Category: News Bites

With events in all around the Lower Mainland and up the Sunshine Coast, there’s lots going on this week. Here’s a quick snapshot!Go to full post …read more

Nisga’a writer Jordan Abel has won the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize for his latest collection of poetry, Injun, an erasure book-length poem about racism and the representation of Indigenous peoples.Go to full post …read more

The jury agreed that Bearskin Diary is an important book telling the story of one of thousands of Aboriginal children taken from their families by provincial governments during the “Sixties Scoop”.Go to full post …read more

The weekly BC Bestseller List represents the top-selling BC published books released within the calendar year.Go to full post …read more

After seeing a breathtaking watercolour of salmon clumped together into a teeming mass, with mouths that could be gasping for air or just as easily screaming in agony, I knew Katie and I would come up with something wonderful for the cover of Bad Endings.Go to full post …read more

Writers’ Trust of Canada announced Kai Cheng Thom winner of the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.Go to full post …read more

The Canadian Historical Association has announced the 2017 winners of the CHA Awards. Go to full post …read more

The weekly BC Bestseller List represents the top-selling BC published books released within the calendar year.Go to full post …read more

With events in Victoria, Nanaimo, Prince George, and Vancouver, there’s lots going on around the province this week. Here’s a quick snapshot! Go to full post …read more

The weekly BC Bestseller List represents the top-selling BC published books released within the calendar year.Go to full post …read more

Photographer and anthropologist Wade Davis was named the 2017 recipient for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature for Wade Davis: Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre).
The George Ryga Award recognizes a BC writer who has achieved an outstanding degree Go to full post …read more

The weekly BC Bestseller List represents the top-selling BC published books released within the calendar year.Go to full post …read more