Culinary combat
Having authored seven previous novels for young readers, all of which have been nominated for, or won literary prizes, Rachelle… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Shining memory artifacts
Having retired from teaching English and creative writing at St. Michael’s University School, Terence Young has published a spellbinding collection… FULL STORY
Looking for love on the west coast
Non-binary Rae Spoon has published their first YA fiction book, Green Glass Ghosts (Arsenal Pulp $19.95) narrated by a young… FULL STORY
New Star author translated into Polish
In May, New Star Books received copies of the new Polish edition of Andrew Struthers’ dual book The Sacred Herb… FULL STORY
Two BC authors win G.G.’s
Michelle Good of Kamloops and Kim Senklip Harvey of Vancouver have won 2020 Governor General’s Literary Awards in two of… FULL STORY
Vancouver’s First Chief Planner: Gerald Sutton Brown
Gerald Sutton Brown, Vancouver’s Chief Planner 1952-1973, represented the last of the British/London model of development in Vancouver, where development… FULL STORY
Kah-Lan the young otter
Karen Autio has written a second book from the point of view of a young male otter, Kah-Lan and the… FULL STORY
The Broughton
Writer and artist Gwen Curry’s new title, Converging Waters: The Beauty and Challenges of the Broughton Archipelago (RMB $40) with… FULL STORY
Going to faerie land
Blue Jasper takes his twin sisters Indigo and Violet for a hike in the woods, when suddenly the twins are… FULL STORY
Supernatural home
In her debut collection of short stories Glorious Frazzled Beings (House of Anansi $22.99), Angélique Lalonde explores the notion of… FULL STORY
Good wins award for first novel
Michelle Good has won the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Five Little Indians (Harper Collins, 2020). The prize,… FULL STORY
TRU prof recognized for kidlit
How Hope became An Activist (Dixi Books UK, 2020), a picture book for kids on the issues of sweat-shop labour… FULL STORY
Having a baby
With extra time on their hands during the pandemic, Jhenifer Pabillano and her friend Sarah Chan reconnected (remotely) with 27… FULL STORY
First bff
Arleen Paré’s seventh title, First (Brick Books $22.95) documents the search for her first best friend using prose poem narrative…. FULL STORY
Telecom in Canada
Internet companies have a lot of control over a technology that is increasingly vital to most Canadians for personal and… FULL STORY
UBC Faculty of Medicine at 70
Review by George Szasz CM, MD Dreamers, Skeptics and Healers: The Story of BC’s Medical School by Wendy Cairns, John… FULL STORY
Two ships & Canadian sovereignty
The legendary ship, St. Roch is famous for its 1940s west-east traverse of the Northwest Passage made to ensure Arctic… FULL STORY
Not-so-pretty haiku
“Lots of people think of cherry blossoms when they think of haiku,” says Isabella Mori in a recent post from… FULL STORY
Three B.C. poets up for Pat Lowther
Three B.C. poets have been shortlisted for the 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Award: Cicely Belle Blain (at right) for Burning… FULL STORY
