Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC 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).

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner	Nominated
1985	Audrey Thomas, Intertidal Life	Mary Ellen Collura, Winners Charles Lillard, A Coastal Range
1986	Keath Fraser, Foreign Affairs	Brian Fawcett, The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie George Ryga, In the Shadow of the Vulture L. R. Wright, The Suspect
1987	Leona Gom, Housebroken	Paulette Jiles, Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola Rona Murray, The Indigo Dress and Other Stories
1988	George McWhirter, Cage	Jane Rule, Memory Board Robin Skelton, The Parrot Who Could
1989	Bill Schermbrucker, Mimosa	William Goede, Love In Beijing Robert Harlow, Saxophone Winter
1990	Keith Maillard, Motet	Marilyn Bowering, To All Appearances a Lady Jane Rule, After the Fire
1991	Audrey Thomas, Wild Blue Yonder	Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe Caroline Woodward, Disturbing the Peace
1992	Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands	M.A.C. Farrant, Sick Pigeon Maureen Moore, The Illuminations of Alice Mallory
1993	W.D. Valgardson, The Girl with the Botticelli Face	Jane Eaton Hamilton, July Nights and Other Stories Linda Svendsen, Marine Life
1994	Caroline Adderson, Bad Imaginings	Keith Maillard, Light in the Company of Women Carol Windley, Visible Light
1995	Gayla Reid, To Be There With You	Grant Buday, Under Glass Patricia Robertson, City of Orphans
1996	Audrey Thomas, Coming Down From Wa	Joy Kogawa, Rain Ascends Lorraine Vernon, Through the Canyon
1997	Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning	Nick Bantock, The Venetian's Wife Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
1998	Marilyn Bowering, Visible Worlds	Sally Ireland, Fox's Nose Holley Rubinsky, At First I Hope for Rescue
1999	Jack Hodgins, Broken Ground	Loranne Brown, The Handless Maiden Anne Fleming, Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
2000	Michael Turner, The Pornographer's Poem	Caroline Adderson, A History of Forgetting Zsuzsi Gartner, All the Anxious Girls on Earth Keith Harrison, Furry Creek Alan R. Wilson, Before the Flood
2001	Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach	Anita Rau Badami, The Hero's Walk Barbara Lambert, A Message for Mr. Lazarus Peter Trower, The Judas Hills Jack Whyte, Uther
2002	Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes	Rebecca Godfrey, The Torn Skirt Andrew Gray, Small Accidents Gayla Reid, All the Seas of the World Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park
2003	Carol Shields, Unless	Kevin Armstrong, Nightwatch Bill Gaston, Mount Appetite Nancy Lee, Dead Girls Gayla Reid, Closer Apart
2004	Caroline Adderson, Sitting Practice	Claudia Casper, The Continuation of Love by Other Means Steven Galloway, Ascension Kevin Patterson, Country of Cold Janet Warner, Other Sorrows, Other Joys
2005	Pauline Holdstock, Beyond Measure	Bill Gaston, Sointula 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	Clint Burnham, Smoke Show Lydia Kwa, The Walking Boy John Lent, So It Won't Go Away Audrey Thomas, Tattycoram
2007	Carol Windley, Home Schooling	Marilyn Bowering, What It Takes to Be Human Bill Gaston, Gargoyles Anosh Irani, The Song of Kahunsha Adam Lewis Schroeder, Empress of Asia
2008	Mary Novik, Conceit	Heather Burt, Adam's Peak David Chariandy, Soucouyant Shaena Lambert, Radiance Claire Mulligan, The Reckoning of Boston Jim
2009	Lee Henderson, The Man Game	Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo 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	Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean Michael Turner, 8 x 10 Ian Weir, Daniel O'Thunder Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories
2011	Gurjinder Basran, Everything Was Good-Bye[1]	Rifet Bahtijaragic, Chernovs’ Toil and Peace 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[2]	Michael Christie, The Beggar's Garden Steven Price, Into the Darkness D. W. Wilson, Once You Break a Knuckle Frances Greenslade, Shelter
2013	Bill Gaston, The World[3]	C. P. Boyko, Psychology and Other Stories Anne Fleming, Gay Dwarves of America Anakana Schofield, Malarky Yasuko Thanh, Floating Like the Dead
2014	Ashley Little, Anatomy of a Girl Gang[4]	Théodora Armstrong, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility Janie Chang, Three Souls Cynthia Flood, Red Girl Rat Boy Kathryn Para, Lucky
2015	Aislinn Hunter, The World Before Us[5]	Caroline Adderson, Ellen in Pieces 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[6]	Pauline Holdstock, The Hunter and the Wild Girl Irina Kovalyova, Specimen Nasreen Pejvack, Amity Anakana Schofield, Martin John
2017	Jennifer Manuel, The Heaviness of Things That Float[7]	Joan Haggerty, The Dancehall Years Anosh Irani, The Parcel Ashley Little, Niagara Motel Jen Sookfong Lee, The Conjoined
2018	David Chariandy, Brother[8]	Andrea MacPherson, What We Once Believed 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	Amber Dawn, Sodom Road Exit Erin Frances Fisher, That Tiny Life Alex Leslie, We All Need to Eat Kathy Page, Dear Evelyn

References

1. Tracy Sherlock (April 22, 2011). "Dual-culture novel garners BC Book Prize fiction award". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
2. "Victoria writer Esi Edugyan wins the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award". Times Colonist. May 13, 2012. Archived from the original on August 29, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
3. "Victoria author Bill Gaston among B.C. Book Prizes winners". Times Colonist. May 3, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
4. Tracy Sherlock (May 4, 2014). "Double wins for two B.C. authors at B.C. Book Awards". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
5. Tracy Sherlock (April 26, 2015). "Vancouver's Aislinn Hunter wins Ethel Wilson fiction prize". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
6. Tracy Sherlock (May 2, 2016). "Daniel Boone story wins coveted book prize". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
7. "Deborah Campbell, Richard Wagamese and Jennifer Manuel among B.C. Book Prize winners". CBC Books. May 1, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
8. "David Chariandy and Arthur Manuel among winners of the 2018 B.C. Book Prizes". Quill and Quire. May 7, 2018. Retrieved May 15, 2018.

External links

• Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, official website