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Gurjinder Basran

Everything Was Good-bye, a novel

111 West Coast Literary Portraits

Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
MTP Search for the Great BC Novel Contest winner
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semi-finalist

Her debut novel, Everything Was Good-bye, was the winner of Mother Tongue Publishing's “Search for the Great BC Novel Contest” in 2010 and was awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for the most outstanding work of fiction. As a manuscript, Everything Was Good-bye was shortlisted for Amazon.com's 2008 Breakthrough Novel Award and earned her a place in The Vancouver Sun's annual speculative arts and culture article "One's to Watch." Gurjinder studied creative writing at Simon Fraser University and the Banff Center for the Arts and lives in Delta, British Columbia with her husband and two sons. Her recent novel was published with Penguin Canada.

Marilyn Bowering

What is Long Past Occurs in Full Light
new poems

111 West Coast Literary Portraits

Forcefield, 77 Women Poets of BC

Rocksalt

Long-listed for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry

Marilyn Bowering is a poet, novelist and librettist. Her awards for poetry include the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize and several National Magazine Awards. She has twice been nominated for the Governor General’s Award. Her most recent books are Soul Mouth and Threshold: An Encounter with the Seventeenth-century Hebridean Bard, Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh (Mary MacLeod), and the novel, What It Takes to Be Human. Marilyn Bowering lives on Vancouver Island. www.marilynbowering.com

Adrienne Brown

The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb

Brown is a landscape architect and garden designer. She is the creator/editor of the Web Atlas of Landscape Architecture in B.C. www.sitelines.org/webatlas, on-line since 2005 .Her articles and book reviews have appeared in Landscapes/Paysages, SABMag, Sitelines and the Vancouver Sun. Born in Vancouver, and educated at the BC Institute of Technology and Simon Fraser University, she is past-President of the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects and a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. Adrienne lives on Mayne Island with her husband David. This is her first book.

Peter Busby

The Life and Art of Jack Akroyd

B.C. Historical Federation Honourable Mention

Busby was born in West Yorkshire, lived for many years in the south of England and settled in Vancouver. He studied English at Sheffield and Leeds Universities before moving to London, where he taught English for ten years before going freelance, co-writing two thrillers and the tv serial Thin Air. Between jobs as an editor, story editor and ghost writer, he wrote the children’s book First to Fly, which won the 2003 James Madison Award for American non-fiction, an unusual feat for a Canadian author.

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