Thanks Again for Another Incredible Festival

Another Year, Another Festival, A Grateful Heart “A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.” Anonymous It wasn’t too long ago that I wasn’t sure I would have been able to write the words, another year, another festival. They come naturally now as if there is no question we will be back, bigger and stronger next year. […]

Books and Beer Oct. 27

Books and Beer is happening at the Eagle Eye Theatre in Squamish, Thu. Oct. 27, with authors Grant Lawrence, Stella Leventoyannis Harvey and Katherine Fawcett.

Poetry Slam and Open Mic

This Friday Oct. 21, 7pm, the Howe Sound Women’s Centre celebrates 35 years with a Poetry Slam and Open Mic at the Brackendale Gallery in Squamish.

Another Year, Another Festival, A Grateful Heart

“A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.” Anonymous It wasn’t too long ago that I wasn’t sure I would have been able to write the words, another year, another festival. They come naturally now as if there is no question we will be back, bigger and stronger next year. When the day closes today […]

Rising Up – The Poetry of Protest

Book review: Poets Rosanna Deerchild, Stephen Heighton, Miranda Pearson, and Gary Geddes. By Mary MacDonald Blackcomb Mountain was flaring blue this morning when I woke, an uncanny beauty that deepens my sense of reverence. But the living mountain is indifferent to me. Half an hour later clouds obscured the massif in a fog that changed […]

Purple Fingers

by Farha Guerrero In the cold, purple fingers are better than white ones. The colour of the skin indicates that there is something moving in the capillary veins – some circulation – some flow of blood. There is hope that my fingers will be warm again. White fingers tell a different story. White fingers are […]

LEACH, SARA

LEACH, SARA is the author of eight books for children, including her current novel for young readers, Penguin Days. Its companion book, Slug Days, was a finalist for the Foreword Indie Book Award for Juvenile Fiction and nominated for the Chocolate Lily Book Award. Her middle grade novel Count Me In has been translated into four languages, and won the […]