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Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

Canadian literary award

Summary

Canadian literary award

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

Year	Author	Titles
****	Intertidal Life	Winner
	Winners	Shortlist
	**
****	Foreign Affairs	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	In the Shadow of the Vulture
	**
****	Housebroken	Winner
	Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola	Shortlist
	**
****	Cage	Winner
	Memory Board	Shortlist
	**
****	Mimosa	Winner
	Love In Beijing	Shortlist
	Saxophone Winter
****	Motet	Winner
	After the Fire	Shortlist
****	Wild Blue Yonder	Winner
	Disappearing Moon Cafe	Shortlist
	Disturbing the Peace
****	Blue Husbands	Winner
	Sick Pigeon	Shortlist
	**
****	******	Winner
	July Nights and Other Stories	Shortlist
	Marine Life
****	Bad Imaginings	Winner
	Light in the Company of Women	Shortlist
	Visible Light
****	To Be There with You	Winner
	Under Glass	Shortlist
	City of Orphans
****	Coming Down from Wa	Winner
	Rain Ascends	Shortlist
	Through the Canyon
****	******	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	Cereus Blooms at Night
****	Visible Worlds	Winner
	Fox's Nose	Shortlist
	At First I Hope for Rescue
****	Broken Ground	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
****	******	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	All the Anxious Girls on Earth
	Furry Creek
	Before the Flood
****	Monkey Beach	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	**
	**
	Uther
****	Simple Recipes	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	Small Accidents
	All the Seas of the World
	Stanley Park
****	Unless	Winner
	Nightwatch	Shortlist
	Mount Appetite
	Dead Girls
	Closer Apart
****	Sitting Practice	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	Ascension
	Country of Cold
	Other Sorrows, Other Joys
****	Beyond Measure	Winner
	Sointula	Shortlist
	**
	**
	**
****	Ladykiller	Winner
	Smoke Show	Shortlist
	**
	So It Won't Go Away
	Tattycoram
****	Home Schooling	Winner
	What It Takes to Be Human	Shortlist
	Gargoyles
	**
	Empress of Asia
****	Conceit	Winner
	Adam's Peak	Shortlist
	Soucouyant
	Radiance
	**
****	******	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	That Tune Clutches My Heart
	Red Dog, Red Dog
	Renovating Heaven
****	Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	8 x 10
	Daniel O'Thunder
	Vanishing and Other Stories
****	Everything Was Good-Bye	Winner
	Chernovs' Toil and Peace	Shortlist
	**
	Recipes from the Red Planet
	**
****	Half-Blood Blues	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	Shelter
	Into the Darkness
	Once You Break a Knuckle
****	******	Winner
	Psychology and Other Stories	Shortlist
	Gay Dwarves of America
	Malarky
	Floating Like the Dead
****	Anatomy of a Girl Gang	Winner
	Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility	Shortlist
	Three Souls
	Red Girl Rat Boy
	Lucky
****	******	Winner
	Ellen in Pieces	Shortlist
	Paradise & Elsewhere
	**
	**
****	All True Not a Lie in It	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	Specimen
	Amity
	Martin John
****	******	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	**
	**
	Niagara Motel
****	Brother	Winner
	What We Once Believed	Shortlist
	Next Year, For Sure
	Son of a Trickster
	Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person
****	Trickster Drift	Winner
	Sodom Road Exit	Shortlist
	That Tiny Life
	We All Need to Eat
	Dear Evelyn
****	Lampedusa	Winner
	Greenwood	Shortlist
	Aria
	Dual Citizens
	Rue des Rosiers
****	Petra	Winner
	Fake It So Real	Shortlist
	Five Little Indians
	**
	Consent
****	******	Winner
	Astra	Shortlist
	Victoria Sees It
	Monster Child
	We Want What We Want
****	******	Winner
	**	Shortlist
	We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
	Uncertain Kin
	**
	A Season in Chezgh'un	Winner
	Falling Hour	Shortlist
	Any Other City
	Beautiful Beautiful
	What Remains of Elsie Jane

References

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(2012-05-13). "Victoria writer Esi Edugyan wins the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award". [[Times Colonist]].
Medley, Mark. (2012-03-08). "Esi Edugyan to face husband Steven Price for Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize".
Chamberlain, Adrian. (2013-05-03). "Victoria author Bill Gaston among B.C. Book Prizes winners". [[Times Colonist]].
Sherlock. (2014-05-04). "Double wins for two B.C. authors at B.C. Book Awards". [[The Vancouver Sun]].
Sherlock. (2015-04-26). "Vancouver's Aislinn Hunter wins Ethel Wilson fiction prize". [[The Vancouver Sun]].
Sherlock. (2016-05-02). "Daniel Boone story wins coveted book prize". [[The Vancouver Sun]].
(2017-05-01). "Deborah Campbell, Richard Wagamese and Jennifer Manuel among B.C. Book Prize winners". [[CBC Books]].
Beattie, Steven W.. (2018-05-07). "David Chariandy and Arthur Manuel among winners of the 2018 B.C. Book Prizes". [[Quill and Quire]].
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