“This has been, literally, my life’s work,” Wolfe says. “I came into publishing never expecting it would be the work that I would always do, but I loved it from the start.”
New Star Books to close
In a statement posted to the Vancouver-based independent press’s website earlier this week, publisher Rolf Maurer said he had made the “painful decision” to wind down the press’s operations.
Margie Wolfe transfers Second Story ownership to longtime GM Phuong Truong
After decades at the helm, co-founder and publisher Margie Wolfe has transferred ownership of the Toronto-based feminist and social-justice-driven independent publisher to Phuong Truong.
Remembering Andrew Pyper
Maureen Jennings and Karen Levine among latest Order of Canada appointees
Jennings’s appointment is one of 88 announced Dec. 18 by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon.
Vancouver Sun to cut book reviews, Broken Pencil closes, Atlantic Books Today marks milestone
UBC’s George Bowering Collection and Reading Room project facing year-end fundraising deadline
Bowering, along with his partner Jean Baird and Katherine Kalsbeek, head of rare books and special collections at the UBC Library, is working on a project to recreate his creative work space as part of the library’s public spaces.
Harbour Publishing’s Howard White on 50 years of books from B.C.’s raincoast
Fundraising campaign underway to create Augur Press and new sci-fi-fantasy prize
The press’s launch is planned for 2027, which will coincide with the tenth anniversary of Augur.
Al Cummings, co-founder of A Different Drummer and Madison Press, has died
Cummings died in his 84th year after a brief illness.
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