2025 BC & Yukon Book Prizes
September 26th, 2025
The West Coast Book Prize Society has announced the winners of the 41st annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes, honouring the achievements of authors, illustrators and publishers from across the region. Prizes were awarded in eight categories, with jurors selecting from five finalists in each.
Shashi Bhat won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories (McClelland and Stewart), while Minelle Mahtani received the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize for May It Have a Happy Ending (Doubleday Canada). The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize went to Leanne Dunic for wet (Talonbooks), and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize was awarded to Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson with Robert Davidson for A Haida Wedding (Heritage House Publishing).
In children’s literature, Li Charmaine Anne earned the Sheila A. Egoff Prize for Crash Landing (Annick Press), and Julie Morstad received the Christie Harris Prize for A Face Is a Poem (Tundra Books). The Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes went to Sarah Leavitt for Something, Not Nothing (Arsenal Pulp Press), and Dana Claxton with Dr. Curtis Collins won the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for Curve!: Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast (Figure 1 Publishing).
A special award was also presented: Vancouver poet Fred Wah received the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, recognizing his substantial body of work and decades of contributions to BC’s literary community, while his writing continues to influence new generations.
The 2025 winners highlight the diversity, creativity and depth of talent found in BC and Yukon’s literary landscape.
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