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
Author Archive
Danial Neil
In a sweeping saga set in the late 1950s and early 60s when the Canadian federal government purged hundreds of… FULL STORY
Danielle S. Marcotte
The blue camas flower that grows in the Pacific Northwest Coast was historically used by First Nation communities as a… FULL STORY
2023 Whistler Indie Award Winners
Tom Stewart (at right) has won The Whistler Independent Book Award for Fiction for his first novel, Immortal North (Lucky… FULL STORY
2023 GG’s Literary Award Finalists
The 2023 George Woodcock Award winner, Susan Musgrave (at right), has racked up more honors, including being shortlisted in this… FULL STORY
Andrea Fritz
Coast Salish author and artist from the Lyackson First Nation of the Hul’q’umi’num’-speaking Peoples, Andrea Fritz aims to educate children… FULL STORY
The Zen of jigsaw puzzles
Farrant’s 93 short stories, inspired by her “puzzling,” are full of humour, irreverence and insights into the puzzle that is… FULL STORY
Colleen Brown
“Because the spectacle of her murder overwhelms the entirety of her perfectly human and unremarkable existence, I lost my mother… FULL STORY
Lucia Mann
Lucia Mann’s 9th title, Hidden Behind the Mist of Arrow Lakes: So deep are the sinister secrets that hide in… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prize winners
For her 11th title, Pauline Holdstock (at right) has won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for Confessions with Keith:… FULL STORY
BC books win Moonbeams
The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards recognize and reward books that support childhood literacy and life-long reading. Three BC-authored books earned… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prizes
The $5,000 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, now in its 20th year, is awarded to a Greater Victoria author… FULL STORY
Two BC writers up for Weston prize
The BC authors, Angela Sterritt (pictured at right) and John Vaillant, have been shortlisted for the lucrative Hilary Weston Writers’… FULL STORY
David Suzuki
David Suzuki takes his twin grandkids (Suzuki is their Bompa) on an expedition hunting for bugs in Bompa’s Insect Expedition… FULL STORY
R.I.P. Paul Grescoe
A newspaper and magazine writer before he began authoring books, Paul Grescoe of Bowen Island died after a stroke on… FULL STORY
EXCERPT – Dead West: a novel
In 2021, Richards published the first title in her “The Ending” series about a woman who becomes a hired killer,… FULL STORY
Thrashing with life
From a coiled rattlesnake to dangerous father figures, Rodney DeCroo relives encounters with nightmarish creatures in his third poetry collection…. FULL STORY
Klein at Van Writers Fest
New York Times bestselling author, activist and UBC professor, Naomi Klein will be at the upcoming Vancouver Writers Festival promoting… FULL STORY
Ken Budd
It was 1971 when the idea for No Killers, No Cowards (SummerWild $25) first came to Ken Budd after a… FULL STORY
Vaillant speaks with Leslie Anthony
The Whistler Writers Festival will be presenting best-selling author, John Vaillant (at right, photo by by Ian Hinkle) at this… FULL STORY
