Talk Sex at Kidsbooks
Saleema Noon has teamed up with veteran B.C. sex-ed pioneer Meg Hickling, a registered nurse and educator, for Talk Sex… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Getting to the front of the line
Claudia Cornwall’s Battling Melanoma doesn’t only take the reader through the emotional upheaval that can follow a diagnosis of cancer,… FULL STORY
No, not Appleton’s rum
Frank Appleton will give a presentation regarding his new memoir, Brewing Revolution: Pioneering the Craft Beer Movement at Kwantlen Polytechnic… FULL STORY
Pied Piper of Hope
To be launched on September 17, at the Cottage Bistro on Main Street in Vancouver, 8 pm, with fiddlers Mairi… FULL STORY
#15 Fertig & Buday go off-Road
Now you see it, now you don’t. In 2016, Grant Buday was announced as the winner of Mona Fertig’s 3rd… FULL STORY
Fight back against cyber attack
by Ernest Hekkanen Not long after mailing off the Spring, 2016 issue of The New Orphic Review, I was cyber-attacked… FULL STORY
Biting satire from 18th century France
Professor Emerita Dr. Sheila Delany brings back to life the long lost authors and stories of centuries past in her… FULL STORY
A Dog at a Feast
From the company that brought you last year’s fringe hit The Fighting Season comes a workshop production of Michelle Deines’… FULL STORY
In the footsteps of Emily Carr
LAURIE CARTER WILL GIVE A PRESENTATION ABOUT HER BOOKS ON EMILY CARR’S TRAVELS AND A READING AT THE PACIFIC RIM… FULL STORY
Fernandes Shortlisted for award
Vancouver poet Raoul Fernandes has been shortlisted for the 2016 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry for his debut poetry collection Transmitter… FULL STORY
Four Faces of the Moon
July 21st, 7:00pm-10:00pm grunt gallery invites the public to the opening reception of Four Faces of the Moon by artist… FULL STORY
Eastside Inspiration
Join Teresa Pocock for her art exhibit and book launch for Pretty Amazing: How I Found Myself in the Downtown… FULL STORY
Schwartz sisters’ prize won by Nielsen
We Are All Made of Molecules (Tundra $19.99) by Susin Nielsen was shortlisted for a Sheila A. Egoff children’s literature… FULL STORY
Four B.C. winners at Jewish Awards
Four of the five winners of the inaugural Western Canada Jewish Book Awards are B.C.-based. Tom Wayman has won the… FULL STORY
Heidi Waechtler 4th ABPBC director
Having won the Editors Association of Canada’s Claudette Upton Scholarship in 2011, Vancouverite Heidi Waechtler went east to work for… FULL STORY
Komar wins for Bastard
For her third title, forensic anthropologist Diane Komar turned her historical sights to the West Coast for The Bastard of… FULL STORY
Bringing home the Leacock
At a banquet in Orillia, Ontario, Susan Juby has won $15,000 and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour (for best… FULL STORY
Spanish Civil War commemorated
At the IPPY Independent Publisher awards in Chicago in May, before Book Expo America, Live Souls: Citizens and Volunteers of… FULL STORY
From Mozambique to Victoria
Former Nelson city councillor Donna Macdonald was one of 32 recipients of a BC Community Achievement medallion and certificate in… FULL STORY
Three ships, one name, one world
Most British Columbians know that Greenpeace’s flagship vessel is the green-hulled, rainbow-adorned Rainbow Warrior, first launched from Vancouver to protest… FULL STORY
