Poems line by line
An upcoming author talk by Renée Sarojini Saklikar (at right), sponsored by the Canadian Authors Association, reviews her poetry and… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Opening a suitcase of birds
Former chair of Creative Writing at Douglas College, Calvin Wharton has published his second collection of poetry, This Here Paradise… FULL STORY
Poetry and music chapbook launch
Isabella Mori (at right) will be launching her chapbook Not So Pretty Haiku at an event called Enchanted Plants, Enchanted… FULL STORY
Amos wins Stuart-Stubbs prize
Victoria’s Robert Amos has won the 2023 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for E.J. Hughes:… FULL STORY
Vegan success
While earning her degree in English Literature, Sandra Nomoto published poetry in literary journals and film reviews online. At twenty-five,… FULL STORY
The making of a philanthropist
What makes a soldier? What makes a business mind? What makes a philanthropist? Terry Salman (at right) tells all in… FULL STORY
The fishwife
Born and raised on the prairies, Margot Fedoruk knew little about seafood. That all changed when she went to BC… FULL STORY
Librarian, musician and cat photographer, Hazel Jane Plante has released her second novel, Any Other City (Arsenal Pulp $22.95), a… FULL STORY
Mermaid of the Pacific
For over 25 years, Amanda Swinimer has hand harvested seaweed off the west of Vancouver Island, supplying health food stores… FULL STORY
Naval architects to the world
The company bearing Robert Allan’s name managed to survive the Great Depression and eventually thrive. Three generations later, Robert Allan… FULL STORY
Kirton & Brown fireside chat
The Federation of BC Writers will feature poets Jónína Kirton and Michelle Poirier Brown (at right) on its May 14… FULL STORY
North Pacific borderlands
Recently retired SFU history prof, Andrea Geiger has written Converging Empires: Citizens & Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867-1945,… FULL STORY
Avast ye matey!
Under the Banner King of Death (Beacon Press $17.95), by David Lester (at right) & Marcus Rediker, features an African… FULL STORY
R.I.P. Sheila Baxter (1933 – 2022)
Sheila Baxter, the first writer to receive the VanCity Book Prize for best book pertaining to women’s issues by a… FULL STORY
Doukhobor lovers in a dangerous time
In July, 1998, two teenagers are running away from a tragedy involving Hell’s Angels bikers. Jonah Seeger and Ruby Samarodin… FULL STORY
Word on the Lake’s 20th Anniversary
At a one-day, writer’s workshop in Sorrento, BC in 2002, the late author, Jack Whyte dared to imagine something bigger…. FULL STORY
Fiction at the Jewish Book Fest
HUMOUR Sun Feb 12, 3:00 pm at White Rock South Surrey JCC 3033 King George Blvd, Surrey … FULL STORY
Coal Creek magic
Often tackling historical subjects far removed from main urban centres, Victoria’s Wayne Norton has returned to one of his favourite… FULL STORY
Horror and rage
Channeling the gothic horror stories of Mary Shelley, the Bronte sisters, Henry James and others, Erica McKeen has released her… FULL STORY
Seeing the forest
A few years back, suffering from burn-out and too many hours hunched over a desk, over-achieving editor Amanda Lewis pledged… FULL STORY
