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Spring 2017 Volume 31 JANE RULE LETTERS P.9 • YOUR FREE GUIDE TO BOOKS & AUTHORS NONO NEWSNEWS ISIS BADBAD NEWSNEWS Ian Gill lambastes BC media moguls PAGE 20 BOOKWORLD PAGE 20 VOL. 31 • NO. 1 • SPRING 2017 “I was in my twenties, living away from home for the first time. I had very little contact with my family. I was asking myself many questions about race, identity, politics, and art.” RAWI HAGE PHOTO MADDIE’SMADDIE’S ASCENTASCENT BookerBooker shortlistedshortlisted novelistnovelist DON’T AGONIZE, MadeleineMadeleine ThienThien isis profiledprofiled inin ourour ORGANIZE! FICTIONFICTION ISSUEISSUE afterafter winningwinning bothboth thethe GillerGiller andand GovernorGovernor General’sGeneral’s AwardsAwards PAGESPAGES 25-3925-39 P.28 PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT THE PIANIST & THE KNITTER #40010086 Faculty: “Perfect amount of speakers, sessions, Alice Acheson and attendees. I feel inspired and not Elizabeth Austen overwhelmed. I am looking forward Paula Becker to 2017!” Daniel James Brown Tara Fort Jonathan Evison Prescott, AZ Waverly Fitzgerald 2016 Conference Attendee Sean Fletcher Inspiration into Action Andrea Hurst Dan Larner Samuel Ligon Friday and Saturday Gary Copeland Lilley Priscilla Long June 23 & 24, 2017 Kelly Magee Tod Marshall Whatcom Community College Anis Mojgani Kathleen Dean Moore Bellingham, Washington Ijeoma Oluo Rena Priest Andy Ross www.chuckanutwritersconference.com presented by Left: Original serigraph titled “Along Chuckanut Drive” by Nancy McDonnell Spaulding, commissioned by Chuckanut Bay Gallery, www.chuckanutbaygallery.com NANAIMO APRIL 27-30, 2017 JOIN US May 19th - 21st, 2017 SPRING WRITES Prestige Harbourfront Resort Salmon Arm, BC FESTIVAL Whatever level of writer Presenters: you may be Gail Anderson - Dargatz you’ll want to be part of Lorelei Fiset this inspiring weekend Jacqueline Guest Blu & Kelly Hopkins HOSTED BY on the shores of Theresa Kishkan THE FEDERATION OF BC WRITERS spectacular Myrna Kostash Shuswap Lake Halli Lilburn George Opacic THREE MASTER CLASSES: Anna Comfort O’Keeffe STEVEN PRICE (FICTION) Expect to be encouraged, Cea Sunrise Person informed and thoroughly Patrick Taylor ANGIE ABDOU (CREATIVE NON-FICTION) entertained. John Vaillant Jill Veitch KATHY PAGE (SHORT STORIES) Sheri-D Wilson PLUS WORKSHOPS, A PUBLISHING FAIR, A GALA EVENING, BLUE PENCIL SESSIONS, WRITE-INS, READINGS, AND MORE! FOUR DAYS FULL OF EVENTS, ALL FREE OR AFFORDABLE, on the Lake IN DOWNTOWN NANAIMO, BC Writers’ Festival LEARN MORE AND REGISTER AT BCWRITERS.CA Find out what these published authors and industry professionals can do for you. Register at: www.wordonthelakewritersfestival.com 2 BC BOOKWORLD SPRING 2017 EOPLE TOPSELLERS* P Ron Smith BCThe Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke (Ronsdale $22.95) Wade Davis Wade Davis: Photographs (D&M $39.95) Colin Henthorne The Queen of the North Disaster: The Captain’s Story (Harbour $24.95) Aaron Chapman The Last Gang in Town (Arsenal Pulp Press $24.95) SHOUT,SHOUT, Chelene Knight is working with mentor Jen Sookfong Lee on a novel set in PHOTO 1950s Vancouver, in the area known as EHLERS Hogan’s Alley. GREG SHOUT,SHOUT, Jay Currie Jay Currie What the Shell? Start & Run a Marijuana Dispensary or Pot Shop t a gas pump, Stephen Collis (Self -Counsel Press $22.95) LET IT ALL OUT notices an LED message crawl: Shelley Adams Help Shell change the world. He Whitewater Cooks with Passion A▼ collects such nuances for his amalgam of (Sandhill Book Marketing $34.95) Room, Canada’s oldest feminist liter- protest-driven poetry and “militant sincer- John Armstrong ary journal, is celebrating its longevity ity,” Once in Blockadia (Talon $18.95), A Series of Dogs partly a response to being named in a $5.6 (New Star $21) with a 400-page, retrospective anthology, million lawsuit unsuccessfully launched Derek von Essen & Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine. by U.S. energy giant Kinder Morgan. Phil Saunders (text) Lawyers cited Collis’ writing as a mobi- No Flash, Please! (Underground ROOM lizing force for protestors who stymied Music in Toronto 1987-92) E ASKED CURRENT EDITOR CHELENE KNIGHT TO the company’s exploratory boreholes on (Anvil Press $28) reflect on how the publication has affected Burnaby Mountain. John Knox her life as a writer. It’s hard to live up to being called “the Hard Knox: Musings from the Edge of ✫ most dangerous poet in Canada” but Canada (Heritage House $19.95) “I was a shy, paranoid, weird kid who never spoke Collis is doing his anti-capitalist darnd- W est, documenting his travels from the and instead just wrote a lot; I spoke through writing. I had no idea I could shape this skill into a career, and I definitely Alberta Tar Sands to Wordsworth’s Lake District for Once in Blockadia—a term did not know there was a community of writers just like me out there coined by Naomi Klein. His combina- feeling the same way. tion of transcripts and memoir has been Room “Before I stumbled onto magazine, I