Upcoming JCC author events
CBC Radio’s “Word Guy,” Dr. Jonathan Berkowitz and artist Linda Dayan Frimer will be showcasing their new books at Vancouver’s… FULL STORY
FEATURED ARTICLES
Dandurand wins lucrative prize
Joseph Dandurand has won the 2022 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize that is awarded to a mid-career poet in recognition… FULL STORY
Vancouver Book Award Winner – 2022
Authors Karen Duffek, Bill McLennan and Jordan Wilson have won the 2022 Vancouver Book Award for their co-authored title, Where… FULL STORY
The wetland project book
It began when artists Brady Marks and Mark Timmings (at right) started recording the sounds of a marsh on Saturna… FULL STORY
Fireside chat features Chelene Knight
Chelene Knight (at right) will be the guest author on the Federation of BC Writer’s zoom event, Fireside Chat on… FULL STORY
Making travel “green” and respectful
By Dr. Rachel Dodds & Dr. Richard Butler Canada, especially British Columbia has recognized that we need to behave more… FULL STORY
RavenSpace publishing gets grant
UBC Press’s innovative digital publishing platform, RavenSpace has been awarded a three-year, one million dollar grant from The Mellon Foundation…. FULL STORY
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
Victoria Book Prizes
Esi Edugyan (at right) has won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for Out of the Sun: On Race… FULL STORY
Six BC writers shortlisted for the GG’s
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
Kishkan zoom talk on essays
Theresa Kishkan will be delivering a talk: “The Essay as Carrier Bag, as Gathering Basket,” via zoom at 7PM PST,… FULL STORY
Ozeki takes top BC fiction prize
Novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest, Ruth Ozeki received the 2022 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her fourth novel, The… FULL STORY
R.I.P Gordon Soules
Author, book publisher and distributor Gordon Soules has died. Like many BC publishers, Gordon Soules entered the field as an… FULL STORY
Non-fiction highlights at Whistler
The Whistler Writers Fest will be featuring a strong line-up of non-fiction writers this year. For starters, there will be… FULL STORY
Cook book revives doomed adventure
No voyage has ever surveyed so much territory as Cook’s final Pacific voyage that reached Nootka Sound in 1778.
Popular Portuguese artworks
A book about popular Portuguese artworks by Anthony Alan Shelton captures the playful, subversive culture of a nation forever trapped… FULL STORY
Eight Victoria authors up for awards
The shortlists for the 2022 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize highlight eight… FULL STORY
Robin Laurence wins RCA medal
Vancouver-based independent writer and critic, Robin Laurence (at right) won this year’s Royal Canadian Academy of Arts medal, given to… FULL STORY
VPL shining light on Black identity
Vancouver Public Library’s 2022 writer in residence is author and journalist, Harrison Mooney. Mooney’s debut memoir, Invisible Boy (Patrick Crean… FULL STORY
Haida learning books
In September, 2021, the first two books in the series, “Sk’ad’a Stories” were released: Jigging for Halibut with Tsinii (Highwater… FULL STORY
