The Silent Sisterhood
Charles Lillard, author and Pacific Northwest literary enthusiast, was a regular contributor to BC BookWorld. Though somewhat erratic in his… FULL STORY
Essays
I was encouraged to sue Robin Blaser
A brief memoir of the SFU English Department by Stephen Bett. This document, written in January, 2012, from notes taken… FULL STORY
Remembering Václav Havel
On a lovely sunny Fall day in October 2011 in Prague, stomach I wrote the following note for a Czech… FULL STORY
Literature As An Oppositional Disorder
By Ernest Hekkanen For those of you who know me, it will come as no surprise that I suffer from… FULL STORY
Corncobs and Copper Woman: A Cautionary Tale
Born and raised in Nanaimo, view Anne Cameron remains most widely-known for Daughters of Copper Woman, her interpretation of stories… FULL STORY
Mazo de la Roche and Dorothy Livesay
Mazo de la Roche and Dorothy Livesay: High Tory Meets Radical “I am sure, she (de la Roche) was yearning… FULL STORY
Why Poetry Matters
“Poetry doesn’t matter to most people,” writes Jay Parini, poet, novelist and professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. “Most… FULL STORY
Noam Chomsky
On the wall in Noam Chomsky’s book-strewn office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston there is a large… FULL STORY
Pierre Coupey
The North Van-dals [This interview with Pierre Coupey was prepared for Moodyville, a 2009 issue of The Capilano Review, about… FULL STORY
Why I self-published
Peter Grauer’s exhaustive account of American bandit Bill Miner’s years in British Columbia—in the venerable do-it-yourself tradition of George Nicholson’s… FULL STORY
Toward A New Romanticism in Poetry
Toward a New Romanticism in Poetry Maybe it’s time for a New Romanticism, not just in poetry, but the world…. FULL STORY
Reflections on Milton & Censorship
[When former UBC professor Jan de Bruyn was living in Sechelt, there was a public outcry by a few vocal… FULL STORY
Publishing / Origins of Polestar Press
To support writing and publishing in British Columbia, we are collecting memoirs for www.abcbookworld.com, a free reference site hosted by… FULL STORY
Sex, Death & Madness: A Brief history of writers’ group
In December 1992, Michelle Benjamin of Polestar Press had a Christmas party. Kate Braid and I were among the many… FULL STORY
Tiffany Stone
BCBW: Have you always enjoyed “nonsense” verse? STONE: Yes. My mum was British (and a teacher) so she read me… FULL STORY
Jane Rule #2
Q: Talk a bit, prostate if you would, about what you think are the most important things about a relationship…. FULL STORY
Authors / Mongolian Rhapsody
[Renaissance man Galsan Tschinag, still living in the High Altai Mountains of central Asia, has published more than 30 books,… FULL STORY
Wrestling with Demons, Fiction vs. Non-Fiction
ON OCCASION, I teach short story and novella writing at the Nelson University Center, usually to complete novices who labor… FULL STORY
A Literary Embarrassment
What do we do with the embarrassments in our literary history? The three novels by American-born Alex Philip (1882?-1968) are… FULL STORY
Wrestling with Demons, Fiction vs. Non-Fiction
ON OCCASION, I teach short story and novella writing at the Nelson University Center, usually to complete novices who labor… FULL STORY
