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
NEWS & EVENTS
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
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
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
