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Odette Auger is a member of Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation living in the Ayajuthem-speaking part of the Salish Sea. An… FULL STORY
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Generations of resilience
Masako Fukawa is an award-winning educator and historian known for documenting the history of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia. She… FULL STORY
Ryga Award shortlist, 2026
Five authors have been shortlisted for the 2026 George Ryga Award, an annual literary prize for a BC writer who… FULL STORY
Inside a Petrostate
Born and raised in Singapore, Joanne Leow worked as a journalist for state-controlled media before moving to Canada to work… FULL STORY
Gough gets the Woodcock
Barry Gough, one of BC’s premier historians and author of more than 20 history books including the first book ever… FULL STORY
Audacious Gumboot creators
How Two Audacious Amateurs Created Four Best-selling Books (with the help of 124 friends) By Kristin Miller Jane Wilde and… FULL STORY
Poetry, chess and climate change
Poet and author Renée Sarojini Saklikar discusses Bramah’s Discovery (Nightwood $24.95), the third installment in her ambitious thot j bap… FULL STORY
Bats are nothing like rats
“Contrary to many beliefs, [bats aren’t] blind, they don’t always hang upside-down, they certainly don’t all have rabies (most rabies… FULL STORY
EXCERPT: Growing My Way Home
WARNING: This feature contains stories of difficult life experiences for, and abuse to, an Indigenous woman and may trigger emotional… FULL STORY
Children of Holocaust Survivors
Edited by Deborah Ross-Grayman, Voices of Resilience: An Anthology of Stories Written by Children of Holocaust Survivors (Amsterdam Publishers $24.95),… FULL STORY
A life that named mountains
A mountaineer, medical researcher and lifelong wilderness advocate, Lisa Baile (at right) brings rare intimacy to John Clarke: Explorer of… FULL STORY
Living cheap, well
Steve Burgess is a writer and broadcaster whose new book Cheapskate in Lotusland: The Philosophy and Practice of Living Well… FULL STORY
Witnessing the island
Dave and Kelly Hutchison are a husband-and-wife creative team based in Qualicum Beach whose shared love of Vancouver Island shapes… FULL STORY
Songs of life and death
Russell Thornton is a North Vancouver–based poet whose work is known for its visceral lyricism and elemental engagement with life,… FULL STORY
New Gitxsan nature story
The award-winning Mothers of Xsan series is set to expand with the announcement of its newest title, The Cedar Mother… FULL STORY
Beiser wins Balsillie Prize
The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced on November 25, 2025, that Vancouver-based journalist and author Vince Beiser has won the… FULL STORY
Between Dunbar Street & Taiwan
The memoir The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street (Douglas & McIntyre $24.95) is an intimate geopolitical account of a family… FULL STORY
Purdy Poetry Prize
The Al Purdy A-frame Association and Eurithe Purdy are delighted to announce that acclaimed author and poet, Susan Musgrave (at… FULL STORY
From screen to pages
Tara Hungerford with her husband Eric Hogan created the award-winning children’s media brand, The Gumboot Kids. The success of the… FULL STORY
Sparkling under steel toes
Poetry virtually never pays the bills, but it can reflect the world in which poets work. Such is the case… FULL STORY
