Brandon Bays’ ways

Ten years cancer-free, Susan D’Agostino of White Rock recalls her experiences with healing in Guided to Wisdom: The Journey to… FULL STORY

Sisters versus shame

Chelsea Bolan’s debut novel, The Good Sister (HarperAvenue 2016) was selected as the second winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for… FULL STORY

Love & the 1940s

Review by Cherie Thiessen It was a time of big bands, an uncrowded B.C. coast, a war weary world and… FULL STORY

Towards unlikely futures

Perhaps the best way to introduce nomad-poet Jordan Mounteer’s first collection, liminal (Sono Nis $15.95), is to report one’s initial… FULL STORY

Cathi Shaw has co-authored Erik Bjarnason’s Surviving Logan (Rocky Mountain Books $28), the survival story of North Vancouver firefighter and… FULL STORY

Gossamer frailty, starvation begone

Inspired in part by his love of the tall trees—ancient Douglas firs –and roving in the Qualicum Beach Heritage Forest,… FULL STORY

Palette is palatable

British Columbia: Graced by Nature’s Palette (Sandhill $49.95) takes a journey through B.C.’s unique and varied landscape through the seasons… FULL STORY

In a Blue Moon

Everyone grieves differently, and in Lucia Frangione’s play In a Blue Moon (Talonbooks, $17.95), we follow three characters in a combination… FULL STORY

The Conjoined

In Jen Sookfong Lee’s The Conjoined (ECW $18.95), Jessica Campbell sorts through her dead mother’s belongings and makes a shocking… FULL STORY

From House to Town

A high school English teacher in Gibsons, B.C., Susan Telfer received the Sunshine Coast Arts Council Gillian Lowndes Award for… FULL STORY

Keeping it small

In 2014, advice the much-nominated M.A.C. (Marion) Farrant received the $5,000 City of Victoria Butler Prize for her fiction collection,… FULL STORY

Deadmonton

Edmonton snagged itself the title of “Murder Capital of Canada” in 2011 with 48 of its citizens coming to a… FULL STORY

Learning to teach

Judy Smith of Castlegar has self-published Out of Poverty: Living and Teaching in Asia (Tellwell Talent 2016) to document the… FULL STORY

Kitimat’s Kayla’s winning debut

Kayla Czaga has won the Canadian Writer Award for writers under 30 for her debut poetry collection, For Your Safety… FULL STORY

Poignancy wins poetry prize

Joe Denham’s third book of poetry, Regeneration Machine (Nightwood Editions, $18.95), won the 2016 Canadian Authors Assocation (CAA) Award for… FULL STORY

From Persia to Canada

Pari Azarm Motamedi was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She studied and worked as an architect and urban planner… FULL STORY

Footsteps to Dreams

In June of 2016, the BC Genealogy Society awarded Corol Pallan’s self-published Footsteps To Dreams its Family History Book Award… FULL STORY

Fort Stikine revisited

For her third title, forensic anthropologist Diane Komar turned her historical sights to the West Coast for The Bastard of… FULL STORY

Coastal colouring for adults

Yvonne Maximchuk has been a painter and potter for thirty years, and she has built an art retreat on her… FULL STORY

Indian Horse goes celluloid

Film producers Trish Dolman and Christine Haebler of Screen Siren Pictures have commenced casting for a movie version of Richard… FULL STORY