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
NEWS & EVENTS
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
Red’s revival never ends
Legendary Vancouver deejay Red Robinson and author Robin Brunet will be signing copies of the bestselling biography Red Robinson: The… FULL STORY
Ronsdale takes two IPPY Awards
Jim McDowell’s book from Ronsdale Press about the first European to reach the area that has become greater Vancouver, Uncharted… FULL STORY
Queer, trans & incendiary
Editor Zena Sharman’s “moving and incendiary” LGBTQ anthology, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care (Arsenal… FULL STORY
First Nations connecting through stories
It’s not often you find the writings of a teenager lumped in with those of a man serving a life… FULL STORY
Thien takes Giller
Madeleine Thien’s third novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf), has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize after having… FULL STORY
Kogawa House saved — again
Joy Kogawa House, at 1450 West 64th Avenue, in the Marpole district of Vancouver, has been saved–once again. This house… FULL STORY
Witness fitness
Nightwood Editions’ author Gregory Scofield has won the $25,000 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize for a poet in mid-career in… FULL STORY
Courage in Damascus
Deborah Campbell’s second book, A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War (Knopf… FULL STORY
What Pauline couldn’t say
Janet Rogers, according to George Elliott Clarke, Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016-17), “is as fearless as an eagle feather and as… FULL STORY
