Six BC writers shortlisted for the GG’s
Several BC-based writers made the Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalist list this year. In the fiction category, Falkland’s Brian Thomas… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Female suffering
Vancouver-based Megan Fennya Jones’s poetry has appeared in publications across North America including Poetry Northwest, Room Magazine, and PRISM International,… FULL STORY
RIP Cole Harris (1936 – 2022)
Esteemed UBC historical geographer Cole Harris (at right), who wrote extensively about European settlement in Canada and colonialism’s impact on… FULL STORY
Kishkan zoom talk on essays
Theresa Kishkan will be delivering a talk: “The Essay as Carrier Bag, as Gathering Basket,” via zoom at 7PM PST,… FULL STORY
Spit-your-coffee-out funny
Victoria’s funny man, Jack Knox has released his fourth collection of comedic stories about the absurdities of island living, Fortune… FULL STORY
The ecologist-poet
Ecologist and writer, Don Gayton of Summerland meanders (in a seemingly effortless way) from animals and scenery to etymology, poetry,… FULL STORY
War and love
Janie Chang has completed her fourth historical fiction novel, The Porcelain Moon: A Novel of France, the Great War, and… FULL STORY
Dread husband and café man
Victoria is an unhappily married woman who buries her melancholy in books and daydreaming in Robin Yeatman’s debut novel, Bookworm… FULL STORY
Vancouver’s ‘unsung’ rock icon
One of Canada’s greatest mysteries—on a par, perhaps, with the Oak Island money pit or why anyone would willingly eat… FULL STORY
Ozeki takes top BC fiction prize
Novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest, Ruth Ozeki received the 2022 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her fourth novel, The… FULL STORY
New jacket for Coupland’s 2010 book
Due out October 18, Douglas Coupland’s 2010 CBC Massey Lectures book with a new jacket designed by the author, Player… FULL STORY
Stories behind the songs
Known in Canada as an important roots musician and songwriter with an international following, four years ago David Essig began… FULL STORY
The politics of text
Essayist, poet, and art theorist Kim Dhillon has published Counter-Texts: Language in Contemporary Art (Reaktion Books US$32) about the use… FULL STORY
R.I.P Gordon Soules
Author, book publisher and distributor Gordon Soules has died. Like many BC publishers, Gordon Soules entered the field as an… FULL STORY
Mesmerizing lamentations
Victoria writer, poet and environmentalist Maleea Acker heeded the advice of an elder poet who told her that activities like… FULL STORY
All that graces our finite days
Calvin White’s fourth collection of poetry, Facing the Sweating Horse (Now Or Never $19.95) embraces all life and matter –… FULL STORY
Non-fiction highlights at Whistler
The Whistler Writers Fest will be featuring a strong line-up of non-fiction writers this year. For starters, there will be… FULL STORY
Eight Victoria authors up for awards
The shortlists for the 2022 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize highlight eight… FULL STORY
The father of BC Anthropology
His efforts, along with a select group of other academics & artists in the 1950s and ’60s, brought Pacific Northwest… FULL STORY
VPL shining light on Black identity
Vancouver Public Library’s 2022 writer in residence is author and journalist, Harrison Mooney. Mooney’s debut memoir, Invisible Boy (Patrick Crean… FULL STORY
