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 finalists
Year Author Titles Result Ref.
1985 Audrey Thomas Intertidal Life Winner [1]
Mary Ellen Collura Winners Shortlist
Charles Lillard A Coastal Range Shortlist
1986 Keath Fraser Foreign Affairs Winner
Brian Fawcett The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie Shortlist
George Ryga In the Shadow of the Vulture Shortlist
L. R. Wright The Suspect Shortlist
1987 Leona Gom Housebroken Winner
Paulette Jiles Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola Shortlist
Rona Murray The Indigo Dress and Other Stories Shortlist
1988 George McWhirter Cage Winner
Jane Rule Memory Board Shortlist
Robin Skelton The Parrot Who Could Shortlist
1989 Bill Schermbrucker Mimosa Winner
William Goede Love In Beijing Shortlist
Robert Harlow Saxophone Winter Shortlist
1990 Keith Maillard Motet Winner
Jane Rule After the Fire Shortlist
1991 Audrey Thomas Wild Blue Yonder Winner
Sky Lee Disappearing Moon Cafe Shortlist
Caroline Woodward Disturbing the Peace Shortlist
1992 Don Dickinson Blue Husbands Winner
M.A.C. Farrant Sick Pigeon Shortlist
Maureen Moore The Illuminations of Alice Mallory Shortlist
1993 W.D. Valgardson The Girl with the Botticelli Face Winner
Jane Eaton Hamilton July Nights and Other Stories Shortlist
Linda Svendsen Marine Life Shortlist
1994 Caroline Adderson Bad Imaginings Winner
Keith Maillard Light in the Company of Women Shortlist
Carol Windley Visible Light Shortlist
1995 Gayla Reid To Be There With You Winner
Grant Buday Under Glass Shortlist
Patricia Robertson City of Orphans Shortlist
1996 Audrey Thomas Coming Down From Wa Winner
Joy Kogawa Rain Ascends Shortlist
Lorraine Vernon Through the Canyon Shortlist
1997 Gail Anderson-Dargatz The Cure for Death by Lightning Winner
Nick Bantock The Venetian's Wife Shortlist
Shani Mootoo Cereus Blooms at Night Shortlist
1998 Marilyn Bowering Visible Worlds Winner
Sally Ireland Fox's Nose Shortlist
Holley Rubinsky At First I Hope for Rescue Shortlist
1999 Jack Hodgins Broken Ground Winner
Loranne Brown The Handless Maiden Shortlist
Anne Fleming Pool-Hopping and Other Stories Shortlist
2000 Michael Turner The Pornographer's Poem Winner
Caroline Adderson A History of Forgetting Shortlist
Zsuzsi Gartner All the Anxious Girls on Earth Shortlist
Keith Harrison Furry Creek Shortlist
Alan R. Wilson Before the Flood Shortlist
2001 Eden Robinson Monkey Beach Winner
Anita Rau Badami The Hero's Walk Shortlist
Barbara Lambert A Message for Mr. Lazarus Shortlist
Peter Trower The Judas Hills Shortlist
Jack Whyte Uther Shortlist
2002 Madeleine Thien Simple Recipes Winner
Rebecca Godfrey The Torn Skirt Shortlist
Andrew Gray Small Accidents Shortlist
Gayla Reid All the Seas of the World Shortlist
Timothy Taylor Stanley Park Shortlist
2003 Carol Shields Unless Winner
Kevin Armstrong Nightwatch Shortlist
Bill Gaston Mount Appetite Shortlist
Nancy Lee Dead Girls Shortlist
Gayla Reid Closer Apart Shortlist
2004 Caroline Adderson Sitting Practice Winner
Claudia Casper The Continuation of Love by Other Means Shortlist
Steven Galloway Ascension Shortlist
Kevin Patterson Country of Cold Shortlist
Janet Warner Other Sorrows, Other Joys Shortlist
2005 Pauline Holdstock Beyond Measure Winner
Bill Gaston Sointula Shortlist
Theresa Kishkan A Man in a Distant Field Shortlist
Annabel Lyon The Best Thing for You Shortlist
Patrick Taylor The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty Shortlist
2006 Charlotte Gill Ladykiller Winner
Clint Burnham Smoke Show Shortlist
Lydia Kwa The Walking Boy Shortlist
John Lent So It Won't Go Away Shortlist
Audrey Thomas Tattycoram Shortlist
2007 Carol Windley Home Schooling Winner
Marilyn Bowering What It Takes to Be Human Shortlist
Bill Gaston Gargoyles Shortlist
Anosh Irani The Song of Kahunsha Shortlist
Adam Lewis Schroeder Empress of Asia Shortlist
2008 Mary Novik Conceit Winner
Heather Burt Adam's Peak Shortlist
David Chariandy Soucouyant Shortlist
Shaena Lambert Radiance Shortlist
