All hail Kale
Sharon Hanna and Carol Pope’s The Book of Kale and Friends: 14 Easy-to-Grow Superfoods with 130+ Recipes (Douglas & McIntyre,… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Fugitives takes flight next year
Random House Canada has announced it will publish a new novel by Billie Livingston, Fugitives from Mercy, in March 2016,… FULL STORY
Alicia Priest (1953-2015)
A journalist for twenty-five years, mostly recently heralded for her family memoir A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and… FULL STORY
Little wins big, again
Winners of the 16th annual Vancouver Writers Fest Poetry and Short Story Contest have been announced, and Ashley Little has… FULL STORY
Untangling Vietnam War legacy
Brandy Liên Worrall will read from her new memoir What Doesn’t Kill Us at the Heartwood Café in Vancouver on… FULL STORY
New anthology linked with festival
The Twelfth Annual Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival in Salmon Arm is announcing that the 2015 Askews Foods Writing… FULL STORY
David in Empressland
Prior to the appearance in October of his study of the life and works of Lewis Carroll, Decoding Wonderland, to… FULL STORY
Sean Rossiter (1946-2015)
Born in Halifax in 1946, Sean Rossiter came to B.C. in 1972. He was a freelance expert on Vancouver civic… FULL STORY
Chilana launches South Asian directory
Dr. Rajwant Singh Chilana of Surrey is compiling a DIRECTORY OF SOUTH ASIAN WRITERS IN CANADA to include Literary Associations,… FULL STORY
Learn Spanish with Love Songs
With a Ph.D in Romance languages from Yale, Robert Thomson of Victoria is also the publisher of two books by… FULL STORY
Ocean wisdom
With twenty years as a professional cook, Jane Mundy will follow The Ocean Wise Cookbook by editing The Ocean Wise… FULL STORY
Warlocks series has serious marketing smarts
BCBookLook doesn’t cover ebooks that are strictly ebooks–at least not yet–but we have to admit it’s a growing phenomenon. Take,… FULL STORY
Jane Barker Wright (1953-2014)
Novelist Jane Barker Wright was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario on May 6, 1953. Raised in Montreal and Ottawa, she… FULL STORY
Don’t miss Missie at Ecopoetics
Over the years Barry MacKinnon of Prince George has amassed a sizeable archive of “really good smelling” small press items… FULL STORY
Cherry picking from Orchard
The public is invited to join CBC host Sheryl MacKay and historian Robert “Lucky” Budd for the launch of Budd’s… FULL STORY
Shore to Shore to Gallery
In Shore to Shore: The Art of Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston (Harbour $26.95), Suzanne Fournier tells the story of one of… FULL STORY
Zieroth at Capilano branch
The public is invited to join the Capilano Library, 32 Books and Harbour Publishing for the book launch of Albrecht… FULL STORY
Kanaka connection yields citation
Cascadia: The Life and Breath of the World (2013), a collection of environmental writing from the B.C./U.S. Pacific Northwest region,… FULL STORY
Shadow in British India
Eileen Kernaghan will appear at Spoken Ink on November 18, held at La Fontana Caffe, 3701 East Hastings (at Boundary… FULL STORY
Fed launches Events Calendar
On October 15th, Doug Gibson was puzzled. Arguably the country’s greatest editor, Gibson had flown to Victoria from Toronto to… FULL STORY
