Remembering George Clutesi
A nephew of Tseshaht artist and author George Clutesi, Randy Fred founded Canada’s first Aboriginal-owned and operated publishing company, Theytus… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Everything from abalone to Zukerman
If the Golden Age of BC book culture has been reached, the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, published in 2000, was… FULL STORY
Cautionary Tales of Self-Publishing
There are many reasons why self-publishing may be the wave of the future, but for me it was a matter… FULL STORY
Dorothy Livesay
An Interview with Dorothy Livesay From Canadian Forum magazine (September 1975) Bernice Lever is a part-time writer and teacher who… FULL STORY
Bill bissett’s acceptance speech for Woodcock Award
a long strange n wundrful road: a tapestree uv names n places on erth th place uv klinging bin up… FULL STORY
Remembering R2B2: A Naïf’s Story
In the mid-Eighties I worked at Octopus West, a wonderful used bookstore in the 2100 block of West 4th in… FULL STORY
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
A Dirty Little Secret: Can Writers Remain Silent?
In a manifesto to fellow writers published a few years ago, symptoms Doris Lessing wrote: “Without me the literary industry… FULL STORY
A Literary Embarrassment
What do we do with the embarrassments in our literary history? The three novels by American-born Alex Philip (1882?-1968) are… 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
