Peach gets Edna Staebler Award
BC-based Hilary Peach (at right) has won the 2023 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for her book Thick Skin:… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Reading Event at Notional Space
P.W. Bridgman a.k.a. Tom Woods (at right) is hosting a poetry and fiction book reading event called “P.W. Bridgman: An… FULL STORY
Latest JCC Jewish Book Festival Event
Marsha Lederman (at right) sits down with award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, to talk about Gundar-Goshen’s latest book, The Wolf Hunt… FULL STORY
FBCW Event Featuring BC Writers
Authors Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho (at right) and Meaghan Hackinen will be hosting the Regional Spotlight: North Shore Writers’ Association event… FULL STORY
Schofield moderates LGBTQ+ panel
Anakana Schofield (at right), the Irish-Canadian author of Bina: A Novel in Warnings (Knopf Canada, 2019) and the critically acclaimed,… FULL STORY
BC author readings and events
Don Gayton (at right), author of The Sky and the Patio (New Star Books $18.00), is the featured special guest… FULL STORY
New VPL Indigenous Storyteller
BC writer and author, Joseph Kakwinokanasum has been elected the Indigenous Storyteller in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library, for… FULL STORY
Best Canadian Poetry Book Launch
BC-based authors Nicholas Bradley (at right), Aislinn Hunter, Meghan Kemp-Gee, Barbara Nickel, Matt Rader, Meagan Rondeau, Joanna Streetly, and Rob… FULL STORY
Masutani’s debut in fifth printing
Matsuki Masutani’s debut book of poetry I will be more myself in the next world (Mother Tongue $19.95) has gone… FULL STORY
Alan Twigg opens JBF
BC BookWorld founder, Alan Twigg will open the Jewish Book Festival on Saturday, February 10, when he interviews Michael Posner,… FULL STORY
New poetry for a new year
Sponsored by the locally produced poetry magazine Some, Vancouver poet Fred Wah will be joining visiting poets from North Carolina,… FULL STORY
Cumberland Launches Debut Novel
It’s a story known well in the world of opera. Madama Butterfly, a young geisha in early 20th-century Japan marries… FULL STORY
Canadian Book Club Award winners
Christina Myers (at right) has won the Canadian Book Club Award for Fiction for her novel, The List of Last… FULL STORY
Galiano boasts some of B.C.’s best
GALIANO ISLAND BOOKS TO HOST SIXTH ANNUAL GALIANO LITERARY FESTIVAL The SIXTH ANNUAL Galiano Literary Festival, to be held February… FULL STORY
Three B.C. poets up for Pat Lowther
Three B.C. poets have been shortlisted for the 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Award: Cicely Belle Blain (at right) for Burning… FULL STORY
Sanford Blade up for two awards
Susan Sanford Blades of Victoria has won the ReLit Award for Fiction for her novel, Fake It So Real (Nightwood… FULL STORY
BC & Yukon Book Prizes Shortlist
The West Coast Book Prize Society has announced the names of the finalists for the 37th Annual BC & Yukon… FULL STORY
Fed’s new president
The Federation of British Columbia Writers has elected Jacqueline Carmichael as its new president. She replaces Keith Liggett, who stepped down… FULL STORY
Mutonji’s quest for balance
“There is a humungous amount of emotional labour that comes from being a writer of colour,” says Téa Mutonji. “In… FULL STORY
Chantal Gibson wins Lowther Award
Chantal Gibson’s debut book of poetry, How She Read (Caitlin $20), has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award presented annually,… FULL STORY
