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When history becomes a character

Join the BC and Yukon Book Prizes for Storied: Discussions on Books, Publishing, and the Creative Process.

On Wednesday, July 27, Jordan Abel, author of NISHGA, Barry Gough, author of Possessing Meares Island and Susan McClelland, co-author of Boy from Buchenwald, will discuss writing when history becomes a character.

This discussion will be moderated by JJ Lee, author of The Measure of a Man, a finalist for the 2012 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Abel’s book NISHGA is a finalist for the 2022 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the 2022 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, Possessing Meares Island won the 2021 Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing and McClelland’s Boy from Buchenwald is a finalist for the 2022 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize.

Read more on the BC and Yukon Book Prizes website.