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Deadline: Friday, June 9, 2023Go to full post …read more

Celebrate the ninth annual #BCBookDay on Monday, April 17, 2023 with us!Go to full post …read more

Each year Poetry in Transit announces ten new poems by BC poets to be featured on bus cards that appear on buses around the province. Read on to meet our 2022/23 featured poets and their Canadian-published poetry collections. 
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The Association of Book Publishers of BC (ABPBC) is pleased to celebrate 25 years of Poetry in Transit with the publication of an anthology in digital and print editions, with 40 poems selected by poet Evelyn Lau.
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To mark the start of the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair, at which Canada was the Guest of Honour, the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (ABPBC) launched a short feature video that showcases the BC book publishing community to the Go to full post …read more

Every year, all of us at Read Local BC delight in bringing you the best that the BC publishing world has to offer. With so much amazing talent to choose from in our province, it is no easy task to highlight Go to full post …read more

Writers,
start your engines, because Anvil Press is pleased to once again be
administering the International 3-Day Novel contest!

The world’s most notorious literary marathon will take place once again this Labour Day weekend, September 5 – 7. The entries are Go to full post …read more

It’s August, which means summer is really hitting its stride in British Columbia. If you’ve ever doubted the “Best Coast” moniker for our part of the country, now is the time of year to soak up the sun amidst some of Go to full post …read more

Our last dispatch from the Poetry in Transit archives brings you this excerpt from “Atmospheric with Dull Knives” by Jen Currin, featured in 2006, the year that Poetry in Transit celebrated its tenth anniversary! Go to full post …read more

This week, a quiet moment of beauty brought to you poem by Gillian Wigmore’s poem “Stellako,” featured in Poetry in Transit 2008/09Go to full post …read more

“There’s the opportunity to move from routine to disruption, and in that moment, to learn about life from another person’s perspective.” Go to full post …read more

All the finalists for the 2020 BC and Yukon Book PrizesGo to full post …read more