William Gibson gets the Woodcock

“The ‘noir prophet’ of cyberpunk fiction, and the man who coined the term, ‘cyberspace,’ William Gibson (l.) will receive the 2024 George Woodcock Award for outstanding career in BC literature.FULL STORY

 

Publishing

Cogswell honoured

The long-serving co-founder of the Fiddlehead literary journal and publisher of Fiddlehead Poetry Books (later Goose Lane Editions), Fred Cogswell,… FULL STORY

Getting a Grip on 9/11

Formerly a Defense Officer in the Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau, Ian Slater is a political scientist and the author of… FULL STORY

Bill Barlee, pioneer

Bill Barlee: 1932-2012 “Bill Barlee, was a nugget, pure gold, remarkable in more ways than can be described.” — Randy… FULL STORY

Origins of Anvil Press

HERE FOLLOWS BRIAN KAUFMAN'S SUMMARY OF THE ORIGINS OF BOTH SUBTERRAIN MAGAZINE AND ANVIL PRESS, PRINTED IN THE AUTUMN 2011… FULL STORY

W.O. Mitchell

This article is written by Maria Pavlik who interviewed W.O. Mitchell at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver in 1990 when he… FULL STORY

The Bad Trips anthology

[This article about the anthology Bad Trips edited by Keath Fraser appeared originally in Canada India Village Aid’s 20th Anniversary… FULL STORY

Why I self-published

Peter Grauer’s exhaustive account of American bandit Bill Miner’s years in British Columbia—in the venerable do-it-yourself tradition of George Nicholson’s… FULL STORY

D&M Acquires New Society

Vancouver, Canada – June 3, 2008: Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group (D&M) is delighted to announce the acquisition of British… FULL STORY

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