Calder reads at Cross & Crow Books
Hannah Calder will be celebrating her new fiction, Hester in Sunlight (New Star $22) at Cross & Crow Books on… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Stumbling toward redemption
Many of the characters in Bill Gaston’s (at right) eighth collection, Tunnel Island (Thistledown $24.95), have dark backstories. Others lead… FULL STORY
Western Canada Jewish Book Awards
Five of the six Western Canada Jewish Book Awards were won by British Columbia-based authors. Here are the BC winners…. FULL STORY
Perez gets the Gerald Lampert Award
Marc Perez has won the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for his first published collection of poetry, Dayo (Brick Books… FULL STORY
Trevor Atkins
Back to the New adventure (Silverpath Publishing $14.95) is Trevor Atkins’ second historical novel for middle-grade readers and picks up… FULL STORY
Faye Bayko
Sandy Chambers was determined to live the free life the Sixties offered. Her make love, not war experience was cut… FULL STORY
Stumbling toward redemption
Many of the characters in Bill Gaston’s eighth collection, Tunnel Island (Thistledown $24.95), have dark backstories. Others lead unconventional, eccentric… FULL STORY
Daniel Cowper
After a chapbook, The God of Doors (Frog Hollow Press, 2017) and a full-length collection, Grotesque Tenderness (MQUP, 2019), Daniel… FULL STORY
Lovers in a dangerous time
“There’s a love scene between snails that’s raunchier and more tender than ninety per cent of the CanLit erotica being… FULL STORY
Burgess longlisted for the Leacock
BC-based humour writer, Steve Burgess’s Reservations: The Pleasures and Perils of Travel (D&M $26.95) has been longlisted for the 2025… FULL STORY
A hockey origins tale
In a retelling of the origins of hockey through an Indigenous lens, the late Musqueam elder and storyteller, Henry Charles… FULL STORY
Lim’s debut poetry book
Natalie Lim is set to launch her debut collection of poems Elegy for Opportunity (Wolsak & Wynn $20) at SFU… FULL STORY
Tash McAdam
Tash McAdam’s most recent title, No One Left But You (Penguin Random House 17.99) explores the world of a newly… FULL STORY
Elly Mossman
Elly Mossman has created a world where four-year Olivia Petunia lives an adventure-filled life. In the first of three children’s… FULL STORY
Junie Désil
Following on from her breakout poetry collection about zombies, eat salt | gaze at the ocean (Talonbooks, 2020), which was shortlisted for… FULL STORY
Lau, Carolan at poetry event
Southern man
Reviewer Susan Sanford Blades says that Jill Yonit Goldberg’s entire novel “acts as a comment on the patriarchal southern United… FULL STORY
R.I.P. Alma Lee (1940 – 2025)
Alma Lee (May 4, 1940 – March 28, 2025) Described by author and poet, Lorna Crozier as “powerful as a… FULL STORY
Craigie gets the Ryga Award
Victoria’s Gregor Craigie has won the George Ryga Award, an annual literary prize for a BC writer who has achieved… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prizes’ new poetry award
The Victoria Book Prizes is introducing the DC Reid Poetry Prize this year to recognize outstanding poets in the Capital… FULL STORY
