Victoria Book Prizes 2019
The Victoria Book Prize Society is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2019 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Agnes, not of God
Sarah Leavitt’s second graphic novel, Agnes, Murderess (Freehand 2019), is based on the folk legend of a roadhouse owner, madam… FULL STORY
Doretta Lau at Kogawa House
With an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, Doretta Lau lives in both Vancouver and Hong Kong, while contributing to… FULL STORY
2019 Whistler Writers Festival lineup
Featured authors at the Whistler Writers Festival (October 17 – 20, 2019) have been announced. They include: Cherie Dimaline, Andrew… FULL STORY
From Squa’lets to VPL
“The Kwantlen people used to number in the thousands,” says Joseph Dandurand, “but like all river tribes, 80% of our… FULL STORY
Smithers book wins top prize
The BC Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for historical writing and $2,500 has been awarded to Tyler McCreary for Shared Histories: Witsuwit’en-Settler… FULL STORY
Eve Joseph wins Griffin Prize
Quarrels by Eve Joseph, published by Anvil Press, has won the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for Canadian poetry. The Griffin… FULL STORY
Labour love not lost
A new generation is being introduced to a tumultuous, six-week struggle in Winnipeg when more than 30,000 strikers battled police,… FULL STORY
Double Melancholy by C.E. Gatchalian
Born in 1974 and raised in Vancouver, C.E. Gatchalian is a Filipino-Canadian who has written nine plays. His first non-fiction… FULL STORY
John Lent’s double offering
In 2018, as a veteran vocalist John Lent released his sophisticated CD of original, often bluesy songs, Strange Ground, as… FULL STORY
Historic DNA case gets its due
The Bulldog and the Helix by Shayne Morrow will be launched at a free event in Port Alberni on Thursday,… FULL STORY
Montler’s SENĆOŦEN dictionary
SENĆOŦEN; A Dictionary of the Saanich Language by Timothy Montler Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018 $150.00 (U.S.) / 9780295743851… FULL STORY
Crozier accepts for Patrick Lane
Patrick Lane has been named winner of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in Victoria. On Saturday, April 20,… FULL STORY
The Martial Races
“After 100 years, it is time to tell the tale of the unsung heroes of the Punjab who stood as… FULL STORY
Fat Cats gets gold
George Mercer’s fourth novel, Fat Cats, has won a Gold Medal in the Best Regional Fiction (Canada West) category of… FULL STORY
We saw the world from a great height
From vanishing wild cats, to poisoned oceans, to drowning valleys, the poems in The Schedule of Loss (Ekstasis $23.95) by… FULL STORY
Book Prizes born anew
Running the BC Book Prizes is no cake walk. It’s an easy way to make friends. It also paves the… FULL STORY
Aalborg rides off with Spur Award
G.K. (Gordon) Aalborg has won the 2019 Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Best Western Historical Fiction with his… FULL STORY
What the Wind Brings
In his forthcoming historical novel, What the Wind Brings (Pulp Literature $39.95 Summer, 2019), Matthew Hughes pits a coalition of… FULL STORY
Talonbooks spring launch
Talonbooks hosts its spring poetry launch on April 3, 8 pm at Pyatt Hall in Vancouver. Admission is free. Talon… FULL STORY
