2022 Whistler Writers Fest
The 21st Whistler Writers Festival will be held from October 13-16 with a hybrid of online and in person events…. FULL STORY
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Poets on buses
Ellie Sawatzky joins nine other poets (see below) in this year’s Poetry in Transit program. A poem submitted from Sawatzky’s… FULL STORY
The “Gorilla Man” strangler
Retired law professor, Alvin A. J. Esau (at right) has written The Gorilla Man Strangler Case (FriesenPress $28.49) a comprehensive… FULL STORY
We return to being human
Secwepemc poet, Garry Gottfriedson is a co-author of Tsquelmucwilc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School – Resistance and Reckoning (Arsenal Pulp… FULL STORY
Q & A: Jónína Kirton
Jónína Kirton’s (right) third book, Standing in a River of Time (Talonbooks $19.95) merges memoir and poetry to tell of… FULL STORY
Summers up the coast
Vancouver-raised Kathryn Willcock grew up in the 1960s spending summers in logging camps on the coast of BC where her… FULL STORY
Wayman & the Woodcock Award
On June 22, 2022, at the Vancouver Public Library, Tom Wayman formally accepted the George Woodcock Lifetime Literary Award that… FULL STORY
Saklikar wins gold IPPY
Poet and lawyer, Renée Sarojini Saklikar has won the gold medal in the Poetry-Speciality category of the 2022 Independent Publisher… FULL STORY
Kate Harris at Denman Island Fest
Explorer, adventurer and writer Kate Harris will be giving a solo reading at the Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival… FULL STORY
Yamagishi in UBC special collections
Kunio Yamagishi of Courtenay has had his novel, The Return of a Shadow (Austin Macauley, 2018) accepted into UBC’s Rare… FULL STORY
Becoming a better animal
“I went into the wilderness to figure out what whales were saying to each other,” said Alexandra Morton while accepting… FULL STORY
Place-based writing workshop
Poet and writer Kevin Spenst has organized a free, place-based creative writing workshop in Stanley Park, slated for July 14th… FULL STORY
A “Viking” goes to Vancouver Island
BOOK EXCERPT A Season on Vancouver Island (RMBooks $20) by Bill Arnott Introduction First things first. This is a part… FULL STORY
Oloruntoba wins Griffin Prize
Tolu Oloruntoba of Surrey has won Canada’s richest prize for poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize worth $65,000, for The Junta… FULL STORY
BC historical book awards
Barry Gough’s (at right) Possessing Meares Island: A Historian’s Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound (Harbour Publishing) has won… FULL STORY
Christina Myers up for Leacock
The List of Last Chances (Caitlin $22.95) by Christina Myers (below) is one of ten books long-listed for the 75th… FULL STORY
Chiu takes prize for political writing
Vancouver-based author and journalist, Joanna Chiu has won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her debut book,… FULL STORY
The Red River Expedition of 1870
In 2017, Paul McNicholls was approached by a representative from the UK publisher Helion and Company and asked to write… FULL STORY
Tales of an Ancient India feud
Since his childhood days in India, Manu Nellutla (at right), who now lives in Surrey, BC has been interested in… FULL STORY
Sailors’ superstitions
R. Bruce Macdonald (at right and below) launches his book Never Say P*G: The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions (Harbour Publishing… FULL STORY
