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

As Italian as possible

It’s the summer of 1960 and a young UBC student is about to leave Vancouver, then still very much a… FULL STORY

Rolf Knight is Woodcock winner

B.C.’s foremost historian of the working class, Rolf Knight, will finally get the recognition he deserves when he receives the… FULL STORY

The Moral Work of Nursing

Hazel Magnussen’s first book A Doctor’s Calling: A Matter of Conscience (Parksville: Wembley Publishing, 2006) recounts the life and murder… FULL STORY

Talk the talk; walk the walk

The aptly named Derek Walker Youngs devoted much of his life to peace, walking his way through 25 countries for… FULL STORY

Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu lit get its due

The third-most spoken language in Canada is Punjabi. Now South Asian literature is on the rise throughout Canada, particularly in… FULL STORY

Bold lives revered

Recognizing that teaching and presenting papers are performances in themselves, Sasha Colby has fused her studies of three remarkable women… FULL STORY