2023 Writers’ Trust Awards – BC winners
Two BC mid-career authors were recognized as this year’s Writers’ Trust Award Winners for their remarkable bodies of work and… FULL STORY
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Vaillant takes £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize
For his book, Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast (Knopf $38), John Valliant of Vancouver has won the UK’s… FULL STORY
R.I.P. Barry McKinnon (1944 – 2023)
Prince George poet and publisher, Barry McKinnon died on October 30. His collection, Pulplog (Caitlin, 1991) won the 1992 Dorothy… FULL STORY
BC writers in 2024 Best Canadian Series
This year’s editions of the Best Canadian Series, a compilation of essays, poetry and short fiction published by Biblioasis, include… FULL STORY
Sammy Squirrel & Rodney Raccoon
Duane Lawrence’s (at right) kidlit, Sammy Squirrel & Rodney Raccoon: A Stanley Park Tale (Granville Island Publishing, 2007) has captured… FULL STORY
Save The Date: Victoria Writer’s Day Out!
Frances Peck (at right) and Ruth DyckFehderau will be launching their latest novels Uncontrolled Flight (NeWest $24.95) and I (Athena)… FULL STORY
Food Writing Award Winners
Margot Fedoruk (at right), has won the Taste Canada Food Writing Silver award in the Culinary Narratives category for… FULL STORY
2023 Whistler Independent Book Award Winners
Tom Stewart (at right) has won The Whistler Independent Book Award for Fiction for his first novel, Immortal North (Lucky… FULL STORY
2023 Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalists
The 2023 George Woodcock Award winner, Susan Musgrave (at right), has racked up more honors, including being shortlisted in this… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prize winners
For her 11th title, Pauline Holdstock (at right) has won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for Confessions with Keith:… FULL STORY
BC books win Moonbeams
The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards recognize and reward books that support childhood literacy and life-long reading. Three BC-authored books earned… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prizes
The $5,000 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, now in its 20th year, is awarded to a Greater Victoria author… FULL STORY
EXCERPT – Dead West: a novel
In 2021, Richards published the first title in her “The Ending” series about a woman who becomes a hired killer,… FULL STORY
Klein at Van Writers Fest
New York Times bestselling author, activist and UBC professor, Naomi Klein will be at the upcoming Vancouver Writers Festival promoting… FULL STORY
Vaillant speaks with Leslie Anthony
The Whistler Writers Festival will be presenting best-selling author, John Vaillant (at right, photo by by Ian Hinkle) at this… FULL STORY
Van Book Award shortlist
The annual City of Vancouver Book Award has released its shortlist for 2023, including poetry, fiction, memoir, an art book… FULL STORY
SCWES Book Award winners
Founded by the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Association, organizers for the inaugural SCWES Book Awards for BC Authors have… FULL STORY
Jay’s Story
EXCERPT Sharing Our Journeys 2 – Queer BIPOC Elders Tell Their Stories (Filidh Publishing $20.50) edited by Ron Kearse Ron… FULL STORY
Poems on buses
The line-up for the 2023/24 Poetry in Transit program, sponsored by the Association of Book Publishers of BC (Books BC),… FULL STORY
Fisher gets history award
Historian, academic and author, Robin Fisher (pictured at right) has been awarded the 2022 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing… FULL STORY
