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<p>Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)</p> <p>Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize</p> <p>Long listed for CBC Canada Reads 2015</p> <p

<p>Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards)</p> <p>The stories in <i>Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands</i> mostly take place in hot weather, where dust

<p>Finalist, ReLit Award </p> <p>Amazon.ca's 50 Essential Canadian Books selection</p> <p>First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, <i>Salvage King,

<p>Finalist, Giller Prize </p> <p>Winner of 2 Saskatchewan Book Awards (Best First Book; City of Saskatoon Book Award)</p> <p>Finalist, Saskatchewan Book Award (Book o

<p>Best of 2010 Pick, <i>Uptown Magazine</i></p> <p>Meet Walter Finch, an ungainly kid who survives his cloying suburban childhood to make it only as far as the local

<p>Winner, Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University’s First Book Competition</p> <p><i>Nondescript Rambunctious</i> is a genre-busting thriller with a beating, human

<p>Spat Ryan has demons. They haunt him by day and share his drink at night.

<p><b>Shortlisted for the City of Hamilton book award</b></p> <p>At times comic, tender, dark, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin’s latest fiction collection marvels

<p><i>Toy Gun</i> continues the exploration of character and fate on the streets of Vancouver that began with the novel <i>Stupid Crimes</i> (1992) and continued in &l

<p>Pamela Stewart is a self-described ?literary proctologist,? and her writing often looks into places that people generally don?t want to look.

<p>ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015</p> <p>Winner, Type Books Award</p> <p>In this daring act of self-examination and confession, the late novelist Nelly Arcan explores the

<p>Winner, ReLit Award (Novel)</p> <p>CBC Books' "Writers to Watch" Pick</p> <p>Nate’s nervous mother chews gum at warp speed and has a bob that resembl

<p>Fiction Pick, <i>Broken Pencil Magazine</i></p> <p><i>Suburban Pornography</i> is contemporary literature, which documents Canadian urban life in a raw

<p>Winner, 3-Day Novel Contest </p> <p><i>Tacones</i> is a hangout for a subculture of outlaws and rejects--crackhead murderers, transvestite prostitutes, biastogeront

<p>Reissued as part of Anvil Press's Lost BC Literature series</p> <p>Set in Vancouver in the mid-1960s, <i>Mirror on the Floor</i> focuses on one summer in the l