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
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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
Repopulating Poplar Island
Reflecting the history of Poplar Island in New Westminster, Cecily Nicholson’s collection of ‘documentary poetry’, From the Poplars (Talonbooks), has… FULL STORY
Lee & Ross beyond the page
Two of the nine speakers at the upcoming Public Salon, April 23, hosted by Sam Sullivan at the Vancouver Playhouse… FULL STORY
Dining with death in Vegas
The fourth installment of Cathy Ace’s Cait Morgan mystery series, The Corpse with the Platinum Hair (TouchWood Editions 2014), has… FULL STORY
Word on the Lake, May 15-17
It only takes five hours to drive to Salmon Arm from Vancouver. So the twelfth annual Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival… FULL STORY
Wilson wins CBC competition
D.W. Wilson of Victoria has won the CBC Short Story Prize for ‘Mountain Under Sea,’ selected from more than 2200… FULL STORY
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
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
