Hannah’s couples
She’s launching her book on home turf in the Okanagan. New Star Books reports that, “Hannah Calder‘s motley crew of… FULL STORY
Author Archive
#56 Knock, knock, who’s there?
Went to the Canada Day birthday party down at the Museum building. Took my fourteen-going-on-fifteen-year-old hound mix “Min” with me, on… FULL STORY
Brandon Bays’ ways
Ten years cancer-free, Susan D’Agostino of White Rock recalls her experiences with healing in Guided to Wisdom: The Journey to… FULL STORY
Sisters versus shame
Chelsea Bolan’s debut novel, The Good Sister (HarperAvenue 2016) was selected as the second winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for… FULL STORY
Love & the 1940s
Review by Cherie Thiessen It was a time of big bands, an uncrowded B.C. coast, a war weary world and… FULL STORY
Towards unlikely futures
Perhaps the best way to introduce nomad-poet Jordan Mounteer’s first collection, liminal (Sono Nis $15.95), is to report one’s initial… FULL STORY
Cathi Shaw has co-authored Erik Bjarnason’s Surviving Logan (Rocky Mountain Books $28), the survival story of North Vancouver firefighter and… FULL STORY
Frozen but fearless
Trapped on the second-highest peak in North America, Mount Logan, during an extratropical cyclone would be a mountaineer’s worst nightmare…. FULL STORY
Streaking by the checkout stands
In 2014, Daniel Rajala resumed his Captain Under Pants show on Monday nights with the Community Radio Station CJMP 90.1… FULL STORY
Gossamer frailty, starvation begone
Inspired in part by his love of the tall trees—ancient Douglas firs –and roving in the Qualicum Beach Heritage Forest,… FULL STORY
Palette is palatable
British Columbia: Graced by Nature’s Palette (Sandhill $49.95) takes a journey through B.C.’s unique and varied landscape through the seasons… FULL STORY
For Your Own Good makes good
The poems in Leah Horlick’s For Your Own Good (Caitlin Press, 2015) tell the fictionalized tale of a survivor of… FULL STORY
Eastside Inspiration
Join Teresa Pocock for her art exhibit and book launch for Pretty Amazing: How I Found Myself in the Downtown… FULL STORY
Two Goats, One Wife
Education in the nascent nation of Zimbabwe was a privilege taken seriously by students. Born in 1947, Ray Garford left… FULL STORY
Cree camping and living off the land
Duncan McCue, a current affairs reporter for the CBC’s flagship show, The National, is Anishinaabe, a member of the Chippewas… FULL STORY
Making Merry, twice
The Merry Wives of Windsor Directed by Johnna Wright Bard on the Beach June 17 – September 24 Set… FULL STORY
Schwartz sisters’ prize won by Nielsen
We Are All Made of Molecules (Tundra $19.99) by Susin Nielsen was shortlisted for a Sheila A. Egoff children’s literature… FULL STORY
In a Blue Moon
Everyone grieves differently, and in Lucia Frangione’s play In a Blue Moon (Talonbooks, $17.95), we follow three characters in a combination… FULL STORY
“Writing has to come first.”
He’s a Mayne Island magus, a magical master of words, according to Cherie Thiessen. by Cherie Thiessen Growing up in… FULL STORY
Lost Lagoon confounded
Originally commissioned by Full Circle: First Nations Performance as part of a larger work, Quelemia Sparrow’s autobiographical, one-woman performance play,… FULL STORY
