Knightly gets Whistler Indie Award

Three authors won awards at the Whistler Independent Book Awards on October 14, including BC-based Rae Knightly (at right) who… FULL STORY
Three authors won awards at the Whistler Independent Book Awards on October 14, including BC-based Rae Knightly (at right) who… FULL STORY
Esi Edugyan (at right) has won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for Out of the Sun: On Race… FULL STORY
Several BC-based writers made the Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalist list this year. In the fiction category, Falkland’s Brian Thomas… FULL STORY
Theresa Kishkan will be delivering a talk: “The Essay as Carrier Bag, as Gathering Basket,” via zoom at 7PM PST,… FULL STORY
Novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest, Ruth Ozeki received the 2022 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her fourth novel, The… FULL STORY
Author, book publisher, and distributor Gordon Soules has died. Like many BC publishers, Gordon Soules entered the field as an… FULL STORY
The Whistler Writers Fest will be featuring a strong line-up of non-fiction writers this year. For starters, there will be… FULL STORY
No voyage has ever surveyed so much territory as Cook’s final Pacific voyage that reached Nootka Sound in 1778.
A book about popular Portuguese artworks by Anthony Alan Shelton captures the playful, subversive culture of a nation forever trapped… FULL STORY
The shortlists for the 2022 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize highlight eight… FULL STORY
Vancouver-based independent writer and critic, Robin Laurence (at right) won this year’s Royal Canadian Academy of Arts medal, given to… FULL STORY
Vancouver Public Library’s 2022 writer in residence is author and journalist, Harrison Mooney. Mooney’s debut memoir, Invisible Boy (Patrick Crean… FULL STORY
In September, 2021, the first two books in the series, “Sk’ad’a Stories” were released: Jigging for Halibut with Tsinii (Highwater… FULL STORY
Arsenal Pulp Press has announced that Erin Chan is their new marketing and publicity assistant. She was previously a publishing… FULL STORY
In his memor, So, How Have I Been Doing At Being Who I Am?: At 82, A Life In Progress… FULL STORY
The 21st Whistler Writers Festival will be held from October 13-16 with a hybrid of online and in person events…. FULL STORY
Ellie Sawatzky joins nine other poets (see below) in this year’s Poetry in Transit program. A poem submitted from Sawatzky’s… FULL STORY
Retired law professor, Alvin A. J. Esau (at right) has written The Gorilla Man Strangler Case (FriesenPress $28.49) a comprehensive… FULL STORY
Secwepemc poet, Garry Gottfriedson is a co-author of Tsquelmucwilc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School – Resistance and Reckoning (Arsenal Pulp… FULL STORY
Jónína Kirton’s (right) third book, Standing in a River of Time (Talonbooks $19.95) merges memoir and poetry to tell of… FULL STORY