#157 Shuswap gets its due
Everything Shuswap by Jim Cooperman Shuswap Press / Playfort Pubishing $35 / 9780995052208 By Mark Forsythe * [Sandwiched between the… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Warsaw Ghetto remembered
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz was born in Warsaw, Poland and survived the Holocaust as a child. She escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto… FULL STORY
From Haida Gwaii to Cultch
Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson held a book launch and CD release event for Out of Concealment: Female Supernatural Beings of Haida Gwaii… FULL STORY
#157 From stage to page
REVIEW: All the World’s a Stage: The Story of Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach By Jayne Seagrave Victoria: Heritage House,… FULL STORY
Henthorne gets Nautical Society award
Colin Henthorne has been awarded the Canadian Nautical Research Society’s Keith Matthews Award for a book deserving special recognition for… FULL STORY
#156 Frostbitten on Canada’s Everest
REVIEW: Surviving Logan by Erik Bjarnason and Cathi Shaw Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, $28 2016 / 9781771601924 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#155 S.C. Heal obituary (1925-2017)
“In my opinion there is no finer interpreter of the marine scene in British Columbia.” — John M. MacFarlane, nautical… FULL STORY
#154 Jim Wong-Chu (1949-2017)
Chinese Canadians weren’t granted the federal vote in Canada until 1947 and they first voted provincially in 1949–the year Jim… FULL STORY
Flood’s new collection
Cynthia Flood’s new collection, What Can You Do: Stories (Biblioasis $19.95) contains 12 short stories featuring couples negotiating new terms… FULL STORY
David Watmough (1926-2017)
The Cornishman was a mainstay of the West Coast fiction scene ever since he accepted Canadian citizenship in 1963. “I… FULL STORY
High Arctic survival in a rowboat
Fulfilling the dream of a lifetime, architect and adventurer Kevin Vallely crossed the treacherous Northwest Passage – in nothing more… FULL STORY
#153 David Watmough (1926-2017)
“I hope my work is myopically ‘westcoast’ and persistently graceful in language.” — David Watmough “That rarest of birds on… FULL STORY
#152 Getting spidey in Victoria
REVIEW: Victoria’s Most Haunted: Ghost Stories from BC’s Historic Capital City by Ian Gibbs Victoria: Touchwood Editions, 2017. $19.95 / … FULL STORY
It takes one to tanka
Late literary bloomer Naomi Wakan now encourages others to opt for a similar style with a form consisting of five… FULL STORY
A Cariboo concoction
Birchwater’s beat extends past the Chilcotin plateau, down the old Nuxalk-Dakelh grease trail to Bella Coola. REVIEW: Chilcotin Chronicles: Stories… FULL STORY
#151 Common ground in the Chilcotin
REVIEW: Chilcotin Chronicles: Stories of Adventure and Intrigue from British Columbia’s Central Interior by Sage Birchwater Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press,… FULL STORY
The making of Making Room
Since 1975 the feminist publication Room has spawned conversations and literature for, by and about the women of B.C. REVIEW:… FULL STORY
Leiren-Young’s great white whale
One of Vancouver’s most versatile writers, Mark Leiren-Young will be at the 2017 Whistler Writers Festival, which runs from October… FULL STORY
The Sacred Herb & The Devil’s Weed
The truth, my friend, is brilliantly provided in Andrew Struthers’ hilarious, dualistic, ying/yangish, Joycean compilation of two manuscripts reviewed by Erika… FULL STORY
Elaine Marie Gallagher
After a career spent in academia, Elaine Marie Gallagher, RN, PhD, began work on a historical novel Sisterships (self published,… FULL STORY
