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Skin Like Mine

July 22nd, 2010

Please join us for an evening of poetry Thursday, July 22 @7pm to celebrate the launch of Garry Gottfriedson’s Skin Like Mine. Readings by Garry Gottfriedson, Joanne Arnott and Rita Wong. Read Article

The Devil You Know

July 7th, 2010

Anvil Press invites you to the launch of The Devil You Know by Jenn Farrell.
Thursday, July 22nd, 7pm
Back room at the Railway Club
579 Dunsmuir Street
Reading & signing by author
drinks • tunes • devilish fun

Arsenal Pulp Press is On the Move

July 7th, 2010

This month marks their last in Vancouver’s historic Gastown district; as a result of rising rents (a malady prevalent in Vancouver), Arsenal is picking itself up and moving a few blocks southeast to Chinatown. New address: #101-211 East Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 1Z6. Phone, fax, and email remain the same.

WOMBAT Book Launch!

June 21st, 2010

Anvil Press is pleased to invite you to the book launch for WOMBAT, Rod Filbrandt’s comic strip featuring the titular post-punk, half-cut anti-mascot of the nameless generation that somehow survived both synth-pop and grunge… Read Article

Upcoming New Star Books Events

June 17th, 2010

Islands of Resistance Vancouver launch
Friday, June 25th, 7 pm
Pulpfiction on Main
2422 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
Free admission | refreshments served.

Off the Highway launch
Tuesday, July 13th, 7 pm
The Sylvia Hotel bistro
1154 Gilford Street, Vancouver, BC
Free admission | refreshments available.

13th Anniversary Poetry in Transit Contest Winner Announced

June 7th, 2010

It was a small but satisfying group of entries for the contest we launched to celebrate this year’s Poetry in Transit poets and poems. Read Article

Tradewind Books Honoured at Asian Canadian Writer’s Workshop Community Dinner

May 31st, 2010

(from ricepaper magazine, full article here)
Michael Katz and Carol Frank have published many children and youth books addressing cultural diversity. Titles include Abby’s Birds, The Jade Necklace, Read Article

Talonbooks Launches New Website

May 19th, 2010

Talonbooks’ much-anticipated new website launched on Monday, May 18. Websites have changed dramatically since Talon first went online in the early 1990s, and our new website reflects the current trends and technology. Read Article

Beta of BC E-book Library Live Today at British Columbia Libraries

May 12th, 2010

Vancouver – May 12, 2010 – BC Books Online, a unique and unprecedented e-book collection, is up and running as of today at public and educational libraries throughout British Columbia. (full list of libraries below) Read Article

13th Anniversary Poetry in Transit Contest

April 28th, 2010

To celebrate the April 28th launch of this year’s Poetry in Transit, the ABPBC will be hosting a contest! Did you meet your soul mate while reading a poem together on the bus? Have you gotten into a heated argument with a fellow passenger over a line in a poem? Tell us your best Poetry in Transit story to be in contention to win the grand prize – all 16 books of poetry from this year’s poets. Read Article

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book Launch

April 27th, 2010

Arsenal Pulp Press presents a book launch for The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book. A Powerful and historically accurate graphic portrayal of Indigenous resistance to the European colonization of the Americas, by Vancouver artist and activist Gord Hill. Read Article

Talon’s 2010 Cross-Canada Poetry Tour

April 27th, 2010

Talonbooks invites you to attend the launch of new books of poetry by eight outstanding poets. Read Article

Anosh Irani at the Historic Joy Kogawa House

April 27th, 2010

Please join us in the intimate living room at Historic Joy Kogawa House for a conversation with playwright and novelist Anosh Irani about writing to bring about social change. Read Article

BC Book Prizes 2010 Winners Announced

April 26th, 2010

This year’s gala, emceed by Shelagh Rogers and attended by the Honourable Lieutenant Governor Steven L. Point, took place at Government House in Victoria. The BC Book Prizes were established in 1985 to celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. The prizes are administered and awarded by members of a non-profit society who represent all facets of the publishing and writing community. The West Coast Book Prize Society congratulates all of the winners! Read Article

Read British Columbia Books: Earth Day 2010

April 19th, 2010

Every April 22 is Earth Day –the largest and most celebrated environmental event worldwide. But what does it means to be environmental in today’s world and how do you go beyond reduce, reuse, and recycle? From food security to climate change to guerrilla gardening, BC publishers have the green information you need to be an eco contender any day of the year. Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with BC Books.

