Jim Wong-Chu (1949-2017)
With the passing last week of Vancouver poet, activist and mentor, Jim Wong-Chu, Vancouver lost a pioneer of the Asian… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
VPL’s literary landmarks expand
Eight more B.C. authors are sited by a program to recognize the city’s vibrant literary and publishing culture. VANCOUVER, B.C…. FULL STORY
Writing on not fighting
Bill Geimer of Sooke has written Canada: The Case for Staying Out of Other People’s Wars, which follows Canada’s involvement… FULL STORY
Harrison Fest gets literary, too
UFV’s Literary Café at the Harrison Festival of Arts offers an opportunity to get up close and personal with four… FULL STORY
Jordan Abel bags Griffin
The prize money for the Griffin Poetry Prize, founded in 2000, is up to 65 grand per category. This year… FULL STORY
Wade’s wide, wide, wild world
The public is now invited to hear him at the Vancouver Public Library’s main branch at 7 p.m. on June… FULL STORY
Top of province garners top prize
This year’s $2,500 BC Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for historical writing has been awarded to Anthony Kenyon (shown) for his comprehensive,… FULL STORY
Sesquicentennially yours
Douglas Gibson was dubbed “a publishing icon” by the Globe and Mail when he retired in 2007. “No one has… FULL STORY
Second coming of Maps and Dreams
Borrowing the title from Hugh Brody’s 1981 anthropological study of the Dane-zaa–not appropriating it–Maps and Dreams is an exhibit at… FULL STORY
Reading Reid
Anvil Press, in collaboration with Pandora’s Collective, is launching a posthumous book by Jamie Reid, A Temporary Stranger, on Thursday,… FULL STORY
Douglas Gibson returns
He hasn’t quite got to the Stompin’ Tom or Peter Gzowski level yet, but former publisher and editor extraordinaire Douglas… FULL STORY
Jamaica bound
Lorna Goodison of Halfmoon Bay will be installed in her new position as Poet Laureate of Jamaica for a three-year… FULL STORY
Getting Wagamese into the circle
Four prizes out of seven went to books with Indigenous content at the 33rd annual B.C. Book Prizes. Richard Wagamese… FULL STORY
More Normal
The Whistler Writers Festival keeps expanding. Good for them. They feature B.C. authors. Their Spring Reading Series is augmented by… FULL STORY
Leacock opportunity Knox
After his twenty years as columnist for the Times Colonist, the first book by Jack Knox, Hard Knox: Musings From… FULL STORY
Mercy Journals wins big in USA
Claudia Casper’s third novel, The Mercy Journals (Arsenal 2016), first reviewed by Joan Givner in BC BookWorld, has won the… FULL STORY
“It’s in my DNA.”
Hockey ain’t like it used to be back in the good ‘ol days when there were only six teams in… FULL STORY
Hawley wins six grand for Witching
Alix Hawley of Kelowna has won the $6,000 CBC Short Story Prize for her story, Witching. Hawley was runner-up in… FULL STORY
Litigation + Negotiation = Progress
Two months after Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History (McGill-Queen’s 2016) was chosen as this year’s… FULL STORY
Carole Itter receives Audain Prize
Sculptor and writer Carole Itter has been selected as the 13th recipient of the $30,000 Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement… FULL STORY
