Whistler Writers Festival tickets on sale now

Author Cody Caetano reading at the Whistler Writers Festival.

Whistler Writers Festival tickets on sale now — early bird pricing Whistler Writers Festival tickets on sale at noon today with special early bird pricing. AUGUST 21, 2023: Whistler, BC — Tickets for the 22nd edition of the Whistler Writers Festival are on sale now and have early bird pricing until Oct. 1. For the […]

Book review: The Librarianist

Image of the book The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt at the beach.

Book review: The Librarianist Bob Comet is the kind of protagonist that librarians today might regard as a purveyor of that age-old stereotype: the staid, chinless, introverted bookworm who lives a hushed, drama-free life. As the main character in Patrick deWitt’s newest novel, The Librarianist, Comet is indeed ordinary, isolated, aging and usually sad; the […]

Book Review: My Body is Distant

Book Review: My Body is Distant Memoir is a gift — at least that’s what I always think when I’m reading it. There aren’t too many ways to explore inside someone’s head that aren’t invasive or demanding, outside of someone’s memoir. They’re a way to learn, or to see a new perspective from the inside, […]

Book review: All the Seas of the World

New novel dives deep into fantasy It didn’t take long for me to be fully absorbed by the complex and vivid world that Canadian award-winning fantasy author, Guy Gavriel Kay is famous for creating. In his fourteenth novel, All the Seas of the World, we’re thrown in at the deep end with an assassination, the […]

Book Review: focus on poetry

Human, fierce, achingly honest, and challenging The great naturalist Barry Lopez said, “poetry is a door anyone can walk through.” Well, here we go. Into our ordinary lives where most of us have experienced times of confusion and loss.—loss of language, voice, or loved ones.–poetry is an art form that has always been a resource […]

Sharing stories together with Ann Eriksson

When characters come knocking In 1987 I was at a crossroads in my life. A personal tragedy had me questioning my future and I decided to change directions and go back to school. But what to study? My two life interests were nature and creative writing. I made a difficult decision to set the writing […]

Sharing stories together with Kagan Goh

There is healing and a kinder world in stories shared My journey of recovery from mental illness has involved the arts in a significant way. As an initial form of self-therapy, I started to write about my feelings and experiences of living with a mental illness. I became involved in Vancouver’s literary community and eventually […]

Book Review: This is How We Love

Book explores what makes a family and questions of love I’ve never been to Newfoundland. But thanks to authors such as Megan Gail Coles, Kathleen Winter, Michael Crummey and Lisa Moore, I feel I’ve visited many times. With their books and stories as portals, I feel more like a local than a tourist in the […]

Sharing stories together with Hasan Namir

Sharing writing in person again energizes poet Hasan Namir When I’m working on a poetry book, I get excited at the thought of reading these poems in public, to an audience of poet readers and authors. That moment as I walk up on the stage and feel the energy around me — it elevates me. […]

Book Review: Kiss the Red Stairs

Extensive research and personal journey brings the past to life in Kiss the Red Stairs Marsha Lederman has always been interested in telling stories. As a child of Holocaust survivors, it was trained into her that she needed to find stability in a steady income. So rather than studying literature and pursue her dream of […]