The fire that decimated Vancouver

Vancouver is still a frontier town at dawn on June 13, 1886. Its main street is dirt. Residents don’t have… FULL STORY

Literary Jamboree in Quesnel

Margaret-Anne Enders is one of thirty authors who will be gathering at the Quesnel library on Saturday, May 24, to… FULL STORY

1960’s memoir recalls Mac-Pap

Fired by a life–long passion for social justice, Ronald Liversedge wrote about two of his involvements in historic events: the… FULL STORY

Third Elephant Mountain fest in Nelson

2011 Canada Reads finalist Angie Abdou will be among the headliners at Nelson’s third annual Elephant Mountain Literary Festival, July… FULL STORY

Goto’s 20th anniversary edition

Twenty years after its first publication, the feminist novel by Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms (NeWest) has been re-issued. The… FULL STORY

Kit Pearson’s speech for LG Award

Here is Kit Pearson’s acceptance speech when she received the 11th annual Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence in 2014… FULL STORY

Bud Osborn was heroic for DTES

Vancouver poet and Downtown Eastside activist Bud Osborn, the unofficial archivist of Canada’s poorest neighbourhood and its most eloquent and forceful… FULL STORY

Punjabi lit at VPL

Sadhu Binning will read from his latest book on Thursday, May 22, at 7 p.m. in Alma VanDusen Room, Lower… FULL STORY

Surjeet Kalsey honoured

Surjeet Kalsey has been accorded a lifetime achievement award as part of the Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program. The award… FULL STORY

Getting off the couch

MICHAEL POND AND MAUREEN PALMER BOOK LAUNCH Tuesday, June 17 at 7pm Vancouver Public Library Rethink Addiction:  Is There a… FULL STORY

Kit Pearson wins

Kit Pearson is this year’s recipient of the annual Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence. It will be presented to… FULL STORY

Jane Watt nominated

If you want something done, ask a busy person. Like Jane Watt. The new book review editor for British Columbia… FULL STORY

Giardini joins SFU

As far we know, Anne Giardini is the first B.C. author ever chosen to be the Chancellor of a university…. FULL STORY

Latest LG loves her books

“Electronic gizmos don’t work for me.” – Lieutenant Governor Hon. Judith Guichon, OBC Remarks made by the Honourable Judith Guichon,… FULL STORY

Petrarch’s correspondence

  WHEN: Thursday, April 17 TIME: 7:30 pm WHERE: Simon Fraser University downtown campus, 515 West Hastings Sponsored by the… FULL STORY

Dalton on Shipwrecks

Bachinsky is back

April is National Poetry Month. A good time to announce that Elizabeth Bachinsky has been named a finalist for the… FULL STORY

The Pope’s Bookbinder

The Spanish government commissioned a special binding of a religious text to present to the Pope who was to visit…. FULL STORY

Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy will make the closing speech to the BC Library Association’s annual convention on Wednesday, more about April 2,… FULL STORY

bissett event

On Wednesday, April 23 at 7 p.m.,  Canadian icon bill bissett will perform some of his most recent poetry as… FULL STORY