Carter on Carr by car
Laurie Carter’s personal take on Emily Carr has been self-published as Emily Carr’s B.C.: Book One, Vancouver Island (Little White… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Facts for the fragile
As a University of Victoria instructor, Jillian Roberts first co-wrote School Children with HIV/AIDS (Detselig, 1999) with Kathleen Cairns. As… FULL STORY
Honey not forsaken in Sooke
Sooke-based gourmand Angelo Prosperi-Porta has concocted more than 85 sweet and savory recipes for Honey (TouchWood $26.95), his paean to… FULL STORY
Shades of Gray Smith at Red Brick
Monique Gray Smith will join award-winning North Saanich poet Pamela Porter for readings on June 5th at the Red Brick… FULL STORY
Mills still grinding
John Mills is back and he never went away. Having moved to Saltspring Island with is wife Elaina in 2000,… FULL STORY
More than a footnote
In 1888, Vincent Van Gogh wrote, “I’d also like to see if I can’t make my own portrait in writing…. FULL STORY
#34 Home Reno Daze
Hi, ya, darlin,’ My neighbour is painting my living room. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. It’s been… FULL STORY
J is for Judson
As a lecturer at Simon Fraser University, a director of the Imaginative Education Research Group and coordinator of the Imaginative… FULL STORY
From Russia with science
Born in Russia, literary scientist Irina Kovalyova of Vancouver interned for NASA and worked for two years as a forensic… FULL STORY
From Yarrow to Anatolia
Yarrow was a once thriving Mennonite community that was established in 1928 when 86 settlers arrived from Europe, including the… FULL STORY
Czaga nets nomination
Born in Alberta, Kayla Czaga grew up in Kitimat before moving to Victoria to complete her undergraduate degree in writing… FULL STORY
Flour power nominated for Ryga Award
Chris Hergesheimer (beard) was hand-milling flour at Sechelt’s Farmer’s Market when he came up with a simple idea: build a… FULL STORY
Aislinn Hunter wins top fiction prize
Hunter’s novel was reviewed eight months ago in BC BookWorld. “This is a book about affection, ” she said. “…Our… FULL STORY
Flett wins second Harris Prize
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize A bit of a wunderkind when it comes to the B.C. Book Prizes, First… FULL STORY
Return to Princess & Hastings
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize Maggie de Vries’s 28-year-old, adopted, younger sister Sarah vanished from the corner of Princess… FULL STORY
Vancouver Blue
Wayne Cope is a retired Vancouver Police Officer who spent more than 30 years with the force. He spent many… FULL STORY
Nicholson wins Livesay Prize
Herself a rabble-rouser of the first degree, Dorothy Livesay would have been delighted to know Cecily Nicholson took home the… FULL STORY
When it was almost French Columbia
She will receive the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for best academic book about B.C. on June 9th at UBC Library for… FULL STORY
Molecules R Us
As part of a catering crew, Susin Nielsen-Fernlund of Vancouver got her big television break in the off-camera cafeteria for… FULL STORY
Huskies to the rescue
Glen Lovett worked for many years on animation storyboards for major film companies including Disney TV, Warner Brothers, Hanna Barbera,… FULL STORY
