- 09.28 | 'Every-thynge takes longer than yov thynke' (Shakespeare)
- 05.01 | No news is good news
- 03.02 | Hannah Calder reads at Utopia Festival at W2
- 02.24 | Islands of Resistance nominated for Monday Magazine M Award
- 02.11 | Third Friday reading series debuts at People-Coop Bookstore
- 02.08 | Sweet England and Caprice launch at The Sylvia
- 01.12 | Adam Seelig at Grey Borders Reading Series and on CIUT
- 01.06 | Steve Weiner and Hannah Calder read at the Vancouver Public Library
- 11.25 | Sweet England now available
- 11.24 | George Bowering's Caprice now available
- 11.23 | City of Love and Revolution in stores now
- 11.18 | Spring 2011 catalogue available online now
- 11.16 | City of Love and Revolution launches at the Cultch
- 11.02 | Peter Culley responds to Maxine Gadd and Maxine Gadd reads at RespondencyWest Series
- 10.27 | Carellin Brooks presents on Wreck Beach at Vancouver Historical Society
- 10.18 | Every Day In the Morning (slow) launches at Pulpfiction
- 10.15 | Every Day In the Morning (slow) now available
- 10.05 | Islands of Resistance reviewed in This Magazine
- 10.01 | Every Day in the Morning (slow) launches in New York City
- 09.30 | George Bowering's The Box nominated for 2010 City of Vancouver Book Award
- 09.24 | Mette Bach reads at the Robson Reading Series
- 09.23 | Islands of Resistance gang at Word on the Street
- 09.23 | "Gut-wrenchingly funny"" - The Briss reviewed in subTerrain"
- 09.16 | Poetry bash featuring Barry McKinnon and Simon Thompson to fete new People's Coop Bookstore
- 09.03 | McKinnon's In the Millennium reviewed in Poetry Is Dead
- 09.03 | Thompson's Why Does It Feel So Late? reviewed in Poetry Is Dead
- 09.02 | Two New Star poets chosen for Poetry In Transit
- 09.01 | Robin Blaser launches at The Sylvia Hotel
- 08.10 | Mette Bach film screens at Vancouver Queer Film Fest
- 07.22 | Marathon reading of Bowering's Burning Water in downtown Vancouver
- 07.20 | Mette Bach at International Bog Day
- 07.20 | rob mclennan praises Robin Blaser
- 07.19 | Islands of Resistance launches on Cortes Island
- 07.14 | Off the Highway launches at the Delta Museum and Archives
- 06.30 | Off the Highway launches at The Sylvia Hotel
- 06.21 | High Slack back in print
- 06.15 | Islands of Resistance launches in Vancouver
- 06.11 | Mette Bach's Off the Highway reviewed in policynote.ca
- 06.11 | Islands of Resistance in Monday Magazine
- 06.08 | Islands of Resistance Vancouver Island Launches
- 05.25 | Islands of Resistance Launch
- 04.29 | New Star Fall 2010 catalogue now available online
- 04.16 | George Stanley reads at The Liar launch
- 04.14 | The Georges read at the subTerrain launch
- 04.08 | Stan Persky wins 2010 Lieutenant-Governor's Award
- 04.08 | Donato Mancini reads in Vancouver; Sharon Kirsch presents in Ottawa
- 04.07 | Michael Tregebov profiled in Canadian Jewish News
- 03.22 | Donato Mancini on panel at Noise Not Noise
- 03.22 | New Star authors all over new subTerrain
- 03.17 | Hannah Calder reads at Kootenay School of Writing
- 03.16 | Donato Mancini reads at Clamour and Toll: Church
- 03.04 | Donato Mancini reads at W2010 launch of W magazine
- 03.01 | Donato Mancini print at Western Front Art Auction 2010
- 02.19 | Mette Bach presents at Sikholars: Sikh Graduate Student Conference at Stanford
- 02.18 | The Briss shortlisted for Best First Book in 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize
- 02.18 | The Briss optioned by Submission Films
- 02.17 | Grant Shilling talks surfing on P3: People, Places, Perspectives
