R.I.P Irene Howard (1922 – 2023)

“Irene Howard (left) wrote an important bio of the first woman to be elected to Vancouver City Council. But she is probably best known for the memoir about her immigrant mining family.” FULL STORY

In his old age, Tolstoy dismissed War & Peace and Anna Karenina as bourgeois entertainment and decided it was better… FULL STORY

W.D. VALGARDSON was born in Winnipeg in 1939. He passed most of his childhood in Gimli, Manitoba, a hardy fishing… FULL STORY

PETER TROWER was born at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, England, in 1930. He immigrated to British Columbia at age ten, following the… FULL STORY

ANDREAS SCHROEDER was born in Hoheneggelsen, Germany in 1946. He emigrated with his parents in 1951. He developed a keen… FULL STORY

Harbour Publishing was in some ways an accident, or a series of accidents, though they were accidents that allowed my… FULL STORY

In a manifesto to fellow writers published a few years ago, Doris Lessing wrote: “Without me the literary industry would… FULL STORY

Once upon a time, there was a city with three competing daily newspapers. That city was Vancouver. It was a… FULL STORY

[Editorial Note: Trevor Carolan was a founding member of the Federation and its first Executive Director. In l986 he left… FULL STORY

In 1951, an editor considering buying J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings worried that it might lose the publishers… FULL STORY

If the Golden Age of BC book culture has been reached, the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, published in 2000, was… FULL STORY

There are many reasons why self-publishing may be the wave of the future, but for me it was a matter… FULL STORY

In a manifesto to fellow writers published a few years ago, symptoms Doris Lessing wrote: “Without me the literary industry… FULL STORY