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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Animals as beings
Legally, animals are defined as property, often leading to their inhumane mistreatment. In Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal… FULL STORY
Kissing the Earth
Bowen Island poet, Lisa Shatzky is set to launch her sixth book of poetry in November (time and place TBA)…. FULL STORY
Climate crusaders
A retired atmospheric science researcher, Geoff Strong wrote the novela, Inconvenient Pipeline (Climate Crisis Publications $21.75) featuring 13-year-old Julia who… FULL STORY
Resonating reconciliation
Elaine Alec has written the non-fiction, Calling My Spirit Back (self-published $22.99) addressing her views on the current period of… FULL STORY
The mystery of Jack Ballard
Lucky Jack Road (Mosaic Press $19.99) is JG Toews’ sequel to Give Out Creek (Mosaic Press 2018). Stella Mosconi encounters… FULL STORY
Truelove shortlisted for Ottawa award
Graeme Truelove, author of the critically acclaimed biography Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics (New Star Books, 2013), which was… FULL STORY
Arsenal author up for Giller
francesca ekwuyasi’s debut novel Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal 2020) about a family of Nigerian women dealing with unspeakable tragedy… FULL STORY
