BC foodie memoir up for award
Gabriola Island’s Margot Fedoruk (at right) has been shortlisted for the 2023 Taste Canada Awards in the Culinary Narrative category…. FULL STORY
Author Archive
Sally Quon
A disabled writer living in the Okanagan Valley, Sally Quon has published the collection of poems, Beauty Born of Pain… FULL STORY
Anger in ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ nêhiyawêwin
by Carellin Brooks Wanda John-Kehewin’s third book, Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead: ᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân… FULL STORY
A “Gone Viking” excursion … in BC
Arnott’s series of travel memoirs retracing Viking journeys all lead back to British Columbia where he sees similarities in Indigenous… FULL STORY
Spring reading event
As part of its year-round programming, the Whistler Writers Festival is holding its spring event on June 15, which combines… FULL STORY
Robin Ward
Long-time chroniclers of the urban environment in Metro Vancouver, Robin Ward and Harold Kalman have joined forces to produce a… FULL STORY
WIBA 2023 shortlist
The shortlisted nominees for the 2023 Whistler Independent Book Awards (WIBA) are: The fiction nominees are: Renny DeGroot for Heritage House… FULL STORY
First Nations’ land & water
Award-winning author, Katherine Palmer Gordon (at right) will be launching her new book This Place Is Who We Are (Harbour… FULL STORY
Dora Dueck
Return Stroke (CMU $20) is a collection of Dora Dueck’s creative non-fiction and gathers ten of the author’s personal essays… FULL STORY
The Brazilian man
Leesa Dean of Krestova, BC became so taken with a figure in an Elizabeth Bishop poem—a Brazilian man named Manuelzinho,“the… FULL STORY
Back to the Sixties
In playwright and author Caitlin Hicks’ new novel, Kennedy Girl (Sunbury $19.95), it’s 1968 and Annie Shea, a girl with… FULL STORY
Methodist rez schools
At a reading in Nanaimo, local historian Robert Janning will be giving out free copies of his new book The… FULL STORY
Western Canada Jewish Book Awards
The following winners of the 2023 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards were announced on June 24: For Fiction (Nancy Richler… FULL STORY
Funny about murder
In the second Priscilla Tempest Mystery series installment, the plucky heroine is a murder suspect but can’t provide an alibi… FULL STORY
RIP Robin Mathews (1931 – 2023)
Robin Mathews, born in Smithers on Nov. 1, 1931 and raised in Powell River, graduated from UBC and worked as… FULL STORY
BC book wins maritime award
Robert G. Allan (pictured at right) and Peter A. Robson have won the 2023 John Lyman Book Award in the… FULL STORY
Thrive in truth
There’s rawness and vulnerability in Secwépemc rancher, poet, educator and cultural advisor Garry Gottfriedson’s latest collection, Bent Back Tongue (Caitlin… FULL STORY
Chocolate Lily winners
Here are the 2023 Chocolate Lily Awards: -Novel Category: My Best Friend is Extinct (Orca $10.95) by Rebecca Wood Barrett (pictured… FULL STORY
Alienation & self-discovery
Corinna Chong has followed up her debut novel Belinda’s Rings (NeWest Press, 2013) with The Whole Animal (Arsenal Pulp $19.95),… FULL STORY
On Bratislava
Governor General Award-winning poet, David Zieroth tells of trips to Bratislava, Slovakia and his affection for the place and friends… FULL STORY
