Authors for Indies Day

Independent bookstores are the fabric of Canadian community. They provide an anchor where people can safely land. They give our minds the space and ideas with which to expand. They make sure that our voices as Canadians resonate. On April 29, independent bookstores across the country, along with the authors they love, will celebrate as […]

Nearly Normal: A book review of Cea Sunrise Person’s latest memoir

Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself A book review by Rebecca Wood Barrett Cea Sunrise Person’s second memoir, Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself, is a follow-up to her first book North of Normal. She cracks open her past, and events that have not been revealed before, to take […]

Whistler Independent Book Prize Announced

Manuscript Competition Winner Whistler Independent Book Prize Tidewater Festivals and the Whistler Writing Society are pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Whistler Independent Book Prize manuscript competition. The judges were Byrna Barclay and Miji Campbell. First Prize: The Kawai Scrolls, by Louis Druehl “This is a rollicking, rich and ribald tale . . . The […]

Dirty Windshields: A review of Grant Lawrence’s latest memoir

Dirty Windshields A book review by Paul Shore Grant Lawrence divulges zany sordid tales of indie-grunge-pop-punk rock touring I thought I knew a few things about the Canadian rock bands of my young adulthood years, but Grant Lawrence’s witty Dirty Windshields: the best and the worst of the Smugglers tour diaries opened my now seemingly-narrow-minded […]