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
NEWS & EVENTS
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
Musgrave gets her due
Susan Musgrave of Haida Gwaii has been honoured with the $20, 000 Matt Cohen Award from the Writers Trust to… FULL STORY
Collis versus Kinder Morgan
SFU teacher and Talonbooks author Stephen Collis is a spokesperson for a group of land defenders who have disrupted survey… FULL STORY
B.C. publishers sail on
Perhaps the words of the Spanish sea captain Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra could serve as the motto for the… FULL STORY
Elusive part of exclusive quintet
Janet Munsil’s That Elusive Spark (Playwrights Canada $16.95) has been shortlisted for a Governor-General’s Award for drama in 2014. https://www.playwrightscanada.com/index.php/that-elusive-spark.html… FULL STORY
Shore lines
An eat & greet book launch for Randy Shore’s GROW WHAT YOU EAT, EAT WHAT YOU GROW will be held… FULL STORY
Grant Kennedy (1935-2014)
Grant Hugh Kennedy, the man who developed his Lone Pine Publishing imprint into one of the most commercially successful publishing… FULL STORY
Talon’s septuplets
Talonbooks is calling it a Septuple Launch. On Wednesday, November 12 at Pyatt Hall in the VSO School of Music… FULL STORY
