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
NEWS & EVENTS
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
Geddes-burgh addresses
The unstoppable Gary Geddes is the recipient of a dozen national and international literary awards, including the Lieutenant Governor’s Award… FULL STORY
C.C. Humphreys at Salmon Arm
C.C. Humphreys is slated to be one of eight authors featured at the Word on the Lake Festival in Salmon… FULL STORY
Epilepsy in a fantasy novel
March is Epilepsy Awareness month in Canada–an ideal time to introduce Cathi Shaw‘s first novel, Five Corners (Ink Smith $16.97),… FULL STORY
Tough Tiddlywinks: Two wheels good; four wheels bad
Having taught himself to paint while teaching law in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England, Christopher Nowlin now lists his painterly influences as “Surrealism,… FULL STORY
Vancouver Millionaires back on the ice
On March 2, the Vancouver Canucks will pretend to be the 1915 Vancouver Millionaires while playing a game against the… FULL STORY
