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
FEATURED ARTICLES
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
A Rage Too Great for Vengeance
Introduction by Alan Twigg As one of North America’s leading educators about the Holocaust, the Holland-born psychiatrist Robert Krell has… FULL STORY
Uncovering lost family legacies
Margaret Ostrowski, author of Lost Legacies: Learning from Ancestral Stories for Inspiration and Policy-Making Today (DC Books $21.95) gave a… FULL STORY
Thomas Berger and Indigenous rights
Against the Odds: The Indigenous Rights Cases of Thomas R. Berger (Durvile Publications $37.50) by author Drew Ann Wake (at… FULL STORY
A preacher for the homeless
In Muddy Water: Stories from the Street (WIPF and Stock Publishers $25.00), Rev. Al Tysick, a United Church of Canada… FULL STORY
50 years of poems
first here and then far (Harbour $24.95) is a carefully curated retrospective that spans over fifty years of poetry by… FULL STORY
Fostering queer-friendly classrooms
A trans professor from Vancouver, LJ Slovin (at right), followed six trans youth over a year (with some later follow-up)… FULL STORY
How I ended up writing a political fable … and what I discovered when I did so
by Herschel Hardin Jack in Pemberland (FriesenPress $19.25) is the title of my book, a tale of the discovery of… FULL STORY
Fertig’s new poems
“After decades of publishing other writers, I decided there was still one more book of poetry in me,” writes Mona… FULL STORY
Journalism for everyone
Christopher Cheung (at right) spent his childhood in a multicultural neighbourhood in Vancouver that he believed wasn’t reflected in the… FULL STORY
A publisher for BC
On the way in somebody asked me if I am now the oldest active BC publisher. It’s a shock to… FULL STORY
On the path to reconciliation
by George Melnyk Sandra Hayes-Gardiner’s book, Crossing the River: An unsettling memoir (BixBooks, 2024) is a worthy addition to the memoir… FULL STORY
Alan Twigg’s tribute to Rudolf Vrba
by Guy Bennett Rudolf Vrba (1924-2006) was a Slovak-Jew who escaped from Auschwitz at the age of 19, then co-wrote… FULL STORY
Whistler Book Awards shortlist
The following BC based authors are shortlisted for the 2024 Whistler Independent Book Awards within three categories. The shortlisted nominees… FULL STORY
Afghani flight to freedom
Zia’s Story by Shahnaz Qayumi (Tradewind $14.95) Writing for young readers about the impact of a battle-scarred country on families… FULL STORY
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize winner
John Vaillant (at right) has won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for Fire Weather: The Making of… FULL STORY
