Keiko Honda’s double book launch
Saturday, October 25 2025: a double book launch for author and translator Keiko Honda at the Nikkei National Museum and… FULL STORY
Author Archive
The cool kids
“By 1957, a Maclean’s magazine article on ‘The Scramble for the Teen-Age Dollar’ explained that retailers and advertisers were ‘out-hustling… FULL STORY
Sparkling under steel toes
Poetry virtually never pays the bills, but it can reflect the world in which poets work. Such is the case… FULL STORY
Rob Fillo
Amid the solitude of Vancouver Island’s forests during the pandemic, singer-songwriter Rob Fillo found his voice in a new form… FULL STORY
Kamila Sediego
Haunted by questions of inheritance and the lingering ache of intergenerational trauma, Kamila Sediego explores the ways displacement and memory… FULL STORY
Scott Lawrance
The poetry of Scott Lawrance is a testament to the surreal and the marvellous, forging new pathways through the ekphrastic… FULL STORY
Celeste Nazeli Snowber
A universal invitation to reclaim our human birthright of creativity is offered by Celeste Nazeli Snowber, PhD, a dancer, poet,… FULL STORY
Writers Fest with BC authors
The Vancouver Writers Fest is heating up and we’re spotlighting a few major events coming up in the next three… FULL STORY
Whistler Writers Festival returns
The Whistler Writers Festival (WWF) returns from October 30 to November 2, 2025, with a theme of “Joyful Resistance.” The festival will host… FULL STORY
No map, just instinct
“When I am in an unusual or uncertain situation, I am supremely present. All other thoughts drop away—only the present… FULL STORY
Gold rush treachery
“I had seen the decent and unselfish side of men, along with the greedy and cruel… When it came down… FULL STORY
Joanna Cheek
Joanna Cheek, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, psychotherapist and clinical professor at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine…. FULL STORY
Emma Cleary
Liverpool-born, Vancouver-based writer Emma Cleary makes her debut with Afterbirth (HarperCollins $24.99), a haunting literary horror novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood… FULL STORY
Tara Moss
Internationally bestselling author and advocate Tara Moss returns with The Italian Secret (HarperPerennial $25.99), a post-war mystery that follows glamorous… FULL STORY
Keri Lefave
Keri LeFave, a retired police officer from Blind Bay, BC, writes from lived experience about healing and resilience. Her debut… FULL STORY
Jacqueline Bell
Jacqueline Bell has won the 2025 Raven Chapbooks Poetry Contest for her deeply-felt collection, Summoning (Raven Chapbooks $22.95), described by… FULL STORY
Ron Kearse
LGBTQ+ author Ron Kearse has released a fantasy novella about an introvert named Neville who meets his guardian angel in… FULL STORY
The passion of a writer and a hermit
“It is one thing to build root cellars, to dig roots and rocks and dirt to develop a massive garden… FULL STORY
Separated From Santo Book Launch
The upcoming launch of Separated From Santo: The True Story of an Italian-Canadian Internee during the Second World War, (Heritage… FULL STORY
Pipeline, goldrush and hummingbird
“But I was not prepared for what I saw. There were chain-link fences and signs that read: Any person who… FULL STORY
