Concussion poems
After a disabling concussion, Kyla Jamieson published her debut collection of poems, Body Count (Nightwood $18.95) about her life before… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
What did you say?
Writers are by necessity nosy and often listening to other people’s conversations, later jotting down snippets for future use. Writing… FULL STORY
Wosk donates during COVID crisis
Vancouver philanthropist Yosef Wosk has donated $100,000 to help British Columbia’s struggling artists and members of the cultural community navigate… FULL STORY
Prizes for Greater Victoria writers
The Victoria Book Prizes is accepting this year’s submissions for its two prizes: the $5,000 City of Victoria Butler Book… FULL STORY
It’s who you know
Born in Nanaimo in 1936, at age 84 Prudence Emery of Victoria published her mostly show-biz memoirs in Nanaimo Girl… FULL STORY
Frontier justice
The Trials of Albert Stroebel: Love, Murder and Justice at the End of the Frontier (Caitlin Press $24.95) by Chad… FULL STORY
Lifestyle influencing
Monica Hibbs of Vancouver is described as a “popular blogger” and a “lifestyle influencer.” Her collection of recipes and do-it-yourself… FULL STORY
Barclay long-listed for Lowther Award
After winning several awards for her first collection of poems, Adèle Barclay has been long-listed for the Pat Lowther Memorial… FULL STORY
Saint-Exupéry & the boy
The character of The Little Prince might have been inspired by someone who lives in British Columbia–Phil Boname. The only… FULL STORY
Canada’s overlooked pandemic
For the Dene and Inuvialuit in the NWT in 1928, “the white man introduced them to a new way to… FULL STORY
N is for Narsimhan
Eight-year-old Kiara’s grandmother left her a genie in a garam masala bottle. She enlists the genie to help her with… FULL STORY
E is for Eng
The winner of the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Mercedes Eng’s third collection of poems, my yt mama (Talonbooks $16.95)… FULL STORY
B.C.’s sharks
Sharks have a bad rap. Provincial experts know that sharks don’t deserve their bad reputation, much of it driven by… FULL STORY
Impossibly big footsteps
Sarah Louise Butler published her debut novel, The Wild Heavens (D&M $22.95) about a girl and her grandfather discovering an… FULL STORY
Frontier physician
Geoff Mynett’s debut book, Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician (Ronsdale $21.95) is about the man who built… FULL STORY
Confronting Nazi Germany
Although born in 1964, for the first nine years of her life Heige Boehm was sure World War II was… FULL STORY
Rosnau poems win a second book prize
The Shevchenko Foundation has announced that Laisha Rosnau’s poetry collection, Our Familiar Hunger (Nightwood Editions, $18.95), has won the biennial… FULL STORY
40 finalists in BC & Yukon Book Prizes
The West Coast Book Prize Society has announced the names of the finalists in eight categories for the 36th Annual… FULL STORY
Epilepsy pioneer finally gets her due
Doing house calls by canoe, sharing rooms with bats and scorpions, and getting poked and prodded by curious villagers were… FULL STORY
K is for Sharon Kirsch
As a child, Sharon Kirsch liked cataloguing tiny plastic animals like pink alligators, blue beavers and purple bison and she… FULL STORY
