Victoria Book Prizes announce eight finalists for 2023 awards

Nominees include four in each in Butler and Children’s book prize categoriesFinalists have been announced for the 2023 Victoria Book Prizes, with eight titles in the running for the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize and City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Butler Book Prize nominees include: Maleea Acker, for her poetry collection Hesitating Once to Feel Glory; artist and writer Robert Amos, for E.J. The prize, now in its 20th year, is awarded to a Greater Victoria author for the best fiction, non-fiction or poetry book published between April 2022 and March 2023. Nominees for the Children’s Book Prize, which champions children’s and youth author or illustrators in our community, include: Sara Cassidy, for Union; Monique Gray Smith, for I Hope / nipakosêyimon; and Julie McLaughlin, for Little Pine Cone: Wild Fires and the Natural World. The eventual winners each receive $5,000, courtesy of the Victoria Book Prize Society and the City of Victoria.