
06/03/2025
This year, the 2025 Whistler Independent Book Awards received more than 180 submitted entries! The evaluating committee is pleased to announce the following Shortlisted nominees:
FICTION NOMINEES:
Jerome J. Bourgault for Day of Epiphany
Christopher Dainton for Malipolitan
R. Dawnraven for The Hidden Crystals
Robin Anne Ettles for This Is All We Know
Shelby Knudsen for One Night Only
Chris Tomasini for Within This Darkness
NON-FICTION NOMINEES:
Joe Calendino and Gary Little for The Longest Road: To Hell and Back from Addiction to Advocacy
Linda Dayan Frimer for Luminous: An artist’s story as a guide to radical creativity
Kim Hudson for The Bridge: Connecting the Powers of Linear and Circular Thinking
Diane Kirby for Grief and the Spirit World: A Search for Comfort
Carolyn Roberts for Re-Storying Education: Decolonizing Your Practice Using a Critical Lens
Corinne Wilkinson and Trish Eaton-Parder for It’s Just a Hiccup: Reclaiming Your Identity
CHILDREN'S NOMINEES:
Sophie Armstrong (illustrations Pearl Bates) for The Music Thief
Trevor Atkins for The Day the Pirates Went Mad
Beth Kelly for The Little Octopus
Anna McCarthy (illustrations Nicola North) for Message in a Bottle
Lisa Macdonald for Me, My Selfie, and I
The Shortlisted nominees will be judged by Whistler Writing Society members and the Finalists will be announced July 18, 2025.
Winners will be announced during the Whistler Writers Festival, October 30 - November 2, 2025.