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 +Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winners and finalistsYear Author TitlesResultRef.1985 Intertidal Life Winner Winners Shortlist 1986 Foreign Affairs Winner Shortlist In the Shadow of the Vulture 1987 Housebroken Winner Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola Shortlist 1988 Cage Winner Memory Board Shortlist 1989 Mimosa Winner Love In Beijing Shortlist Saxophone Winter1990 Motet Winner After the Fire Shortlist1991 Wild Blue Yonder Winner Disappearing Moon Cafe Shortlist Disturbing the Peace1992 Blue Husbands Winner Sick Pigeon Shortlist 1993 Winner July Nights and Other Stories Shortlist Marine Life1994 Bad Imaginings Winner Light in the Company of Women Shortlist Visible Light1995 To Be There with You Winner Under Glass Shortlist City of Orphans1996 Coming Down from Wa Winner Rain Ascends Shortlist Through the Canyon1997 Winner Shortlist Cereus Blooms at Night1998 Visible Worlds Winner Fox's Nose Shortlist At First I Hope for Rescue1999 Broken Ground Winner Shortlist "B.C. Book Prize nominees named: Veteran writer Jack Hodgins is among the nominees in six categories honouring the best in B.C. books from the past year". Vancouver Sun, April 3, 1999. Pool-Hopping and Other Stories2000 Winner Shortlist All the Anxious Girls on Earth Furry Creek Before the Flood2001 Monkey Beach Winner Shortlist Uther2002 Simple Recipes Winner Shortlist Small Accidents All the Seas of the World Stanley Park2003 Unless Winner Nightwatch Shortlist Mount Appetite Dead Girls Closer Apart2004 Sitting Practice Winner Shortlist Ascension Country of Cold Other Sorrows, Other Joys2005 Beyond Measure Winner Sointula Shortlist 2006 Ladykiller Winner Smoke Show Shortlist So It Won't Go Away Tattycoram2007 Home Schooling Winner What It Takes to Be Human Shortlist Gargoyles Empress of Asia2008 Conceit Winner Adam's Peak Shortlist Soucouyant Radiance 2009 Winner Shortlist That Tune Clutches My Heart Red Dog, Red Dog Renovating Heaven2010 Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison Winner Shortlist 8 x 10 Daniel O'Thunder Vanishing and Other Stories2011 Everything Was Good-Bye Winner Chernovs' Toil and Peace Shortlist Recipes from the Red Planet 2012 Half-Blood Blues Winner Shortlist Shelter Into the Darkness Once You Break a Knuckle2013 Winner Psychology and Other Stories Shortlist Gay Dwarves of America Malarky Floating Like the Dead2014 Anatomy of a Girl Gang Winner Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility Shortlist Three Souls Red Girl Rat Boy Lucky2015 Winner Ellen in Pieces Shortlist Paradise & Elsewhere 2016 All True Not a Lie in It Winner Shortlist Specimen Amity Martin John2017 Winner Shortlist Niagara Motel2018 Brother Winner What We Once Believed Shortlist Next Year, For Sure Son of a Trickster Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person2019 Trickster Drift Winner Sodom Road Exit Shortlist That Tiny Life We All Need to Eat Dear Evelyn2020 Lampedusa Winner "Bolster your fall book list with these B.C. award-winners". Vancouver Sun, September 24, 2020. Greenwood Shortlist Aria Dual Citizens Rue des Rosiers2021 Petra Winner Fake It So Real Shortlist Five Little Indians Consent2022 Winner Astra Shortlist Victoria Sees It Monster Child We Want What We Want2023 Winner Shortlist We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies Uncertain Kin 2024 A Season in Chezgh'un Winner Cassandra Drudi, "Darrel J. McLeod, John Vaillant among BC and Yukon Book Prize winners". Quill & Quire, September 30, 2024. Falling Hour Shortlist Kristi Alexandra, "BC and Yukon Book Prizes reveals shortlist". The Georgia Straight, April 11, 2024. Any Other City Beautiful Beautiful What Remains of Elsie Jane2025 Death by a Thousand Cuts Winner "Sarah Leavitt, Minelle Mahtani and Li Charmaine Anne among 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prizes winners". CBC Books, September 23, 2025. Coexistence Shortlist Cassandra Drudi, "Finalists announced for 2025 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill & Quire, April 10, 2025. A Reluctant Mother The Other Valley Black Sunflowers2026 Endling Winner Cassandra Drudi, "Maria Reva, Julian Brave NoiseCat among winners of B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill & Quire, September 21, 2026. Rufous and Calliope Shortlist Cassandra Drudi, "Finalists announced for 2026 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill & Quire, April 14, 2026. Tunnel Island Contemplation of a Crime The Last Exile
References
External links Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize , official website