37th annual Jewish Book Festival
Several BC authors will be at the 37th annual JCC Jewish Book Festival from February 6 – 10 this year… FULL STORY
FEATURED ARTICLES
Mona Fertig retiring
After thirteen years and 52 books, Mona Fertig, founder of Mother Tongue Publishing (MTP) has announced she will retire at… FULL STORY
Nanaimo author wins U.S. prize
Craig Taylor has won the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize in the nonfiction category for New Yorkers: A City… FULL STORY
D&M author wins GG
Douglas & McIntyre author, Norma Dunning has won the 2021 General Governor’s Award for Fiction for Tainna: The Unseen Ones… FULL STORY
Tibetan animals
B.C. author, Michael Buckley’s The Snow Leopard’s New Friend: Eco-Tales from Tibet (Sumeru US$34.95) for children aged 8 years and older,… FULL STORY
B.C. Pen hostage book honoured
Margaret Franz’s (at right) recently published memoir of her late sister, Between Blade & Bullet: The Mary Steinhauser Story (FriesenPress,… FULL STORY
Bloodroot: heartbreaking elegance
Betsy Warland’s groundbreaking memoir, Bloodroot (Inana, 2000) has been released in a special 20th anniversary printing. The book is about… FULL STORY
The GG’s and BC – 2021
Tolu Oloruntoba has won the 2021 Governor General’s Award for Poetry for his first full-length collection of poems, The Junta… FULL STORY
Phyllis Webb (1927 – 2021)
Poet Phyllis Webb, who received the 1999 George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an Outstanding Literary Career in British Columbia,… FULL STORY
Bloodroot – take 2
Betsy Warland, one of Canada’s leading feminist writers of creative non-fiction, prose and poetry, has released a second edition of… FULL STORY
Lee Maracle 1950 – 2021
One of the first Indigenous writers in Canada to publish fiction, Lee Maracle died at the age of 71 on… FULL STORY
The Cree word for …
UBC assistant professor, Dallas Hunt’s debut collection of poetry, Creeland (Nightwood $18.95) plunges readers into Indigenous lifeworlds with commonplace everyday… FULL STORY
Psychedelic psychiatry
Vancouver’s Jesse Donaldson (right) has co-authored with Saskatoon-based Erika Dyck, The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood… FULL STORY
Mines is Yiddish Book Center pick
“The Rivals” and Other Stories by Jonah Rosenfeld, translated from the Yiddish by Rachel Mines, has been selected by the… FULL STORY
Twenty-five years of Poetry in Transit
Some of the most eye-catching reading material on Vancouver’s public transit is displayed on the poetry posters that occasionally appear… FULL STORY
Playwright recounts mental illness
Filmmaker, playwright and mental-health advocate Kagan Goh (at right) has released his debut memoir, Surviving Samsara: A Memoir of Breakdowns,… FULL STORY
3 thrillers at the Vancouver Writers Fest
British Columbia is blessed with a plethora of talented authors who write thrillers and speculative fiction. The Vancouver Writers Fest… FULL STORY
Evolution of a trilogy
With the publication on October 15 of My Two-Faced Luck (Now or Never, 2021) that examines the queer life of… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prize finalists
Two authors will come away with awards from the City of Victoria Book Prizes on the evening of Sunday, October… FULL STORY
B.C. writers galore at VWF
In its upcoming hybrid mix of in-person and digital events, the Vancouver Writers Fest features a diverse line-up of authors… FULL STORY
