Canada’s opioid crisis
UBC law professor, Benjamin Perrin takes a penetrating look at opioid drug addiction in Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada’s… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Billy-Ray’s brief body
UBC assistant professor of Indigenous creative writing, Billy-Ray Belcourt has published his debut memoir, A History of My Brief Body… FULL STORY
Aguirre up for rich prize
Author and playwright, Carmen Aguirre has been shortlisted for the Siminovitch Prize, which recognizes excellence and innovation in Canadian theatre…. FULL STORY
Tranquille community care
Gary Steeves, a social and environmental activist has written Tranquility Lost: The Occupation of Tranquille & Battle for Community Care… FULL STORY
Drugs and healing
Joseph Dandurand’s The East Side of it All (Nightwood $18.95) draws on his experiences as a drug user and single… FULL STORY
In orbit
In her third collection of poems, Orrery (Harbour $18.95), Donna Kane explores ideas of consciousness, transformation and space travel through… FULL STORY
A traumatic life
In her tenth novel, Forest Green (Doubleday $29.95) Victoria-born Kate Pullinger explores how trauma can warp a life with the… FULL STORY
Johns’ Bad Cree wins 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
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