Talonbooks author Jeff Derksen, reading & book launch

April 15th, 2010

“Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics”: This reading and critical workshop are part of an ongoing series that runs for the equivalent of one academic year, with one writer a month presenting a reading one evening and participating in a workshop, which will address the theme below, the following day. Read Article

New Star Books author Stan Persky named recipient of the 7th annual Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence

April 15th, 2010

British Columbia’s Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Steven Point, will present the award at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prizes Gala to be held at Government House in Victoria on April 24, 2010. The event will be hosted by broadcaster Shelagh Rogers. Read Article

Read Local, Buy Local: An Earth Day Celebration of BC Books and Magazines

April 14th, 2010

What’s green and read all over? BC books and magazines, which are the focus of over 20 in-store events taking place at Chapters locations in Vancouver and Victoria on Earth Day, April 22, and April 24 and 25. Read Article

Ronsdale Press Invites You

April 9th, 2010

Please join authors Sheila James (author of In the Wake of Loss, Ronsdale Press) and Larissa Lai (author of Automaton Biographies, Arsenal Pulp Press) for the Vancouver launch of In the Wake of Loss. It’ll be at the Wired Monk (corner of 5th and Trafalgar) on April 13th from 7:30 pm. Entry is free.

BC Book Prizes Soirée Invitation

April 1st, 2010

You’re invited!
Every year the BC Book Prizes holds a fundraising soirée to serve as the launch for the Author Tour program and to introduce the finalists to members of the public—and to each other. Read Article

It’s Awards Season . . .

April 1st, 2010

Many ABPBC members have books nominated for this year’s Alberta Literary Awards. For the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Brindle & Glass’ A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing by Cecilia Frey has made the list along with Oolichan Books’ Delivery by Betty Jane Hagerat. Douglas & McIntyre’s Merchant Kings by Stephen Bown is nominated for the Wilfred Eglleston Award for Nonfiction, and Anvil Press’ Frenzy by Catherine Owen is nominated for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Read Article

Book Launch Tonight!

March 26th, 2010

Ronsdale Press invites you to celebrate the launch of Follow the Elephant by Beryl Young.
In this adventure quest for children aged 10 and up, Ben is a troubled 13-year-old taken by his grandmother to India to find her childhood pen pal. Read Article

Congratulations!

March 24th, 2010

Arsenal Pulp Press has three titles shortlisted for the 2010 Lambda Literary Awards for LGBT writing and publishing: The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You by S. Bear Bergman (transgender); I Like It Like That, edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel (gay erotica); and Fist of the Spider Woman, edited by Amber Dawn (LGBT SF/horror/fantasy). The awards will be presented in New York on May 27.

Douglas & McIntyre’s Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, has been nominated for the 2010 Doug Wright Award in the Best Book category. This annual award recognize graphic novels, comics, mini-comics, and experimental comics-based works published in English.

And congratulations to Orca Book Publishers who have two titles nominated for Canadian Library Association Awards. Walking Backward by Catherine Austen is nominated for 2010 Book of the Year for Children Award and Pierre Le Poof!, illustrated by Andrea Beck, is shortlisted for the 2010 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award that recognizes illustrators of books for children up t the age of 12.

BC Book Prizes 2010 Shortlists Announced

March 11th, 2010

Vancouver, BC – The West Coast Book Prize Society is pleased to announce the names of the finalists vying for recognition in seven categories at the 26th Annual BC Book Prizes. Read Article

Member Accolades

February 25th, 2010

We have not just one Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award Nominee in BC as announced last week (D&M Publishers title Daniel O’Thunder by Ian Weir), but two. Congratulations to New Star Books whose title The Briss by Michael Tregebov also made the list.

Congratulations also to Whitecap Books who is very proud to announce that their title Kitchen Scraps has won the Best Food Book Illustrations award at the 2009 Gourmand Awards in Paris, France. Kitchen Scraps is written and illustrated by Pierre Lamielle.

A New Home for Oolichan Books

February 9th, 2010

Fernie, B.C. – In the coming months Oolichan Books will be moving from the shores of Georgia Strait to the mountains of the British Columbia Rockies. Oolichan is pleased to announce that Randal Macnair of Fernie has acquired a majority partnership in Oolichan Books from founder and long-time publisher Ron Smith. Read Article

Read British Columbia: Welcoming the World

February 2nd, 2010

BC’s theatres, art galleries, world-class restaurants, and festivals will be strutting their stuff during the Cultural Olympiad but there’s nothing like curling up with a book. BC publishers welcome visitors to our fine province and invite you to explore the beauty, the history, the literary culture, and the dynamism of our province through our literature. Read Article

BC Books Online Beta Launch

January 20th, 2010

The digital book market has been ramping up over the past few years but 2010 could be the year that that it becomes common currency. Consumers have a multitude of ebook devices to choose from; are avidly downloading and reading their favourite romance novels and short stories on their cellphones, iPhones and BlackBerries; and are remotely browsing digital library collections from their local public library. Read Article

Women on Ice Book Launch in Vancouver

January 20th, 2010

Ronsdale Press invited you to celebrate the launch of Women on Ice: The Early Years of Women’s Ice Hockey in Western Canada by Wayne Norton. Read Article

Please phone your MLA before Christmas to protest the arts funding cuts

December 17th, 2009

We NEED calls in every riding. Numbers here.

