2024 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Winner
Wayne McCrory is the winner of the $3,500 2024 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding scholarly book on BC, for his… FULL STORY
Wayne McCrory is the winner of the $3,500 2024 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding scholarly book on BC, for his… FULL STORY
Dr. Gerry Krystal (at right) is set to officially launch his latest book, Our Universe and How We Got Here… FULL STORY
BC-based Hilary Peach (at right) has won the 2023 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for her book Thick Skin:… FULL STORY
P.W. Bridgman a.k.a. Tom Woods (at right) is hosting a poetry and fiction book reading event called “P.W. Bridgman: An… FULL STORY
Marsha Lederman (at right) sits down with award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, to talk about Gundar-Goshen’s latest book, The Wolf Hunt… FULL STORY
Authors Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho (at right) and Meaghan Hackinen will be hosting the Regional Spotlight: North Shore Writers’ Association event… FULL STORY
Anakana Schofield (at right), the Irish-Canadian author of Bina: A Novel in Warnings (Knopf Canada, 2019) and the critically acclaimed,… FULL STORY
Don Gayton (at right), author of The Sky and the Patio (New Star Books $18.00), is the featured special guest… FULL STORY
BC writer and author, Joseph Kakwinokanasum has been elected the Indigenous Storyteller in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library, for… FULL STORY
BC-based authors Nicholas Bradley (at right), Aislinn Hunter, Meghan Kemp-Gee, Barbara Nickel, Matt Rader, Meagan Rondeau, Joanna Streetly, and Rob… FULL STORY
Matsuki Masutani’s debut book of poetry I will be more myself in the next world (Mother Tongue $19.95) has gone… FULL STORY
BC BookWorld founder, Alan Twigg will open the Jewish Book Festival on Saturday, February 10, when he interviews Michael Posner,… FULL STORY
Sponsored by the locally produced poetry magazine Some, Vancouver poet Fred Wah will be joining visiting poets from North Carolina,… FULL STORY
It’s a story known well in the world of opera. Madama Butterfly, a young geisha in early 20th-century Japan marries… FULL STORY
Christina Myers (at right) has won the Canadian Book Club Award for Fiction for her novel, The List of Last… FULL STORY
GALIANO ISLAND BOOKS TO HOST SIXTH ANNUAL GALIANO LITERARY FESTIVAL The SIXTH ANNUAL Galiano Literary Festival, to be held February… FULL STORY
Three B.C. poets have been shortlisted for the 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Award: Cicely Belle Blain (at right) for Burning… FULL STORY
Susan Sanford Blades of Victoria has won the ReLit Award for Fiction for her novel, Fake It So Real (Nightwood… FULL STORY
The West Coast Book Prize Society has announced the names of the finalists for the 37th Annual BC & Yukon… FULL STORY
The Federation of British Columbia Writers has elected Jacqueline Carmichael as its new president. She replaces Keith Liggett, who stepped down… FULL STORY