S is for Skuce

Traci Skuce has published her debut short story collection, Hunger Moon (NeWest $19.95) about characters at turning points in their… FULL STORY

A pilot for a highwayman

Captain Lorne Christensen has published his memoir, Tides Turbulence and Tailwinds: The Life and Times of Captain Lorne Christensen (TellWell… FULL STORY

Familial silences and shame

Dora Dueck has published All That Belongs (Turnstone $19) about a retired archivist who turns her attention to the difficult… FULL STORY

Decolonialist and multi-disciplinary

Of Chinese origin, Vancouver-based author Laiwan is described as reticent and modest, “shying away from the spectacular.” Raised in Rhodesia… FULL STORY

The importance of pulses and seeds

Dan Jason, known for popularizing beans as an important North American diet choice has written a new guide, Saving Seeds:… FULL STORY

Layland wins Stuart-Stubbs award

For his deeply researched and lushly illustrated book, In Nature’s Realm: Early Naturalists Explore Vancouver Island (TouchWood $40), Michael Layland… FULL STORY

Colonial lullabies

Historical writer, novelist, poet and chapbook publisher Meredith Quartermain’s new collection of poems, Lullabies in the Real World (Newest $18.95)… FULL STORY

Calling all B.C. Indigenous writers

Wawmeesh Hamilton and Randy Fred are set to launch a special writers’ collective for B.C. Indigenous writers. (Wawmeesh Hamilton pictured… FULL STORY

Umingmak of the North

Umingmak is the Inuit word for muskox and a symbol of strength, authority and protectiveness. It was also the nickname… FULL STORY

Jack I. Little

Before the days of powerful environmental groups like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, there were individuals and local community groups… FULL STORY

The constable and the train robber

“Even though Bill was modest and did not push himself forward or seek the centre of attention,” writes Hatch, “his… FULL STORY

Bose’s new novella

B is for Bose Chris Bose, a member of theNlaka’pamux/Secwepemc Nations, has published N’shaytkin (battery opera books, unpriced). N’shaytkin means… FULL STORY

Tundra the wolf dog

The owner of SWELL Wolf Education Centre in Nanaimo, Gary R. Allan has penned a book about his wolf dog,… FULL STORY

Writing as a tool for change

“Story as Resistance” is the theme for this year’s Convergence Writers’ Weekend in Silverton, B.C. on June 12 and 13,… FULL STORY

Ryga Award 2020 shortlist

Initiated by The George Ryga Society, B.C. BookWorld, CBC Radio (Kelowna) and Okanagan College in 2004, and with the sponsorship… FULL STORY

Liz Levine

Having spent years working with other writers, Liz Levine has published a memoir, Nobody Ever Talks About Anything but the… FULL STORY

Robert Ratcliffe Taylor

Robert Ratcliffe Taylor’s The Birdcages: British Columbia’s First Legislative Buildings (Friesen 2019) tells the little-known history of the Birdcages, built… FULL STORY