Media Contacts

Media Relations

Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and Responsible for Labour
250 387-2799

Backgrounders

British Columbian winners and nominees: National Magazine Awards

Best single issue

Western Living, Designers of the Year 2015: Anicka Quin, editor; Paul Roelofs, art director

Explore, Winter 2015: David Webb, editor; Arran Yates, art director

Written Awards, Essays

Malahat Review - "White Matter": Susan Olding

Written Awards, Fiction

Event - "Dar a Luz": Trevor Corkum

Room - "The River Phoenix Social Club": Monica Pacheco

Geist - "My Father's Picasso": Cary Fagan

Sub-Terrain - "The Beguiling":  Zsuzsi Gartner (Winner)

Written Awards, Personal Journalism

Event - "The Back Roads”: Gena Ellet

PRISM International - "Doughnut Eaters":  Diane Bracuk

Written Awards, Poetry

PRISM International - "Why Don't I": Vincent Pagé

Sub-Terrain - "The Second Person": Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Written Awards, Science, Technology & the Environment

BC Business - "Watching the Detectives": Anne Casselman

Art Direction for an entire issue

Western Living, Designers of the Year 2015: Paul Roelofs, Naomi MacDougall, Jenny Reed

Art Direction for a single magazine article

SAD Mag - "Name Redacted": Pamela Rounis, art director; Portia Boehm, illustrator; Dina Del Bucchia, writer

Visual Award, Home and Garden

Western Living - "The Comeback": Martin Tessler, photographer; Paul Roelofs, art director; Nicole Sjöstedt, stylist (Winner)

Visual Award, Portrait Photography

Reel West Magazine - "The Many Faces of Michael Eklund": Phillip Chin

Vancouver Magazine - "Order Up!": Carlo Ricci