Past award nominee and winner now up for prestigious B.C. poetry prize nomination
Award winner Laisa Rosnau’s latest poetry collection Our Familiar Hunger (Nightwood Editions 2018) is a finalist for this year’s Dorothy… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Mickleburgh to receive Ryga Award
The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness will be presented for this first time in Victoria—at 1 pm on Saturday,… FULL STORY
Three X 2
Cassandra Blanchard (pictured), Laura Matwichuk and Sarah de Leeuw will launching new poetry books at Massy Books on April 24, 2019… FULL STORY
Marshall wins Stuart-Stubbs Prize
By Anna Moorhouse on March 4, 2019 Dr. Daniel Marshall has won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding Scholarly Book… FULL STORY
Chile With Meat
Carmen Aguirre’s early plays about the “hardships, horrors, and heartache of exile” have been collected into a triad for Chile… FULL STORY
Ryga longlist announced
The George Ryga Award is annually presented to a B.C. writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness… FULL STORY
Centennial of Winnipeg Strike
It was once the most famous labour strike in Canadian history. Now few Canadians know much about it: In May… FULL STORY
Divided they withstand
Born and raised in Iran, Nilofar Shidmehr came to Canada in 1997 and earned her MFA in Creative Writing from… FULL STORY
Two world wars in Italy
Vittorino Dal Cengio has mainly published in Italian with the exception of On the Devil’s Tail in Combat with the… FULL STORY
From Warsaw to Hamilton
One the authors set to appear at the 34th annual Jewish Book Festival, February 9-14 at Vancouver’s Jewish Community Centre… FULL STORY
Esi Edugyan wins her 2nd Giller Prize
As anyone who listens to CBC knows–from hearing it over and over–Esi Edugyan is the winner of this year’s $100,000… FULL STORY
Bidini – Twigg joint statement
“This is a joint statement by Alan Twigg and Dave Bidini about the incident at the Writers Union of Canada… FULL STORY
B.C. wins at G.G. Awards
Diversity honoured Four of this year’s thirty Governor General’s Award nominees in English were published in B.C.; two others are… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prizes 2018
Monique Gray Smith was awarded the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize for Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation (Orca)… FULL STORY
Wooldridge receives Douglas Award
In September of 2018, Andrew Wooldridge accepted the Jim Douglas Award from the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia… FULL STORY
Page again up for a fiction prize
On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, it was announced that Dear Evelyn by the often-nominated Salt Spring Islander Kathy Page has been shortlisted… FULL STORY
Stuart-Stubbs: 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
Conversing with Converse
The Sidney and Peninsula Literary Society presents readings by Yvonne Blomer and Cathy Converse on September 21st as part of… FULL STORY
Tofino gets Poet Laureate
Yes, Tofino now has its own Poet Laureate, too. The first one is Joanna Streetly who has also launched her… FULL STORY
George Woodcock prize speeches
Ann Graham Walker, president of the Federation of British Columbia Writers gave the following introductory remarks at the 25th George… FULL STORY
