R.I.P Irene Howard (1922 – 2023)
Historian and author Irene Howard, who was born in Prince Rupert to Scandinavian parents on November 19, 1922, has died…. FULL STORY
Author Archive
2023 Writers’ Trust Awards – BC winners
Two BC mid-career authors were recognized as this year’s Writers’ Trust Award Winners for their remarkable bodies of work and… FULL STORY
Anne Fleming
An historian, Anne, discovers five seventeenth-century manuscripts recounting the story of Joan and Thomasina, young survivors separated after the Plague… FULL STORY
Vaillant takes £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize
For his book, Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast (Knopf $38), John Valliant of Vancouver has won the UK’s… FULL STORY
Captors and captives
Review by Alan Twigg Having served as an international medical health consultant throughout east Africa and much of Asia, Vancouverite… FULL STORY
R.I.P. Barry McKinnon (1944 – 2023)
Prince George poet and publisher, Barry McKinnon died on October 30. His collection, Pulplog (Caitlin, 1991) won the 1992 Dorothy… FULL STORY
BC writers in 2024 Best Canadian Series
This year’s editions of the Best Canadian Series, a compilation of essays, poetry and short fiction published by Biblioasis, include… FULL STORY
Sammy Squirrel & Rodney Raccoon
Duane Lawrence’s (at right) kidlit, Sammy Squirrel & Rodney Raccoon: A Stanley Park Tale (Granville Island Publishing, 2007) has captured… FULL STORY
Save The Date: Victoria Writer’s Day Out!
Frances Peck (at right) and Ruth DyckFehderau will be launching their latest novels Uncontrolled Flight (NeWest $24.95) and I (Athena)… FULL STORY
Betsy Warland
In Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing (Cormorant Books $20.00) Betsy Warland explores the intricate web of relationships… FULL STORY
Kristin Miller
In 1979, Kristin Miller’s dream of settling in a remote coastal community near Prince Rupert, BC, unravelled after a failed… FULL STORY
Lauren Elliott
In Lauren Elliott’s second book of the Crystals & CuriousiTEAS Mystery series, Murder in a Cup (Kensington Cozies $37.00), Shay… FULL STORY
Angie Elita Newell
Angie Elita Newell’s novel about historical injustice, All I See Is Violence (Greenleaf $34.95) intricately entwines the lives of Cheyenne… FULL STORY
Beatrice Mosionier
Beloved for more than 40 years, Beatrice Mosionier’s timeless story revolves around two Métis sisters, April and Cheryl, who are… FULL STORY
Heather Conn
“Knowing that there are other women out there who have been through similar things, I felt like if I can… FULL STORY
Shachi Kaushik
Follow little Priya’s story about celebrating the festival of lights after moving to the United States, in Diwali in My… FULL STORY
The unlikely rise of an English sailor
Coming to Victoria as a “working man,” no one could have predicted Hankin would become the Colonial Administrator in five… FULL STORY
Helen Knott
“The stories of this place live in the bodies of the people who come from it, and we are the… FULL STORY
Food Writing Award Winners
Margot Fedoruk (at right), has won the Taste Canada Food Writing Silver award in the Culinary Narratives category for… FULL STORY
Danial Neil
In a sweeping saga set in the late 1950s and early 60s when the Canadian federal government purged hundreds of… FULL STORY
