Czaga nets nomination
Born in Alberta, Kayla Czaga grew up in Kitimat before moving to Victoria to complete her undergraduate degree in writing… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Flour power nominated for Ryga Award
Chris Hergesheimer (beard) was hand-milling flour at Sechelt’s Farmer’s Market when he came up with a simple idea: build a… FULL STORY
Vancouver Blue
Wayne Cope is a retired Vancouver Police Officer who spent more than 30 years with the force. He spent many… FULL STORY
Molecules R Us
As part of a catering crew, Susin Nielsen-Fernlund of Vancouver got her big television break in the off-camera cafeteria for… FULL STORY
Zeballos revisited
Born in Viking, Alberta in 1942, Eleanor Witton Hancock grew up in Zeballos from age three onwards. Her family mainly… FULL STORY
Wake-up and smell the land
A member of the Neskonlith Indian Band of the Secwepemc Nation based in Kamloops, Arthur Manuel has co-written Unsettling Canada:… FULL STORY
Waste Not, Want Not
Many North Americans waste 40 percent of the food they purchase. It’s like throwing away a bag full of groceries… FULL STORY
Flett no fluke
Along with poet and civil rights activist Roy Miki and his wife Slavia Miki as authors, First Nations illustrator Julie… FULL STORY
Fight or flight
Darwin Marsh,the hero of Lillian M. Varcoe’s first novel, Headwinds: Seeing a Murder Forgotten (Amazon $7.99), is a veteran floatplane… FULL STORY
Slaymaker gets Order of Canada
Prolific and much-decorated UBC geographer and author Olav Slaymaker–surely one of the most memorable names in B.C. literature–wasn’t be able… FULL STORY
The Truth Commission & Republic of Dirt
Susan Juby’s sixth novel for teenagers, The Truth Commission (RazorBill/Penguin Canada 2014), is a humourous story about Normandy Pale and… FULL STORY
Friesen’s crazy bone libretto
Once in a rare while a jacket blurb competes for resonance with the book it endorses. Sharon Thesen describes Patrick… FULL STORY
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
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
