British Columbia Magazine

Editor-in-Chief Anita Willis has something new and shiny to carry home from the annual International Regional Magazine Association conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this week: a first-place plaque for her 2008 Front Lines editor’s columns!

Willis, who says she is “thrilled” at the results, accepted this and a handful of other prizes awarded to British Columbia Magazine at a special ceremony held over the weekend. Each of the following stories from 2008 beat out the entries from nearly 40 other North American magazines.

• Gold, Column: “What to do about the caribou?”; “The getaway that keeps on giving”; “Revealing secrets of the Empress Hotel” by Anita Willis
• Gold, Environmental Feature: “Desert dreams” by Brian Payton
• Silver, Travel: “The lure of Tatlayoko” by J.B. MacKinnon
• Silver, General Feature: “The good earth” by Daniel Wood
• Merit, Nature feature: “Grizzlies in paradise” by Frances Backhouse

Congratulations to all of our contributors and to Editor Anita Willis on this remarkable achievement.

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