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).
Winners and finalists edit
| 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 | 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 | Billy-Ray Belcourt | A Minor Chorus | Winner | [27] |
| Marion Ehrenberg | The Language of Dreams | Shortlist | [28] | |
| Tsering Yangzom Lama | We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies | Shortlist | [28] | |
| Janice Lynn Mather | Uncertain Kin | Shortlist | [28] | |
| Danny Ramadan | The Foghorn Echoes | Shortlist | [28] |
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External links edit
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Archived 2012-10-01 at the Wayback Machine, official website