Beth Jankola (1936 – 2022)
Beth Jankola was a painter and poet who frequently cited working-class environs in her books. Jody Said partially examines her… FULL STORY
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Narsimhan up for Chocolate Lily
Mahtab Narsimhan’s kidlit title, Valley of the Rats (Cormorant 13.95) for ages 9 to 12, has made the 2022/2023 Chocolate… FULL STORY
Love letter to a lost son
Tara McGuire was busy unpacking groceries in the kitchen, her daughter Lyla nearby deciding on a library book to read,… FULL STORY
Solving BC’s drug overdose epidemic
Many illicit drug users die needlessly of overdoses says scholar and activist Susan Boyd. In this Q&A, she lays out… FULL STORY
Junie
Vancouver once had a distinct Black community located off Main Street in the East End, close to the railway terminal… FULL STORY
Brucker up for prestigious kidlit award
Author and illustrator Glenn Brucker has been nominated for a Chocolate Lily Book Award for his children’s book, City Day (Douglas & McIntyre $22.95), which was… FULL STORY
Two-spirit, non-binary sadboy
Having performed at Talking Stick Festival, Verses Festival of Spoken Word, Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and over 50 different… FULL STORY
Take a licking; keep on ticking
A rural British Columbian through and through, Kelly Randall Ricketts has worked in construction, logging, heavyweight boxing, fish guiding and… FULL STORY
Home is where Buddie is
It’s 1995, Whitehorse, Yukon and family counsellor Helen Cotillard is seeing her reluctant client, fifteen-year-old Gale who has been having… FULL STORY
Chiu takes prize for political writing
Vancouver-based author and journalist, Joanna Chiu has won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her debut book,… FULL STORY
The Red River Expedition of 1870
In 2017, Paul McNicholls was approached by a representative from the UK publisher Helion and Company and asked to write… FULL STORY
Tales of an Ancient India feud
Since his childhood days in India, Manu Nellutla (at right), who now lives in Surrey, BC has been interested in… FULL STORY
Tales from an Ancient Indian feud
Since his childhood days in India, Manu Nellutla, who now lives in Surrey, BC has been interested in historical and… FULL STORY
Hammerhead mystery #3
Port Moody-based A.J. Devlin is set to release the third installment in his “Hammerhead” Jed mystery series, Five Moves of… FULL STORY
Sailors’ superstitions
R. Bruce Macdonald (at right and below) launches his book Never Say P*G: The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions (Harbour Publishing… FULL STORY
Whistler Writers Fest Spring events
The Whistler Writers Festival begins its Spring reading events in June with a mix of in-person and online presentations. First… FULL STORY
Boy’s best friend
Author Darren Groth, an advocate for neurodiversity in literature based the boy, Kasper and dog, Tao on his son and… FULL STORY
Graphic novelist author talk
Vancouver author, Myriam Steinberg will present a talk via zoom about graphic novels (and memoirs). She says graphic novels push… FULL STORY
Boan takes the 2022 Pat Lowther award
For her debut collection of poems, Undoing Hours (Nightwood Editions $18.95), Selina Boan has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award,… FULL STORY
Dickensian fantasy
New historical fantasy, Ordinary Monsters (McClelland & Stewart $39.95 hc) by J. M. Miro, to be released this June, treads… FULL STORY
