George Ryga Award shortlist – 2025
Once again six authors have been shortlisted for the George Ryga Award, an annual literary prize for a BC writer… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Kate Braid
Some know Kate Braid for her poetry about the artists Emily Carr and Georgia O’Keeffe. Some are more familiar with… FULL STORY
Natalie Appleton
The story of Belle Jane, a woman who ran one of Canada’s largest cattle thieving gangs in the 1920s, is… FULL STORY
Kit Pearson gets the Woodcock
Kit Pearson (at right) won the Governor General’s Award for English-language children’s literature in 1997. She received the 11th annual… FULL STORY
Bea Oertel
A hundred years into the future after wars and drought have created food scarcity, the world has fallen under the… FULL STORY
Louise Sidley
Ten-year-old Robbie finds a wild mallard duckling that has become separated from her family, and takes her under his wing,… FULL STORY
Stop global warming now
When retired microbiologist W. “Tom” Thomson Martin (at right) hears someone responding to the growing environmental climate catastrophe with the… FULL STORY
Knight at Whistler Writers Fest
Author and writing coach, Chelene Knight (pictured at right) will be this Fall’s writer in residence for the Whistler Writers… FULL STORY
The vagaries of war
Michelle Lang’s grieving aunt, Catherine Lang, has written a book about her niece, Embedded: The Irreconcilable Nature of War, Loss… FULL STORY
BC writers at the JCC Jewish Book Fest
STAN LUBIN, author of 123 Very Short Stories from a Very Long Life in Medicine (FriesenPress, 2023) Composed of personal anecdotes,… FULL STORY
Regional spotlight on Okanagan poets
The Federation of BC Writers is sponsoring a reading of Okanagan-based poets on Tuesday, February 25 at 7 pm PST…. FULL STORY
Marion Gonneville
Maddy’s Sash (Gabriel Dumont Inst. $17.50), by Marion Gonneville, with illustrations by Kate Boyer, is the story of a young girl… FULL STORY
Former BC gov’t minister speaks out
The JCC Jewish Book Festival opens Feb. 22 with Selina Robinson (at right) talking about her memoir, Truth Be Told… FULL STORY
Meredith Hambrock
Meredith Hambrock’s latest, She’s a Lamb! (ECW Press $24.95) is a darkly comic suspense novel about ambition, delusion and the… FULL STORY
Christine Stringer
Set in 1997 Hollywood, Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous (SparkPress $17.99) by Christine Stringer is a novel based on… FULL STORY
Indigenous social work
Stitching Our Stories Together: Journeys Into Indigenous Social Work (University of Regina Press $34.95), due out in February, is a… FULL STORY
Dr. Brett Finlay
In their latest book, The Microbiome Master Key: Harness Your Microbes to Unlock Whole-Body Health and Lifelong Vitality (D&M $21.95),… FULL STORY
Eve Lazarus
Eve Lazarus’s Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck (Arsenal Pulp Press $23.95) chronicles the tragic sinking of… FULL STORY
Gardening & therapy
Family therapist and author, Diana Stevan, is set to release Along Came A Gardener (Island House, $22.95) on March 15… FULL STORY
Norma Kerby
Terrace’s Norma Kerby has written Hidden Waters, a Love Letter to Water in the Temperate Rainforest (self-published $39.95), a full… FULL STORY
