A-sailing we will go
Bill Hapgood was born in Trinity Bay on the Quebec north shore. He grew up in Ottawa. After graduating at… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
A chest full Of hope
Born in Germany during World War II, Gerti Herrlich was twenty years old when she left her family and friends… FULL STORY
From autobiography to fantasy
James Southern turned to writing a collection of fantasy stories after previously publishing his autobiography. Each story in Once Upon:… FULL STORY
The able in disabled
As a disabled child in Kimberley, B.C., Nova Bannatyne-Eng fought for acceptance. Born with cerebral palsy, she became one of the… FULL STORY
Dying into a new life
Dr. Yaz Bolkan’s expertise crosses many fields as, alongside her doctorate in engineering, university teaching certificate, professional psychotherapy training and… FULL STORY
Painter in a ghost town
Jim Less painted the mountains of British Columbia for two decades just prior to the rise of the Internet and… FULL STORY
Healings and transformations
As the eleventh child born to a single mother in 1947, Lawrence Cooper grew up poor but he obtained three… FULL STORY
Bone detective gets scarey
Susan J. Crockford is a rarity–someone who has mainly made her living off her ability and scientific technical skill for… FULL STORY
A devilish slumber
Shereen Vedam is possibly the only B.C. author who was born (in 1961) in Ceylon, later renamed Sri Lanka. She… FULL STORY
30 moves, about ten books
Having travelled the backroads of B.C., Alberta, the Yukon and Alaska, Joan Donaldson-Yarney of the Alberni Valley has switched from… FULL STORY
Bringing back the Bees
Lori Weidenhammer is an artist whose life is intertwined with bees. Her father kept bees, and years later Weidenhammer is… FULL STORY
Treespotting
David Tracey’s field guide, Vancouver Tree Book(Pure Wave Media $20) is a continuation of a treespotting project first started by… FULL STORY
In the frenzy of freedom
Caren Powell of Brentwood Bay was born on May 24, 1956 in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1994, Caren Powell and… FULL STORY
Unceded Territories
To commemorate forty years of making political and polemical art, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, an artist of Cowichan and Okanagan descent,… FULL STORY
Far from a yacht club
University of Victoria military historian David Zimmerman reveals a nasty rivalry between east and west coast navy crews in Maritime… FULL STORY
Monica Nawrocki pens first YA novel
Monica Nawrocki lives on Cortes Island, where she wrote her first young adult novel, Full Moon Lagoon (Friesen Press 2015). … FULL STORY
Comox Valley crawling with writers
Inspired by the City of Courtenay’s 100th anniversary, the Comox Valley Writers Society undertook to compile a reference book of… FULL STORY
Keenleyside bombing aftermath
Katherine Prairie is the first author to be published by a new imprint for mysteries and suspense novels, Stonedrift Press,… FULL STORY
Orangeville revisited
As Director of Advancement with Simon Fraser University, Cindy Graves self-published Carey-On (FriessenPress 2015), a memoir about the Carey family… FULL STORY
Sex, cancer & laughing matters
Sima Elizabeth Shefrin’s husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011. “Every time something made us laugh,” she says, “one… FULL STORY
