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Congratulations to the winners and finalists in the 27^th Annual Western Magazine Awards

(Winners marked with an asterisk)

 

Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

Shelley Youngblut

 

Arts, Culture, and Entertainment

Bruce Grierson, Father Abraham, Vancouver Magazine

Michael Harris, The Bing Picture, VancouverMagazine

*Nickelas Johnson (research by Greg Hudson), Poemosapien, unlimited

Matt O'Grady, The Collector, VancouverMagazine

Kris Wenzel (Demeanor), Get a Real Job, unlimited

 

Business

SPONSORED BY TRANSCONTINENTAL

Tyee Bridge, Prophet Motives, BCBusiness

*Chris Cannon, The Guru, VancouverMagazine

Andrew Findlay, Battle Ground, VancouverMagazine

Tom Murray, Naked Hunch, unlimited

Karen Rawlines, Frazz Dazzler and the Sunny Day Delay,techlife

 

Environmental

James Glave, Turf War, Vancouver Magazine

Shannon Phillips, Head in the Sands, AlbertaViews

Masa Takei, Bear Man, VancouverMagazine

*Chris Turner, The Big Decision, AlbertaViews

Daniel Wood, Antarctica, Westworld

 

Fiction
SPONSORED BYCANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS

Buffy Cram, Loveseat, Prairie Fire

Chris Kent, Scurvy, Malahat Review

Guy Maddin, My (Other) Winnipeg: Excerpts from a Phantom Film, Border Crossings

Nadine McInnis, Heart of Blue, Glowing, Prairie Fire

*Susan Ouriou, Violette Bicyclette, AlbertaViews

 

Human Experience

Grant Buday, Wood Hunger, Vancouver Review

*Chris Koentges, Helen Koentges, Swerve

Sandra Shields, Letting Ada Go, Swerve

Barbara Stowe, A Greenpeace Schooling, VancouverReview

Joel Yanofsky, Bad Day, Malahat Review

 

Profile
SPONSORED BY READER’S DIGEST

TyeeBridge, Living Faith, Swerve

Jasmine Budak, The Ringmaster, Up Here

*Bruce Grierson, Father Abraham, VancouverMagazine

Michael Harris, The Bing Picture, VancouverMagazine

Matt O'Grady, The Collector, VancouverMagazine

 

Public Issues

Jasmine Budak, The Sickness, Up Here

Jonathan Graham, A House Divided, VancouverMagazine

Jonathan Graham, Life After Death, VancouverMagazine

*Charles Montgomery, Citizen Hern, VancouverMagazine

Charles Montgomery, Sad City, VancouverMagazine

Evan Osenton, Painting the Province Green, AlbertaViews

Roberta Staley, Cancer in kids is being beaten, but at a price, Georgia Straight

 

Service
Andrew Morrison, Neal McLennan, Mary Bailey, Karen Burshtein, John Gilchrist, Janice Paskey, Shelora Sheldan, Top 40 Foodies Under 40, Western Living

*The Editors, 19th Annual Restaurant Awards, VancouverMagazine

Malwina Gudowska, 20 Skills Every Boss Should Know, AlbertaVenture

Jacquie Moore, Birthing Our Babies, Swerve

Charlene Rooke, Carnal Knowledge, VancouverMagazine

 

Regular Column or Department

Frances Bula, Vancouver Magazine

Steve Burgess, Swerve

Daniel Francis, Geist

Stuart Ross, Sub-Terrain

*Dave Watson, GeorgiaStraight

 

Science, Technology, and Medicine

Kim Green, The World is Not Enough, New Trail

Bruce Grierson, Perpetual Motion, VancouverMagazine

Jeff Holubitsky, Labour of Love, Avenue (Edmonton)

Bruce Weir, Life After Death, Swerve

*Daniel Wood, Who Were B.C.'s First Seafarers? Georgia Straight

 

Student Writing

SPONSORED BY THE AMBER WEBB-BOWERMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

Bretton Davie, Forsaken, The Crow

Kyle Francis, Zombie Monoculture, elemente magazine

*Jonathan Graham, A House Divided, VancouverMagazine

Jonathan Graham, Life After Death, VancouverMagazine

Jill Margo, Doormen Don't Hug, Monday Magazine

 

Travel and Leisure

SPONSORED BY WESTJET

TyeeBridge, Living Faith, Swerve
Kevin Brooker, The Other Side of the Mountain, Western Living

Sioux Browning, Lost Pueblo, Malahat Review

*Christopher Frey, Where Do You Think You're Going? unlimited

Aaron Spitzer, Bear Town, Up Here

                    

 

Provincial Gold Awards

Gold Award Best Article - Alberta/NWT

Tyee Bridge, Living Faith, Swerve

Jasmine Budak, The Ringmaster, Up Here

*Chris Koentges, Helen Koentges, Swerve

Sandra Shields, Letting Ada Go, Swerve

Chris Turner, The Big Decision, AlbertaViews

 

Gold Award Best Article - BC/Yukon
SPONSORED BY BC MINISTRY OF TOURISM, SPORT & THE ARTS

