Twenty-five years of Poetry in Transit
Some of the most eye-catching reading material on Vancouver’s public transit is displayed on the poetry posters that occasionally appear… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Playwright recounts mental illness
Filmmaker, playwright and mental-health advocate Kagan Goh (at right) has released his debut memoir, Surviving Samsara: A Memoir of Breakdowns,… FULL STORY
London noir
Author, actor and now Vancouver Public Library’s Fall 2021 writer in residence, C.C. Humphreys has published One London Day (Library… FULL STORY
3 thrillers at the Vancouver Writers Fest
British Columbia is blessed with a plethora of talented authors who write thrillers and speculative fiction. The Vancouver Writers Fest… FULL STORY
Queer gothic
Backed by some pretty serious academic credentials (Canada Research Chair in Philosophy at UBC, PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge and… FULL STORY
The silent woman
Shashi Bhat of New Westminster and editor-in-chief of EVENT magazine has published her second novel, The Most Precious Substance on… FULL STORY
W is for Wang
At 18, Isabella Wang was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. Her… FULL STORY
Alternate school kids
Young Creighton was abandoned by his mother at the age of five and doesn’t settle in one place until he… FULL STORY
Outrunning sadness
The old adage is that in the “natural order” parents die before their children. Rita Moir explores her family history… FULL STORY
Evolution of a trilogy
With the publication on October 15 of My Two-Faced Luck (Now or Never, 2021) that examines the queer life of… FULL STORY
Rubin Thau, superhero
“They were people who had the resilience to not only survive horrors but to create new lives and futures from… FULL STORY
Little Brother plays hockey
In 2014, Willie Sellars, Chief of the Williams Lake First Nation made a publishing splash with his debut kidlit novel,… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prize finalists
Two authors will come away with awards from the City of Victoria Book Prizes on the evening of Sunday, October… FULL STORY
The gritty West End
Once home to Vancouver’s first upscale locale, by the early 1900s the West End had morphed into a middle-class residential… FULL STORY
B.C. writers galore at VWF
In its upcoming hybrid mix of in-person and digital events, the Vancouver Writers Fest features a diverse line-up of authors… FULL STORY
This little bear went to Stanley Park
Kathleen Sheridan Russell has published a book, with illustrations by Lucy Watson, about a bear that accidentally fell asleep in… FULL STORY
Adventures with words
UBC professor of statistics, Dr. Jonathan Berkowitz is perhaps better known as the Word Guy on CBC Radio’s North by… FULL STORY
Tales of Arabian feasts
The latest title in the Fairy Tale Feasts series, in which prominent writers of diverse cultures pair tales with traditional… FULL STORY
Two people, lasagna & inequality
In Eric Sager’s book, The Plumber and the Professor (FriesenPress, 2021) two cousins argue about inequality over a lasagna dinner… FULL STORY
One man’s garbage, another man’s art
She collects floor sweepings of dog hair to spin and weave into slippers and makes outdoor sculpture out of green… FULL STORY
