AUTHORS & BOOKS

Jessica Johns wins short fiction prize

Vancouver’s Jessica Johns has won the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize awarded for the best short fiction published… FULL STORY

For the love of a child

Laesa Kim self-published a debut memoir Can’t Breathe (Paradox $20) that captures the nuances of life with a special-needs child…. FULL STORY

A gambler’s promise

Retired high school teacher, C.V. (Cindy) Gauthier self-published Charlee LeBeau & The Gambler’s Promise (FriesenPress $31.49), the first book of… FULL STORY

Six B.C. writers up for Jewish Book Awards

Alex Leslie is up for two prizes at the upcoming Western Canada Jewish Book Awards. We All Need to Eat… FULL STORY

The future of “no future”

Victoria-based Susan Sanford Blades’s debut novel, Fake It So Real (Nightwood $21.95) takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle… FULL STORY

Notice the unnoticed

Dustin Cole is featured on the Scotiabank Giller Prize’s “Craving for CanLit” list this month for his new novel, Notice… FULL STORY

21st century grandpa

Grandfathered: Dispatches from the Trenches of Modern Grandparenthood (Heritage $22.95) chronicles retired newsman Ian Haysom’s adventures with his grandkids Mayana,… FULL STORY

Vancouver dancers

In, My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community (MQUP $37.95), Peter Dickinson tells of his collaborations with nine Vancouver-based dance… FULL STORY

Buckna memoir

Pat Buckna wrote: Only Children: a family memoir (Maryhill Publishing 2019). A Powell River author and songwriter, Buckna grew up… FULL STORY

Cedar + Salt wins design award

Cedar + Salt: Vancouver Island Recipes from Forest, Farm, Field, and Sea (Touchwood $45) by DL Acken [sic] and Emily… FULL STORY

Love boat

It seemed like a television movie when Kelowna’s Tanya Zaufi took a job on a cruise ship touring the Caribbean… FULL STORY

Virus trauma

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Anne Stone has published Girl Minus X (Wolsak & Wynn $22) about 15-year-old… FULL STORY

Crozier & Neel up for award

Two B.C. authors have been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust prize for non-fiction: Lorna Crozier for Through the… FULL STORY

Animals as beings

Legally, animals are defined as property, often leading to their inhumane mistreatment. In Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal… FULL STORY

Kissing the Earth

Bowen Island poet, Lisa Shatzky is set to launch her sixth book of poetry in November (time and place TBA)…. FULL STORY

Climate crusaders

A retired atmospheric science researcher, Geoff Strong wrote the novela, Inconvenient Pipeline (Climate Crisis Publications $21.75) featuring 13-year-old Julia who… FULL STORY