Clark Park revisited
BOOK LAUNCH The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang (Arsenal… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Madeleine Thien – a triple threat
Madeleine Thien’s third novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf), has won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Also… FULL STORY
Merna Forster wins Berton Award
A steadfast campaign to feature prominent Canadian women on banknotes has earned Victoria historian and writer Merna Forster the $5000… FULL STORY
Métis meeting of the minds
Prairie-born Métis/Icelandic Jónína Kirton coordinated the first National Indigenous Writers Conference in Vancouver in 2013. She is another graduate of… FULL STORY
Winners: feral girl and basketball player
A wild girl in 19th century France and a contemporary competitive basketball player were the characters that captured the judge’s… FULL STORY
All hail piffle
The news about Canada’s print media is grim. Maclean’s newsmagazine, over 105 years old and a weekly since 1978, will… FULL STORY
Regenerating validation
Joe Denham’s third book of poetry, Regeneration Machine, has been named as a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award… FULL STORY
Fine Form at ARTSTARTS
Sandy Shreve and Kate Braid (right) are launching the second edition of In Fine Form: A Contemporary Look at Canadian… FULL STORY
Spicy recipes for food and life
They started their first restaurant in 1994, opened a second one ten years later and began writing cookbooks in 2006… FULL STORY
Whitewater friction fiction
Clea Young’s debut collection Teardown will be launched at the Book Warehouse (4118 Main Street, Vancouver) on Tuesday, October 4, … FULL STORY
Mary Filer gets her due
The Unheralded Artists of BC is a series of books illustrating and illuminating the lives and art of previously undocumented… FULL STORY
Ex-bar owner examines alcohol
Book lovers will get the chance to see what the current writer-in-residence at the Joy Kogawa House, Toronto journalist and… FULL STORY
Sorrow and gentle humour prevails
CBC Books, CBC’s online home for literary content, together with its partners the Canada Council for the Arts, Air Canada… FULL STORY
From Pitt Meadows to acceptance
Phinder Dulai has received news that his book written in response to the Komagata Maru incident and his life in… FULL STORY
In the name of medicine
Gary Geddes has spent four years interviewing elders for his next non-fiction book, due in January, Medicine Unbundled: Dispatches from… FULL STORY
Victoria Prizes shortlist announced
One of the benefits of book awards, beyond serving as a good excuse for writers and supportive book folks to… FULL STORY
Paint the peninsula Black
The Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival and Tanner’s Books will be hosting a fall series of reading events at the Shoal… FULL STORY
Poetry In Transit’s 20th anniversary
Who knew poetry plastered on bus ceilings, bus shelters and SkyTrain station walls would be so popular? Yes, commuters are… FULL STORY
Grant McKenzie at Bolen’s
Grant McKenzie will be launching tenth thriller, The Butcher’s Son, and its prequel, The Fear In Her Eyes, released in… FULL STORY
Sam Wiebe not Spade
Vancouver mystery author Sam Wiebe (Last of the Independents and Invisible Dead) is VPL’s new writer in residence! Wiebe will… FULL STORY
