Black History Month is an opportunity for us to reflect on the incredible Black writers we have across the country, writing for all kinds of literary genres. We kick off the month and our Black Writers' Series with a look at four fantastic fiction writers, with a feature title ... Read more

A vibrant, predominantly Black community in Vancouver called Hogan's Alley was razed to make room for the Georgia Viaduct in the late 1960s. In her new novel, Junie (Book*hug Press), Chelene Knight plants her main character firmly into the heart of Hogan's Alley, to breathe ... Read more

Carlie Blume lists her poetry muse(s) behind her collection  Gigglepuss (Guernica Editions) as "a collective of all the empathetic, hard working women in my life": most notably her grandmother, who made the incredibly difficult, incredibly brave decision to pursue MAID. ... Read more

With a balanced mix of humour and emotion, Susan Alexander's  Nothing You Can Carry (Thistledown Press) expresses the holiness of place, obscured by the dark cloud that is the future, looming over every aspect of the human life as a result of the climate crisis we are facing. ... Read more

Poet Kevin Spenst loves love. Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse (Anvil Press), the third in a trilogy that explores how our hearts are shaped, is proof of that. Below, Kevin shares a selection of readings from the collection, delivering an emotional intensity sure to blast ... Read more

In her third book of poetry Q & A (Book*hug Press) Adrienne Gruber delivers a poetic memoir about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum after the birth of her first child. Divided into chronological sections on each time period, the collection explores the history of pregnancy ... Read more

This year’s International Women’s Day is all about advocating for balance—whether it’s in the boardroom or on your own bookshelf. And while diversity in literature is something we should always be thinking about, a good first step toward gender-balance is celebrating ... Read more

From favourite summertime reading spots to tasty nutritious meals to the start of this month's book club, this week was a mid-summer treat.

In her first collection page as bone – ink as blood (Talonbooks), Métis/Icelandic poet Jónína Kirton seeks to access the "blood memory" of herself, her ancestors, and the lands she's from, divining family secrets, gifts, and curses. She tells us about blood memories, ... Read more

This week we wished away winter with our staff spring preview, shared thoughts from author Adam Pottle on disability and writing satire, and learned more about a displaced Vancouver community in an essay from Chelene Knight.