Come on up for the Rising
PRESS RELEASE 2018 — Adapted Sharon Wood’s forthcoming memoir of mountaineering, Rising, due in 2019, will double as a meditation… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Beyond Mile Zero wins twice
Beyond Mile Zero wins a gold medal in the 2017 Foreword Indies Lily Gontard and Mark Kelly’s highway odyssey of… FULL STORY
Public invited to Lupick ceremony
Journalist Travis Lupick will receive the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness on June 28 in Vancouver. TRAVIS LUPICK Travis… FULL STORY
Public invited to Crozier ceremony
Lorna Crozier will receive the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement for B.C. literature at Vancouver Public Library, June 28. LORNA CROZIER… FULL STORY
Indominatible Aquarianism
It is the dawning of the aging of Aquarius. For her second book, Helen Wilkes has encouraged people who are… FULL STORY
Bering up nicely
Stephen R. Bown’s account of the doomed expedition of Vitus Bering, Island of the Blue Foxes, was the lone B.C.-published book… FULL STORY
Life on Mars without Bowie
Born in Ottawa, Lori McNulty of Vancouver has been shortlisted for the twenty-first annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award honouring the… FULL STORY
Tofino has a laureate, too
Joanna Streetly was born in Trinidad, W.I., and educated in England. She came to Vancouver to study Outdoor Recreation and… FULL STORY
Dorothy would approve
Mercedes Eng was the surprise and surprised winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the B.C. Book Prizes gala… FULL STORY
Jack of two trades
Jack Schofield of Mayne Island flew, for 20 years, as a commercial seaplane pilot along the full stretch of coastal… FULL STORY
Non-Jewish author wins Jewish Holocaust prize
Winners of the second annual Western Canada Jewish Book Awards have been announced in four categories at the Sidney and… FULL STORY
Mercer a double winner
“Parks have always been my passion,” says George Mercer, “and after a long career and being blessed with good health… FULL STORY
Joseph, Justice, Annett & Younging
A former associate professor at Royal Roads University, Bob Joseph described the draconian and oppressive effects of the Indian Act… FULL STORY
Close encounters of the oops kind, and other stories
Long-time boating enthusiast and writer/publisher, Peter Vassilopoulos has simultaneously released four new titles through his company Pacific Marine Publishing, three… FULL STORY
The Random Ambassador
Wendy Morton started the Random Acts of Poetry movement, which encourages poets across Canada to read poems and give copies… FULL STORY
Federation fest at New West
New West Festival of Words is a collaboration of the Federation of BC Writers’ Spring Writes Festival and LitFest New… FULL STORY
Stuart-Stubbs Prize for 2018
The Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholary Book Prize on British Columbia will be awarded in May at UBC’s Irving… FULL STORY
Crozier wins Woodcock Award
In June, Lorna Crozier will become the 25th recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement for an outstanding literary career… FULL STORY
Wyss gets Indigenous storyteller post
Artist and ethnobotanist T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss (right) has been named the 2018 Indigenous storyteller in residence at VPL as part of… FULL STORY
Home is where the art is
Claudette Lauzon’s book The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art (University of Toronto Press, 2017) was featured at the Audain Gallery in… FULL STORY
