Vancouver Book Award Winner – 2022
Authors Karen Duffek, Bill McLennan and Jordan Wilson have won the 2022 Vancouver Book Award for their co-authored title, Where… FULL STORY
Author Archive
RIP Rebecca Godfrey (1967 – 2022)
Rebecca Godfrey was working in New York City in the late 1990s and writing her first novel about teen girls… FULL STORY
The adventures of Tony Vicar
Vince R. Ditrich’s first novel, The Liquor Vicar (Dundurn, 2021) introduced failed musician Tony Vicar who is suddenly rocketed to… FULL STORY
The wetland project book
It began when artists Brady Marks and Mark Timmings (at right) started recording the sounds of a marsh on Saturna… FULL STORY
Catching poachers
When Randy Nelson retired in 2012 as the most decorated fisheries officer in the history of BC, he began collecting… FULL STORY
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
