Vancouver, B.C. (March 6, 2025) – Today, Creative BC is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024/25 Market Expansion Fund (the Fund). This Fund provides financial support for B.C. publishers to attend select fairs, conferences, and events to promote their...
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B.C. Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press’ Dandelion Selected for Canada Reads 2025
Since its debut in 2002, Canada Reads has become Canada’s most popular literary competition. Held annually each March, the event features five celebrity defenders who debate the merits of five Canadian-authored books, eliminating one title each day until a champion is...
Call for Entries: 2025 City of Vancouver Book Award
Since 1989, the annual City of Vancouver Book Award has celebrated outstanding authors across all genres. These authors have contributed to the appreciation and understanding of Vancouver’s diversity, history and unique character. This year, the winning contributor...
SURVEY: The State of Publishing in Canada 2023
The State of Publishing in Canada 2023 survey asks publishers in Canada questions about their businesses and experiences in the book industry supply chain, focusing on the trade market in Canada. The answers will enable data-driven decision-making for your company and...
The Province Continues Support for Fairs, Festivals & Events
Through the B.C. Fairs, Festivals and Events Fund (BCFFE), the Government of B.C. is providing $15 million in one-time grants to eligible events in response to challenges the sector is facing, such as reduced revenue and sponsorships, and rising costs of equipment and services.
B.C.’s Creative Sector Honours and Celebrates Black History Month 2024
February marks Black History Month, a time dedicated to learning, honouring, and reflecting upon the past and future of Black communities in British Columbia and worldwide. The creative industries are actively participating by celebrating, amplifying stories,...
Seventeen publishers receive foreign and domestic export support from Creative BC
Vancouver, B.C. (December 12, 2023) – Today, Creative BC is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023/24 Market Expansion Fund (the Fund). This Fund provides financial support for B.C. publishers to attend select fairs, conferences, and events for the purpose of...
Creative BC announces first recipients of the Pilot Podcast Program
Vancouver, B.C. (September 20, 2023) – Creative BC is pleased to name 11 grant recipients of the Pilot Podcast Program (the Program). Recipients may receive up to $15,000 for the development, production, and promotion of B.C.-based podcast productions. With over...
Submissions are Open for the 2024 BC and Yukon Book Prizes
If you wrote, illustrated, or published a book in 2023 that meets the BC and Yukon Book Prizes criteria, submit it for consideration for the 2024 Book Prizes! Submissions are now open for the eight book prizes which include fiction, non-fiction, poetry and books for...
2023 CBC Poetry Prize is now open to Canadian Poets
The 2023 CBC Poetry Prize is now accepting submissions. Eligible submissions include an original, unpublished poem or collection of poems up to 600 words in length. The winner will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have the opportunity to attend a...
Historic investment promotes stability, jobs for B.C.’s creative sector
The Province is providing a historic contribution of $42 million to support people and businesses working in motion picture, music, publishing and interactive digital media industries in British Columbia.
Help on the way for local book, magazine publishers
To help B.C.’s book and magazine publishers address immediate challenges and give the broader publishing industry the support it needs to thrive in the future, the Province is providing $600,000 over the next three years. “In honour of BC Book Day, we celebrate our...
Eleven Publishers Receive Export Support from Creative BC
Vancouver, B.C. (April 14, 2023) – Today, Creative BC is pleased to announce the recipients of the FY2022/23 Market Expansion Fund (the Fund). This program provides financial support for B.C. publishers to attend select fairs, conferences, and events for the purpose...
The Province is providing $30 million to support B.C.-based fairs, festivals, and events
Through the B.C. Fairs, Festivals and Events Fund (BCFFE), the Government of B.C. is providing $30 million in one-time grants to eligible events in response to challenges the sector is facing, such as loss of staffing and volunteers, supply-chain issues, and a...
Writing the Coast: BC & Yukon Book Prizes podcast with Prem Gill
This week on Writing the Coast, Prem Gill, CEO of Creative BC talks about her love of cookbooks and how the organization supports British Columbia book publishers. Writing the Coast is the weekly podcast where we chat with the authors and illustrators of the books who...
Entries are now being accepted for the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
The 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards is open to all indie book authors and publishers including independent publishers (small, medium or otherwise), university presses, self-published authors, e-book authors, seasoned authors and even first time authors in the...
2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize is now open to Canadian writers
Writers from across Canada are invited to submit to one of Canada's most prestigious prizes for unpublished work! You can submit memoir, biography, humour writing, essay, personal essay travel writing and feature articles up to 2,000 words, as long as it has not been...
2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award is now open for submissions
Established in 1976, the First Novel Award program has launched the careers of some of Canada’s most beloved novelists. Previous winners include Michael Ondaatje, Joan Barfoot, Joy Kogawa, W.?P. Kinsella, Nino Ricci, Rohinton Mistry, Michael Redhill, Mona Awad,...
2023 CCBC Book Awards- Call for Submissions
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) is now accepting submissions for its English-language children’s book awards. In total, seven prizes will be awarded: TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award * Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award Norma Fleck Award for Canadian...
The 2022 Shortlists for the CCBC Book Awards Honour Excellence in Canadian Books for Young People
Congratulations to British Columbia ABPBC members whose titles made the shortlist for the following Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards! TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words, edited by Dr. Lindsay Herriot and Kate Fry (Orca...