Claire Mulligan The Reckoning of Boston Jim Shortlist
2009 Lee Henderson The Man Game Winner
Steven Galloway The Cellist of Sarajevo Shortlist
Paul Headrick That Tune Clutches My Heart Shortlist
Patrick Lane Red Dog, Red Dog Shortlist
Andreas Schroeder Renovating Heaven Shortlist
2010 Cathleen With Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison Winner [2]
Annabel Lyon The Golden Mean Shortlist
Michael Turner 8 x 10 Shortlist
Ian Weir Daniel O'Thunder Shortlist
Deborah Willis Vanishing and Other Stories Shortlist
2011 Gurjinder Basran Everything Was Good-Bye Winner [3][4]
Rifet Bahtijaragic Chernovs’ Toil and Peace Shortlist
Jack Hodgins The Master of Happy Endings Shortlist
Meredith Quartermain Recipes from the Red Planet Shortlist
Jack Whyte The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace Shortlist
2012 Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues Winner [5][6]
Michael Christie The Beggar's Garden Shortlist [7]
Frances Greenslade Shelter Shortlist [7]
Steven Price Into the Darkness Shortlist [7]
D. W. Wilson Once You Break a Knuckle Shortlist [7]
2013 Bill Gaston The World Winner [8]
C. P. Boyko Psychology and Other Stories Shortlist
Anne Fleming Gay Dwarves of America Shortlist
Anakana Schofield Malarky Shortlist
Yasuko Thanh Floating Like the Dead Shortlist
2014 Ashley Little Anatomy of a Girl Gang Winner [9][10]
Théodora Armstrong Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility Shortlist
Janie Chang Three Souls Shortlist
Cynthia Flood Red Girl Rat Boy Shortlist
Kathryn Para Lucky Shortlist
2015 Aislinn Hunter The World Before Us Winner [11]
Caroline Adderson Ellen in Pieces Shortlist
Kathy Page Paradise & Elsewhere Shortlist
Brian Payton The Wind is Not a River Shortlist
Michael Springate The Beautiful West & the Beloved of God Shortlist
2016 Alix Hawley All True Not a Lie in It Winner [12]
Pauline Holdstock The Hunter and the Wild Girl Shortlist
Irina Kovalyova Specimen Shortlist
Nasreen Pejvack Amity Shortlist
Anakana Schofield Martin John Shortlist
2017 Jennifer Manuel The Heaviness of Things That Float Winner [13][14]
Joan Haggerty The Dancehall Years Shortlist
Anosh Irani The Parcel Shortlist
Jen Sookfong Lee The Conjoined Shortlist
Ashley Little Niagara Motel Shortlist [15]
2018 David Chariandy Brother Winner [16][17]
Andrea MacPherson What We Once Believed Shortlist [18]
Zoey Leigh Peterson Next Year, For Sure Shortlist [18]
Eden Robinson Son of a Trickster Shortlist [18]
Daniel Zomparelli Everything Is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person Shortlist [18]
2019 Eden Robinson Trickster Drift Winner
Amber Dawn Sodom Road Exit Shortlist
Erin Frances Fisher That Tiny Life Shortlist
Alex Leslie We All Need to Eat Shortlist
Kathy Page Dear Evelyn Shortlist
2020 Stephen Price Lampedusa Winner
Michael Christie Greenwood Shortlist [19]
Nazanine Hozar Aria Shortlist [19][20]
Alix Ohlin Dual Citizens Shortlist [19]
Rhea Tregebov Rue des Rosiers Shortlist [19]
2021 Shaena Lambert Petra Winner [21]
Susan Sanford Blades Fake It So Real Shortlist [22][23]
Michelle Good Five Little Indians Shortlist [22][23]
Aislinn Hunter The Certainties Shortlist [22][23]
Annabel Lyon Consent Shortlist [22][23]
2022 Ruth Ozeki The Book of Form and Emptiness Winner [24]
Cedar Bowers Astra Shortlist [25][26]
Carrie Jenkins Victoria Sees It Shortlist [25][26]
Rahela Nayebzadah Monster Child Shortlist [25][26]
Alix Ohlin We Want What We Want Shortlist [25][26]
2023 Marion Ehrenberg The Language of Dreams Shortlist [27]
Billy-Ray Belcourt A Minor Chorus Shortlist [27]
Tsering Yangzom Lama We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies Shortlist [27]
Janice Lynn Mather Uncertain Kin Shortlist [27]
Danny Ramadan The Foghorn Echoes Shortlist [27]

References

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  19. 1 2 3 4 Harris, Aleesha (2020-03-12). "Finalists announced for B.C., Yukon Book awards". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
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