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
NEWS & EVENTS
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
Shades of Gray Smith at Red Brick
Monique Gray Smith will join award-winning North Saanich poet Pamela Porter for readings on June 5th at the Red Brick… FULL STORY
Flett wins second Harris Prize
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize A bit of a wunderkind when it comes to the B.C. Book Prizes, First… FULL STORY
Return to Princess & Hastings
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize Maggie de Vries’s 28-year-old, adopted, younger sister Sarah vanished from the corner of Princess… FULL STORY
Nicholson wins Livesay Prize
Herself a rabble-rouser of the first degree, Dorothy Livesay would have been delighted to know Cecily Nicholson took home the… FULL STORY
Storm Rising is no secret
It’s a tad bizarre. But Vernon Brooks, at age 92, has self-published a book that is his movie treatment for… FULL STORY
Federation announces 2015 shortlist
The winner of the BCHF Lieutenant Governor’s Histrocial Writing Medal for 2014 will be announced during the Banquet at the… FULL STORY
de Vries wins Egoff Prize
Maggie de Vries’s 28-year-old, adopted, younger sister Sarah vanished from the corner of Princess and Hastings on April 14, 1998… FULL STORY
