Sun Yet-sen’s Jewish bodyguard goes to Hollywood
The big names from around the world generally get the most attention at the Vancouver Writers Festival, but that doesn’t… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Constancy rewarded
Tiffany Potter has won received the Killam Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at UBC in… FULL STORY
Grace in the race
The first book by Vancouver lawyer-turned-writer Judy McFarlane, Writing with Grace (D&M $24.95) has been shortlisted for the $10,000 Edna… FULL STORY
From Selma to Surrey
Former priest Ed Griffin founded the Surrey Writer’s Conference in 1993 after attending a writers’ conference in Seattle. He subsequently… FULL STORY
Lawrence & Lawrence at Whistler
The full program for the Whistler Writers Festival will be released on August 10 at whistlerwritersfest.com. Tickets go on sale… FULL STORY
A modern lighthouse keeper
How do you get to be a Lighthouse Keeper? Caroline Woodward tells how and why she landed the job in… FULL STORY
Cariboo thriller a musical ride
Steven Hunter will launch his second book of fiction, Strings (Riverside Press 2015), this Fall at Williams Lake Fourth Avenue Arts and… FULL STORY
Mars Hotel offers jazz and dance
Proof that fiction can be successfully melded with other disciplines to create new art forms, is The Mars Hotel performance… FULL STORY
Re-discovering Vancouver artists
Author Peter Busby launches his book The Life and Art of Jack Akroyd (Mother Tongue $35.95), another in The Unheralded… FULL STORY
Ryga Awards proliferate
In honour of her brother George Ryga, Anne Chudyk, along with her husband Ted Chudyk, have established two annual $1,000… FULL STORY
Revisiting Johnsons Landing tragedy
July 12 marks the third anniversary of the landslides in tiny Johnsons Landing, B.C. that killed four people and resulted… FULL STORY
Sinking feelings uplift festival
Tim Rogers moved from Calgary to Victoria in 2014. An accomplished musician who performs songs from Newfoundland, he became intrigued… FULL STORY
A Boy Asked the Wind
Fortunately we goofed. At the end of an article on Yarrow writers on page 42 of the Summer issue of… FULL STORY
Town Slut’s Daughter is not Heather
Heather Haley who will read from her debut novel,” The Town Slut’s Daughter, at the Storm Crow Tavern Reading Series,… FULL STORY
Three Gourmand Awards in Yangtai
Held in Paris last year, the Gourmand Cookbook Awards is an international event that was staged this year in Yangtai,… FULL STORY
Leslie wins Ogilvie Prize
Alex Leslie’s The things I heard about you (Nightwood $18.95) has been awarded the $4,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize presented to… FULL STORY
Wayson wins Woodcock
Chinese-Canadian author Wayson Choy to be honoured NEWS RELEASE June 3, 2015 Wayson Choy is this year’s recipient of the… FULL STORY
Forsythe & Dickson win LG medal
The venerable The Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing has been awarded since 1983. This year it was presented at the… FULL STORY
Vaillant brings Mexico to Vancouver
On June 10, at the Carnegie Centre Reading Room, best-selling author John Vaillant will read from his latest novel, The… FULL STORY
Brons earns second shortlist nod
Janet Brons’ debut novel A Quiet Kill is a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. The shortlist was announced May 20th. This… FULL STORY
