Writing BC

GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction, and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award…

GURJINDER BASRAN’s debut novel, Everything Was Good-bye, was the winner of the BC Book Prize, Ethel Wilson Fiction Award in 2011 and named as a Chatelaine Magazine Book Club pick in 2012.The CBC has named her as one of “Ten Canadian women writers you need…

Andrew Battershill is the author of three novels. He was the 2019 Winner of the ReLit Award, and his work has been longlisted for the Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award. He works as a public librarian on the traditional, ancestral,…

Jordan Abel is a queer Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). NISHGA won both the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the VMI…

Sean Horlor is filmmaker and writer based in Vancouver, Canada. His documentaries — SATAN WANTS YOU (SXSW) and SOMEONE LIKE ME (National Film Board of Canada) — have screened globally to (mostly) critical acclaim.He runs Nootka Street Film Company with fellow filmmaker Steve J. Adams.…

Steve J. Adams is a Canadian LGBTQIA+ director renowned for his visually stunning and emotionally raw storytelling, showcasing the lives and experiences of real people. He co-directs with Sean Horlor. Their latest feature documentary, Satan Wants You, was one of the most buzzed-about titles at…