Hope is an activist
How Hope Became an Activist (Dixi Books UK $19.99) is George Johnson’s picture book for kids about sweat-shop labour and… FULL STORY
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The great Mifflin Gibbs
The first non-fiction book about B.C.’s black pioneers, Crawford Kilian’s (pictured at right) Go Do Some Great Thing (Harbour $26.95), concentrates… FULL STORY
Dagnino’s novel now an audiobook
The audiobook of Arianna Dagnino’s novel The Afrikaner (Guernica $20), set in Namibia and South Africa and reviewed in BC… FULL STORY
From moccasins to the Green Party
A member of the Ktunaza First Nations of the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers region of British Columbia, Earl Einarson, formerly… FULL STORY
Writing about community
A writing workshop focused on people writing about community will be held Nov. 28 and 29 at the Slocan Lake… FULL STORY
Chow celebration
When award-winning author, historian and multicultural champion Lily Chow announced she would be retiring from the New Pathways to Gold… FULL STORY
Discrimination and profiling
Firebird by Glen Huser (Ronsdale $12.95) Review by Sage Birchwater After Canada entered World War One as an ally to… FULL STORY
Seeking ‘Gold Mountain’
Photo: Dukesang & wife Lin, courtesy Victor Calvin Hoe. “For over three weeks we have been docked in the harbour… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prizes winners
Lorna Crozier (at right) and Mark Leiren-Young have been announced as the 2020 Victoria Book Prizes winners. Crozier took the… FULL STORY
Stuart-Stubbs’ Call for Submissions
THE BASIL STUART-STUBBS PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLARLY BOOK ON BRITISH COLUMBIA Established in memory of Basil Stuart-Stubbs, this annual prize… FULL STORY
Williams talks love at writers fest
UBC poetry professor Ian Williams (right) will be in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Marilynn Robinson about her new novel Jack… FULL STORY
2020 Victoria Book Prizes
The finalists have been announced for the 2020 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and Children’s Book Prize. In its… FULL STORY
Crime writer turns to podcasting
Having successfully published a half dozen crime books, Eve Lazarus is using her content to produce podcasts. Lazarus’s first podcast,… FULL STORY
Finding your voice
Vancouver Island poet, Jordan Scott has struggled with stuttering all his life. He first wrote about it in his poetry… FULL STORY
Hope with its sleeves rolled up
Elin Kelsey’s latest book is packed with examples of hope-driven action, stories of nature’s resilience and tips for keeping our… FULL STORY
Landscape of a racialized life
The poems of spoken word activist, Jillian Christmas are expressive of her family history, queer lineage, and “the political landscape… FULL STORY
From Bowen Island to Marpole
Bowen Island poet Jude Neale began her first week as writer in residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House in… FULL STORY
The little dugout canoe that could
John M. MacFarlane and Lynn J. Salmon have won a John Lyman Book Award for best book published in the… FULL STORY
Familial duty, resentment & guilt
Two sets of sisters, four different personalities and difficult sibling dynamics set the stage for Annabel Lyon’s upcoming novel Consent… FULL STORY
Not just salmon poems
The collected early works of Wah (born 1939) and Marlatt (born 1942) reflect origins in the 1960s with Tish, the… FULL STORY
