Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

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

1985

*Audrey Thomas, "Intertidal Life"
*Mary Ellen Collura, "Winners"
*Charles Lillard, "A Coastal Range"

1986

*Keath Fraser, "Foreign Affairs"

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"
*J.A. 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 Holstock, "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"


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