Creativity Counts Initiative

December 14th, 2009

Creativity Counts is a call-to-action initiative of the Alliance for Arts and Culture. Our goal is to provide British Columbian arts organizations, individual artists, and patrons and supporters with ideas and tools to express their support for the demand that the BC government restore arts funding in our province to the 2008 / 2009 levels. Read Article

Sorely Needed Optimism Injected into Literary Arts Funding Crisis

December 8th, 2009

The Chair of the BC Arts Council, Jane Danzo, recently shared some good news with those concerned about arts funding in B.C. Read Article

One Hundred Letters Sent to Canada’s Most Literate Premier

November 2nd, 2009

Premier Gordon Campbell is known to be a literate man. He is the only provincial leader who has maintained a personal website about the books he reads. Campbell’s government has even created a $40,000 national literary prize. Read Article

In Shadow of Cuts, BC Books Dominate Governor General’s Literary Awards Shortlist

October 15th, 2009

Of thirty-five books nominated for the 2009 Governor-General’s Literary Awards, English-language, ten are written by BC authors and nine are published by BC publishers. This high BC proportion of shortlisted titles is a testament to the quality of writing and publishing taking place in the province. Read Article

PRESS RELEASE: Literary clearcut prompts quick response

October 9th, 2009

B.C.’s beleaguered literary organizations are forming the Coalition for the Defence of Writing and Publishing in British Columbia one day after the Arts & Culture branch of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture & the Arts (Hon. Kevin Krueger) simultaneously removed all funding from the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia ($45,000), BC BookWorld newspaper ($31,000) and B.C. Association of Magazine Publishers ($20,000) via phone calls from its executive director Andrea Henning, on October 6. Read Article

Douglas & McIntyre Fiction Party during the VIWF

October 2nd, 2009

D&M is in full swing with thier Imagine That fiction campaign and one of the major events they have planned is a party to launch their reinvigorated fiction program, headed up by Chris Labonté. Read Article

SFU Library Special Collections & Rare Books presents talk by Jim Rainer

September 30th, 2009

As part of the SFU Special Collections series, Share the Enthusiasm, Jim Rainer will speak on his career of collecting — book collecting. Read Article

Word On The Street, Sunday, September 27 (11am-5pm), Library Square

September 25th, 2009

The Word On The Street is just two days away! Join us this Sunday as we celebrate reading and literacy on a grand scale. Read Article

Book Launch: American Hunks

September 25th, 2009

Join David L. Chapman and Brett Josef Grubisic for a slideshow presentation and talk on the American male physique from 1860 to 1970. American Hunks is a fascinating collection of Read Article

Book Launch: The Only Thing I Have

September 25th, 2009

Arsenal Pulp Press and Geist Magazine invite you to join Rhonda Waterfall at the launch of her debut story collection The Only Thing I Have. A new and daring voice, Rhonda Waterfall writes with Read Article

Two New Star Books Events

September 15th, 2009

Donato Mancini showcases visual poetry, with Marina Roy and Christian Bok
October 9th – November 3rd, 2009
Gallery Atsui
602 East Hastings, Vancouver, BC

More House book launch
Friday October 9th, 2009, 7 pm
Pulpfiction on Main
2422 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
Free admission, refreshments served.

Whitecap Books Author Gets Shortlisted

September 9th, 2009

Whitecap Books is proud to announce that our author, Rose Murray, has been shortlisted for the 2009 Canadian Culinary Book Awards for her book A Taste of Canada: A Culinary Journey. Read Article

Two Arsenal Pulp Press Events

September 3rd, 2009

Join Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain for the launch of their new book Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti. Read Article

Congratulations!

August 31st, 2009

Congratulations to member publishers longlist for the ReLit Awards. Read Article

Welcome to the new Association of Book Publishers of BC website – it’s been a long time coming.

August 5th, 2009

With this new site the ABPBC will provide information to the public on the business of publishing, as well we will keep our members apprised of cultural and business issues in a timely fashion. Read Article

Copyright, HST and the BC Arts Council

August 5th, 2009

Within the last thirty days several important announcements have been made by federal and provincial governments that will have long-lasting effects on book publishers. Read Article