Eriksson up for Foreword Award
Ann Eriksson’s fifth novel, The Performance (Douglas & McIntyre, $22.95), has been shortlisted as one of 19 finalists from Canada… FULL STORY
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Lori lauded
Vancouver author and bee educator Lori Weidenhammer has won a National Outdoor Book Award for Victory Gardens for Bees: A… FULL STORY
Damn churches in B.C.
B.C. is less religious than other provinces. Or, if you prefer, it is more irreligious. Having received the Floyd S…. FULL STORY
October Ferries gets publishing berth
In 2005, playwright Charlotte Cameron moved from Edmonton to Gabriola Island where she soon became fascinated by Malcolm Lowry and… FULL STORY
Robin Fisher eclipses 20,000-mark
Few B.C. authors published in B.C. can boast sales of 20,000 copies for one title. Robin Fisher’s Contact and Conflict… FULL STORY
B.C. authors & illustrators shortlisted
The 33rd annual BC Book Prizes gala awards will be presented in Vancouver on April 29. Adèle Barclay of Vancouver… FULL STORY
Slumach revisited
Having served as the editor of BC Historical News from Spring 1999 to Summer 2003, the indefatigible Fred Braches has… FULL STORY
Campbell wins Freedom to Read
For her second book, A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War (Knopf… FULL STORY
Appleton longlisted
Craft beer pioneer Frank Appleton, author of Brewing Revolution: Pioneering the Craft Beer Movement (Harbour Publishing, 2016), has been longlisted… FULL STORY
Revelstoke trilogy ends with Sanctuary
Born and raised in Revelstoke, B.C., Robert Pepper-Smith has incorporated his background in that region with his experiences as a… FULL STORY
Ryga Award longlist announced
Since 2003, the annual George Ryga [at right] Award has been presented to a B.C. writer who has achieved an… FULL STORY
Brawls, Bigfoot & the boonies
Stan Walchuk, Jr. is a biologist but don’t imagine some guy in a white lab coat. Walchuk took his first… FULL STORY
The voice of Joyce
After twenty-six years of publishing an environment news magazine, the Comox-based Watershed Sentinel has released its inaugural book, Beyond Banksters:… FULL STORY
Stonewall win for Coyote
Ivan Coyote has increasingly incorporated music into their public appearances and encouraged the use of the pronoun ‘their’ in place… FULL STORY
The Art of Arthur
Arthur (Art) Maitland Twigg was a proud British Columbian who self-published a hardcover history called Union Steamships Remembered 1920-1958, a… FULL STORY
Spanish is the learning tongue
Writing in the December, 2016 issue of Hispania magazine, Elena Retzer of California State University has declared that Robert Thomson’s… FULL STORY
Children of the Book
Born in Fort St. John in 1952, Lennard Island lightkeeper and BC BookWorld columnist Caroline Woodward was raised on her… FULL STORY
Third award for Snapshot
Kari Burk’s illustrated memoir, Snapshot of a Soul Place in the Land of Special Needs (SRP $30) has been honoured… FULL STORY
From Winnie to Ollie
Like many classics for young readers–Winnie the Pooh books, example–Paymaneh Ritchie’s My Name is Oliver, (Tellwell Publishing 2016 $6.99) was… FULL STORY
Row, bro
Greystone Books has acquired world English language rights for Rowing the Northwest Passage: Adventure, Fear, and Awe in a Rising… FULL STORY
