Andrew Battershill
Andrew Battershill is the author of three novels. He was the 2019 Winner of the ReLit Award, and his work has been longlisted for the Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award. He works as a public…
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction, and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated…
Gurjinder Basran
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…
Irene Baird
Irene Baird was a notable British-Canadian author and journalist, born in 1901 in Carlisle, England, and later immigrating to Canada at the age of eighteen. After marrying Robert Baird in Vancouver, she became a prominent voice during her time, particularly…