Margaret Atwood
MARGARET ATWOOD was born in Ottawa in 1939. Her unwavering resolve to hold up new mirrors to present-day society, regardless… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Writing from the Boonies
You won’t see her activities covered on Bravo or mentioned in Quill & Quire, pills but for ten years Donna… FULL STORY
Wild About Harry Robinson
“I tell stories for 21 hours or more when I get started. Kind of hard to believe, but I do,… FULL STORY
Origins of Harbour Publishing
Harbour Publishing was in some ways an accident, or a series of accidents, though they were accidents that allowed my… FULL STORY
Publishing / A Dirty Little Secret: Can Writers Remain Silent?
In a manifesto to fellow writers published a few years ago, Doris Lessing wrote: “Without me the literary industry would… FULL STORY
Authors / Joel Bakan: The Noam Chomsky of Kitsilano
During anti-APEC protests at UBC in 1997, a young law professor named Joel Bakan looked out his office window, grabbed… FULL STORY
The Literary Storefront: A Brief History
It was 1977. I was an idealistic young poet of 23 and my dream of The Literary Storefront, a salon-style… FULL STORY
Greenpeace: The Fight To Save The Earth
Gandhi be praised. The fantastical, life affirming, death defying, heart-stoppingly erratic and distinctly British Columbian story of flawed heroes, the… FULL STORY
Authors / Literary Forebearers and Influences
During the historic gathering of writers and publishers at Reckoning ’07, some pivotal characters in British Columbia’s writing community received… FULL STORY
Authors / Safarik Recalls Pat Lowther
On October 15, 975, Pat Lowther’s body was discovered five kilometres south of Britannia Beach at Furry Creek, badly decomposed…. FULL STORY
Literary Thoughts from Turkey
PARENTHETICAL THOUGHTS ON NEW WORLD ETHICAL BOUNDARIES FROM THE AEGEAN COAST Even after a half century of experience in the… FULL STORY
Authors / Remembering Allen Ginsberg
I could not wait to get a quick credit: only 4 weeks of Mon. Wed. & Fri. classes with am… FULL STORY
Publishing / Permanent Press = Pacific Press
Once upon a time, there was a city with three competing daily newspapers. That city was Vancouver. It was a… FULL STORY
Authors / 25 Years of the Federation of BC Writers
[Editorial Note: Trevor Carolan was a founding member of the Federation and its first Executive Director. In l986 he left… FULL STORY
Keeping Body & Soul Together
In Issue # 42 of The Capilano Review, check a special edition that focuses on Northern Poets in BC, George… FULL STORY
Authors / Mongolian Rhapsody
[Renaissance man Galsan Tschinag, still living in the High Altai Mountains of central Asia, has published more than 30 books,… FULL STORY
Let’s Think Small
In 1951, an editor considering buying J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings worried that it might lose the publishers… FULL STORY
Himmler Hunter
As depicted in Raiders in the Lost Ark, Adolf Hitler’s SS (Security Squad) was not only infamous for running the… FULL STORY
Wrestling with Demons, Fiction vs. Non-Fiction
ON OCCASION, I teach short story and novella writing at the Nelson University Center, usually to complete novices who labor… FULL STORY
George Woodcock & Robin Skelton
I’ve known scores of BC writers over the decades, and two of them influenced me greatly, though perhaps less in… FULL STORY
