#36 Charles Bukowski
LOCATION: Viking Inn, 828 East Hastings, Vancouver When Charles ‘Hank’ Bukowski made his first trip to Canada in October of… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
The Sky Was 1950 Blue
Katherin Edwards of Kamloops graduated from UBC’s MFA writing program. A Saskatoon-based collective has issued her limited edition poetry book,… FULL STORY
Fish Eyes in print
The award-winning actress, playwright and dancer Anita Majumdar grew up in Port Moody, where she did not speak English until… FULL STORY
Tucker Cross to Bermuda Key
B.R. Bentley’s first novel, The Cross (Friesen Press), was inspired by the theft of the Tucker Cross in 1975. After… FULL STORY
Gunhild’s Granddaughter
Myrtle Siebert’s From Fjord to Floathouse – subtitled one family’s journey from the farmlands of Norway to the Coast of… FULL STORY
Anita’s Revolution is Cuba bound
Having lived and worked in Cuba for five years in the mid 1960s, Shirley Langer has a deep and abiding… FULL STORY
Writing shouldn’t be painful
Lindsay Lewis of Victoria holds a degree in Applied Linguistics and a Cambridge teaching diploma from England. She has been… FULL STORY
Ecopoetics
Kelly Shepherd wrote five poetry chapbooks before Shift (Thistledown $17.95), a collection of poems in which he explores human relationships… FULL STORY
Kat & dogs
Losing a pet–literally having your pet get lost or left behind–can be a traumatic experience. You can’t call Ghostbusters; but… FULL STORY
Hebridean affinities
The story goes that exiled and silenced seventeeth-century Hebridean poet Mary MacLeod (Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh) was banned from composing any… FULL STORY
Glory, gore and gold
Ronald Wright recalls the murderous triumphs of the Spanish conquistador Pizarro in a new novel, The Gold Eaters. by Cherie… FULL STORY
Urquhart in elite quartet
Emily Urquhart has been named as one of four finalists for the 12th annual B.C. National Non-Fiction Award. Her book… FULL STORY
Drama offstage
For ages 10-14, Cristy Watson’s forthcoming On Cue (Orca 2016) will be a young readers’ novel about an aspiring teen… FULL STORY
Transgender musical long time coming
Ken Smedley grew up in Kamloops in the 1950s, where he co-founded The Western Canada Youtheatre (now the Western Canada… FULL STORY
Coach for hire
Having completed a training program with Erickson International College, former kidlit author Emily Madill of Nanaimo has contributed a blog… FULL STORY
A Year of Borrowed Men
Michelle Barker’s A Year of Borrowed Men (Pajama Press 2015) arose from her mother’s childhood memories of Germany during World… FULL STORY
Unhanged Arthur Award winner
Nelson-based Rachel M. Greenaway’s first novel Cold Girl (Dundurn $17.99) won the Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime… FULL STORY
Red Star Tattoo
After graduating from the Simon Fraser University Writer’s Studio, Sonja Larsen published Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl… FULL STORY
Find a book, find yourself
When you are your own marketing manager, you’ve gotta be original. So Nina Shoroplova is hiding 27 copies of her… FULL STORY
Introverts out of the closet
Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England in 1954, Lesley Taylor of Richmond, B.C. was brought to B.C. in 1956 and grew… FULL STORY
