Ktunaxa poet up for prize
Two-spirit, transgendered educator Smokii Sumac of Kimberly has been shortlisted for the 2020 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ emerging writers…. FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Gossip, innuendo, murder
Having written a memoir about being the first confirmed case of a B.C. resident with Lyme’s Disease, Vanessa Farnsworth has… FULL STORY
Bountiful daughter returns
Having broken away from the polygamist community of Bountiful, Mary Jayne Blackmore returned to become a teacher and vice principal… FULL STORY
Allan Fotheringham (1932 – 2020)
Journalist and author, Allan Fotheringham died in his Toronto home on August 12 at the age of 87. He wrote… FULL STORY
Empty-eyed tourists
The short stories in Genni Gunn’s new collection Permanent Tourists (Signature $19.95) are linked although they take place in an array of… FULL STORY
Finding Tiff
Having written about major Canadian figures Malcom Lowry (who lived in the Vancouver area for 14 years while finishing his… FULL STORY
J is for Jordan Scott
Poet Jordan Scott, who has struggled with stuttering most of his life, has published a debut kidlit book, I Talk… FULL STORY
Whistler Writers Festival goes digital
Anthropologist and international best-selling author Wade Davis will headline the virtual 2020 Whistler Writers Festival, joining over 50 other presenters… FULL STORY
Vancouver’s hidden ‘hoods
Populist historian, Eve Lazarus adds another title to her list of true crime stories, cold cases and non-traditional histories with… FULL STORY
Cautionary poems
A is for Alexander Susan Alexander’s second volume of poetry, Nothing You Can Carry (Thistledown $20) focuses on apprehensions (climate… FULL STORY
Accidential apiarist best honey book
Dave Doroghy’s Show Me the Honey: Adventures of an Accidental Apiarist (TouchWood $25) has won Gourmand World Cookbook Awards’ Best Book… FULL STORY
Inherited war memories
In the tradition of “poetry of witness,” Danielle Janess’s debut book of poems, The Milk of Amnesia (MQUP $17.95) uses… FULL STORY
Watermelon snow
SFU professor, activist and Green Party candidate Lynne Quarmby writes about her time aboard a schooner of artists on a… FULL STORY
A cracked and dusty mirror
After a lengthy battle with alcoholism, David Haggart discovered in 1988 that he had serious mental health issues. It was… FULL STORY
W is for Vanessa Winn
Vanessa Winn’s first historical novel, The Chief Factor’s Daughter (TouchWood, 2009) imagines the world of a real-life Métis woman, Margaret Work… FULL STORY
Poems for surviving COVID
Prior to COVID-19, Nanaimo author Kim Goldberg was facing mortality from the onslaught of not one but two cancers. She… FULL STORY
Logging and trapping
In Crossing the Divide: Discovering A Wilderness Ethic in Canada’s Northern Rockies (Creekstone $21.95), Wayne Sawchuk describes his life working… FULL STORY
Van Camp piles up awards
Moccasin Square Gardens (D&M $19.95) by Richard Van Camp, has been shortlisted in the fiction category of the 2020 Sunburst… FULL STORY
Guilty admissions
Zsuzsi Gartner’s first, full-length novel, The Beguiling (Hamish Hamilton $29.95 hardcover) will be coming out in September 2020. Lapsed-Catholic Lucy hears a… FULL STORY
Communities forged in fire
When B.C. suffered one of its worst fire seasons in 2017, it was personal for writer Claudia Cornwall: a cabin… FULL STORY
