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
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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
Spring poetry reading
The Federation of BC Writers has scheduled its monthly poetry reading session, In/Verse this April with Susan Alexander (at right)… FULL STORY
Robin Hood comes out of the forest
The social critic Stan Persky once described Alan Twigg (at right) as “the Robin Hood of Canadian Literature.” Now the… FULL STORY
2022 Ryga Award shortlist
The shortlist for the 2022 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, in alphabetical order, is: * Francis, Daniel…. FULL STORY
A Zoom evening with Trevor Carolan
On April 7, at 7 pm, author and poet Trevor Carolan will introduce and read poems from his latest poetry… FULL STORY
Proverbs wins history award
Author Wendy Proverbs of Victoria has won the Jeanne Clarke Local History Award for her book Aggie and Mudgy: The… FULL STORY
The quiet Patrick Lane
Coming three years after Patrick Lane’s death in 2019, The Quiet in Me: Poems (Harbour $18.95) is a collection of… FULL STORY
Betts wins Stuart-Stubbs
Dr. Gregory Betts is the 2022 recipient of the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for… FULL STORY
Whistler Fest announces new director
Filmmaker and author Rebecca Wood Barrett is the new head of the Whistler Writers Festival, taking over from founder, Stella… FULL STORY
Intertidal poems win contest
The winner of the 2022 Poetry Chapbook Contest run by Salt Spring Island’s Raven Chapbooks is Zoe Dickinson (at right),… FULL STORY
Vancouver’s Development History
by Sam Sullivan In the 1970s, the winds of social change were blowing, more people were demanding a say and… FULL STORY
2022 champion of free expression
Canada’s Book and Periodical Council has named Victoria-based Robin Stevenson (at right) as the 2022 champion of free expression. Stevenson… FULL STORY
Brainy ideas
The cover image of The Tenth Nerve: A Brain Surgeon’s Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him (Penguin Random House $32.95)… FULL STORY
Extreme bush pilot
Review by Graham Chandler “I had arrived in Canada a broken young man from an old, conservative and academic family,… FULL STORY
