Julie’s most recent book Olive Odyssey has been shortlisted for a BC Book Prize.  The Hubert Evans Non-fiction prize is awarded to the BC author of the best original work of literary non-fiction.

The other four finalists are  Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation by Kevin Chong,  The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest by Barry Gough, In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Dying by  Eve Joseph, and Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America by  Nancy J. Turner.

The winner will be selected on April 25th at a gala in Vancouver.  Fingers crossed!