Dan, Dan, he’s our man
The Mayor’s Arts Awards for the City of Vancouver has accorded Daniel Francis its 2014 Mayor’s Arts Award for Literary… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Lessons from the hive
Many have expressed grave concern over the collapse of honeybee colonies worldwide; few want to take responsibility for this calamity…. FULL STORY
Matriarch Elsie Paul tells it like it was
Elsie Paul links the free-roaming hunting & gathering lifestyle that her ancestors knew to her cell-phone toting grandchildren – the… FULL STORY
100 Years of Submarines
To commemorate the centenary of Canada’s First World War, former submariner and author Robert W. Mackay will talk about our… FULL STORY
Little Sisters founder dies suddenly
Jim Deva, the bookseller who instigated a decades-long legal battle with Canada Customs over discrimination issues, died after falling from… FULL STORY
Elizabeth the First
Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May believes Canada under the leadership of Stephen Harper has been suffering from an identity… FULL STORY
Day of the Dead celebrates St. Pierre
Paul St. Pierre’s family is extending an invitation to everyone to attend his memorial celebration on Sunday, November 2nd but… FULL STORY
Knit picking
Here Sylvia Olsen recalls the origins of her latest book, Knitting Stories (Sono Nis). A few years ago, while I… FULL STORY
Unearthing B.C. History
By Arthur Joyce For an historian, it’s a rare day you get to unearth and publish an original manuscript. Cole… FULL STORY
Giller longlist has B.C. links
The longlist announced on Tuesday, September 16th, includes Shani Mootoo (Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab, Doubleday Canada), Kathy Page… FULL STORY
Good wood
Poet, non-fiction writer and former carpenter Kate Braid will be touring the Gulf Islands and Metro Vancouver with fellow carpenter/poet/non-fiction… FULL STORY
CCHSBC celebrates 10th anniversary
The Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, will be sponsoring the re-launch of Eating Stories, a Chinese Canadian and Aboriginal Potluck… FULL STORY
Sylvia, Margaret & Bernice
That summer she made a life-long contact with Margaret Avison and soon got to meet Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Robert… FULL STORY
LiterASIANs enter second year
After a successful launch in 2013, literASIAN: A Festival of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian Writing will be hosting even more… FULL STORY
Arthur Joyce tours Ontario
Author and blogger Arthur Joyce starts a round of touring this autumn with his new book, Laying the Children’s Ghosts… FULL STORY
Lisa Hobbs Birnie at SFU
One of B.C.’s foremost journalist and authors, the largely under-heralded Lisa Hobbs Birnie, will give a public address at SFU… FULL STORY
#15 Drought and Dreadnoughtus
Hi, darlin’. Not a lot to report. Today it’s lovely in Tahsis, not blistering hot, pleasant little breeze wafting the… FULL STORY
Return to Clayoquot Sound
In Tofino and Clayoquot Sound: A History (Harbour $36.95), Margaret Horsfield, with Ian Kennedy, explores the rich heritage and captivating… FULL STORY
Adrift on shore
Moby Dick, the white whale, and the character of Ahab in Herman Melville’s classic novel serve as the leitmotif in… FULL STORY
Hugh’s News #8 Leiren-Young
Writer-in-Residence Mark Leiren-Young Offers Writing Workshops in Richmond by Hugh Henderson Easily one of the most versatile and affable authors… FULL STORY
