George Ryga Award shortlist – 2025
Once again six authors have been shortlisted for the George Ryga Award, an annual literary prize for a BC writer… FULL STORY
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Kit Pearson gets the Woodcock
Kit Pearson (at right) won the Governor General’s Award for English-language children’s literature in 1997. She received the 11th annual… FULL STORY
Stop global warming now
When retired microbiologist W. “Tom” Thomson Martin (at right) hears someone responding to the growing environmental climate catastrophe with the… FULL STORY
BC writers at Jewish Book Fest
STAN LUBIN, author of 123 Very Short Stories from a Very Long Life in Medicine (FriesenPress, 2023) Composed of personal anecdotes,… FULL STORY
Former BC gov’t minister speaks out
The JCC Jewish Book Festival opens Feb. 22 with Selina Robinson (at right) talking about her memoir, Truth Be Told… FULL STORY
Indigenous social work
Stitching Our Stories Together: Journeys Into Indigenous Social Work (University of Regina Press $34.95), due out in February, is a… FULL STORY
A Culinary Journey Through Time
Ann-Lee (at right) and Gordon Switzer met in a poetry class and fell in love over a dish of eggplant… FULL STORY
Flirting with justice
Brian O’Neill (at right) examines the 1990s true crime case in which Vancouverite Gillian Guess served as a juror during… FULL STORY
Strathcona to the Spanish Civil War
For a good introduction to 1930s Vancouver, pick up a copy of David Spaner’s novel, Keefer Street by David Spaner… FULL STORY
Vancouver’s Black lifeguard legend
Ruby Smith Diaz (at right) delves into the story of Serafim “Joe” Fortes, a pioneering Black lifeguard who became a… FULL STORY
Bold plant-based eats
Vancouver-based Linda Purcell’s Veggie Outlaws: Most Wanted Vegan Recipes (Library and Archives Canada $34.95) is a vegan cookbook packed with… FULL STORY
Behind the iron curtain
Author Jadzia Prenosil’s memoir, My Childhood Behind the Iron Curtain (Island Blue Print $19.99) details her childhood in 1960s Communist… FULL STORY
2024 Victoria Book Prize Winners
Local authors Kathryn Mockler (at right) and Raina Delisle emerged winners at the Victoria Book Prizes this year. The City… FULL STORY
Pollon book up for literary awards
Christopher Pollon’s (at right) Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places (Greystone $39.95), published in collaboration with… FULL STORY
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
2024 Governor General’s Finalists
This year, seven BC-based authors made it to the shortlist of the Governor General’s Literary Awards within four categories. The… FULL STORY
Joseph Dandurand’s new book
The fourth in the Kwantlen Stories Then and Now series by award-winning author Joseph Dandurand is here! Following The Girl… FULL STORY
Writing Through Long COVID
INTRO: Danial Neil always knew he wanted to be a writer. But after a seemingly mild case of COVID-19, writing… FULL STORY
New poetry from Carla Stein
Review by Ken Cathers Sometimes one is able to get a sense of a writer’s quality by what they don’t… FULL STORY
2025 Best Canadian Series
This year’s Best Canadian Series that will be published on November 12, features the works of 13 BC based authors… FULL STORY
