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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Elvis is in the trailer park
Leslie Gentile of Brentwood Bay has published her debut kidlit novel Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer (Cormorant $13.95)… FULL STORY
Dear Ivan
For an inveterate traveler and performer like Ivan Coyote, the Covid-19 pandemic initially proved to be confining. The non-binary writer… FULL STORY
Mystery in the keynote of Beethoven
Novelist Melanie Jackson has written over 15 mysteries for young people, often using a theme like the five she titled… FULL STORY
The courageous parents
After two books of poetry and a chapbook, Nelson-based Jane Byers has written a memoir, Small Courage: A Queer Memoir… FULL STORY
Surviving a drunk driver
After getting hit head-on by a serial drunk driver as she was driving home to Nelson in 2013, performer, singer,… FULL STORY
A Syrian meal for cheer
Vancouver author, activist and former Syrian refugee, Danny Ramadan has published his first children’s book, Salma the Syrian Chef (Annick… FULL STORY
Oy Vey! shortlist
Susin Nielsen’s Princess Puffybottom and Darryl (Penguin Random House $21.99) has been shortlisted for a 2020 Joan Betty Stuchner –… FULL STORY
Heal thyself and your relationship
The Telling Method (Self-published $24.95), Robert Ziegler’s second novel, explores a relationship between two writers, both with mental health conditions,… FULL STORY
B.C. authors win First nation awards
Richard Van Camp (right) has won the 2020 CODE Burt Award in the English Language category (worth $6,000) for Moccasin… FULL STORY
The River Answers
Bowen Island poet Jude Neale’s eighth collection of poems, The River Answers (Ekstasis $23.95) is “full of questions that make… FULL STORY
Battling Great Old Ones
Monsters! Mini-subs! H.P. Lovecraft reading poetry at Pender Harbour’s Egmont pub on open mic night! These all feature in David… FULL STORY
Race & politics in education
Kogila Moodley has written Race, Culture, and Politics in Education: A Global Journey From South Africa (TCP, Columbia University Press… FULL STORY
Big reader
A lifelong reader of books, always with a book on the go, Victoria-based Susan Olding has written a collection of… FULL STORY
Poetry writing workshop
Cynthia Sharp will present a Zoom poetry writing workshop on April 14, 4 – 5 pm PST: “Communing with Nature.”… FULL STORY
Beat reading
Deep Cove author, Trevor Carolan is set to be part of a new YouTube Spotlight concert series when he livestreams… FULL STORY
