Advice for would-be authors
“There is no fast and easy way to become a published author.” — Ben Nuttall-Smith After Ben Nuttall-Smith (at right)… FULL STORY
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Galiano boasts some of B.C.’s best
GALIANO ISLAND BOOKS TO HOST SIXTH ANNUAL GALIANO LITERARY FESTIVAL The SIXTH ANNUAL Galiano Literary Festival, to be held February… FULL STORY
Cook book revives doomed adventure
No voyage has ever surveyed so much territory as Cook’s final Pacific voyage that reached Nootka Sound in 1778.
Popular Portuguese artworks
A book about popular Portuguese artworks by Anthony Alan Shelton captures the playful, subversive culture of a nation forever trapped… FULL STORY
Robin Laurence wins RCA medal
Vancouver-based independent writer and critic, Robin Laurence (at right) won this year’s Royal Canadian Academy of Arts medal, given to… FULL STORY
Q & A: Jónína Kirton
Jónína Kirton’s (right) third book, Standing in a River of Time (Talonbooks $19.95) merges memoir and poetry to tell of… FULL STORY
The sawmill that became a city
Later called Hastings Mill, a company town grew up around Captain Stamp’s venture when he built a store to supply… FULL STORY
What is truth?
In seeking to answer Pontius Pilate’s trolling question, “What is truth?” Jennifer Zilm turns to a variety of sources and… FULL STORY
Phyllis Dyson
In 1970, Phyllis Dyson was an infant when she moved from Ottawa to Burnaby with her brother and single parent… FULL STORY
Snow nomad
Born in Malta to a British family, the son of a Royal Navy officer, Alan Dennis didn’t plan a career… FULL STORY
Summers up the coast
Vancouver-raised Kathryn Willcock grew up in the 1960s spending summers in logging camps on the coast of BC where her… FULL STORY
Ode to Iceland
Harold Rhenisch continues his love affair with Iceland (and his ongoing investigation of land and place) in his latest collection… FULL STORY
Picture of a killer
She was able to put a human face to the atrocious and horrific deed. “I can come no closer to… FULL STORY
Wayman & the Woodcock Award
On June 22, 2022, at the Vancouver Public Library, Tom Wayman formally accepted the George Woodcock Lifetime Literary Award that… FULL STORY
Passing on knowledge and passion
What is a good feminist and how is it learned? More particularly, how does one learn – through ideas, feelings… FULL STORY
Saklikar wins gold IPPY
Poet and lawyer, Renée Sarojini Saklikar has won the gold medal in the Poetry-Speciality category of the 2022 Independent Publisher… FULL STORY
Hilary the welder
For more than two decades Hilary Peach worked as a welder and was one of the few women in the… FULL STORY
Kate Harris at Denman Island Fest
Explorer, adventurer and writer Kate Harris will be giving a solo reading at the Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival… FULL STORY
The quiet reckoning
Reviewing The Quiet In Me: Poems by Patrick Lane, Trevor Carolan writes “This is the receding artist’s sayonara, when love… FULL STORY
Super cats
North Delta-raised Ian Boothby, an award-winning comedy writer best known for his work on The Simpsons comics (based on the… FULL STORY
