City of Vancouver announces its 2023 Book Award finalists

Evelyn Lau, Tara McGuire, Danny Ramadan, Chelene Knight, and Michele Assarasakorn and Nathan Fairbairn are all up for the prize, plus a book about Jan Wade’s art

AN ODE TO ARTIST JAN WADE’S powerful 2021-22 retrospective, Soul Power, at the Vancouver Art Gallery and Evelyn Lau’s latest poetry collection are two of the 2023 City of Vancouver Book Award finalists.

The finalists are:

Cactus Gardens by Evelyn Lau. Published by Anvil Press.

The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan. Published by Penguin Random House.

Holden After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose by Tara McGuire. Published by Arsenal Pulp Press.

Jan Wade: Soul Power by Jan Wade, Deanna Bowen, Wayde Compton, Daina Augaitis, Siobhan McCracken Nixon. Published by Information Office, Vancouver Art Gallery.

Junie by Chelene Knight. Published by Book*hug Press.

PAWS: Mindy Makes Some Space by Michele Assarasakorn and Nathan Fairbairn. Published by Razorbill.

Finalists were selected by the 2023 City of Vancouver Book Award Jury, including writers Molly Cross-Blanchard and Dina Del Bucchia and community-engagement librarian Allan Cho.

The award will be presented at a ceremony on September 22, where each finalist will read from their shortlisted titles.

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City of Vancouver announces its 2023 Book Award finalists

Evelyn Lau, Tara McGuire, Danny Ramadan, Chelene Knight, and Michele Assarasakorn and Nathan Fairbairn are all up for the prize, plus a book about Jan Wade’s art

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