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

Conga & bongo drum in jazz

Trevor Salloum touts his book, The Conga and Bongo Drum in Jazz (Mel Bay 2016), written with Bobby Sanabria, as… FULL STORY

Bullshit Valleau & friends

For Sage Birchwater’s Chilcotin Chronicles (Caitlin 2017), the veteran reporter and former back-to-the-lander says “The people and stories of the… FULL STORY

Robbie Burns’ long-suffering wife

Published on Robert Burns Day, January 25th, Melanie Murray’s second book, Should Auld Acquaintance: Discovering the Woman Behind Robert Burns… FULL STORY

Zoey Leigh Peterson has published her first novel, Next Year, For Sure (Penguin Random House $22) about longtime romantic partners Kathryn… FULL STORY

Learning with Levings

Colin Levings’ encyclopedic treatment of how sea going salmon, trout and char make their transition from fresh to salt water… FULL STORY

From forklift to fiction

Born in Vancouver in 1953, Vic Cavalli has been teaching English at the university level since 1987, and Creative Writing… FULL STORY