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
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‘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
Good wins award for first novel
Michelle Good has won the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Five Little Indians (Harper Collins, 2020). The prize,… FULL STORY
TRU prof recognized for kidlit
How Hope became An Activist (Dixi Books UK, 2020), a picture book for kids on the issues of sweat-shop labour… FULL STORY
Having a baby
With extra time on their hands during the pandemic, Jhenifer Pabillano and her friend Sarah Chan reconnected (remotely) with 27… FULL STORY
simpson up for award
Poet jaye simpson has been shortlisted for a 2021 Indigenous Voices award in the Published Poetry in English category for… FULL STORY
Living with autism
by Terrance James April was Autism Month. I have a grandchild on the autism spectrum and was keen to read… FULL STORY
UBC Faculty of Medicine at 70
Review by George Szasz CM, MD Dreamers, Skeptics and Healers: The Story of BC’s Medical School by Wendy Cairns, John… FULL STORY
Armenian longing
A descendent of Armenian genocide survivors, SFU professor Celeste Nazeli Snowber explores the relationship between longing, belonging and identity in… FULL STORY
James Heneghan 1930 – 2021
Born in Liverpool on October 7, 1930, James Heneghan came to Vancouver in 1957 where he eventually began writing fiction… FULL STORY
Two ships & Canadian sovereignty
The legendary ship, St. Roch is famous for its 1940s west-east traverse of the Northwest Passage made to ensure Arctic… FULL STORY
One life, 110 pages
Matsuki Masutani of Denman Island covers a lot of ground in I will be more myself in the next world… FULL STORY
Christmas wins the Sheri-D Wilson
Vancouver poet Jillian Christmas has won the 2021 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award, which honours an established Canadian poet with… FULL STORY
Not-so-pretty haiku
“Lots of people think of cherry blossoms when they think of haiku,” says Isabella Mori in a recent post from… FULL STORY
Laurence takes the Wyman
Visual arts critic Robin Laurence has won the 2021 Max Wyman Award in Critical Writing. Robin Laurence is an independent… FULL STORY
Mynett wins Ryga Award
Vancouver author Geoff Mynett has won the 2021 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature for Service on the… FULL STORY
Ryga Award shortlist
The five B.C. authors shortlisted for the 2021 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature are: Jean Barman for… FULL STORY
