You can’t keep a good poet down
Having undertaken a 100-venue, cross-Canada reading tour in 2014, Kevin Spenst of Vancouver will undertake a 50-venue, all-in-B.C. tour to… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Hey, Jude, Hey, Aaron
The second book of poetry by Bowen Islander Jude Neale (pictured at right), A Quiet Coming of Light: A Poetic… FULL STORY
Greatness invited
Mother Tongue Publishing’s 3rd Great BC Novel Contest is now open for entries. Judges will be B.C. novelists Bill Gaston… FULL STORY
Seven titles compete for BCHF prize
The British Columbia Historical Federation is pleased to announce the shortlists for the Annual Historical Writing Competition. Among the nominees… FULL STORY
BC Book Day at Legislature
At the pleasure of the Speaker of the House, the Honourable Linda Reid, The Association of Book Publishers of BC… FULL STORY
Read Local
Over 20 events around the province will be occurring throughout April as part of the new READ BC initiative presented… FULL STORY
Wang, Chan and Yee combine for win
Chinese Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook (Tradewind $24.95), with texts by Paul Yee and recipes by Judy Chan, has… FULL STORY
Follow the Red Brick road
Given that Sidney is a hotbed for both writing and bookselling, with more bookstores per capita than most other towns… FULL STORY
A match for Cumberbatch
For those millions of people who can’t get enough of The Imitation Game, Elinor Florence has a story to tell…. FULL STORY
2015 Stuart-Stubbs nominees announced
By Becky Potvin on February 23, 2015 The shortlist for the 2015 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding Scholarly Book on British… FULL STORY
Women dominate nominations
Of the 35 titles nominated for seven BC Book Prizes, the newly-released 2015 shortlists include seventeen books from B.C. publishers… FULL STORY
Caregiving takes centre stage
The travails and rewards of caregiving is the theme for a combined reading by three readers at the Vancouver Public… FULL STORY
Mary White (1927-2015)
At age 88, Mary Buckerfield White, with Philip Sherwood (lifewriters.ca), self-published Buckerfield: The Story of a Vancouver Family. White’s father… FULL STORY
The Big Swim nominated for Ryga Award
Carrie Saxifrage’s ardent personality is as original as the content of her first book, so that might explain why the… FULL STORY
Good & Goethe at Banyen
Graham Good will launch his newly edited collection of Goethe’s poetry at Banyen Books in Vancouver on Thursday, March 12… FULL STORY
Girls will be dragons
Rachel Hartman will be appearing at Vancouver Kidsbooks, 3083 West Broadway, at 7 pm on March 10. Her first fantasy… FULL STORY
Zombie from the Okanagan
Occasionally–and only rarely–blurbage from a publisher can’t be improved upon. Such is the case for the promo-hype for Adam Lewis… FULL STORY
Hit Man on Salt Spring Island
John Perkins’ Salt Spring address was called “Geopolitics, the Future, and YOU — A Call to Action.” In an interview… FULL STORY
Kevin Spenst is not Yann Martel
Kevin Spenst represents a new generation which avidly incorporates the digital world into their writing routines. In 2003, he wrote… FULL STORY
What Doesn’t Kill Us
Brandy Liên Worrall will read from her memoir about cancer and the consequences of the Vietnam War in her mixed-race… FULL STORY
