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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Triple gold medalist shines in print
At 92, Balbir Singh Sr. of Vancouver has become the subject of a wide-ranging biography by Patrick Blennerhassett, A Forgotten… FULL STORY
The Ape and the Peacock
Ralph Hancox’s third novel in two years, The Ape and the Peacock (Fictive Press $17.99), emanates from his social conscience…. FULL STORY
Canada’s Water, Yours to Protect
In Canada, while we have problems, we can and must protect our precious water resources, a sentiment that inspired Sandra… FULL STORY
