W is for Wang
At 18, Isabella Wang was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. Her… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Alternate school kids
Young Creighton was abandoned by his mother at the age of five and doesn’t settle in one place until he… FULL STORY
Outrunning sadness
The old adage is that in the “natural order” parents die before their children. Rita Moir explores her family history… FULL STORY
McLeod up for major prize
B.C. author, Darrel J. McLeod (at right) has been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for… FULL STORY
Little Brother plays hockey
In 2014, Willie Sellars, Chief of the Williams Lake First Nation made a publishing splash with his debut kidlit novel,… FULL STORY
The gritty West End
Once home to Vancouver’s first upscale locale, by the early 1900s the West End had morphed into a middle-class residential… FULL STORY
The rat temple
In her latest kidlit title Valley of the Rats (Cormorant 13.95), for ages 9 to 12, Mahtab Narsimhan tells the… FULL STORY
Sueno Bay adventure series
In 2019, Mike Deas co-authored with Nancy Deas (shown in the illustration at right) the first title in the “Sueno… FULL STORY
On the run
Most people think “Bonnie and Clyde” when they hear of Depression-era, bank-robbing lovers. But there were other marauding couples during… FULL STORY
The bat & the moose
Bats are nocturnal but not young Bailey who hears cries one morning outside his colony’ s tree roost. Against his… FULL STORY
Avoiding emergency rooms
More than 15 million people visit a hospital emergency department in Canada every year. But did they need to go… FULL STORY
China’s world disorder
Vancouver-based journalist, Joanna Chui has written China Unbound: A New World Disorder (House of Anansi $24.99) chronicling China’s moves to… FULL STORY
Tying up life’s loose ends
In Christina Myers’s second title, The List of Last Chances (Caitlin $22.95) her fictional character, thirty-something Ruthie is unemployed, newly… FULL STORY
Temporality
In his debut collection of poems All the Broken Things (Anvil $18), Geoff Inverarity writes of the fragility of friendships,… FULL STORY
Defining Strathcona Park
Most visitors to Strathcona Provincial Park, situated in the middle of Vancouver Island, know it as a place of breathtaking… FULL STORY
Queering healthcare
Research shows what LGBTQ+ communities have long known: that they face health disparities linked to societal stigma, discrimination and denial… FULL STORY
Between expectations & reality
Christopher Evans is set to publish his debut collection of short stories Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth (House… FULL STORY
A redhead and her dog
As Kateri O’Leary tries to get her rescue dog, Belle, ready for the Show Dog ring, life keeps getting in… FULL STORY
Caregiver
“What job could be more important than caring for your husband?” a doctor says to the poet Jane Munro when… FULL STORY
Lovers in dangerous times
In Carmen Rodriguez’s historical novel Atacama (Fernwood $22) set in the first half of the twentieth century, the son of… FULL STORY
