ||
Audrey Thomas | Tattycoram | Shortlist | ||
2007 | Carol Windley | Home Schooling | Winner | |
Marilyn Bowering | What It Takes to Be Human | Shortlist | ||
Bill Gaston | Gargoyles | Shortlist | ||
Anosh Irani | The Song of Kahunsha | Shortlist | ||
Adam Lewis Schroeder | Empress of Asia | Shortlist | ||
2008 | Mary Novik | Conceit | Winner | |
Heather Burt | Adam's Peak | Shortlist | ||
David Chariandy | Soucouyant | Shortlist | ||
Shaena Lambert | Radiance | Shortlist | ||
Claire Mulligan | The Reckoning of Boston Jim | Shortlist | ||
2009 | Lee Henderson | The Man Game | Winner | |
Steven Galloway | The Cellist of Sarajevo | Shortlist | ||
Paul Headrick | That Tune Clutches My Heart | Shortlist | ||
Patrick Lane | Red Dog, Red Dog | Shortlist | ||
Andreas Schroeder | Renovating Heaven | Shortlist | ||
2010 | Cathleen With | Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison | Winner | [2] |
Annabel Lyon | The Golden Mean | Shortlist | ||
Michael Turner | 8 x 10 | Shortlist | ||
Ian Weir | Daniel O'Thunder | Shortlist | ||
Deborah Willis | Vanishing and Other Stories | Shortlist | ||
2011 | Gurjinder Basran | Everything Was Good-Bye | Winner | [3] [4] |
Rifet Bahtijaragic | Chernovs’ Toil and Peace | Shortlist | ||
Jack Hodgins | The Master of Happy Endings | Shortlist | ||
Meredith Quartermain | Recipes from the Red Planet | Shortlist | ||
Jack Whyte | The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace | Shortlist | ||
2012 | Esi Edugyan | Half-Blood Blues | Winner | [5] [6] |
Michael Christie | The Beggar's Garden | Shortlist | [7] | |
Frances Greenslade | Shelter | Shortlist | [7] | |
Steven Price | Into the Darkness | Shortlist | [7] | |
D. W. Wilson | Once You Break a Knuckle | Shortlist | [7] | |
2013 | Bill Gaston | The World | Winner | [8] |
C. P. Boyko | Psychology and Other Stories | Shortlist | ||
Anne Fleming | Gay Dwarves of America | Shortlist | ||
Anakana Schofield | Malarky | Shortlist | ||
Yasuko Thanh | Floating Like the Dead | Shortlist | ||
2014 | Ashley Little | Anatomy of a Girl Gang | Winner | [9] [10] |
Théodora Armstrong | Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility | Shortlist | ||
Janie Chang | Three Souls | Shortlist | ||
Cynthia Flood | Red Girl Rat Boy | Shortlist | ||
Kathryn Para | Lucky | Shortlist | ||
2015 | Aislinn Hunter | The World Before Us | Winner | [11] |
Caroline Adderson | Ellen in Pieces | Shortlist | ||
Kathy Page | Paradise & Elsewhere | Shortlist | ||
Brian Payton | The Wind is Not a River | Shortlist | ||
Michael Springate | The Beautiful West & the Beloved of God | Shortlist | ||
2016 | Alix Hawley | All True Not a Lie in It | Winner | [12] |
Pauline Holdstock | The Hunter and the Wild Girl | Shortlist | ||
Irina Kovalyova | Specimen | Shortlist | ||
Nasreen Pejvack | Amity | Shortlist | ||
Anakana Schofield | Martin John | Shortlist | ||
2017 | Jennifer Manuel | The Heaviness of Things That Float | Winner | [13] [14] |
Joan Haggerty | The Dancehall Years | Shortlist | ||
Anosh Irani | The Parcel | Shortlist | ||
Jen Sookfong Lee | The Conjoined | Shortlist | ||
Ashley Little | Niagara Motel | Shortlist | [15] | |
2018 | David Chariandy | Brother | Winner | [16] [17] |
Andrea MacPherson | What We Once Believed | Shortlist | [18] | |
Zoey Leigh Peterson | Next Year, For Sure | Shortlist | [18] | |
Eden Robinson | Son of a Trickster | Shortlist | [18] | |
Daniel Zomparelli | Everything Is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person | Shortlist | [18] | |
2019 | Eden Robinson | Trickster Drift | Winner | |
Amber Dawn | Sodom Road Exit | Shortlist | ||
Erin Frances Fisher | That Tiny Life | Shortlist | ||
Alex Leslie | We All Need to Eat | Shortlist | ||
Kathy Page | Dear Evelyn | Shortlist | ||
2020 | Stephen Price | Lampedusa | Winner | |
Michael Christie | Greenwood | Shortlist | [19] | |
Nazanine Hozar | Aria | Shortlist | [19] [20] | |
Alix Ohlin | Dual Citizens | Shortlist | [19] | |
Rhea Tregebov | Rue des Rosiers | Shortlist | [19] | |
2021 | Shaena Lambert | Petra | Winner | [21] |
Susan Sanford Blades | Fake It So Real | Shortlist | [22] [23] | |
Michelle Good | Five Little Indians | Shortlist | [22] [23] | |
Aislinn Hunter | The Certainties | Shortlist | [22] [23] | |
Annabel Lyon | Consent | Shortlist | [22] [23] | |
2022 | Ruth Ozeki | The Book of Form and Emptiness | Winner | [24] |
Cedar Bowers | Astra | Shortlist | [25] [26] | |
Carrie Jenkins | Victoria Sees It | Shortlist | [25] [26] | |
Rahela Nayebzadah | Monster Child | Shortlist | [25] [26] | |
Alix Ohlin | We Want What We Want | Shortlist | [25] [26] | |
2023 | Marion Ehrenberg | The Language of Dreams | Shortlist | [27] |
Billy-Ray Belcourt | A Minor Chorus | Shortlist | [27] | |
Tsering Yangzom Lama | We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies | Shortlist | [27] | |
Janice Lynn Mather | Uncertain Kin | Shortlist | [27] | |
Danny Ramadan | The Foghorn Echoes | Shortlist | [27] |
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