Trust the reader

“Odette Auger (left), BC BookWorld’s Indigenous editor, discusses memory, storytelling and the emotional truth behind creative nonfiction in this interview with The Malahat Review. FULL STORY



 

 

 

 

Author Archive

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

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

SCWES Book Award winners

Founded by the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Association, organizers for the inaugural SCWES Book Awards for BC Authors have… FULL STORY

Best of intentions

At the start of the new school year, Molleigh is bluntly asked by one of her new students, “Teachers always… FULL STORY

Ulla Hakanson

In Ulla Hakanson’s first thriller The Price of Silence, (BroadPen Books, 2013), a young woman, Amy Robinson, is stalked by… FULL STORY

Dietrich Kalteis

Already a critically acclaimed author of ten books, Dietrich Kalteis is back on the scene with The Get: A Crime… FULL STORY

Julie Lawson

One of BC’s, and Canada’s best children’s authors, Julie Lawson has published more than thirty books for young people. She… FULL STORY

Karen Enns

In her fourth poetry collection, Dislocations (Univ. of Regina Press $19.95), Karen Enns’ verses are a lyrical journey through the… FULL STORY

Michael Audain

Michael Audain began collecting art as a teenager. Later, with his wife Yoshiko Karasawa, this collection grew to be one… FULL STORY

Jay’s Story

EXCERPT Sharing Our Journeys 2 – Queer BIPOC Elders Tell Their Stories (Filidh Publishing $20.50) edited by Ron Kearse Ron… FULL STORY

Wanda John-Kehewin

Fourteen-year-old Eva Brown feels lonely and small her home in Hope, BC in Wanda John-Kehewin’s latest YA novel, Hopeless in… FULL STORY

Poems on buses

The line-up for the 2023/24 Poetry in Transit program, sponsored by the Association of Book Publishers of BC (Books BC),… FULL STORY

Bronwyn Preece

A leg injury left Bronwyn Preece with a severely crooked knee but it didn’t stop her taking a grueling, two-week… FULL STORY

Haley Healey

Haley Healey writes books that inspire, often focusing on the accomplishments of pioneering women from historical British Columbia. These true… FULL STORY

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