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09/18/2025

It's here! "Wilderness Mother" by Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski is featured on the cover of BC BookWorld!
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09/05/2025

A Current through the Flesh is "on the truck" from the printer - music to a publisher's ears because it means the book is almost here and we can get it into the hands of its author Richard-Yves Sitoski very soon!
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08/29/2025

Congratulations to Trevor Marc Hughes whose book The Final Spire won the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Award for Non-Fiction. One of the judges remarked that “The writing is vivid and graphic, we feel the rough granite under our hands, the frigid wind on our face, the ice crunching beneath our feet.”

08/23/2025

It’s that exciting time of year – another book off to the printer! Wilderness Mother by Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski wil be available Oct 6. Wayne Johnston, author of Jennie’s Boy and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, says "To read Wilderness Mother is to step back into a time when courage and honesty and integrity were not yet verging on extinction. Deanna Kawatski’s hope-filled, generous and joyous voice deserves its resurgence.”
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08/21/2025

Coming this fall from Ronsdale Press! Richard-Yves Sitoski's evocative, unsettling new poetry collection A Current through the Flesh

"Dad’s attitude to popular music led to some other interesting situations. As a middle-school rebel, I sought ways to get on his nerves, and succeeded beyond my wildest dreams by buying the heaviest, hardest, most headlong and flat-out intense album in rock-and-roll history: Supertramp’s Breakfast in America. To Dad, Rick, Roger, and the boys were just about the most over-the-top outfit since the S*x Pistols. He would get apoplectic on the subject, convinced that this kind of music was literally ruining my mind. so much so that during one of our many flights from his drunkenness, he hid all my albums on me, stuffing them in the back of my closet where I’d be out of range of their pernicious influence."

Poet and spoken-word artist Richard-Yves Sitoski shares a playlist to accompany his new collection A CURRENT THROUH THE FLESH (Ronsdale Press) and the personal history behind each track.

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08/13/2025

Thank you to Brittany Coy-Pinnock for this poignant review of Rosalind Goldsmith's Inside the House Inside “This literary risk of a collection is meant for readers who want to feel things and aren’t too hung up on whether or not those feelings are pleasant. It is about the brute savagery of survival. It is about the complicated haven our minds weave out of denial and delusion and hope and love after our cries for help go unanswered.” Humber Literary Review
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White World By Saad Farooqi BAIT & SWITCH (essays, reviews, conversations, and views on Canadian poetry) By Jim Johnstone  Inside the House Inside  By Rosalind Goldsmith   Story is a State of Mind: writing and the art of creative curiosity&nbs

07/30/2025

"Untold Tales of Old British Columbia" received a rave review in BC Studies! "Succinctly weaving together consequential Indigenous histories, underappreciated political connections, and compelling biographies, Marshall’s work is an exciting tour de force."
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07/21/2025

I love Deirdre’s complex, difficult, intriguing protagonist Frida in her novel “A Reluctant Mother.” Hear Deirdre discuss her development of the character in this podcast conversation with Megan Cole of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes.
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ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, host Megan Cole talks to Deirdre Simon Dore. Deirdre is the author of A Reluctant Mother. A Reluctant Mother is a finalist

07/12/2025

You can see Deirdre live at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts - Aug 17 at 2:20pm. This interview will give you a taste of her debut novel A Reluctant Mother!

This week on Writing the Coast we have a conversation with Deirdre Simon Dore. Deirdre is the author of A Reluctant Mother (published by Ronsdale Press), which is a finalist for the 2025 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In her conversation with host Megan Cole, Deirdre talks about why we need messy and complicated protagonists. She also talks about how she developed her character, Frida. To listen visit: https://soundcloud.com/bcyukonbookprizes/s7-e5-deirdre-simon-dore-on-why-we-need-messy-and-complicated-protagonists/s-GbDvTMC06TP?si=8e63a045a11b46619833ccc0879da1e1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

07/10/2025

Author Trevor Marc Hughes shows off an antique ice axe used by mountain climbers in the 1920s in this new video from Ronsdale Press
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07/08/2025

Congratulations to Tom Brodbeck! His book "Treaties, Lies and Promises" WON the Manitoba Historical Society's Margaret McWilliams Award for Popular History!
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