Tsering Yangzom Lama and TRAS
Join the Trans-Himalayan Aid Society (TRAS), which was started by George Woodcock in 1962, in a conversation with author Tsering… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Shifting the shape of the world
In her debut collection of poems, Shapeshifters (Nightwood $19.95), Délani Valin embodies different personas to deal with her urban Métis… FULL STORY
P.W. Bridgman on creativity
Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 Time: 7pm PST – The program will be approximately 1 hour. Location: Zoom meeting – link will… FULL STORY
Great mind, sad life
A new biography of Ron Thom is an insightful and enlightening examination of a brilliant Canadian architect who returned from… FULL STORY
Mini-comic king
Colin Upton, a veteran of the Vancouver comics and Lowbrow art scenes for more than 30 years, will release in… FULL STORY
BC’s Isaac a Giller Prize judge
Brian Thomas Isaac, the BC author of All the Quiet Places (Touchwood, 2021) is one of this year’s judges for… FULL STORY
Competing cultures
Completing her Creative Writing MFA while working as a communications manager at UBC’s Faculty of Arts, Emi Sasagawa is set… FULL STORY
West Coast design
During the Covid 19 pandemic, “our yards became our parks and our living rooms became our art galleries,” writes Julia… FULL STORY
Benson and Bennie
It has been five years since Kevin Chong wrote his last novel, The Plague (Arsenal Pulp, 2018) inspired by Albert… FULL STORY
Not hockey
Angie Abdou wrote about her experiences as a hockey mom, frankly describing her young son’s sporting experiences on and off… FULL STORY
Writing a Ukrainian Saga at This Time
By Diana Stevan (pictured reading) When I heard the news that Russia had invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, I… FULL STORY
Connecting through photography
At a free event at the Jewish Community Centre, as part of the Jewish Book Festival, Yosef Wosk (at right)… FULL STORY
A body-nature conversation
SFU prof, Celeste Nazeli Snowber who is a dancer, poet and writer has published Dance, Place and Poetics: Site-Specific Performance… FULL STORY
Damon and the crow
In her YA graphic novel, Visions of the Crow (Highwater Press $23.95), volume one in the series Dreams, Wanda John-Kehewin… FULL STORY
The big tree seeker
Nelson features rare old trees in his new book, many of which are an easy walk from a forest service… FULL STORY
FBCW live poetry event
Neil Surkan (at right) will host an afternoon of online poetry via Zoom on Saturday, January 14 at 2 pm,… FULL STORY
Reflections of a life lived
The word “elegiac” springs readily to mind when turning to Rhonda Batchelor’s new collection Allow Me: Poems 2000-2020 (Ekstasis $23.95)…. FULL STORY
R.I.P. Robert Hogg (1942 – 2022)
Born in Edmonton, Alberta on March 26, 1942, Robert Hogg was raised on the VT Ranch on Green Lake in… FULL STORY
Alienated teens
Gurjinder Basran takes on the perils of social media in her third novel, Help! I’m Alive (ECW $22.95). When video… FULL STORY
An island tragedy
Born and raised in Barbados, Jasmine Sealy is now based in Vancouver where she has written her debut novel, The… FULL STORY
