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Marc Edge to launch his 7th book, a new exposé about Canada's news media on April 14, in Vancouver. Learn more: bcbooklook.com/edge-launches-…

In an interview about his memoir, journalist and musician Garth Mullins shares his addiction experiences, activism and joining the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. Read more: bcbooklook.com/on-the-addicti…

Poet and Professor Jeff Derksen’s upcoming eighth poetry book considers work, human rights and what it means when an urban tree is cut down. Read the full interview with the author himself: bcbooklook.com/from-working-c…

The shortlisted writers for the 41st BC & Yukon Book Prizes has been announced and Deirdre Simon Dore, among many other BC authors, is up for one of the 8 BC & Yukon Book Prizes this year. See the full list here: bcbooklook.com/bc-yukon-book-…

Aboriginal law expert, Bruce McIvor explains why he has written answers to 100 essential questions about truth and reconciliation in his new book (Nightwood Editions). Learn more here: bcbooklook.com/bruce-mcivor-i…

This week, BCBookLook highlights Natalie Appleton (TouchwoodPress), Gregor Craigie (Orca Book Publishers), Leigh Joseph (Epic Ink/becker&mayer! kids) and Marion Gonneville (Gabriel Dumont Inst.) for their latest books. Get a taste of their work here: bcbooklook.com/about/whos-who/

The visionary behind the Vancouver Writers Fest, Alma Lee died on March 25. She leaves behind a literary extravaganza that draws 30,000 attendees annually. Learn more about her legacy: bcbooklook.com/r-i-p-alma-lee…

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/#…

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-t…

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-o…

Natalie Lim launched her debut collection of poems, Elegy for Opportunity (Wolsak & Wynn), on Saturday, May 10. Learn more at: bcbooklook.com/lims-debut-poe…

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-da…

BC-based humour writer, Steve Burgess’s Reservations: The Pleasures and Perils of Travel (Douglas & McIntyre) has been longlisted for the 2025 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Read more here: bcbooklook.com/burgess-longli…

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-towa…

This week, BCBookLook highlights Daniel Cowper (MQUP), Isabelle Groc (Orca Book Publishers), Zena Sharman (Arsenal Pulp Press) and Faye Bayko (Tellwell Publishing) for their latest books. Get a taste of their work here: bcbooklook.com/about/whos-who/

Anna Maskerine, a survivor of domestic abuse tells her story and how she escaped through her latest book, Beneath My Scars (Caitlin Press). Read the full review here: bcbooklook.com/how-did-i-beco…

Rebecca Wood Barrett launches her second kidlit book on June 3, at the Whistler Public Library. Learn more here: bcbooklook.com/barrett-launch…

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-who/

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-myst…

Dora Prieto and Jess Goldman win the RBC Bronwen Wallace Awards Emerging Writer awards of $10,000. Learn more here: bcbooklook.com/bc-writers-win…