Ootsa Lake revisited
From 1905 to 1952, there was an agrarian settlement on the north shore of Ootsa Lake in central B.C. about… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Grappling with human extremes
A former money manager and financial journalist, Richard Osler turned to writing poems in 2001. His latest collection Hyaena Season… FULL STORY
Bad decisions and misconceptions
While most people prefer happy endings, Carleigh Baker produces a batch of stories with uncomfortable, unexpected and outright strange endings… FULL STORY
A dead land tainted
Journey to the Rift (Ink Smith Publishing 2016) is the first volume of a prequel to Cathi Shaw’s young adult… FULL STORY
Go away, I’m reading
Kidlit author K.L. Denman’s latest title is Quiz Queens (Orca Currents $9.95) about boy-crazy Kiara who convinces her studious pal Jane… FULL STORY
A dragon road and three souls
Drawing upon her family’s 36 generations as inspiration for her historical stories, Taiwanese-born Janie Chang’s upcoming second novel Dragon Springs Road… FULL STORY
Beyond Relinquishing
To kick-start the University of Regina’s new venture called Oskana Poetry & Poetics, series editor Jan Zwicky has released her… FULL STORY
Indian Arm, stage to page
A contemporary adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf, Hiro Kanagawa’s play Indian Arm (Playwrights Canada 2016) is set at the… FULL STORY
Sellars returns to Bestsellers
Bev Sellars won the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness for her book They Called Me Number One: Secrets… FULL STORY
The future is backward
As Tom Jones might have said, go big or go home. As a follow-up to his first graphic novel Toshiko… FULL STORY
A passion for Passchendaele
It wasn’t exactly Steve Fonyo running all the way across Canada. But Alan MacLeod’s Great Canadian War Statue Search required… FULL STORY
Tomboy Survival
Ivan E. Coyote has increasingly incorporated music into their public appearances and encouraged the use of the pronoun ‘their’ in… FULL STORY
Ruth for Chuck
Vancouver can boast about bike lanes; it can make repeated vows to eliminate homelessness in order to advertise its good… FULL STORY
Cloud Physics
In her third collection of poetry, Cloud Physics (U of Regina $19.95), Karen Enns focuses on endings – cultural, ecological, and… FULL STORY
Canine nine
A cat might have nine lives; but John Armstrong has had nine dogs–and counting. John Armstrong’s third memoir, A Series… FULL STORY
Dan Paxton Dunaway
Having been a rancher, a sailor and the publisher of a community newspaper, Dan Paxton Dunaway turned to writing novels… FULL STORY
Annacis Island’s namesake
The oldest French place name in British Columbia that’s still in use is likely Annacis Island, located southwest of New… FULL STORY
YesterCanada
In 2017, Elma Schemenauer’s YesterCanada: Historical Tales of Mystery and Adventure (Borealis $19.95) will present thirty historical tales from the… FULL STORY
Darlene Foster’s “Amanda Travels”
Growing up on a ranch in southern Alberta, Darlene Foster dreamed about writing and travelling the world. As an adult,… FULL STORY
Z is for Zeus
As we were saying in the Autumn issue of B.C. BookWorld, it’s hard to keep up with the poet and… FULL STORY
