Several authors from Victoria have been shortlisted in four categories at the B.C. Book Prize, which awards $2,000 in cash ti winners in their respective categories.
The Sacred Herb/The Devil’s Weed, Andrew Struthers’s book about marijuana, drew a nomination in the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize category. Frequent, small loads of laundry by Rhonda Ganz, will compete for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She is joined in the category by Julie Paul, whose book, The Rules of the Kingdom, is also in competition for the poetry prize.
Charles, a collaboration between Ottawa artist Jessica Bromley Bartram and Victoria author S.E. Hume, is up for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize, while the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award features three area nominees: Hello Humpback! by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd; Spindrift: A Canadian Book of the Sea by editors Anita Hadley and Michael L. Hadley; and On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers by Pat Carney of Saturna Island.
The B.C. Book Prize is organized by the West Coast Book Prize Society, which will reveal the winners at the Lieutenant Governor’s B.C. Book Prize gala May 4 at Vancouver’s Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront. Every third year, the gala is held at Government House in Victoria.
