BCAMP congratulates its member magazines who are finalists for the 2009 Western Magazine Awards. The Western Magazine Award Gala will take place on Friday, June 19, at the Reniassance Hotel Vancouver Harbourside at the conclusion of Magazines West.
Arts, Culture, and Entertainment
Bruce Grierson, Father Abraham, Vancouver Magazine
Michael Harris, The Bing Picture, Vancouver Magazine
Matt O'Grady, The Collector, Vancouver Magazine

Business
SPONSORED BY TRANSCONTINENTAL
Tyee Bridge,  Prophet Motives, BCBusiness
Chris Cannon, The Guru, Vancouver Magazine
Andrew Findlay, Battle Ground, Vancouver Magazine
 
Environmental
James Glave, Turf War, Vancouver Magazine

Masa Takei, Bear Man, Vancouver Magazine
 
 
Fiction
SPONSORED BY CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
Chris Kent, Scurvy, Malahat Review
 
 
Human Experience
Grant Buday, Wood Hunger, Vancouver Review
 
Barbara Stowe, A Greenpeace Schooling, Vancouver Review
Joel Yanofsky, Bad Day, Malahat Review
 
Profile
SPONSORED BY READERS DIGEST
 
Bruce Grierson, Father Abraham, Vancouver Magazine
Michael Harris, The Bing Picture, Vancouver Magazine
Matt O'Grady, The Collector, Vancouver Magazine
 
Public Issues
Jonathan Graham, A House Divided, Vancouver Magazine
Jonathan Graham, Life After Death, Vancouver Magazine
Charles Montgomery, Citizen Hern, Vancouver Magazine
Charles Montgomery, Sad City, Vancouver Magazine
 
 
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, Vancouver Magazine
Charlene Rooke, Carnal Knowledge, Vancouver Magazine
 
Regular Column or Department
Frances Bula, Vancouver Magazine
Daniel Francis, Geist
Stuart Ross, subTerrain
 
 Science, Technology, and Medicine
Bruce Grierson, Perpetual Motion, Vancouver Magazine
 
Student Writing
SPONSORED BY THE AMBER WEBB-BOWERMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
Jonathan Graham, A House Divided, Vancouver Magazine
Jonathan Graham, Life After Death, Vancouver Magazine
 
Travel and Leisure
SPONSORED BY WESTJET
Kevin Brooker, The Other Side of the Mountain, Western Living
Sioux Browning, Lost Pueblo, Malahat Review
 
                    
 
Gold Award Best Article BC/Yukon
SPONSORED BY BC MINISTRY OF TOURISM, SPORT & THE ARTS
Jonathan Graham, Life After Death, Vancouver Magazine
Matt Hern, No Recipe for Funk, Vancouver Review
 
 
Best Photograph Architectural, Landscape, or Still Life
Martin Tessler, Bridging the Gap, Western Living
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 Lifestyles Magazine (now MyVancouver)
 
Best Photograph People and Portraiture

Gregory Crow, For A Song, Vancouver Magazine
Gregory Crow, GeNext (boy with guitar), Vancouver Magazine
David Fierro, GeNext (girl on horse), Vancouver Magazine
Mark Mushet, Kim Collier/Lightly Grilled, Vancouver Review
 
 
Best Illustration or Illustration Feature

Roxanna Bikadoroff, Brutish Colonia, Vancouver Review
Marc Johns, Fetching, PRISM international
Roxanna Bikadoroff, Floating Like the Dead, Vancouver Review
Roxanna Bikadoroff, Leather Man, Vancouver Review

Best Art Direction Article
 SPONSORED BY LIVING BLUEPRINT     
Taryn Dufault, A House Divided, Vancouver Magazine
Randall Watson, Bear Man, Vancouver Magazine
Randall Watson, GeNext, Vancouver Magazine
Randall Watson, Sad City, Vancouver Magazine
 
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
Mark Mushet & Dylan Staniul, Mr. Invisible, Vancouver Review    
 
Trade Magazine of the Year
SPONSORED BY CANADA WIDE MEDIA LIMITED
CGA Magazine
Enterprise
 

Best New Magazine
SPONSORED BY BC ASSOCIATION OF MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Goats Across Canada
 

Magazine of the Year
BC/Yukon
SPONSORED BY B.C MINISTRY OF TOURISM, SPORT  & THE ARTS
BCBusiness
British Columbia Magazine
Geist
Vancouver Magazine
Vancouver Review