The Martial Races
“After 100 years, it is time to tell the tale of the unsung heroes of the Punjab who stood as… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Fat Cats gets gold
George Mercer’s fourth novel, Fat Cats, has won a Gold Medal in the Best Regional Fiction (Canada West) category of… FULL STORY
We saw the world from a great height
From vanishing wild cats, to poisoned oceans, to drowning valleys, the poems in The Schedule of Loss (Ekstasis $23.95) by… FULL STORY
Book Prizes born anew
Running the BC Book Prizes is no cake walk. It’s an easy way to make friends. It also paves the… FULL STORY
Aalborg rides off with Spur Award
G.K. (Gordon) Aalborg has won the 2019 Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Best Western Historical Fiction with his… FULL STORY
What the Wind Brings
In his forthcoming historical novel, What the Wind Brings (Pulp Literature $39.95 Summer, 2019), Matthew Hughes pits a coalition of… FULL STORY
Talonbooks spring launch
Talonbooks hosts its spring poetry launch on April 3, 8 pm at Pyatt Hall in Vancouver. Admission is free. Talon… FULL STORY
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalists
Award winner Laisa Rosnau’s latest poetry collection Our Familiar Hunger (Nightwood Editions 2018) is a finalist for this year’s Dorothy… FULL STORY
Mickleburgh to receive Ryga Award
The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness will be presented for this first time in Victoria—at 1 pm on Saturday,… FULL STORY
Three X 2
Cassandra Blanchard (pictured), Laura Matwichuk and Sarah de Leeuw will launching new poetry books at Massy Books on April 24, 2019… FULL STORY
Marshall wins Stuart-Stubbs Prize
By Anna Moorhouse on March 4, 2019 Dr. Daniel Marshall has won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding Scholarly Book… FULL STORY
Chile With Meat
Carmen Aguirre’s early plays about the “hardships, horrors, and heartache of exile” have been collected into a triad for Chile… FULL STORY
Ryga longlist announced
The George Ryga Award is annually presented to a B.C. writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness… FULL STORY
Centennial of Winnipeg Strike
It was once the most famous labour strike in Canadian history. Now few Canadians know much about it: In May… FULL STORY
Divided they withstand
Born and raised in Iran, Nilofar Shidmehr came to Canada in 1997 and earned her MFA in Creative Writing from… FULL STORY
Two world wars in Italy
Vittorino Dal Cengio has mainly published in Italian with the exception of On the Devil’s Tail in Combat with the… FULL STORY
From Warsaw to Hamilton
One of the authors set to appear at the 34th annual Jewish Book Festival, February 9-14 at Vancouver’s Jewish Community… FULL STORY
Esi Edugyan wins her 2nd Giller Prize
As anyone who listens to CBC knows–from hearing it over and over–Esi Edugyan is the winner of this year’s $100,000… FULL STORY
B.C. wins at G.G. Awards
Diversity honoured Four of this year’s thirty Governor General’s Award nominees in English were published in B.C.; two others are… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prizes 2018
Monique Gray Smith was awarded the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize for Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation (Orca)… FULL STORY
