Strathcona to the Spanish Civil War
For a good introduction to 1930s Vancouver, pick up a copy of David Spaner’s novel, Keefer Street by David Spaner… FULL STORY
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Vancouver’s Black lifeguard legend
Ruby Smith Diaz (at right) delves into the story of Serafim “Joe” Fortes, a pioneering Black lifeguard who became a… FULL STORY
Bold plant-based eats
Vancouver-based Linda Purcell’s Veggie Outlaws: Most Wanted Vegan Recipes (Library and Archives Canada $34.95) is a vegan cookbook packed with… FULL STORY
Behind the iron curtain
Author Jadzia Prenosil’s memoir, My Childhood Behind the Iron Curtain (Island Blue Print $19.99) details her childhood in 1960s Communist… FULL STORY
2024 Victoria Book Prize Winners
Local authors Kathryn Mockler (at right) and Raina Delisle emerged winners at the Victoria Book Prizes this year. The City… FULL STORY
Pollon book up for literary awards
Christopher Pollon’s (at right) Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places (Greystone $39.95), published in collaboration with… FULL STORY
Call for submissions
THE BASIL STUART-STUBBS PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLARLY BOOK ON BRITISH COLUMBIA Established in memory of Basil Stuart-Stubbs, this annual prize… FULL STORY
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
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
