Place-based writing workshop
Poet and writer Kevin Spenst has organized a free, place-based creative writing workshop in Stanley Park, slated for July 14th… FULL STORY
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A “Viking” goes to Vancouver Island
BOOK EXCERPT A Season on Vancouver Island (RMBooks $20) by Bill Arnott Introduction First things first. This is a part… FULL STORY
Oloruntoba wins Griffin Prize
Tolu Oloruntoba of Surrey has won Canada’s richest prize for poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize worth $65,000, for The Junta… FULL STORY
BC historical book awards
Barry Gough’s (at right) Possessing Meares Island: A Historian’s Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound (Harbour Publishing) has won… FULL STORY
Christina Myers up for Leacock
The List of Last Chances (Caitlin $22.95) by Christina Myers (below) is one of ten books long-listed for the 75th… FULL STORY
Chiu takes prize for political writing
Vancouver-based author and journalist, Joanna Chiu has won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her debut book,… FULL STORY
The Red River Expedition of 1870
In 2017, Paul McNicholls was approached by a representative from the UK publisher Helion and Company and asked to write… FULL STORY
Tales of an Ancient India feud
Since his childhood days in India, Manu Nellutla (at right), who now lives in Surrey, BC has been interested in… FULL STORY
Sailors’ superstitions
R. Bruce Macdonald (at right and below) launches his book Never Say P*G: The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions (Harbour Publishing… FULL STORY
Whistler Writers Fest Spring events
The Whistler Writers Festival begins its Spring reading events in June with a mix of in-person and online presentations. First… FULL STORY
Graphic novelist author talk
Vancouver author, Myriam Steinberg will present a talk via zoom about graphic novels (and memoirs). She says graphic novels push… FULL STORY
Boan takes the 2022 Pat Lowther award
For her debut collection of poems, Undoing Hours (Nightwood Editions $18.95), Selina Boan has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award,… FULL STORY
Dickensian fantasy
New historical fantasy, Ordinary Monsters (McClelland & Stewart $39.95 hc) by J. M. Miro, to be released this June, treads… FULL STORY
2022 Fed of BC Writers’ Summit
The Federation of BC Writers is hosting it writers’ summit online this year, running from May 14 – 21. A… FULL STORY
BC Poets dominate LCP awards
Three BC poets have been shortlisted for the 2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets:… FULL STORY
2022 BC & Yukon Book Prizes
The West Coast Book Prize Society has announced the names of the finalists vying for recognition in eight categories at… FULL STORY
BC poet shortlisted for Griffin prize
Shortlisted writers for Canada’s richest poetry prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize include B.C.’s Tolu Oloruntoba for his debut collection, The… FULL STORY
Two BC writers shortlisted for prize
B.C. writers, Joanna Chui (at right) and Jody Wilson-Raybould have been shortlisted for the 2022 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political… FULL STORY
Morton gets Ryga Award
Alexandra Morton’s story of her lifelong struggle, Not On My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and… FULL STORY
Talonbooks Spring launch
Four poets will appear in person to launch new work at Talonbooks Spring launch: bill bissett, Ivan Drury, Jónína Kirton,… FULL STORY
