Storm Rising is no secret
It’s a tad bizarre. But Vernon Brooks, at age 92, has self-published a book that is his movie treatment for… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Zeballos revisited
Born in Viking, Alberta in 1942, Eleanor Witton Hancock grew up in Zeballos from age three onwards. Her family mainly… FULL STORY
Pony Tales
It’s a horse race, of sorts. Nikki Tate has seven equestrian novels and now Julie White is catching up with… FULL STORY
Federation announces 2015 shortlist
The winner of the BCHF Lieutenant Governor’s Histrocial Writing Medal for 2014 will be announced during the Banquet at the… FULL STORY
de Vries wins Egoff Prize
Maggie de Vries’s 28-year-old, adopted, younger sister Sarah vanished from the corner of Princess and Hastings on April 14, 1998… FULL STORY
Wake-up and smell the land
A member of the Neskonlith Indian Band of the Secwepemc Nation based in Kamloops, Arthur Manuel has co-written Unsettling Canada:… FULL STORY
Ian times two
It can happen. Like two women wearing the same new dress to a wedding, publishers can release books on the… FULL STORY
Waste Not, Want Not
Many North Americans waste 40 percent of the food they purchase. It’s like throwing away a bag full of groceries… FULL STORY
#33 Handshakes R Us
Hi, darlin,’ We’re having another glorious “sucker hole.” Sun is shining brightly; already the roofs are starting to steam. The… FULL STORY
Bring back the tar ‘n’ feathers
Nobody wants to read about poverty. So let’s ignore this article. Ever since slave owners in the United States wrote… FULL STORY
Repopulating Poplar Island
Reflecting the history of Poplar Island in New Westminster, Cecily Nicholson’s collection of ‘documentary poetry’, From the Poplars (Talonbooks), has… FULL STORY
Flett no fluke
Along with poet and civil rights activist Roy Miki and his wife Slavia Miki as authors, First Nations illustrator Julie… FULL STORY
Fight or flight
Darwin Marsh,the hero of Lillian M. Varcoe’s first novel, Headwinds: Seeing a Murder Forgotten (Amazon $7.99), is a veteran floatplane… FULL STORY
#15 A Thruppance for your thoughts
In 1944, Sylvia Thrupp expressed her belief that knowledge of local history is “essential for any one who professes to… FULL STORY
Peter Culley (1958-2015)
Peter Culley lived in South Wellington, near Nanaimo, since the age of 14. Born in 1958, he had grown up… FULL STORY
ASD brother, where art thou?
by Cherie Thiessen “What is it about sea monsters?” nineteen-year-old Justine Richter asks her twin brother. “Why are you into… FULL STORY
Slaymaker gets Order of Canada
Prolific and much-decorated UBC geographer and author Olav Slaymaker–surely one of the most memorable names in B.C. literature–wasn’t be able… FULL STORY
Obituary Mary Billy (1936-2015)
As one of British Columbia’s most integral grass roots feminists, Mary Billy was the editor of Herspectives magazine from 1989-1995,… FULL STORY
Ryga Award gets a boost
Shelley Wright’s Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (McGill-Queens $39.95) has… FULL STORY
Lee & Ross beyond the page
Two of the nine speakers at the upcoming Public Salon, April 23, hosted by Sam Sullivan at the Vancouver Playhouse… FULL STORY
