Catching poachers
When Randy Nelson retired in 2012 as the most decorated fisheries officer in the history of BC, he began collecting… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Fireside chat features Chelene Knight
Chelene Knight (at right) will be the guest author on the Federation of BC Writer’s zoom event, Fireside Chat on… FULL STORY
Making travel “green” and respectful
By Dr. Rachel Dodds & Dr. Richard Butler Canada, especially British Columbia has recognized that we need to behave more… FULL STORY
RavenSpace publishing gets grant
UBC Press’s innovative digital publishing platform, RavenSpace has been awarded a three-year, one million dollar grant from The Mellon Foundation…. FULL STORY
BC bridges
It would be putting it mildly to say that BC’s rugged geography presented challenges to road and rail builders. Engineers… FULL STORY
Holocaust graphic novel wins award
“Visual storytelling in graphic narratives is especially effective for life stories of survivors who were children during the Holocaust, as… FULL STORY
Prayer and protest
Named after an actual street in Vancouver, Jen Currin’s fifth collection of poetry, Trinity Street (House of Anansi $19.99) due… FULL STORY
Knightly gets Whistler Indie Award
Three authors won awards at the Whistler Independent Book Awards on October 14, including BC-based Rae Knightly (at right) who… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prizes
Esi Edugyan (at right) has won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for Out of the Sun: On Race… FULL STORY
Murderer or victim?
In S.M. Freedman’s psychological thriller, Blood Atonement (Dundurn $22.99) Grace DeRoche escapes the fundamentalist Mormon compound of Brigham and works… FULL STORY
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
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
