Joan Skogan (1945-2017)
An intrepid researcher and a conscientious writer, she will be much missed by those who knew her fascinating, passionate nature…. FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Righting a past wrong
Victoria-based Christine Hart has published her fourth novel, Secrets From Myself (Dancing Cat 2017) about a 11-year old Katelyn who… FULL STORY
Warsaw Ghetto remembered
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz was born in Warsaw, Poland and survived the Holocaust as a child. She escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto… FULL STORY
Flood’s new collection
Cynthia Flood’s new collection, What Can You Do: Stories (Biblioasis $19.95) contains 12 short stories featuring couples negotiating new terms… FULL STORY
High Arctic survival in a rowboat
Fulfilling the dream of a lifetime, architect and adventurer Kevin Vallely crossed the treacherous Northwest Passage – in nothing more… FULL STORY
Leiren-Young’s great white whale
One of Vancouver’s most versatile writers, Mark Leiren-Young will be at the 2017 Whistler Writers Festival, which runs from October… FULL STORY
Elaine Marie Gallagher
After a career spent in academia, Elaine Marie Gallagher, RN, PhD, began work on a historical novel Sisterships (self published,… FULL STORY
Powell Street before internment
Award-winning filmmaker and magazine editor Jesse Nishihata (1929 – 2006) has had a memoir published posthumously, Powell Street Diary: A… FULL STORY
Campbell: revolutionary or neoliberal?
Two University of Northern British Columbia professors have teamed up to produce a collection of essays that assess the impact… FULL STORY
Advice for earthlings
Also a musician, composer, entrepreneur, retired lawyer and philanthropist, John Lefebvre of Saltspring Island is a former director of the… FULL STORY
Bach is back
While working on her MFA at UBC, Mette Bach first examined growing up in North Delta in the 1980s for… FULL STORY
Le Bel epoque
In 2017, songstress and poet Pauline Le Bel has launched a series of reconciliation events in collaboration with the Bowen… FULL STORY
Where microclimates abound
In 2005, Jim Cooperman started a long-running column for a bi-monthly newspaper column on local geography called Shuswap Passion, also… FULL STORY
Like inhaling a hot cup of tea
Victoria’s Poet Laureate (appointed in 2015 for a 4-year term) also writes creative non-fiction. Yvonne Blomer’s recently published Sugar Ride:… FULL STORY
Talking the walk
Between 1986 and 2011, the aptly named Derek Walker Youngs devoted much of his life to peace, leading to his… FULL STORY
From Barbados to B.C.
In her first published collection of poetry, Thin Air of the Knowable (Brick $20), Wendy Donawa writes of the physical… FULL STORY
Indiana Jane and the Electric Samurai
Kristi Charish adds a third title to her “Owl” fantasy series, about the ongoing adventures of a girl who is… FULL STORY
Grantsmanship
Once upon a time there were practical skills such as how to change a carburator or pluck a chicken. We… FULL STORY
The boys in the van
As a pop music aficionado, Grant Lawrence must have known before he decided to publish his memoir of being lead… FULL STORY
Fir Valley
Jason Turner of Vancouver is a comic book artist whose first graphic novel, Fir Valley (2017), is set in North… FULL STORY
