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
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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
A temple of the soul
“Debbie Bateman takes an unflinching look at what our bodies get up to when our minds are riddled with conflicts,… FULL STORY
Finding wisdom on the road
EXCERPT Naked in a Pyramid: Travels and Observations by Yosef Wosk (Anvil Press $24.95) by Yosef Wosk The Great Pyramid… FULL STORY
Fisher gets history award
Historian, academic and author, Robin Fisher (pictured at right) has been awarded the 2022 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing… FULL STORY
Guy Immega
Guy Immega, a retired aerospace engineer and entrepreneur living in Vancouver, has published his debut sci-fi novel Super-Earth Mother, the… FULL STORY
Adrian Raeside
Saying goodbye to a feline friend is never easy. In the illustrated children’s book Paradise for Cats (Harbour $19.95), Adrian… FULL STORY
Chileans remember the coup
Almost fifty years ago on September 11, 1973 a military coup took place in Chile, resulting in President Salvador Allende’s… FULL STORY
Judy LeBlanc
In her multi-generational novel spanning hundreds of years, Judy LeBlanc brings to life the Expulsion of the Acadians (1755 –… FULL STORY
Buffy Cram
A child of the 1960s, Elizabeth Squire has a complex and difficult relationship with her mother Margaret in the novel… FULL STORY
Nancy Hundal
On her first day at a new school, Stazy (short for Anastasia), meets three other girls (Rena, Faye and Hali)… FULL STORY
Ian Thomas
With an MSc in biological sciences, Ian Thomas works for the non-profit Ancient Forest Alliance, but he also writes poetry…. FULL STORY
Good morning poems
George Bowering has curated a collection of poems to be read in the morning, Good Morning Poems: a start to… FULL STORY
Surviving residential school
“We were children witnessing trauma twenty or thirty times a day. We saw kids as young as three or four… FULL STORY
Every child matters
As the founder of Orange Shirt Day and an Indigenous survivor of the Canadian residential school system, Phyllis Webstad has… FULL STORY
