Writing BC

SHASHI BHAT is the author of the forthcoming novel, Spinster (McClelland & Stewart, 2027); the story collection Death by a Thousand Cuts (M&S, April 2024), winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, longlisted for the Giller Prize, selected as a Globe and Mail best book of the year, a finalist for…

Doug Beardsley, poet and educator (b at Montréal 27 April 1941). Beardsley is a contemporary Canadian poet whose collections demonstrate his interest in poetic form, religious themes, and Canada’s emergent nationalist movement. A wide-ranging scholar and teacher, he has developed courses on hockey literature and…

GURJINDER BASRAN’s debut novel, Everything Was Good-bye, was the winner of the BC Book Prize, Ethel Wilson Fiction Award in 2011 and named as a Chatelaine Magazine Book Club pick in 2012.The CBC has named her as one of “Ten Canadian women writers you need…

Tanya Boteju (she/her) is an English teacher and writer living on stolen territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, Canada).  Listen to the correct pronunciation of my name here. Her novel, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens (Simon & Schuster, 2019), was named an Indie Top 10…

Since 1991 Coupland has written thirteen novels published in most languages. He has written and performed for England’s Royal Shakespeare Company and is a columnist for The Financial Times of London. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux, DIS and Vice. In 2000 Coupland amplified his visual art production…

Dr. Steven J. Heine is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Social and Cultural Psychology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on a few topics that converge on how people come to understand themselves and the world around them. In particular, he…