Kit Pearson gets the Woodcock

“One of BC’s outstanding kidlit/YA authors, Kit Pearson (at right) is the recipient of the 32nd George Woodcock Award, only the second writer for children to get it.FULL STORY

 

Bronwyn Preece

July 28th, 2023

A leg injury left Bronwyn Preece with a severely crooked knee but it didn’t stop her taking a grueling, two-week horse expedition through the isolated wilderness area Muskwa-Kechika in northeast BC as she relates in her ode to backcountry beauty: knee deep in high water: riding the Muskwa-Kechika, expedition poems (Caitlin $20). “Packing pepperoni, power bars and painkillers” Preece muses on her role as a settler, and her fragility and strength in this land of melting mountains and rising rivers. 9781773861142

Photo courtesy Caitlin Press.

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