Jarnail Singh & Komagata Maru
Jarnail Singh of Surrey is an artist, illustrator, designer, photographer, and art journalist who immigrated to Canada in 2000. Born… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Dining with death in Vegas
The fourth installment of Cathy Ace’s Cait Morgan mystery series, The Corpse with the Platinum Hair (TouchWood Editions 2014), has… FULL STORY
Word on the Lake, May 15-17
It only takes five hours to drive to Salmon Arm from Vancouver. So the twelfth annual Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival… FULL STORY
The Truth Commission & Republic of Dirt
Susan Juby’s sixth novel for teenagers, The Truth Commission (RazorBill/Penguin Canada 2014), is a humourous story about Normandy Pale and… FULL STORY
One good fjord deserve another
Indian Arm by Hiro Kanagawa based on Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen Rumble Theatre Studio 16 April 8-18 It’s hard… FULL STORY
Git your motor running
R.E. (Ruth) Donald is the best novelist in Lone Butte, B.C. As a former RCMP homicide investigator, Ruth Donald’s protagonist… FULL STORY
Comox looks gift houses in the mouth
It happens more than you think. A person or a group makes a donation to the public to preserve a… FULL STORY
Boonesborough or bust
Daniel Boone is one of the most-storied frontiersmen in United States’ history, but I didn’t know much about him prior… FULL STORY
Wilson wins CBC competition
D.W. Wilson of Victoria has won the CBC Short Story Prize for ‘Mountain Under Sea,’ selected from more than 2200… FULL STORY
#8 Ann Blades
LOCATION: Mile 18. To reach the vicinity of “Mile 18” in reference to Ann Blade’s book called Mary of Mile… FULL STORY
Thane McLellan dies at 68
Remembered by many in the B.C. book trade as an affable bookseller for the Duthie Books chain, Philip Thane McLennan… FULL STORY
Friesen’s crazy bone libretto
Once in a rare while a jacket blurb competes for resonance with the book it endorses. Sharon Thesen describes Patrick… FULL STORY
Baker wins first Blue Metropolis Prize
New Star Press author Marie Annharte Baker has been named the inaugural winner of the Blue Metropolis First People’s Literary… FULL STORY
#7 David Douglas
LOCATION: A plaque in Cathedral Grove on the road to Port Alberni to honour the remarkable David Douglas, namesake for… FULL STORY
Farewell doesn’t fare so well
Farewell, My Lovely Adapted by Aaron Bushkowsky Co-produced by the Arts Club & Vertigo Theatre (Calgary) April 2 – May… FULL STORY
Paddle to love
Love can bloom at any age. Seven years a widow, Freda Mellenthin wasn’t expecting, at age sixty-two, that Ted Mellenthin… FULL STORY
Goodbye Dubai
“My childhood was not that strange,” he says. “Riding bikes, camping, being bored at church or school, being nervous around… FULL STORY
#6 Suzanne Fournier
LOCATION: Shore to Shore statue, Brockton Point, east end of Stanley Park, Vancouver. Before Edward Stamp built a sawmill at… FULL STORY
Greenwood revisited
Self-dubbed the Fearless Poet, Sheila Rosen was married for fifty years to Norm Rosen before he died in 2010. She… FULL STORY
The man named Amor
Gordon Hawking’s new biography of Amor De Cosmos, The De Cosmos Enigma (Ronsdale $17.95) explores the life and career of this… FULL STORY