Charles Campbell, His rambling now over, Dave left us laughing, Georgia Straight

Jonathan Graham, Life After Death, Vancouver Magazine

Matt Hern, No Recipe for Funk, VancouverReview

*Chris Koentges, Tourists, Stay Away, up! magazine

Dave Watson, Rambling into eternity isn't what I expected, Georgia Straight

 

Gold Award Best Article - Manitoba
SPONSORED BY MANITOBA MINISTRY OF CULTURE, HERITAGE, TOURISM AND SPORT

Karen Burshtein, The Flying Chef, Western Living

Sarah Klassen, Tanya's Dinner Party (1997), Prairie Fire

Jake MacDonald, Belugas, Birds and Bears, Western Living

Jake MacDonald, Do You Wish to Report a Nuisance Alligator? Prairie Fire

*Chris Webb, Nelle Oosterom, Phil Koch, 10 Photos that Changed Canada, The Beaver

 

Gold Award Best Article - Saskatchewan

[SPONSORED BY SASKATCHEWAN MINISTRY  OF TOURISM, PARKS, CULTURE AND SPORT

Bill Armstrong, The Ripple Effect, Westworld

*Allan Casey, The Little Boat That Could, Westworld
Tonya K. Davidson, The Shipbuilder, Dog River & Other Roadside Delights: How I learned to stop in Saskatchewan, Briarpatch

Lionel Hughes, Heart to Hearth, Prairies North

Best Photograph Architectural, Landscape, or Still Life

Martin Tessler, Bridging the Gap, Western Living

*Dattu, Burning Man, elemente magazine

Daniel Wood, Our Town: Scotiabank Theatre, Chinook Centre, Swerve

Clinton Hussey & Murray Bancroft (stylist), Sea Change, Western Living

Robert Lemermeyer, Ship Shape, Western Living

 

Best Photographic Feature or Series
*Gaetano Fasciana, Charmed Forces, Vancouver's Lifestyle Magazine

Marc Rimmer, Music Lives Here, Swerve

David Fierro, Sacred Heart, Ion Magazine

Phillip Jarmain, The Fashion Shoot, elemente magazine

Marianne Larochelle, Todays News, Ion Magazine

Best Photograph - People and Portraiture
Gregory Crow,For A Song, VancouverMagazine

*Gregory Crow, GeNext (boy with guitar), Vancouver Magazine

David Fierro, GeNext (girl on horse), Vancouver Magazine

Mark Mushet, Kim Collier/Lightly Grilled, VancouverReview

Lancton & Magda Siwicka, Lord Dandy Shoreditch,elemente magazine

 

Best Illustration or Illustration Feature
*Roxanna Bikadoroff, Brutish Colonia, VancouverReview

Marc Johns, Fetching, Prism International

Roxanna Bikadoroff, Floating Like the Dead, VancouverReview

Roxanna Bikadoroff, Leather Man, VancouverReview

Valery Goulet, Off to a good start, Research News

Best Art Direction Article
SPONSORED BY LIIVING BLUEPRINT     

Taryn Dufault, A House Divided, VancouverMagazine

Randall Watson, Bear Man, VancouverMagazine

Malcolm Brown, Generation Debt, unlimited

Randall Watson, GeNext, VancouverMagazine

*Randall Watson, Sad City, VancouverMagazine

 

Best Art Direction Cover
SPONSORED BY TUGBOAT MEDIA

Sandro Grison, Color Magazine 6.4, Color magazine

Randall Watson, Best Buys, Vancouver Magazine

*Randall Watson, Eat This: 101 Great Tastes, Vancouver Magazine

Malcolm Brown, ISSUE NO.07: The Creativity Issue, unlimited

Mark Mushet & Dylan Staniul,Mr. Invisible, VancouverReview    

 

Trade Magazine of the Year
SPONSORED BY CANADA WIDE MEDIA LIMITED

AlbertaOil Magazine

CGA Magazine

*Enterprise

Grocer Today

reel west magazine

Best New Magazine
SPONSORED BY BC ASSOCIATION OF MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS

Alberta Home

Goats Across Canada

*Techlife

Up Here Business

Yukon, North of Ordinary

Magazine of the Year
Alberta/NWT

AlbertaViews

AlbertaVenture

*Unlimited

Up Here

Up Here Business

BC/Yukon
SPONSORED BY B.C MINISTRY OF TOURISM, SPORT  & THE ARTS

BCBusiness

British ColumbiaMagazine

Geist

*Vancouver Magazine

VancouverReview

Manitoba
SPONSORED BY MANITOBA MINISTRY OF CULTURE, HERITAGE, TOURISM AND SPORT

Beaver

*Border Crossings

Geez

Prairie Fire

 

Saskatchewan
SPONSORED BY SASKATCHEWAN MINISTRY OF TOURISM, PARKS, CULTURE AND SPORT

*BlackFlash

Briarpatch

Prairies North

 

And the Magazine of the Year – Western Canada

VancouverMagazine

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