Erich the read
Author of sixteen books, mostly pertaining to whales, starting with Orca: The Whale Called Killer (Dutton, New York, 1981) based… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Little wins big, again
Winners of the 16th annual Vancouver Writers Fest Poetry and Short Story Contest have been announced, and Ashley Little has… FULL STORY
Honouring the global forest
The Trees of Calan Gray (Oolichan $19.95) by Danial Neil is a novel that was slated to appear in spring… FULL STORY
Untangling Vietnam War legacy
Brandy Liên Worrall will read from her new memoir What Doesn’t Kill Us at the Heartwood Café in Vancouver on… FULL STORY
John Vaillant, third time plucky
John Vaillant can easily be described as one of the rising stars of British Columbia literature–if not the rising star…. FULL STORY
Bateman gets rambunctious again
Jackie Bateman commenced her trilogy of thrillers about a suspected serial killer named Oliver with the oddly titled Nondescript Rambunctious… FULL STORY
Ways to Disappear makes appearance
Julia Leggett has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UBC. Born in Calgary, Alberta, she grew up… FULL STORY
#24 Je ne suis pas Charlie
Hi darlin,’ Non, je ne suis pas Charlie. I abhor what happened, I have no use nor time for religious… FULL STORY
Primal poems from Gabriola
P.C. Vandall lives on Gabriola Island with her husband and two children. Her work has appeared in Gargoyle, Carousel, FreeFall,… FULL STORY
Chitchatting
Laurel Mae Hislop’s debut, self-published collection of short stories, Chitchat (Manna Mark $9) is set in the fictional town of… FULL STORY
Learning to let go
PamPam Galloway’s memoir in poetry, Passing Strangers (Innana $18.95) recalls the complexities of a long marriage and motherhood, leading to… FULL STORY
New anthology linked with festival
The Twelfth Annual Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival in Salmon Arm is announcing that the 2015 Askews Foods Writing… FULL STORY
Light days journey into Knight
Another graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU, Vancouver-born Chelene Knight, while a member of the editorial board of Room,… FULL STORY
Longhand lives — for $5,000 per copy
This work is being touted as, “The only longhand book of its kind–a long poem 500 years old–transcribed by an… FULL STORY
David in Empressland
Prior to the appearance in October of his study of the life and works of Lewis Carroll, Decoding Wonderland, to… FULL STORY
Chitchat in Chat, B.C.
Laurel Mae Hislop’s debut, self-published collection of short stories, Chitchat (Manna Mark $9) is set in the fictional town of… FULL STORY
No soft pedalling
These days, it’s hard to write a shocking novel. Chelsea Rooney, an MFA graduate of UBC’s creative writing program, and… FULL STORY
Blood, sweat & mulberries
Just as Christopher Columbus is usually credited with ‘discovering’ America instead of the Vikings who arrived much earlier, the history… FULL STORY
Sean Rossiter (1946-2015)
Born in Halifax in 1946, Sean Rossiter came to B.C. in 1972. He was a freelance expert on Vancouver civic… FULL STORY
#23 In praise of The Tiger
There are many things we do not get in Tahsis. We don’t have a bank or credit union, we don’t… FULL STORY
