Five B.C. writers win Canadian Book Club Awards

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Five B.C. writers have been honoured by the Canadian Book Club Awards (CBCA), it was announced on Wednesday.

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Vancouver’s P.S. Whatever took top spot for the early readers category with the book Secrets of the Under-Under World: Water. Sherry McMillan of White Rock topped the children’s category with My S’s are Messes.

The business/self-help award went to Vancouver’s Ben Sporer for his book, Output: Optimizing Your Performance with Lessons Learned from Sport. Jane Enright, also of Vancouver, earned the spirituality/wellness award for Jane’s Jam: Inspiration to Create Your Super Awesome Life.

Rounding out the B.C. winners list was Whistler’s Heather Hendrie, who collected the anthology/short story prize for Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces.

The list of 13 winners for Canada’s largest reader’s choice award included memoirs, mysteries, self-help books and children’s stories.

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“The winners of this year’s Canadian Book Club Awards epitomize the power of storytelling,” said Kristain Oliveira-Barnes, program director for the CBCA, in a statement. “They represent a spectrum of experiences, voices, and genres that have resonated deeply with readers across the country. We are proud to celebrate these outstanding contributions to Canadian literature.”

Over the past three months, volunteer readers evaluated each finalist’s work across 13 categories.

The complete list of winners of the 2024 Canadian Book Club Awards

• Fiction: What the Living Do by Susan Wadds (Regal House Publishing)

• Nonfiction/memoir: Still I Cannot Save You by Kelly S. Thompson (McClelland & Stewart)

• Spirituality/health & wellness: Jane’s Jam: Inspiration To Create Your Super Awesome Life by Jane Enright (She Writes Press)

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• Business/self-help: Output: Optimizing Your Performance with Lessons Learned from Sport by Ben Sporer (Page Two)

• Anthology/short story: Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces by Heather Hendrie (Independently Published)

• Romance: Love Ad Lib by Evie Alexander (Emlin Press)

• Mystery/thriller: Fortune Favors the Dead by Susan Jane Wright (Roan Imprint)

• Fantasy/sci-fi: Ares by Jayson Adams (Fiction Factory Books)

• Poetry: Letters to Untitled by Tósìn Peters (Articodea Books)

• Children’s: My S’s are Messes by Sherry McMillan (Friesen Press)

• Early readers: Secrets of the Under-Under World: Water by P.S. Whatever (Zeditorial Books)

• Young adult: The Quiet Limit by Trista Lundquist (Friesen Press)

• Nonfiction/education: The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy by Ignacio Cofone (Cambridge University Press & Assessment)

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