Baker wins first Blue Metropolis Prize
New Star Press author Marie Annharte Baker has been named the inaugural winner of the Blue Metropolis First People’s Literary… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Paddle to love
Love can bloom at any age. Seven years a widow, Freda Mellenthin wasn’t expecting, at age sixty-two, that Ted Mellenthin… FULL STORY
Greenwood revisited
Self-dubbed the Fearless Poet, Sheila Rosen was married for fifty years to Norm Rosen before he died in 2010. She… FULL STORY
The man named Amor
Gordon Hawking’s new biography of Amor De Cosmos, The De Cosmos Enigma (Ronsdale $17.95) explores the life and career of this… FULL STORY
Icelandic-First Nations Lit
Active within the Aboriginal Writers Collective on the West Coast, Metis/Icelandic Jonina Kirton coordinated the first National Indigenous Writers Conference… FULL STORY
Newspapers’ death exaggerated
Marc Edge has explored the history and finances of North American newspapers and media conglomerates in Greatly Exaggerated: The Myth… FULL STORY
Beyond Talking Dirty
Rachel Ditor became literary manager and dramaturge at the Arts Club Theatre in 2001 having first worked in play development… FULL STORY
The Greatest Lover
Neil McKinnon’s The Greatest Lover of Last Thursday (Thistledown $19.95) is a humourous novel about an 80-year-old who has searched… FULL STORY
Osborn archive at UBC
Library Students at UBC have created a digital archive called The Bud Osborn Collection to honour the work of Downtown… FULL STORY
Inuit Testimony resurfaces
As a 17-year-old scuba diver, David Woodman, born in 1956, first went looking for shipwrecks in Lake Superior. He has… FULL STORY
Thrillers of northern B.C.
An admirer of the writing of Ivan Coyote and Jack Whyte, Lin Weich of Quesnel is a retired teacher who… FULL STORY
Where youth must go
“Where hope is stifled youth must go.” — Patricia Blondal, from her set-in-B.C. novel, From Heaven with a Shout Patricia… FULL STORY
Kravan cuisine
Even for people who don’t read or like cookbooks, visit this site Jeffrey Alford’s Chicken in the Mango Tree (D&M… FULL STORY
I’m Not You by Ernest Hekkanen
Ernest Hekkanen, the man dubbed Canadian literature’s “most resolute maverick,” has released his 46th book, a novella called I’m Not… FULL STORY
Income inequality in B.C.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer in British Columbia, as they do in much of the world…. FULL STORY
Forest sleuthing & Ground-Truthing
Derrick Denholm received an award for emerging artist in 1994 and vanished into the rain forests of northern and coastal… FULL STORY
Timewatch for reincarnated adventure
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Linda Grant moved to Canada in 1950. She has taught school and worked in film production… FULL STORY
Writing her away beyond tragedy
Born in Vancouver in 1970, Colleen Ruttan of Chilliwack received a physics degree from UBC in 2003 and worked as… FULL STORY
At the end of the Trans-Canada rainbow
Lisa Ahier’s The SoBo Cookbook: Recipes from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road (Random House 2014)… FULL STORY
Z is for Zeballos
Born in Viking, Alberta in 1942, Eleanor Witton Hancock grew up in Zeballos from age three onwards. With her parents… FULL STORY
