Poets on buses
Ellie Sawatzky joins nine other poets (see below) in this year’s Poetry in Transit program. A poem submitted from Sawatzky’s… FULL STORY
Author Archive
The “Gorilla Man” strangler
Retired law professor, Alvin A. J. Esau (at right) has written The Gorilla Man Strangler Case (FriesenPress $28.49) a comprehensive… FULL STORY
An actress, the playwright & her doctor
Melia McClure’s second novel, All the World’s a Wonder (Radiant Press $22) tells of three people who intersect through their… FULL STORY
The travel cure
While trapped as a teenager in suburbia, Lisa Duncan dreamed of travelling the world. As a young adult, she mastered… FULL STORY
Hapless at Hotel Hopeless
Seventeen-year-old Charlie Hope expects to have an uneventful summer helping his mother at the family hotel. He only sees two… FULL STORY
A raven in Xsan
Gitxsan member, Hetxw’ms Gyetxw, also known as Brett D. Huson has published the sixth title in his award-winning series ‘Mothers… FULL STORY
We return to being human
Secwepemc poet, Garry Gottfriedson is a co-author of Tsquelmucwilc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School – Resistance and Reckoning (Arsenal Pulp… FULL STORY
Ivan Coyote letter exchange
With all bookings cancelled early on in the pandemic, non-binary Ivan Coyote started answering the hundreds of letters and emails… FULL STORY
Emma the sailor girl
Trevor Atkins’ debut historical novel for middle-grade readers, The Day the Pirates Went Mad (Silverpath Publishing $14.95), follows the adventures… FULL STORY
A better life
Consumer culture and endless economic growth have been prevailing paradigms for centuries. That must change if the current climate crisis… FULL STORY
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
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
