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
NEWS & EVENTS
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
Come on up for the Rising
PRESS RELEASE 2018 — Adapted Sharon Wood’s forthcoming memoir of mountaineering, Rising, due in 2019, will double as a meditation… FULL STORY
Beyond Mile Zero wins twice
Beyond Mile Zero wins a gold medal in the 2017 Foreword Indies Lily Gontard and Mark Kelly’s highway odyssey of… FULL STORY
Public invited to Lupick ceremony
Journalist Travis Lupick will receive the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness on June 28 in Vancouver. TRAVIS LUPICK Travis… FULL STORY
Public invited to Crozier ceremony
Lorna Crozier will receive the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement for B.C. literature at Vancouver Public Library, June 28. LORNA CROZIER… FULL STORY
Indominatible Aquarianism
It is the dawning of the aging of Aquarius. For her second book, Helen Wilkes has encouraged people who are… FULL STORY
Bering up nicely
Stephen R. Bown’s account of the doomed expedition of Vitus Bering, Island of the Blue Foxes, was the lone B.C.-published book… FULL STORY
Life on Mars without Bowie
Born in Ottawa, Lori McNulty of Vancouver has been shortlisted for the twenty-first annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award honouring the… FULL STORY
Tofino has a laureate, too
Joanna Streetly was born in Trinidad, W.I., and educated in England. She came to Vancouver to study Outdoor Recreation and… FULL STORY
Dorothy would approve
Mercedes Eng was the surprise and surprised winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the B.C. Book Prizes gala… FULL STORY
Jack of two trades
Jack Schofield of Mayne Island flew, for 20 years, as a commercial seaplane pilot along the full stretch of coastal… FULL STORY
Non-Jewish author wins Jewish Holocaust prize
Winners of the second annual Western Canada Jewish Book Awards have been announced in four categories at the Sidney and… FULL STORY
Mercer a double winner
“Parks have always been my passion,” says George Mercer, “and after a long career and being blessed with good health… FULL STORY
Joseph, Justice, Annett & Younging
A former associate professor at Royal Roads University, Bob Joseph described the draconian and oppressive effects of the Indian Act… FULL STORY
