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Carleigh Baker wins 2017 Vancouver Book Award

Carleigh Baker has been named winner of this year's Vancouver Book Award, which annually recognizes a title that best evokes the city's people and places. Selected from a shortlist of four finalists, Baker received her $3,000 ... Read More »

October 12, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

Sam Wiebe, Gabrielle Prendergast shortlisted for 2017 Vancouver Book Award

By Becky Robertson

The finalists for this year's Vancouver Book Awards, recognizing the titles that best reflect the city's unique character and residents, have been revealed. A jury comprised of librarians, Vancouver Writers Festival board members, academics, instructors, ... Read More »

September 11, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

Atwood, Gowdy, Simpson among 30th Vancouver Writers Fest headliners

By Becky Robertson

The Vancouver Writers Fest has announced its 2017 lineup. This year's event marks both the festival's 30th anniversary, and its final year under the leadership of long-time artistic director Hal Wake, In light of Wake's retirement, the ... Read More »

August 31, 2017 | Filed under: Events

Vancouver Public Library recognizes Thien, Suzuki, and others with literary landmarks

By Becky Robertson

The Vancouver Public Library has honoured a number of authors with new plaques meant to commemorate literary "landmarks" across the city. As part of the project, which was founded by VPL and B.C. BookWorld in 2015, ... Read More »

July 10, 2017 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

B.C.-based ebook app Shelfie shuts down

By Becky Robertson

Shelfie, the Vancouver-based ebook bundling app formerly known as BitLit, announced on Jan. 30 that it would be shutting down servers – rendering the app unusable – the following day. The app was based on the premise ... Read More »

February 2, 2017 | Filed under: Book news

Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks shutters after almost two decades

By Becky Robertson

Vancouver indie Barbara-Jo's Books to Cooks is set to close down at the end of February after nearly 20 years of bookselling and events. Frequented by culinary giants like Gordon Ramsay and Anthony Bourdain, the ... Read More »

January 17, 2017 | Filed under: Bookselling

Wayde Compton honoured with City of Vancouver Book Award

By Becky Robertson

B.C. poet Wayde Compton has been named the winner of this year’s City of Vancouver Book Award for his debut short-story collection, The Outer Harbour (Arsenal Pulp Press). The award, part of the Mayor’s Arts ... Read More »

November 18, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Book-launch venue hop: Café Deux Soleils, Vancouver

By Cheri Hanson

Each month, Q&Q visits dingy watering holes, upscale cafés, and other haunts in search of the country’s most beloved book-launch venues Each week, Vancouver poets, writers, and literary performers, and their fans, make a pilgrimage ... Read More »

August 6, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Q&A: author John Vaillant and filmmaker Sasha Snow on adapting each other’s work

By Lauren McKeon

When Governor General Literary Award–winning Vancouver author John Vaillant saw Sasha Snow’s documentary, Conflict Tiger, he knew that he had to transform it into a book. Vaillant didn’t expect that Snow would read his 2005 ... Read More »

April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Writing life

Poetry Month Q&A: Bren Simmers on writing from and to her neighbourhood

By Ariel Gordon

Bren Simmers’ second collection, Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions), is a long poem that spans a year of living in the East Vancouver residential neighbourhood, one of the city's oldest. Though she is now based in Squamish, ... Read More »

April 21, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

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