Love and grandmothers is all you need
Powered by Love: A Grandmothers’ Movement to End AIDS in Africa will soon be published by Goose Lane on Oct…. FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Boraks-Nemetz at Jewish Book Fest
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz will launch her new adult novel at the 33rd annual Cherie Smith Jewish Book Festival in Vancouver at… FULL STORY
Stuart-Stubbs Prize submissions
Call for Submissions THE BASIL STUART-STUBBS PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLARLY BOOK ON BRITISH COLUMBIA Established in memory of Basil Stuart-Stubbs,… FULL STORY
Victoria finalists announced
Celebrating 14 years, the Victoria Book Prize Society is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2017 City of Victoria… FULL STORY
From the Somme to Shaughnessey
John MacLachlan Gray will launch his novel, The White Angel (Douglas & McIntyre, $29.95), at The Wolf & Hound (3617… FULL STORY
From Haida Gwaii to Cultch
Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson held a book launch and CD release event for Out of Concealment: Female Supernatural Beings of Haida Gwaii… FULL STORY
Henthorne gets Nautical Society award
Colin Henthorne has been awarded the Canadian Nautical Research Society’s Keith Matthews Award for a book deserving special recognition for… FULL STORY
Powell Street before internment
Award-winning filmmaker and magazine editor Jesse Nishihata (1929 – 2006) has had a memoir published posthumously, Powell Street Diary: A… FULL STORY
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
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
