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Welcome

The Association of Book Publishers of BC (Books BC) is a trade association, founded in 1974, whose aims are to foster an environment in which our members will flourish and to expand an awareness of the value of books in all our lives. We are a regional affiliate of the Association of Canadian Publishers.

For more information on our member-driven association go to Who We Are.

See all our members in our Member Directory

For more on what we do, see our 2022 Activities Report.

News & Events

Registration is now open for three fall professional development sessions on accessible publishing

August 23rd, 2023

Books BC invites you to three online fall professional development sessions to strategize and improve your accessibility metadata, content discoverability, and born-accessible workflows. Sessions will be delivered over Zoom and will include a 45 minute presentation from an eBOUND Canada facilitator, with 15 minutes for questions and discussion.

Publishers and their staff may register for a single or multiple sessions here.

Please note: Books BC Active, Associate Members and Friends receive one free ticket per membership.

Please contact Books BC at info@books.bc.ca to inquire about your company’s membership status if you are uncertain and to receive a member’s discount code.

Tickets for non-members and additional staff are $20.

ANNOUNCING OUR 2023/24 POETRY IN TRANSIT PROGRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TRANSLINK

July 28th, 2023

The Association of Book Publishers of BC (Books BC) is excited to announce the 2023/24 Poetry in Transit program. 

The 2023/24 Poetry in Transit selected poets and featured books are: 

Susan Braley, (Victoria) Tilling the Darkness (Caitlin Press & Dagger Editions)

P.W. Bridgman, (Vancouver)  Idiolect (Ekstasis Editions)

Robert Bringhurst, (Heriot Bay) The Ridge (Harbour Publishing)

Edward Byrne, (Vancouver) Tracery (Talonbooks)

Megan Fennya Jones, (Vancouver) The Program (Goose Lane Editions)

Mark Leiren-Young, (Victoria) Big Sharks, Small World (Orca Book Publishers)

Emily Osborne, (Bowen Island) Safety Razor (Gordon Hill Press)

Kirsten Pendreigh, (Vancouver) Best Canadian Poetry 2021 (Biblioasis)

Sharon Thesen, (Prince George) Refabulations: Selected Longer Poems (Talonbooks)

Ian Thomas, (Vancouver) Green Islands: Poems from the Great Bear Rainforest  (Rainbow Publishers & Raven Chapbooks)

Poetry in Transit has been running since 1996, making it the longest-running poetry on transit program in Canada. Poems eligible for the project must be by BC-based writers and published in book form by Canadian publishers. Poems are submitted by publishers and selected by a jury. The 2023/24 jury included poets Evelyn Lau and Rob Taylor.

Learn more about our annual Poetry in Transit campaign at poetryintransit.ca

We invite you to join us at “Poetry Bus!”, the campaign launch event at the Word Vancouver Reading and Writing Festival at UBC Robson Square on Saturday, September 16th at 12:45 p.m.

In addition, we invite you to share your sightings of the 2023/24 Poetry in Transit bus cards throughout Metro Vancouver and BC using the #PoetryInTransit hashtag on social media channels. 

Find promotional graphics for social media, the covers of the featured books, and poets’ headshots here.

Download the full press release here.

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