From Peachland to Portugal
Born in North Vancouver, Michelle Oucharek-Deo of Port Coquitlam is a Registered Art Therapist who has written a debut novel,… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Greening the getaway
The Bartley family has long maintained a summer home on one of the Gulf Islands. Now mother and daughter, Joan… FULL STORY
Serpentine Loop reprinted
Elee Kraljii Gardiner grew up as the daughter of U.S. Olympic figure skating gold medalist Tenley Albright. Gardiner’s first collection… FULL STORY
A duty to humanity
With illustrations by Marc Luc Poelvoorde, Helen May’s self-published novel Mother Tongue (Friesen Press 2016) is about a Scottish girl,… FULL STORY
The agony of defeat
A former Olympic rower, Jason Dorland has penned his second book, Pulling Together:A Coach’s Journey to Uncover the Mindset of… FULL STORY
Injustice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
Having completed her doctoral dissertation at the University of Ottawa, Sarah Wiebe penned Everyday Exposure:Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in… FULL STORY
Tar Wars without George Lucas
Coincidental with the resurgence of the Keystone XL pipeline project, Geo Takach, Ph.D, a writer, filmmaker, workshop leader, and, as… FULL STORY
Doolittle did a lot
Raised on Gabriola Island, playwright Sasha Colby is Director of SFU’s Graduate Liberal Studies Program. In her second book, Staging… FULL STORY
Bone, Moon & Rules
Also a massage therapist and teacher, Ottawa Valley-raised Julie Paul, from Lanark, moved to Victoria and published her first collection… FULL STORY
Shenanigans on an unnamed isle
Pat Carney will be promoting her first fiction collection–available in April–at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts in… FULL STORY
Paint it black
Nicola Peffers has emerged as the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit filed against the Canadian Armed Forces by a… FULL STORY
Alan’s alleys & graffiti
In his Freedom in East Vancouver, The Photography and Writing of Alan Fossen (Vancouver: Electromagnetic Print, $65), photographer Al Fossen… FULL STORY
Salmon rivers, forests of fir
We get our balance from our ears. An otolith is a series of bones in the ear that enable us… FULL STORY
As Simone says…
South Asian Canadian writer Fauzia Rafique–originally from Pakistan–writes fiction and poetry in English, Punjabi and Urdu. Endorsed by literary friends… FULL STORY
Big Blue Forever
Anita Miettunen was born in Vancouver to Finnish immigrant parents. She has lived, studied, and travelled in many places including… FULL STORY
Alisa Smith’s Speakeasy
Alisa Smith’s forthcoming novel, Speakeasy (D&M $22.95) takes place during World War II and follows Lena Stillman, a former (undetected)… FULL STORY
Rare is Everywhere
Alligators and tigers can be white. Lobsters can be blue. One in twelve people have a rare disease. So what… FULL STORY
Laundry & love
In her debut collection, Frequent, Small Loads of Laundry (Mother Tongue 2017), Rhonda Ganz describes how people behave in moments… FULL STORY
Not Nash-ville
Big is beautiful. Or can be. Big Fit Girl: Embrace the Body You Have (Greystone $22.95) by Louise Green makes… FULL STORY
Handcuffed by History
Gordon Cruse’s new, self-published study of adolescent criminals in detention, Handcuffed by History (Granville Island 2017), tracks the life adventures… FULL STORY
