From poetry to hockey
Not many poets can claim to have poetry collections in esteemed journals as well as hockey columns in sports magazines…. FULL STORY
Author Archive
Y is for Yusuf
Examining poetic visions and traditions in his debut poetry collection, Pluviophile (Nightwood $18.95) Yusuf Saadi works with form, imagery and… FULL STORY
H is for Ho
Masquerade, a story by Wiley Ho of North Vancouver, has been selected by novelist Eileen Cook as the winning entry… FULL STORY
The in-between space
Self-described on her website as “a white-passing, city-raised Indigenous woman with mental illness who has lost her mother,” Francine Cunningham… FULL STORY
Silver Donald Cameron (1937 – 2020)
The maritime writer known as Silver Donald Cameron died on June 1, 2020 in Halifax from complications arising from lung… FULL STORY
Esi’s blog for Black women
As the author of The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novelist… FULL STORY
Landscape of a racialized life
The poems of spoken word activist, Jillian Christmas are expressive of her family history, queer lineage, and “the political landscape… FULL STORY
Mutonji’s quest for balance
“There is a humungous amount of emotional labour that comes from being a writer of colour,” says Téa Mutonji. “In… FULL STORY
Incantatory activism
In response to spoken word activist Jillian Christmas’s debut book, The Gospel of Breaking (Arsenal $14.95), novelist David Chariandy described… FULL STORY
Express ways and means
To counter the flawed myths about Barnard, Ken Mather offers an accurate telling of the man and his efforts to… FULL STORY
Oscar Martens
Having had his fiction published for many years in journals such as the Malahat Review and Prairie Fire, Oscar Martens… FULL STORY
Leaving the mob
Fleeing from her mobster boyfriend, Bobbi Ricci takes off with his ex-driver and is travelling around B.C. and Alaska when… FULL STORY
Congo thriller
Thirst for Justice (ECW $22.95), due out in October is a political and legal thriller from North Pender Island author… FULL STORY
Playing with fire
Piles of wood debris — called slash — left behind by logging operations in B.C. must be destroyed by slashburning… FULL STORY
Frankly speaking
SFU Writer’s Studio teaching assistant, Jenn Ashton has written a collection of short stories, People Like Frank: and other stories… FULL STORY
Iran orphan
Vancouver writer Nazanine Hozar has been shortlisted for the Annual First Novel Award for her debut novel, Aria (Knopf Canada… FULL STORY
Slashburning in B.C.
At the age of seven, Nicholas Raeside helped put out a bushfire in his bare feet. While studying in high… FULL STORY
Curing stress
In her book The Mind-Body Cure (Greystone $24.95), due out in September, Dr. Bal Pawa shows how we can heal from… FULL STORY
Environmental hope
Scholar, educator and author Elin Kelsey has written Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving… FULL STORY
From Bowen Island to Marpole
Bowen Island poet Jude Neale began her first week as writer in residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House in… FULL STORY
