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
NEWS & EVENTS
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
Bamfield 2 voted number one
Judith Phillips’ follow-up to her co-authored book Bamfield Houses is a family history project that serves to illustrate several decades… FULL STORY
Ow’et / Lost Lagoon in June
Directed by Marisa Emma Smith of Alley Theatre, Quelemia Sparrow is a First Nations actor and writer from the Musqueam… FULL STORY
Trower Lane on your GPS
Hamilton Mack Laing has a nature park named after him in Comox. There’s a Bruce Hutchison Library in Victoria. Godwin… FULL STORY
Where Grampa got his brass knuckles
On the afternoon of Tuesday, June 18, 1935, about 5,000 striking longshoremen set off from Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver, Canada,… FULL STORY
BC Book Prizes 2016 announced
The B.C. Book Prizes were presented at Government House in Victoria on Saturday, April 30. This year’s Lieutenant Governor’s BC… FULL STORY
Twenty Years of Ricepaper magazine
Many of today’s acclaimed Asian-Canadian writers were first published in Ricepaper. With Allan Cho and Julia Lin, Jim Wong-Chu has… FULL STORY
Eighty years of GG book illustrations
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Governor General’s (GG) book awards, UBC’s Rare Books and Special Collections presents a… FULL STORY
Morriseau & M’Girl
Renae Morriseau of Vancouver has been widely seen for her ongoing role in the CBC TV series North of 60…. FULL STORY
Comox Valley crawling with writers
Inspired by the City of Courtenay’s 100th anniversary, the Comox Valley Writers Society undertook to compile a reference book of… FULL STORY
Reel Write Brothers, take two
USNA: The United States of North America is a cooperatively produced, futuristc, self-published graphic novel from David Longworth, Harry Kalensky… FULL STORY
New Stuchner Prize announced
There is another book prize in our midst. It’s called–for real–The Joan Betty Stuchner—Oy Vey! —Funniest Children’s Book Award. The… FULL STORY
City of Van Prize up for grabs
The 2015 winner of the City of Vancover Book Prize was Wayde Compton for The Outer Harbour from Arsenal Pulp… FULL STORY
Sensory Details on Salmon Arm agenda
Among the thirteen presenters at the 13th annual Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival in Salmon, May 20-22, at the… FULL STORY
