Fisher gets history award

Historian, academic and author, Robin Fisher (pictured at right) has been awarded the 2022 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing… FULL STORY
Historian, academic and author, Robin Fisher (pictured at right) has been awarded the 2022 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing… FULL STORY
Almost fifty years ago on September 11, 1973 a military coup took place in Chile, resulting in President Salvador Allende’s… FULL STORY
by George Bowering There was a time when I lived in a huge house in Kerrisdale, with seven of the… FULL STORY
Nehiyaw (Cree) writer Darrel McLeod made a big splash with his first two memoirs, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age… FULL STORY
The Writers’ Trust has announced the establishment of the DC Reid Poets’ Grant. The new program will anonymously deliver grants… FULL STORY
Stories of Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot, endure in popular culture, Indigenous stories and folklore. People continue to report sightings… FULL STORY
Author Samantha Beynon and illustrator Lucy Trimble were recognized at the sixth annual Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs) in the Published… FULL STORY
Derek Beaulieu of Banff, Alberta and Gary Geddes of Thetis Island, BC will read from their recent poetry collections at… FULL STORY
Gabriola Island’s Margot Fedoruk (at right) has been shortlisted for the 2023 Taste Canada Awards in the Culinary Narrative category…. FULL STORY
As part of its year-round programming, the Whistler Writers Festival is holding its spring event on June 15, which combines… FULL STORY
The shortlisted nominees for the 2023 Whistler Independent Book Awards (WIBA) are: The fiction nominees are: Renny DeGroot for Heritage House… FULL STORY
Award-winning author, Katherine Palmer Gordon (at right) will be launching her new book This Place Is Who We Are (Harbour… FULL STORY
At a reading in Nanaimo, local historian Robert Janning will be giving out free copies of his new book The… FULL STORY
The following winners of the 2023 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards were announced on June 24: For Fiction (Nancy Richler… FULL STORY
Robert G. Allan (pictured at right) and Peter A. Robson have won the 2023 John Lyman Book Award in the… FULL STORY
Here are the 2023 Chocolate Lily Awards: -Novel Category: My Best Friend is Extinct (Orca $10.95) by Rebecca Wood Barrett (pictured… FULL STORY
Matsuki Masutani (pictured at right) of Denman Island has won a Canada-Japan Literary Award this year for his poetry book… FULL STORY
By Howard Stewart The Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival is on again this year, from Friday July 21 to… FULL STORY
Theatre critic, author and actor Jerry Wasserman is the winner of this year’s Max Wyman Award in Critical Writing. The… FULL STORY
BC authors dominated this year’s shortlists for the Western Canada Jewish Book Awards. ALAN TWIGG (pictured at right) was nominated… FULL STORY