The 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prizes celebrated top literary works and authors from the region.

The 2025 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes, awarded on September 21 in Vancouver, honored literary excellence from British Columbia and the Yukon. Shashi Bhat won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for *Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories*, Minelle Mahtani received the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize for *May It Have a Happy Ending*, and Leanne Dunic was awarded the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for *wet*. Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson and Robert Davidson won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for *A Haida Wedding*, while Li Charmaine Anne and Julie Morstad took the children’s literature prizes for *Crash Landing* and *A Face Is a Poem*. Sarah Leavitt earned the Jim Deva Prize for *Something, Not Nothing*, and Dana Claxton and Dr. Curtis Collins won the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for *Curve!*. Fred Wah received the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, and Linda Johnson was honored with the Borealis Prize for her contributions to Yukon’s literary and Indigenous storytelling communities.