Category: Featured

The “Lammys” celebrate achievement in LGBTQ writing. Go to full post …read more

Growing Room is a celebration, a protest, a reflection, a re-visioning, a gathering, a question and a dream. Chelene Knight shares how Growing Room meets this vision.  Go to full post …read more

Stephen R. Bown’s award-nominated Island of the Blue Foxes reads like gripping fiction, recounting the Great Northern Expedition in a “rapidly paced story of adventure”.Go to full post …read more

BC author Gary Geddes has received the 2018 Freedom to Read Award in recognition of his work in support of free expression.Go to full post …read more

Kim Clark has published short fiction, poetry, co-edited an anthology, was a finalist in Theatre BC’s Playwrights Competition, and has a novella optioned for film. That’s a long list of literary accomplishments for someone who didn’t start writing until after her fortieth birthday.Go to full post …read more

In celebration of all types of love, hunker down with a book (or 5) about love. Go to full post …read more

We are used to food trucks and pop-up shops, but this is the first mobile bookstore we’ve heard about and we’re excited.Go to full post …read more

Chinese New Year is a popular and well-known holiday, but like Christmas or Halloween, it grew out of history and stories. Jen Sookfong Lee helps young readers understand Chinese New Year and what makes Chinese culture unique.Go to full post …read more

The story of Erinne Paisley’s prom dress (made of old homework) went viral and raised awareness to how social media can create change. It also nabbed Erinne a book deal about PopActivism. Go to full post …read more

Just in time for Family Literacy Day, the final Reading Light has been installed. Explore the interactive online map to discover all 61 Reading Lights around Vancouver.Go to full post …read more

“Writing was my way in,” says author Claire Sicherman about writing her memoir on intergenerational trauma. “[Writing was] a way for me to tell my nine-year-old son about the Holocaust and about his own birth story.”Go to full post …read more

We’ve been hearing lots of great news about bookstores and booksellers over the past few weeks. Here are some highlights from Massy Books, People’s Co-op, Indigo, Iron Dog Books, and Raven Reads.Go to full post …read more