Fledgling to Flight
“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.” – Victor Hugo I have a new novel coming out this year. I say these words quietly because it seems so self-indulgent to say it any other way. In […]
Reading Event 12: Grant Lawrence in conversation
Fairmont Chateau Whistler October 18, 2015 | 11:00 am – 1:00 pm $35 Includes brunch Description: Grant Lawrence in conversation with Marina Endicott, Camilla Gibb, Catherine Hunter, Amanda Lindhout, Nino Ricci, Steve Toltz. (**Update: Amanda Lindhout is unable to attend this event.) Whet your appetite and your curiosity with the CBC’s Grant Lawrence, in conversation with Marina […]
Nolan, Angie
Angie Nolan was born and raised in BC, and got her start in TV as a teenager when she landed a production assistant job on the long running CBC hit The Beachcombers. She has also written, directed and acted in her own film and theatre projects. This includes a number of award-winning short films made under Swift Rock […]
Martens, Garth
Garth Martens’ writing has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, This Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Prism, Vallum, Grain, and The Malahat Review. In 2011 he won the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. He has worked eight years in large-scale commercial construction. Prologue for the Age of Consequence is his debut collection. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
MacIntyre, Linden
Linden MacIntyre was a co-host of the fifth estate for 24 years and the winner of ten Gemini Awards and one international Emmy for broadcast journalism. His bestselling first novel, The Long Stretch, was nominated for a CBA Libris Award and his boyhood memoir, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence, was a Globe and Mail Best […]
Lindhout, Amanda
Amanda Lindhout is the founder of the Global Enrichment Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports development, aid, and education initiatives in Somalia and Kenya. For more information, visit AmandaLindhout.com and GlobalEnrichmentFoundation.com
Leedahl, Shelley A.
Shelley A. Leedahl writes poetry, short fiction, novels, children’s literature and non-fiction. Her numerous titles include Listen, Honey; Wretched Beast; Orchestra of the Lost Steps; The Bone Talker (with illustrator Bill Slavin); The House of the Easily Amused; Riding Planet Earth; Talking Down the Northern Lights, and A Few Words For January. Her work also appears in wide-ranging anthologies, including The Best […]
Laboucane-Benson, Patti
Patti Laboucane-Benson is a Métis woman and the Director of Research, Training, and Communication at Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA). She has a Ph.D. in Human Ecology, focusing on Aboriginal Family Resilience. Her doctoral research explored how providing historic trauma healing programs for Aboriginal offenders builds resilience in Aboriginal families and communities. She has […]
Kaufman, Brian
Brian Kaufman is a writer, editor, and publisher and has been active in the publishing community for over twenty-five years. Mr. Kaufman has ushered over 130 books and 69 issues of subTerrain Magazine into print and has served as the Executive Director of the subTerrain Literary Collective Society since its inception in 1988. In 2009, […]
Kalteis, Dietrich
Dietrich Kalteis’s debut novel Ride the Lightning won the bronze medal in the 2015 Independent Publisher Awards, for Canada West Regional Fiction. Set in Whistler, his second novel, The Deadbeat Club is available from ECW Press October, 2015. Forty-five of his short stories have been widely published, and his screenplay Between Jobs was a finalist in L.A.’s Screenplay Festival. He […]