Cumberland Launches Debut Novel
It’s a story known well in the world of opera. Madama Butterfly, a young geisha in early 20th-century Japan marries… FULL STORY
Author Archive
The private life of Yosef Wosk
Scholar-turned-philanthropist-turned-art-collector-turned-writer/philosopher, Yosef Wosk will be launching his first collection of non-fiction, Naked in a Pyramid: Travels and Observations (Anvil $22)… FULL STORY
2023 FBCW Literary Contest Winners
Joanna Streetly (at right) won the FBCW Literary Contest Poetry Award for her piece, Ringtone. Streetly’s work is published in… FULL STORY
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Gregor Craigie looks at both the dangerous walls and those that are benevolent. He has embraced the challenge of educating… FULL STORY
Canadian Book Club Award winners
Christina Myers (at right) has won the Canadian Book Club Award for Fiction for her novel, The List of Last… FULL STORY
Jewish Book Fest featured writers
THE PROLOGUE EVENT: BOOK LAUNCH Ordinary, Extraordinary: My Father’s Life by Bernard Pinsky January 28, 2024 | 1-3 PM |… FULL STORY
Max Wyman
Advocating a transformative role for art and culture in modern democracy, Max Wyman’s seventh book, The Compassionate Imagination: How the… FULL STORY
Benjamin Perrin
Legal expert and former top advisor to the Prime Minister, Benjamin Perrin critically examines the Canadian criminal justice system through… FULL STORY
Brandon Reid
Twelve-year-old Derek Mormin is on the way to his grandfather’s funeral where he will confront some big life issues in… FULL STORY
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
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 17th century manuscripts recounting the story of Joan and Thomasina, young survivors separated after the… FULL STORY
Vaillant takes 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
Best Canadian Series – BC writers
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
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
