The price is not right
Bev Sellars won the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness for her book They Called Me Number One: Secrets… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Rooting for Riel
Joining with participants from over fifty countries, long-time Louis Riel activist David Doyle returned to Havana in January of 2016… FULL STORY
Artificial Austen
Pride & Prejudice By Janet Munsil Adapted from the Jane Austen novel Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage Jan. 28-Feb. 28 Pride… FULL STORY
Apocalypse Then
How can you not pay attention to a novelist who plays guitar in a punk band called 12 Gauge Facial… FULL STORY
Breaking the cycle in Tanzania
Born in Mbeya, Tanzania, Farida Somjee of Vancouver has written a debut novel, The Beggar’s Dance (Amazon 2015), that follows… FULL STORY
Where there’s a will, I want to be in it
You don’t necessarily need a lawyer to probate an estate; you might only require the fourth edition of the The… FULL STORY
#122 Robin Skelton
LOCATION: 1255 Victoria Avenue, Victoria For many decades Robin Skelton lived here with wife as the major literary presence in… FULL STORY
#121 Peter Trower
LOCATION: Site of former Alcazar Hotel, corner of Dunsmuir & Homer Peter Trower, one of B.C.’s finest poets, drank here… FULL STORY
#120 Jane Rule
LOCATION: “Writers’ Corner,” Cemetery, Galiano Island. DIRECTIONS: From the main ferry dock, you can walk for about an hour, taking… FULL STORY
#119 Alice Munro
LOCATION: Kitsilano Public Library, 2425 MacDonald St., Vancouver The first Canadian author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Alice… FULL STORY
#118 Tom Wayman
LOCATION: 1111 Commercial Drive, Vancouver The Vancouver Industrial Writers’ Union (1979-1993) staged many readings throughout the 1980s at La Quena… FULL STORY
#117 Ethel Wilson
LOCATION: Kensington Place Apartments, 1386 Nicola Street, at Pacific Avenue, Vancouver Born in 1888, Ethel Wilson was Vancouver’s most respected… FULL STORY
#116 Michael Turner
LOCATION: Northeast corner of Gladstone and Kingsway (2211 Kingsway). As described in Michael Turner‘s third book, Kingsway, here the Gladstone… FULL STORY
Give peas a chance
Pulses is a term for chickpeas, favas, peas, lentils and beans. As one of the forefathers of ecological awareness in… FULL STORY
#115 John Twigg
LOCATION: West Coast Trail, Vancouver Island Born on March 9, 1949 in North Vancouver and raised in West Vancouver, John… FULL STORY
#114 Malcolm Lowry
LOCATION: Harwood Bandstand, 1755 Beach Avenue @ Bidwell Street, Vancouver. Malcolm Lowry was an alcoholic novelist whose relationship to Vancouver… FULL STORY
#113 Dorothy Livesay
LOCATION: English Bay, Vancouver [near the former bathhouses] Few locales have evoked more poetic response than English Bay. In his… FULL STORY
#112 Patrick Moore
LOCATION: Winter Harbour, Vancouver Island. Northwest corner of Vancouver Island, south of Cape Scott, north of Brooks Peninsula, at the… FULL STORY
#111 Margaret Laurence
LOCATION: 3556 West 21st Avenue, Vancouver Canada’s most revered novelist in the 1970s, Margaret Laurence, wrote the first draft of… FULL STORY
#110 Joy Kogawa
LOCATION: Joy Kogawa House, 1450 West 64th Avenue, Marpole district, Vancouver This house was confiscated from the Kogawa family under… FULL STORY
