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
NEWS & EVENTS
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
Celebrating Phyllis Webb
Hosted by Brian Brett, the Vancouver Writers Festival is presenting an afternoon session for and about Phyllis Webb of Saltspring… FULL STORY
Lordy, Lordy… Harbour sails on
[FEATURE IMAGE: MARY & HOWARD WHITE] 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of Harbour Publishing, the Madeira Park-based imprint, started by… FULL STORY
Lucky Thirteen
The Whistler Readers and Writers Festival, celebrating its thirteenth anniversary, has continued getting bigger and more innovative. Festival director Stella… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prizes, 2014
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, the much-nominated M.A.C. (Marion) Farrant has received the $5,000 City of Victoria Butler Prize… FULL STORY
Like mother, like daughter
As managers of Vancouver’s Lillget Feast House restaurant, Dollie Watts and her daughter Annie Watts from the Git’ksan First Nations… FULL STORY
Running gets on track
Retired Edmonton schoolteacher Charlotte Cameron is launching her book, Running: The Alex Decoteau Story, at the Gabriola Branch, Vancouver Island… FULL STORY
Missie not to be missed
Missie Peters of Victoria is one-half of the improvised spoken word duo SpeakEasy and a self-described science fiction geek. She… FULL STORY
Canzine scene on November 8
Since 1995, Canzine events in Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax have displayed thousands of zines and small press works and hosted… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prizes, October 15th
Neither lazy or criminal, Angie, the young protagonist of Sara Cassidy’s Skylark (Orca), sleeps in an old car with her… FULL STORY
Rose gets laureate post
Rachel Rose has been appointed as Vancouver’s fourth poet laureate. “I am extremely honoured,” says Rose, who most recently won… FULL STORY
Lessons from the hive
Many have expressed grave concern over the collapse of honeybee colonies worldwide; few want to take responsibility for this calamity…. FULL STORY
100 Years of Submarines
To commemorate the centenary of Canada’s First World War, former submariner and author Robert W. Mackay will talk about our… FULL STORY
Little Sisters founder dies suddenly
Jim Deva, the bookseller who instigated a decades-long legal battle with Canada Customs over discrimination issues, died after falling from… FULL STORY
