21st Storytelling Championship
The ultimate storytelling showdown, the Vancouver Storytelling Championship, returns on Saturday, December 6, 2025, at the Vogue Theatre. This event… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Purdy Poetry Prize
The Al Purdy A-frame Association and Eurithe Purdy are delighted to announce that acclaimed author and poet, Susan Musgrave (at… FULL STORY
Indigenous artist wins GG Award
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Awards (GGBooks) winners, recognizing the most notable… FULL STORY
Angélique Lalonde
From the Giller-shortlisted author of Glorious Frazzled Beings (Astoria, 2021) comes Angélique Lalonde’s beguiling debut novel, Variations on a Dream… FULL STORY
Allana Polo
The complex question of why we eat is the focus of the Amazon Canada #1 Bestseller, The Hunger Code: A… FULL STORY
Léa Taranto
A disabled Chinese Jewish Canadian writer and alumna of the University of British Columbia’s MFA program, Léa Taranto is an… FULL STORY
BC authors shortlisted for GG Awards
The BC literary scene is celebrating exciting news as two local authors, Ruby Smith Dìaz (below) and Léa Taranto (at… FULL STORY
Ain’t goin’ to Vietnam
“Manny Meyer, an aspiring musician whose father had a career in the military, could not see the point of the… FULL STORY
From screen to pages
Tara Hungerford with her husband Eric Hogan created the award-winning children’s media brand, The Gumboot Kids. The success of the… FULL STORY
Ahmad Saber
A medical doctor specializing in rheumatology and internal medicine, Ahmad Saber, whose debut novel, Ramin Abbas Has MAJOR Questions (Atheneum… FULL STORY
Marcus Kliewer
Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake in the new supernatural horror novel, The Caretaker: A Novel… FULL STORY
Robert Moor
The essential question of how to grow wise is explored in In Trees: An Exploration (Simon & Schuster Canada $39.99),… FULL STORY
Tara Hungerford
Tara Hungerford is a Vancouver-based television writer and director who, with her husband Eric Hogan, created the award-winning children’s media… FULL STORY
Nicholas Coghlan
Nicholas Coghlan is a BC-based cruiser, diplomat and author whose adventures with his wife, Jenny, form the basis of his… FULL STORY
The beat of Julian Brave NoiseCat
“Marketed as genre-defying, Julian NoiseCat weaves memoir, traditional stories and reportage into an unconventional whole. I found myself reading it… FULL STORY
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
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
