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
NEWS & EVENTS
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
Robinson bio at Galiano Fest
Graeme Truelove will be reading from his book Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics on February 22nd at the Galiano… FULL STORY
Francophones in BC’s history
Jean Barman, renowned historian and a recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Award, will present an illustrated talk about her… FULL STORY
Randy Savage, R.I.P.
Nathaniel G. Moore has won the 2014 ReLit Awards for fiction with his novel Savage: 1986-2011 (Anvil Press $20). ReLit… FULL STORY
Two from Van Tol
Alex Van Tol has the bit between her teeth. This spring the Victoria freelance writer and editor is releasing her… FULL STORY
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
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
