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Blast from the past: Photo tour of Rivers Inlet Fishing Lodge

Blast from the past: Photo tour of Rivers In...

April 4, 2018

Pat Ardley’s bestselling memoir tells the incredible story of three decades spent building and running a fishing lodge in remote Rivers Inlet.Go to full post …read more

Poetic Licence: Renée Sarojini Saklikar listens to the bees and reads on the train

Poetic Licence: Renée Sarojini Saklikar lis...

April 2, 2018

Poetic Licence is a snapshot into the poetry world during National Poetry Month. Renée Sarojini Saklikar is the current Poet Laureate for Surrey.Go to full post …read more

Poetic Licence: Tina Biello influenced by contemporary poets

Poetic Licence: Tina Biello influenced by co...

Poetic Licence is a special feature highlighting poets during National Poetry Month. Tina Biello is the current Poet Laureate for Nanaimo.Go to full post …read more

Name these 8 ancient grains and seeds

Name these 8 ancient grains and seeds

March 21, 2018

Kale and açaí are so last year. Can you guess what these 8 ancient grains and seeds are?Go to full post …read more

The appeal of islander life with Pat Carney

The appeal of islander life with Pat Carney

March 16, 2018

“Readers relate to the events in the stories because they reflect similar ones in their own communities. I felt free to weave it into the lives of my characters—a reflection of my journalist training.”Go to full post …read more

34th annual BC Book Prizes shortlist revealed

34th annual BC Book Prizes shortlist reveale...

March 12, 2018

On Monday, March 12, 2018, the West Coast Book Prize Society announced the BC Book Prizes 2018 shortlists. Go to full post …read more

10 new books for International Women’s Day

10 new books for International Women's Day

March 8, 2018

Fiction, non-fiction, memoir, history, and poetry—take a pledge to read books by women published in Canada. We’ve got your reading list here. Go to full post …read more

BC titles nominated for the 30th annual Lambda Literary Awards

BC titles nominated for the 30th annual Lamb...

March 6, 2018

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

Growing Room 2018 is about sharing space, demanding space, and pushing boundaries

Growing Room 2018 is about sharing space, de...

February 28, 2018

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 and the Great Northern Expedition

Stephen R. Bown and the Great Northern Exped...

February 27, 2018

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

Gary Geddes wins 2018 Freedom to Read Award

Gary Geddes wins 2018 Freedom to Read Award

February 26, 2018

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: “There are challenges and freedoms in each genre”

Kim Clark: "There are challenges and freedom...

February 20, 2018

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


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