Becoming a non-binary writer
Prolific Vancouver author, Keith Maillard wrote about two genderfluid people in the first of his 15 novels, Two Strand River… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Culinary combat
Having authored seven previous novels for young readers, all of which have been nominated for, or won literary prizes, Rachelle… FULL STORY
Shining memory artifacts
Having retired from teaching English and creative writing at St. Michael’s University School, Terence Young has published a spellbinding collection… FULL STORY
Looking for love on the west coast
Non-binary Rae Spoon has published their first YA fiction book, Green Glass Ghosts (Arsenal Pulp $19.95) narrated by a young… FULL STORY
New Star author translated into Polish
In May, New Star Books received copies of the new Polish edition of Andrew Struthers’ dual book The Sacred Herb… FULL STORY
Kah-Lan the young otter
Karen Autio has written a second book from the point of view of a young male otter, Kah-Lan and the… FULL STORY
The Broughton
Writer and artist Gwen Curry’s new title, Converging Waters: The Beauty and Challenges of the Broughton Archipelago (RMB $40) with… FULL STORY
Going to faerie land
Blue Jasper takes his twin sisters Indigo and Violet for a hike in the woods, when suddenly the twins are… FULL STORY
Supernatural home
In her debut collection of short stories Glorious Frazzled Beings (House of Anansi $22.99), Angélique Lalonde explores the notion of… FULL STORY
First bff
Arleen Paré’s seventh title, First (Brick Books $22.95) documents the search for her first best friend using prose poem narrative…. FULL STORY
Beliefs & ideals
UBC professor of gender and Islamic studies, Ayesha Chaudhry has written The Colour of God (Oneworld Publications $25) in response… FULL STORY
Merging the heart and mind
Susan McCaslin’s new collection of poems Heart Work (Ekstasis $24.95) continues her decades-long focus on contemplative poetry and social justice…. FULL STORY
Telecom in Canada
Internet companies have a lot of control over a technology that is increasingly vital to most Canadians for personal and… FULL STORY
Ode to loving
In her second collection of poems, blue gait (Mother Tongue $19.95) due out in October, shauna paull sings the praises… FULL STORY
Big Oil vs. democracy
U of Vic professor, William K. Carroll is the editor of Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy… FULL STORY
Poetry at 90
“My early poems, written in my late twenties and thirties,” says Naomi Beth Wakan in Wind on the Heath (Shanti… FULL STORY
Witty advice from the dead
Former reporter, Tamara Vukusic of Kamloops has written obittersweet: Life Lessons from Obituaries (Mosaic Press $24.95), a collection of essays… FULL STORY
Guilt & innocence
At the start of WW2, a young German Canadian girl, Eva, living in the Okanagan, gets a new friend when… FULL STORY
Strange new world
Barbara Black’s genre-bending debut short story collection Music from a Strange Planet (Caitlin $22.95) deals with identity and emotional attachment,… FULL STORY
Rural nursing 1960s-style
In 1962, newly minted public health nurse Marion McKinnon was just 22 years old when she arrived in Williams Lake…. FULL STORY
