VWF OPENING NIGHT: Oh, Canada! is stacked.
Three authors lead the conversation on Canadian identity: Bob Joseph, Kate Beaton & Emma Donoghue.
Joined by Linden MacIntyre, Canisia Lubrin, and more!
Oct. 20: writersfest.bc.ca/festival-e…#VWF2025#bcbooklook#bcevents#vancouver
Congrats to Gregor Craigie, winner of the George Ryga Award, and Kit Pearson, recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award!
A powerful night at VPL honoring voices that truly make a difference.
#GeorgeRygaAward#GeorgeWoodcockAward#bcbooklook
The Munday husband and wife team attempted many times to tame Mystery Mountain but never succeeded. Others died trying until the mountain was finally ascended years later. Read the full review about their documented discoveries here: bcbooklook.com/surviving-mys…
This week, BCBookLook highlights Fiona McQuarrie (J-Card Press), Trevor Atkins (Silverpath Publishing), Kelly Shepherd (University of Regina Press) and Elly Mossman (Tough Old Broad Publishing) for their latest books. Get a taste of their work here: bcbooklook.com/about/whos-wh…
Anna Maskerine, a survivor of domestic abuse tells her story and how she escaped through her latest book, Beneath My Scars (@caitlinpress). Read the full review here: bcbooklook.com/how-did-i-bec…
A master of the short story, Bill Gaston’s (@Thistledown) latest collection is about a group of characters, many with dark backstories living on a fictional island in the Salish Sea. Read more here: bcbooklook.com/stumbling-tow…
BC-based humour writer, Steve Burgess’s Reservations: The Pleasures and Perils of Travel (@DMPublishers) has been longlisted for the 2025 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Read more here: bcbooklook.com/burgess-longl…
Maria Reva’s new novel delves into three women who work in the escort business in Ukraine (one a mollusk researcher) and kidnap some of their customers just as Russia invades (@knopf). Read the full review here: bcbooklook.com/lovers-in-a-d…
Natalie Lim launched her debut collection of poems, Elegy for Opportunity (Wolsak & Wynn), on Saturday, May 10. Learn more at: bcbooklook.com/lims-debut-po…
Musqueam storyteller, the late Henry Charles wrote a tale retelling the origins of hockey through an Indigenous lens. His story has now been published. Read more at: bcbooklook.com/a-new-hockey-…
Victoria’s Gregor Craigie has won the George Ryga Award, an annual literary prize for a BC writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness in a new book, for his title about Canada’s housing crisis. Read more: bcbooklook.com/craigie-gets-…
In Jill Yonit Goldberg’s book, a teen's journey to maturity in America's swampy South casts a dark light on the consumerist, polluting and greed-laden oil business near the Gulf of Mexico. Read the full review: bcbooklook.com/southern-man/…