Close encounters of the oops kind, and other stories
Long-time boating enthusiast and writer/publisher, Peter Vassilopoulos has simultaneously released four new titles through his company Pacific Marine Publishing, three… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
The Random Ambassador
Wendy Morton started the Random Acts of Poetry movement, which encourages poets across Canada to read poems and give copies… FULL STORY
Federation fest at New West
New West Festival of Words is a collaboration of the Federation of BC Writers’ Spring Writes Festival and LitFest New… FULL STORY
Stuart-Stubbs Prize for 2018
The Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholary Book Prize on British Columbia will be awarded in May at UBC’s Irving… FULL STORY
Crozier wins Woodcock Award
In June, Lorna Crozier will become the 25th recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement for an outstanding literary career… FULL STORY
Wyss gets Indigenous storyteller post
Artist and ethnobotanist T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss (right) has been named the 2018 Indigenous storyteller in residence at VPL as part of… FULL STORY
Home is where the art is
Claudette Lauzon’s book The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art (University of Toronto Press, 2017) was featured at the Audain Gallery in… FULL STORY
Prime Ministerial power, a triad
Prime Ministerial Power in Canada: Its Origins under Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden by Patrice Dutil Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. $34.95 … FULL STORY
Salish Sea and thee
Howard Macdonald Stewart presents his book, Views of the Salish Sea: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the… FULL STORY
Bethune launch
The most famous Canadian in China remains the Communist medical pioneer Norman Bethune who served in the Spanish Civil War… FULL STORY
Geddes receives Freedom Award
Poet, anthologist, translator and non-fiction author of Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care (Heritage House, 2017),… FULL STORY
LGBTQQIAAP anthology
Nowadays when you enroll in a college you are likely going to be asked to give your name, age and… FULL STORY
Let there be reading lights
With a subsidy from BC Hydro and the support of VPL’s chief librarian Sandra Singh, Vi Hughes has spearheaded… 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
Wagamese at the box office
According to statistics compiled by Bookmanager from weekly stats obtained from 250 Canadian independent stores, the bestselling non-fiction title of… FULL STORY
Uneasy does it
The plot thickens. On a day when Green Party leader Andrew Weaver soundly criticized Premier John Horgan for drumming up… FULL STORY
The misdealing of drug info
Susan Boyd’s Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada appears just months before marijuana becomes legalized in Canada…. FULL STORY
Ryga Award going strong
The George Ryga Award is annually presented to a B.C. writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness… FULL STORY
Here’s mud in your eye
Wanting to break free from a rigged economic and social system, a group of women led by Molly Murphy and… FULL STORY
Brunching capital
Victoria was named Brunch Capital of Canada by the Food Network, so maybe it’s not entirely surprising that Westcoast food… FULL STORY
