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Medicine Wheel Publishing, Marisa Alps receive BC publishing awards

Medicine Wheel Publishing and Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts artistic director Marisa Alps will be honoured by Books BC for their contributions to the province’s publishing industry at a reception in Vancouver on May 8.

Tales from the shortlist: Q&As with the Canadian finalists for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

Ahead of the May 13 announcement of this year’s winner, Q&Q caught up with Eleanor Catton, Claudia Dey, and Janika Oza to find what significance the prize has for them and what stories they sought to tell in their shortlisted novels.