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
NEWS & EVENTS
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
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
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
