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Cretan-Canadian Poet, Manolis Aligizakis, who has published over 20 poetry books and 11 major translation works has been nominated for the USD 50,000 Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award in Warsaw, Poland. Learn more via: https://bcbooklook.com/manolis-nominated-for-polish-award/

Finally got to meet Iryna Spica in person. She is a brilliant book designer and the “mid-wife” for my first book. Photo by the award winning camera man, friend, and fellow author, Mike Varga. 🍸

VFA Welcome to Victoria Festival of Authors, Vancouver Island’s largest, and liveliest, celebration of books and book lovers.

Time to polish off all your drafts and enter them into the FBCW Literary Contests! Details: bcwriters.ca/2022-Contests

It's one of our favourite times here at House of Anansi: our submissions portal is open! The editorial team is ready and waiting to dive into your best fiction, poetry, and nonfiction projects — we’re especially interested in seeing creative nonfiction this time around. Show us your stuff!

Our submissions portal is now open! 🎉

A special note from our new publisher, Leigh Nash:

"It’s one of our favourite times here at House of Anansi: our submissions portal is open! The editorial team is ready and waiting to dive into your best fiction, poetry, and nonfiction projects — we’re especially interested in seeing creative nonfiction this time around. Show us your stuff!"

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3zlBrEB

Local resident, Allen Specht, has just published a history of one of Fairfield's
most colorful heritage buildings, the apartment house on lower Cook Street,
named Hampton Court. The book is available at Books and Shenanigans (347 Cook St.), Ivy's Book Shop (Oak Bay Ave.) and via the author by emailing [email protected].

Allen Specht, retired archivist (RBCM) and author of several works about
B.C.'s and Victoria's history, presents the history of one of Victoria's most
colorful heritage buildings, the apartment house named Hampton Court.
This amply-illustrated book tells the story of those who created Hampton
Court, those who took it as their home and those who saved it from demolition.

Happy Holidays! I hope all of your Christmas wishes come true.

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Calling all poets! The CBC Poetry Prize is now open | CBC Books You could win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre and have your work published on CBC Books. The deadline to enter is May 31, 2021.