Far from a yacht club
University of Victoria military historian David Zimmerman reveals a nasty rivalry between east and west coast navy crews in Maritime… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Monica Nawrocki pens first YA novel
Monica Nawrocki lives on Cortes Island, where she wrote her first young adult novel, Full Moon Lagoon (Friesen Press 2015). … FULL STORY
Comox Valley crawling with writers
Inspired by the City of Courtenay’s 100th anniversary, the Comox Valley Writers Society undertook to compile a reference book of… FULL STORY
Keenleyside bombing aftermath
Katherine Prairie is the first author to be published by a new imprint for mysteries and suspense novels, Stonedrift Press,… FULL STORY
Reel Write Brothers, take two
USNA: The United States of North America is a cooperatively produced, futuristc, self-published graphic novel from David Longworth, Harry Kalensky… FULL STORY
Orangeville revisited
As Director of Advancement with Simon Fraser University, Cindy Graves self-published Carey-On (FriessenPress 2015), a memoir about the Carey family… FULL STORY
New Stuchner Prize announced
There is another book prize in our midst. It’s called–for real–The Joan Betty Stuchner—Oy Vey! —Funniest Children’s Book Award. The… FULL STORY
Sex, cancer & laughing matters
Sima Elizabeth Shefrin’s husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011. “Every time something made us laugh,” she says, “one… FULL STORY
Shakespeare and the Shaken Fist
Shakespeare’s Big Men: Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment (University of Toronto Press $60) examines five of the Bard’s most… FULL STORY
The origins of a modern classic
Former Vancouver Magazine editor Mac Parry has passed along Coupland’s overview of the famous book’s origins. With Coupland’s permission, we… FULL STORY
City of Van Prize up for grabs
The 2015 winner of the City of Vancover Book Prize was Wayde Compton for The Outer Harbour from Arsenal Pulp… FULL STORY
Where Air Meets Earth
Kem Luther’s book, Boundary Layer (Oregon State University Press $22.95), uses a multifaceted approach to explore the point where air… FULL STORY
Dona Sturmanis (1955-2016)
Respected and loved as a teacher and an ‘enabler,’ Dona Sturmanis died in the Okanagan of cancer at age 60… FULL STORY
Quiet Charisma in a Loud World
Among a culture of extroverts, Michaela Chung has worked to carve out a space for the quiet and the reserved…. FULL STORY
After the Hooghly River
Trevor Carolan has long balanced his literary life with his spiritual concerns. Five years after the Beatles famously hung out… FULL STORY
Sensory Details on Salmon Arm agenda
Among the thirteen presenters at the 13th annual Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival in Salmon, May 20-22, at the… FULL STORY
The joys of getting lost
Billed as a light and entertaining read filled with Lucille Ball moments, Travelling Grannies Without GPS (Travelling Grannies $20.99) by… FULL STORY
Les Fauxbo
Literary culture vultures lost a favourite hang-out when the bohemian Bukowski’s closed on Commercial Drive in Vancouver after more than… FULL STORY
Flett not fleeting
Julie Flett’s story board book for infants, Little You (Orca 2013), with text by Richard Van Camp, has reportedly sold… FULL STORY
What I did for my summer holidays
Duncan McCue, current affairs reporter for the CBC’s flagship show, The National, has published his first book, The Shoe Boy… FULL STORY
