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
Author Archive
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
Blue moon love
A pioneer in the field of neurotherapy, Vancouver’s Dr. Paul Swingle has written a novella, Silhouette (Yellow Bike Press, 2021) that… FULL STORY
The rat temple
In her latest kidlit title Valley of the Rats (Cormorant 13.95), for ages 9 to 12, Mahtab Narsimhan tells the… FULL STORY
Sueno Bay adventure series
In 2019, Mike Deas co-authored with Nancy Deas (shown in the illustration at right) the first title in the “Sueno… FULL STORY
Emerg department myths & facts
More than 15 million people visit a hospital emergency department in Canada every year. But did they need to go… FULL STORY
On the run
Most people think “Bonnie and Clyde” when they hear of Depression-era, bank-robbing lovers. But there were other marauding couples during… FULL STORY
The bat & the moose
Bats are nocturnal but not young Bailey who hears cries one morning outside his colony’ s tree roost. Against his… FULL STORY
