Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
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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).
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[edit] Winners and nominees
[edit] 1985
- Audrey Thomas, Intertidal Life
- Mary Ellen Collura, Winners
- Charles Lillard, A Coastal Range
[edit] 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
[edit] 1987
- Leona Gom, Housebroken
- Paulette Jiles, Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola
- Rona Murray, The Indigo Dress and Other Stories
[edit] 1988
- George McWhirter, Cage
- Jane Rule, Memory Board
- Robin Skelton, The Parrot Who Could
[edit] 1989
- Bill Schermbrucker, Mimosa
- William Goede, Love In Beijing
- Robert Harlow, Saxophone Winter
[edit] 1990
- Keith Maillard, Motet
- Marilyn Bowering, To All Appearances A Lady
- Jane Rule, After The Fire
[edit] 1991
- Audrey Thomas, Wild Blue Yonder
- Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
- Caroline Woodward, Disturbing The Peace
[edit] 1992
- Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands
- M.A.C. Farrant, Sick Pigeon
- Maureen Moore, The Illuminations of Alice Mallory
[edit] 1993
- W.D. Valgardson, The Girl with the Botticelli Face
- J.A. Hamilton, July Nights and Other Stories
- Linda Svendsen, Marine Life
[edit] 1994
- Caroline Adderson, Bad Imaginings
- Keith Maillard, Light In The Company Of Women
- Carol Windley, Visible Light
[edit] 1995
- Gayla Reid, To Be There With You
- Grant Buday, Under Glass
- Patricia Robertson, City of Orphans
[edit] 1996
- Audrey Thomas, Coming Down From Wa
- Joy Kogawa, Rain Ascends
- Lorraine Vernon, Through the Canyon
[edit] 1997
- Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning
- Nick Bantock, The Venetian's Wife
- Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
[edit] 1998
- Marilyn Bowering, Visible Worlds
- Sally Ireland, Fox's Nose
- Holley Rubinsky, At First I Hope for Rescue
[edit] 1999
- Jack Hodgins, Broken Ground
- Loranne Brown, The Handless Maiden
- Anne Fleming, Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 2003
- Carol Shields, Unless
- Kevin Armstrong, Nightwatch
- Bill Gaston, Mount Appetite
- Nancy Lee, Dead Girls
- Gayla Reid, Closer Apart
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 2006
- Charlotte Gill, Ladykiller
- Clint Burnham, Smoke Show
- Lydia Kwa, The Walking Boy
- John Lent, So It Won't Go Away
- Audrey Thomas, Tattycoram
[edit] 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
[edit] 2008
- Mary Novik, Conceit
- Heather Burt, Adam's Peak
- David Chariandy, Soucouyant
- Shaena Lambert, Radiance
- Claire Mulligan, The Reckoning of Boston Jim
[edit] 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
[edit] 2010
- Cathleen With, Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison
- Michael Turner, 8 x 10
- Ian Weir, Daniel O'Thunder
- Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean
- Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories
