Adventures with words
UBC professor of statistics, Dr. Jonathan Berkowitz is perhaps better known as the Word Guy on CBC Radio’s North by… FULL STORY
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Emerg department myths & facts
More than 15 million people visit a hospital emergency department in Canada every year. But did they need to go… FULL STORY
Whistler Writers Fest 2021
The 2021 Whistler Writers Festival has released a reading list for its 20th festival including B.C. authors such as Gail… FULL STORY
Celebrating Haida culture
Jigging for Halibut with Tsinii (HighWater Press, 2021) and Learning to Carve Argillite (HighWater Press, 2021), due out September 28,… FULL STORY
Kogawa House poems & pix
Bowen Island’s Jude Neale is set to release a collection of poetry and photography produced from her stint as a… FULL STORY
Heritage classic gets update
Art Downs (1924 – 1996) may be known as one of the forefathers of the B.C. publishing industry for founding… FULL STORY
A new epic fantasy
Renée Sarojini Saklikar has published an epic fantasy told in verse: Bramah and the Beggar Boy (Nightwood $26.95). Ten years… FULL STORY
Desparately seeking democracy
In his first book Humanizing the Economy (New Society, 2010), former executive director of the BC Co-operative Association, John Restakis… FULL STORY
Millennial poverty & privilege
The great granddaughter of Jewish immigrants and early French and Irish settlers, Carmella Gray-Cosgrove (at right) was raised in Vancouver’s… FULL STORY
Saving B.C.’s Wilderness
By Wayne Sawchuk “Wayne, this world would be a better place without you in it! One day somebody might just… FULL STORY
Whistler Indepedent Book Awards
Each year, the Whistler Independent Book Awards provide independently published authors with a unique opportunity to have their work recognized through… FULL STORY
Whishaw wins Bony Blithe
Iona Whishaw’s A Match Made for Murder (Touchwood $16.95), the seventh book in the Lane Winslow Mystery series, has won… FULL STORY
Paramedic stories win an IPPY
Retired paramedic and author Graeme Taylor has won a bronze medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards for A… FULL STORY
Western lifestyle damaging planet
2021 and the livin’ is easy. But the planet is in peril. In his latest title, The Environmentalist’s Dilemma: Promise… FULL STORY
B.C. Foodies
Now in its 24th year, the Taste Canada Awards single out some of the best cookbook authors in Canada. This… FULL STORY
Live author events at Whistler
The Whistler Writing Society will be hosting three July events for the Summer Comeback Reading Series — a precursor to… FULL STORY
‘Big’ picks up silver medal
The subject of the cover story in BC BookWorld’s Autumn 2020 issue, Big: Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies (Caitlin,… FULL STORY
BC historical writing prize winners
At a gala awards presentation held on June 5, Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow… FULL STORY
B.C. YA authors get noticed
The Forest of Reading Kid and Teen Committee lists for the summer of 2021 are out and debut B.C. kidlit… FULL STORY
Two BC authors win G.G.’s
Michelle Good of Kamloops and Kim Senklip Harvey of Vancouver have won 2020 Governor General’s Literary Awards in two of… FULL STORY