was steadily writing named as one of three finalists poetry and awkwardly-worded 750-word-limit parenting magazine for this year’s George Ryga articles, so why would a well-established literary magazine of such Award for Social Awareness, to stature have any interest in a young girl with limited experience? be presented in June. The other finalists are Wade Davis “Room magazine was the first Canadian literary periodical to for Wade Davis: Photo- publish my work. graphs (D&M $39.95) Margriet Ruurs Room “ magazine was the first literary magazine to say “hey, we and Eric Jamieson’s Margriet Ruurs want you to be a part of this.” The Native Voice: The & Nizar Ali Badr “Room magazine said, ‘your voice matters’ and they meant it. Story of How Maisie Stepping Stones: Hurley and Canada’s A Refugee Family’s Journey “I know for a fact that many women who have published with First Aboriginal News- (Orca Books $20) Room over the past 40 years can easily say the same. Room has paper Changed a Na- instilled an unwavering sort of pride in every woman that comes Bev Sellars tion (Caitlin $24.95). Price Paid: The Fight for on board whether staff, volunteer, or contributor. I keep saying First Nations Survival PHOTO Stephen Collis is one (Talonbooks $19.95) this aloud to myself and it is incredible to say, I am a part of this. of three fi nalists for TELLO Room is making sure the story, the voice, and the woman are the Ryga Award for Holly Crichton Social Awareness in No Way to Run: A Mother and Son Room heard at equal volumes, above anything else. At , we can shout.” CARLOS Literature. Story of Surviving Abuse (Caitlin Press $24.95) Publication Mail Agreement Contributors: John Moore, All BC BookWorld reviews are posted at #40010086 Joan Givner, Mark Forsythe, www.abcbookworld.com Douglas E. Delaney Return undeliverable Alex Van Tol, David Conn, BC Canadian addresses to: Cherie Thiessen, Jeremy Serge Marc Durflinger BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Twigg, James Paley, Capturing Hill 70: Canada’s Forgot- Vancouver, BC, Canada V6R 2S3 ten Battle of the First World War BOOKWORLD Caroline Woodward, Caitlin Woods-Rotering (UBC Press $34.95) Produced with the sponsorship of Spring 2017 Writing not otherwise We gratefully acknowledge the unobtrusive Pacific BookWorld News Society. assistance of Canada Council, a continuous partner since credited is by staff. Volume 31 • Number 1 Publications Mail 1988, and creativeBC, a provincial partner since 2014. Jedediah Loeks Registration No. 7800. Design: Get-to-the-Point Graphics The Permaculture Market Garden Publisher/Writer: BC BookWorld ISSN: 1701-5405 Consultants: (New Society $39.95) Alan Twigg Advertising & editorial: Christine Rondeau, Sharon Jackson Editor/Production: BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Photographers: * The current topselling titles from major David Lester Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6R 2S3 Barry Peterson, Laura Sawchuk BC publishing companies, in no particular order. Tel/Fax: 604-736-4011 Proofreaders: In-Kind Supporters: Associate Editor: Email: bookworld@telus.net Wendy Atkinson, Tara Twigg Simon Fraser University Library; Beverly Cramp Annual subscription: $25 Deliveries: Ken Reid, Acculogix Vancouver Public Library; UBC Library. 3 BC BOOKWORLD SPRING 2017 P EOPLE Aaron Chapman (centre) with former members of the Clark Park gang in Clark Park. WhenWhen gangsgangs usedused fistsfists ANCOUVER’S SECOND OLDEST URBAN PARK, CLARK PARK, IS THE FOCUS OF The latest Vancouver author/historian Aaron Chapman’s The Last addition Gang in Town. At this location in the early 1970s the Clark I just shot Dad Park Gang evolved into one of that era’s most notorious street to the V gangs. In 1972, after the gang was involved in a number NE NIGHTMARISH DAY, Literary Map of headline-making clashes with police, including the ‘Rolling Holly Crichton of B.C. Stones riot’ outside the Pacific Coliseum, the Vancouver Police Depart- got a call from her will be an ment formed an undercover squad to go after the gang. Hostile inter- youngest son Mat allocation for actions culminated in a shooting death of a Clark Park gang member, with the news: “I Clark Park at Danny Teece, age 17. Chapman’s history includes stories from former just shot Dad.” It gang members and undercover police officers who worked to stifle gang was common knowl- 1500 E. 14th Ave., edge to neighbours that Holly and her sons activity. The full title of Chapman’s entirely original Vancouver history O in Vancouver had been victims of her abusive husband is The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Po- for years. Even after Holly and Mat had lice vs. the Clark Park Gang (Arsenal $24.95). 978-1551526713 been disabled in separate accidents, the abuse didn’t subside. The shocker was that police investigators Founders of characterized the elderly A SPANIEL IN father as the victim and Bolen’s & Munro’s they concluded that son THE WORKS will be missed Mat was the aggressor.
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