Writer Sean Rossiter to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from WMAs

Sean Rossiter

The Western Magazine Awards have announced the finalists, with winners to be named at the 30th annual gala at the Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel on Friday, June 15. A full list of finalists is available here. Winners in four gold categories will receive $1,000 each; in all written and visual categories, $750. Among the highlights

• The Lifetime Achievement Award is to be presented to perennial Vancouver magazine writer and author Sean Rossiter. For many years he wrote the 12th & Cambie column in Vancouver magazine .
• Finalists for Best New Magazine are 
• Eighteen Bridges
• HERS
• Leap
• S-Magazine 

• Finalists for Trade Magazine of the Year are:
• Alberta Oil
• Border Crossings
• CGA Magazine
• Enterprise
• Massage Matters Canada

• Finalists for Best Online Magazine
• BCBusiness
• BCLiving.ca
• Boulderpavement
• The Tyee
• Wine Access

Magazine of the Year finalists (with the winner of each provincial award forming the list of finalists for Western Canada Magazine of the Year)

• Albert/NWT
• Alberta Venture
• Eighteen Bridges
• Swerve
• Up Here
• Up Here Business

• BC/ Yukon
• BCBusiness
• Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine
• Malahat Review
• Vancouver Magazine
• Western Living

• Manitoba
• Border Crossings
• Canada's History
• Geez
• Prairie Fire
• SANDBOX Magazine

• Saskatchewan
• BlackFlash
• Grain Magazine
• Saskatoon HOME Magazine

(Photo: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward)