Roo Borson on Risk

  At a time when commentators on the nightly news talk almost calmly about the renewed threat of nuclear war, one of the necessary responses is to think again about what we hold dear, and about those things we would preserve. These include not only life itself, but those endeavours, including the sciences and the […]

Monia Mazigh on Risk

When I was a little girl I loved the carousel at the fair but my favourite ride was a rocket space ship because it made me feel like I am traveling in the sky among planets and stars. I closed my eyes and let my imagination run wild as the heavy rocket filled with screaming […]

Mark Leiren-Young on Risk

As any reader knows it’s always risky to chase a whale – and I’ve pursued Moby Doll three times longer than crazy Captain Ahab searched for Moby Dick. Almost twenty years ago I pitched the story of the first ever killer whale displayed in captivity as a book, a film, an article and a radio […]

John MacLachlan Gray on Risk

“Risk” is something I’ve never quantified or even thought about, because my expectations have always been so low. Growing up in Nova Scotia, to suggest that you wanted to write books or plays was like saying you wanted to join the circus as a fire eater. So when I began writing, I assumed I’d live […]

Helen Humphreys on Risk

  Increasingly, I have come to dislike both the limits of genre and the invisibility of process. With The Ghost Orchard, I wanted to push at both of these boundaries by mixing non-fiction, memoir, and fiction, and by showing the research for the book as part of the book itself. I was using mostly original […]

Whistler Independent Book Awards Announced

Whistler Independent Book Awards  Finalists for the 2017 WIBAs in Fiction and Non-fiction The fiction finalists are: Annie Daylon for Of Sea and Seed: The Kerrigan Chronicles, Book 1 R.L. Prendergast for The Confessions of Socrates Farida Somjee for The Beggar’s Dance The non-fiction finalists are: Monique Layton for Notes from Elsewhere: Travel and Other Matters Patricia Sandberg for […]

In the News: AGM, Comedy Quickies & Writer in Residence

Get your writer’s brain whirling! We’ve got lots of activities storming towards us: a FREE workshop; the phenomenal Writer in Residence program (this one fills up fast!); and the Comedy Quickies Writing Contest.Come meet other local writers at The Whistler Writing Society’s Annual General Meeting, August 22nd from 6-7 pm, at the Whistler Public Library. […]

2017 Comedy Quickies

Submit your funniest sketch, stand-up routine, original song or monologue, and we’ll pick our favourites to showcase at the beautiful Maury Young Arts Centre on Oct. 12, 2017, with a chance to win hundreds of dollars in cash and prizes. Submissions are due Aug. 15.

Book Review: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Book Review by Dee Raffo It’s 1947, and the chaotic aftermath of World War II reverberates across the globe as we join protagonist Charlie St. Claire, who is unmarried, pregnant, and on the hunt for her missing cousin, Rose. Her life intersects with that of Eve Gardiner, a decorated spy during World War I who […]

Book Review: Dragon Springs Road by Janie Chang

Book Review by Susan Oakey-Baker Janie Chang, local Vancouver author of the celebrated novel Three Souls, tackles racism, women’s rights, belonging and what we will ultimately do to survive, in this enchanting historical novel about an abandoned child and a fox spirit living on an ancient Chinese estate. At the turn of the century, amidst […]