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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Gay in Iraq wins in New York
God in Pink, the debut novel by Hasan Namir, won the Lambda Literary Award in the category of best gay… FULL STORY
Navy Surgeon in Livingstone’s Africa
With a background as a genealogist Julia Turner decided to trace her bloodline back to the 1860s. This was a… FULL STORY
Sam Wiebe’s new private eye series
It can take a surprise award to kick-start an aspiring author’s career. Such was the case for Vancouver’s Sam Wiebe… FULL STORY
Nesling meets Twain
John Nesling was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England in 1930. He emigrated to Canada from Australia, finally arriving in Vancouver… FULL STORY
Dela Wilkins
Dela Wilkins was born in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, in 1949. She moved to Canada in 1953. She moved to British… FULL STORY
The necessity of play
Adelina Gotera’s I Will Play With You (Printorium), written for teachers and parents, centres on child’s play as joy, emphasizing… FULL STORY
