Sveva revisited
In her forthcoming book Reading Sveva (Talonbooks $17.95), Daphne Marlatt will respond to the life and paintings of Sveva Caetani,… FULL STORY
Author Archive
The Conjoined
In Jen Sookfong Lee’s The Conjoined (ECW $18.95), Jessica Campbell sorts through her dead mother’s belongings and makes a shocking… FULL STORY
From House to Town
A high school English teacher in Gibsons, B.C., Susan Telfer received the Sunshine Coast Arts Council Gillian Lowndes Award for… FULL STORY
Four B.C. winners at Jewish Awards
Four of the five winners of the inaugural Western Canada Jewish Book Awards are B.C.-based. Tom Wayman has won the… FULL STORY
Keeping it small
In 2014, advice the much-nominated M.A.C. (Marion) Farrant received the $5,000 City of Victoria Butler Prize for her fiction collection,… FULL STORY
Deadmonton
Edmonton snagged itself the title of “Murder Capital of Canada” in 2011 with 48 of its citizens coming to a… FULL STORY
Learning to teach
Judy Smith of Castlegar has self-published Out of Poverty: Living and Teaching in Asia (Tellwell Talent 2016) to document the… FULL STORY
Heidi Waechtler 4th ABPBC director
Having won the Editors Association of Canada’s Claudette Upton Scholarship in 2011, Vancouverite Heidi Waechtler went east to work for… FULL STORY
Kitimat’s Kayla’s winning debut
Kayla Czaga has won the Canadian Writer Award for writers under 30 for her debut poetry collection, For Your Safety… FULL STORY
Poignancy wins poetry prize
Joe Denham’s third book of poetry, Regeneration Machine (Nightwood Editions, $18.95), won the 2016 Canadian Authors Assocation (CAA) Award for… FULL STORY
Komar wins for Bastard
For her third title, forensic anthropologist Diane Komar turned her historical sights to the West Coast for The Bastard of… FULL STORY
Tibet, disrupted and desecrated
According to B.C.’s Michael Buckley, China is making the biggest water grab in history—stealing water from Tibet’s rivers for hydropower… FULL STORY
From Persia to Canada
Pari Azarm Motamedi was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She studied and worked as an architect and urban planner… FULL STORY
Footsteps to Dreams
In June of 2016, the BC Genealogy Society awarded Corol Pallan’s self-published Footsteps To Dreams its Family History Book Award… FULL STORY
Fort Stikine revisited
For her third title, forensic anthropologist Diane Komar turned her historical sights to the West Coast for The Bastard of… FULL STORY
Coastal colouring for adults
Yvonne Maximchuk has been a painter and potter for thirty years, and she has built an art retreat on her… FULL STORY
Bringing home the Leacock
At a banquet in Orillia, Ontario, Susan Juby has won $15,000 and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour (for best… FULL STORY
Indian Horse goes celluloid
Film producers Trish Dolman and Christine Haebler of Screen Siren Pictures have commenced casting for a movie version of Richard… FULL STORY
Triple gold medalist shines in print
At 92, Balbir Singh Sr. of Vancouver has become the subject of a wide-ranging biography by Patrick Blennerhassett, A Forgotten… FULL STORY
Bernadette’s peripheral vision
When a man goes missing, his would-be mother searches for her identity. Kyuquot becomes Tawakin in Jennifer Manuel’s debut novel,… FULL STORY
