In the Bear’s House
Congratulation to Bruce Hunter for winning the Banff Mountain Book Festival’s Canadian Rockies Award.
Shirin and Salt Man
Congratulations to Nilofar Shidmehr, finalist for the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, one of the BC Book Prizes.
Renovating Heaven
Congratulations to Andreas Schroeder, finalist for the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, one of the BC Book Prizes.
Congratulations once again to Ron Smith and Ruth
Campbell, whose book, Elf
the
Eagle, has
been nominated for a Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Shining Willow Award
for 2009.
They were also finalists for the Christie Harris
Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, BC Book Prizes 2008.
Congratulations, Valerie Stetson, runner-up for the 2008 Danuta Gleed Award
for The
Year I Got Impatient.
Congratulations, George McWhirter, finalist for
the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, BC
Book Prizes 2008, for The Incorrection.
Congratulations to Laurie Block, winner of the inaugural Landsdowne Poetry
Prize
for Time Out of Mind.
Cogratulations to Bill New on being named an Officer of the Order
of Canada.
Readings
See our new Events Page for the current schedule of readings
by Oolichan authors.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council through the Ministry of Tourism, Small Business and Culture.
Oolichan Books has offices in Fernie, B.C. in the Rocky Mountains and in Lantzville, B.C., a seaside village north of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Our name is taken from the small fish, once plentiful in West Coast waters and a staple in the diet of First Nations people to whom it was sacred. The oolichan, often referred to as the candlefish, is believed to possess healing powers and guarantee longevity. Oolichan Books is a literary press, publishing poetry, fiction and non-fiction titles including literary criticism, memoirs, and books on regional history, First Nations and policy issues.
Our Staff
Randal Macnair - Publisher
Ron Smith - Editor
Pat Smith - Consulting Editor
To contact us, click the email (envelope) link above-right, or use info(at)oolichan.com.
As a literary press, we remain steadfast in our commitment
to publishing the best writers, both emerging and established, in the country.
To learn more about recent fiction titles and the "essential backlist,"
click on any of the covers below.
