Globe-trotting adventure tale
Winnipeg-born Bob Nixon is a television journalist who first co-authored Tiananmen Square (Douglas and McIntyre 1989). He has now produced… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Scallywags vs. Beards
A former songwriter who performed in Los Angeles, Toronto and Vancouver, Trevor Newland now teaches literature and creative writing at… FULL STORY
Cedar, Salmon and Weed
After retiring as professor of marine botany at Simon Fraser University for thirty years, Louis Druehl turned his hand to… FULL STORY
Deanna Kawatski
Known for writing creative non-fiction about the wilderness, especially the classic memoir Wilderness Mother (Lyons & Burford, New York, Whitecap… FULL STORY
Memory, My Mother and Me
Nothing prepared Cathie Borrie for living with her mother and attending to her mother’s onset of Alzheimer’s disease, even though… FULL STORY
#26 A story not from the Bible
Most people have heard or read about Paul Bunyan but it seems as if only Salmonbellies know about Big Gertrude… FULL STORY
Boone docs
In 2014, Alix Hawley won the 2014 Canada Writes Bloodlines competition, judged by Lawrence Hill, and was runner-up for the… FULL STORY
Goodbye Dubai
Raoul Fernandes spent his childhood in Dubai, U.A.E. before moving to British Columbia in 1993. His poems have been previously… FULL STORY
Getting to Gurta
Goethe. Like van Gogh, you probably still can’t pronounce his name properly. But you’ve seen it often enough. On a… FULL STORY
Giving voice to The Native Voice
It will be presented at the York Theatre, at 639 Commerical Drive in Vancouver, Feb. 5-7, during the PuSh Festival…. FULL STORY
All hail Kale
Sharon Hanna and Carol Pope’s The Book of Kale and Friends: 14 Easy-to-Grow Superfoods with 130+ Recipes (Douglas & McIntyre,… FULL STORY
Chilcotin trilogy has next installment
Vancouver lawyer Bruce F. Fraser QC and his wife, Gail, own a ranch at Lac La Hache in the Cariboo,… FULL STORY
Fugitives takes flight next year
Random House Canada has announced it will publish a new novel by Billie Livingston, Fugitives from Mercy, in March 2016,… FULL STORY
Nana follows her heart
Author and illustrator Moreah Sinclaire of Richmond was born in Winnipeg. Her experiences as a grandmother, known as Nana, motivated… FULL STORY
Getting it down Pat
In early 1996, as a volunteer for the Sunshine Coast White Cane Society, Ben Nuttall-Smith met Ayliffe “Pat” Carey, a… FULL STORY
Inside an epidemic
Trisha Cull’s first book, The Death of Small Creatures (Nightwood $22.95), forthcoming in April, is a memoir about her experiences… FULL STORY
Alicia Priest (1953-2015)
A journalist for twenty-five years, mostly recently heralded for her family memoir A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and… FULL STORY
Gabriola chutzpah propels Tucson tale
Although Manitoban Carol Matas has more than forty titles, she turned to her friend Morri Mostow on Gabriola Island to produce… FULL STORY
Tibetan exiles suffer in India
Pauline MacDonald is the pseudonym of an independent researcher. Her first book, Dharamsala Days, Dharamsala Nights ($19.95) is an account… FULL STORY
#25 T’ain’t funny, McGee
Hi darlin’: Dalhousie University is trying to figure out what to do with some fourth-year dentistry students who formed some… FULL STORY
