Tilly & her sisters
Has anyone noticed? We’ve had a flurry of books only about the lives of individual First Nations women of BC…. FULL STORY
All about Alice
In 2013 Alice Munro became the first Canadian to be accorded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Many would argue she… FULL STORY
From adversity comes strength
Born in B.C. from descendants of slave escapees, Storma Sire, of West African Akan (Ghanaian) heritage, is one of a… FULL STORY
VIMEO: Ginsberg, Levertov, Duncan, Olson, Creeley invade UBC, 1963
In 1963, America’s poetic fringe came to the continent’s edge to breach the walls of academia.
George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award
The GEORGE WOODCOCK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD annually honours an outstanding literary career in British Columbia. Since 1994, the City of… FULL STORY
Bill bissett’s acceptance speech for Woodcock Award
a long strange n wundrful road: a tapestree uv names n places on erth th place uv klinging bin up… FULL STORY
