Z is for Zeballos
Born in Viking, Alberta in 1942, Eleanor Witton Hancock grew up in Zeballos from age three onwards. With her parents… FULL STORY
Author Archive
DePew #2
In 2013, University of Georgia Press reissued Alfred DePew’s collection of short stories, The Melancholy of Desire (UGP $18.95 U.S.)… FULL STORY
Follow the Red Brick road
Given that Sidney is a hotbed for both writing and bookselling, with more bookstores per capita than most other towns… FULL STORY
Lamp Post Lit
This ongoing project was kickstarted by the vision of poet and philanthropist Yosef Wosk and spearheaded by the city’s Chief… FULL STORY
A match for Cumberbatch
For those millions of people who can’t get enough of The Imitation Game, Elinor Florence has a story to tell…. FULL STORY
A better world is possible
Instead of dystopianism, the Victoria futurist wants to encourage people to imagine bold solutions to environmental challenges. On its way… FULL STORY
2015 Stuart-Stubbs nominees announced
By Becky Potvin on February 23, 2015 The shortlist for the 2015 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding Scholarly Book on British… FULL STORY
Women dominate nominations
Of the 35 titles nominated for seven BC Book Prizes, the newly-released 2015 shortlists include seventeen books from B.C. publishers… FULL STORY
Frail Days
As a follow-up to her much-discussed teen ‘verse novels,’ Audacious and Capricious, Gabrielle Prendergast has fashioned an Orca Limelights novel… FULL STORY
Fatal Glamour & classic symmetry
Paul Delany has produced a fascinating study of sexually ambivalent Rupert Brooke, described by W.B. Yeats as “the most handsome man… FULL STORY
Aikido from A to Zen
Developed by O Sensei Ueshiba Morihei through the 1920s and 1950s, Aikido is a non-aggressive martial way of self-defence that… FULL STORY
Caregiving takes centre stage
The travails and rewards of caregiving is the theme for a combined reading by three readers at the Vancouver Public… FULL STORY
For worse, for better
For better or for worse. That’s the bargain we make with fate when we decide to marry. As someone who… FULL STORY
Making the great, green comeback
Charles Wilkinson of Vancouver has worked primarily as a film and television director in B.C. His feature documentary Oil Sands… FULL STORY
Getting back in the game
Kristie Hammond, born in 1957, is a transplanted American who has lived in B.C. since 1981. Her first children’s book,… FULL STORY
The prime of Ms. Jean Barman
Jean Barman, recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Award in 2014, will be celebrated on Saturday, April 11, in Vancouver…. FULL STORY
Profundity and a light touch
Mozart & Salieri Created by Daviel Deorksen & David Newham Adapted by David Newham from a play by Alexander Pushkin… FULL STORY
Writing about mysticism & religion
Because her mother suffered from schizophrenia, Susan McCaslin was initially skeptical of visions and anything smacking of the paranormal. “Mom had heard… FULL STORY
Mary White (1927-2015)
At age 88, Mary Buckerfield White, with Philip Sherwood (lifewriters.ca), self-published Buckerfield: The Story of a Vancouver Family. White’s father… FULL STORY
From Port Moody to Midnight’s Children
The award-winning actress, playwright and dancer Anita Majumdar grew up in Port Moody, where she did not speak English… FULL STORY
