B.C. writer Grace Fox speaks at the Word Guild awards.

 The talent of several B.C. writers was recognized last month, as the Word Guild awards for Canadian Christian authors were given out in Waterloo, Ontario.

Mark Buchanan of Duncan won in the Christian living category for The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath. Richmond writer Alan Reynolds won in two categories (apologetics/evangelism and general readership) for A Troubled Faith: Do We Really Need God? Rod Wilson, president of Regent College, also won twice (relationships and instructional books) for How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?

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Other winners: Ed Hird – Battle for the Soul of Canada (independently published non-fiction); James M. Houston – Joyful Exiles: Life in Christ on the Dangerous Edge of Things (leadership); Kurt Armstrong – Why Love will Always be a Poor Investment (essay); Paul Beckingham – Purpose-Driven Starbucks (short feature); and Violet Nesdoly – A Touch of Wonder (children/young adults).

George Whipple of Burnaby won for his poetry collection The Peaceable Kingdom, and Judith Millar of Nanaimo tied for best poem.

Awards of merit went to Regent College’s J. I. Packer, co-author of Praying: Finding our Way Through Duty to Delight (Christian living); and Grace Fox of Heriot Bay, for her column in BC Christian News’s Island Insight.      

July 2007