- 02.16 | George Bowering reads at inaugural Galiano Island Literary Festival
- 02.15 | Vancouver: A Poem in Canadian Literature
- 02.12 | rob mclennan praises In the Millennium
- 02.11 | Donato Mancini tours Buffet World in Vancouver, Los Angeles
- 02.08 | Vancouver: A Poem alive in Poetry Is Dead
- 02.01 | George Stanley named writer-in-residence at Capilano University
- 01.25 | Barry McKinnon, Simon Thompson launch new books at Books & Company
- 12.07 | New Star Spring 2010 catalogue now available on-line
- 11.30 | In the Millennium by Barry McKinnon now shipping
- 11.23 | North Delta gets its own Transmontanus
- 11.16 | British Columbian Pete Devries rules the waves at Pro Surf Competition
- 11.11 | Bowering launches his Box at Sylvia Hotel
- 11.10 | Terrace writer Simon Thompson launches his first book November 13
- 11.09 | North Delta gets its own Transmontanus
- 10.22 | George Bowering's Box hitting big-box, independent bookstores now
- 10.07 | Donato Mancini reads at the &Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts
- 10.05 | Hannah Calder launches More House at Pulpfiction
- 10.05 | Donato Mancini showcases concrete poetry at the Gallery Atsui
- 08.24 | Michael Tregebov does Canada
- 08.17 | The Walrus in Surrey
- 08.03 | Tyee reporter to pen Sasquatch book
- 07.13 | The Briss: "Outrageously funny,"" says Winnipeg Free Press"
- 06.29 | Melva McLean wins 2009 Tom Fairley Award
- 06.22 | Gerry Gilbert, 1936 -- 2009
- 06.15 | Peter Culley 2009 Mini-World Tour dates announced
- 06.15 | More House and The Briss now shipping
- 06.08 | The Last Best West now available
- 06.08 | David Bromige, 1933 -- 2009
- 05.25 | Asper Nation by Marc Edge reviewed in latest JMCQ
- 05.11 | New Star all over Vancouver Review hitting newsstands this month
- 05.04 | George Stanley in New York May 15 & 17
- 04.20 | Terry Glavin wins Lieutenant-Governor's Award
- 04.06 | Pulpfiction to host Edna Staebler Award ceremony
- 04.02 | Stardust now available for download
- 03.30 | Chiwid reissued with new cover
- 03.20 | Bruce Serafin's Stardust wins Edna Staebler Award for 2008
- 03.13 | Vancouver: A Poem named finalist for Dorothy Livesay Award
- 02.09 | Vancouverism, George Stanley style
- 02.05 | Go Do Some Great Thing featured on The Tyee
- 01.29 | Stranger Wycott's Place reviewed in Sunshine Coast magazine
- 01.28 | Indigo inks deal to carry complete New Star list on website
- 01.23 | If you're going to Barcelona
- 01.21 | Mary Ashworth, 1923 -- 2009
- 01.07 | Peter Desbarats on Asper Nation in new LRC
- 01.06 | Basking Sharks reviewed in BC Studies
- 01.05 | New Star lowers US prices on 32 titles
- 01.02 | Troops on their way to relieve Hill's Bar on Fraser River
- 01.01 | New Star?s new website here at last
- 12.19 | Bruce Serafin's Stardust an Edna Staebler finalist
- 12.11 | New Star?s new catalogue now available
- 12.04 | Sharon Kirsch launches new book at Ben McNally in Toronto
- 11.23 | Ranj Dhaliwal on winning temple slate
- 11.22 | New edition of Bowering?s Shoot! launches
- 10.27 | New NewStarBooks.com goes pre-beta
- 08.01 | Donato Mancini?s AEthel a ReLit finalist
- 07.05 | Globe & Mail reviews Bruce Serafin?s Stardust
The Last Best West now available
Collection from Thompson Rivers U explores what it means to be 'Western Canadian'
2009.06.08 — THE LAST BEST WEST, a book of essays exploring Western Canadian identity, is shipping to stores this week. Official publication date is June 15.
Subtitled An Exploration of Myth, Identity, & Quality of Life in Western Canada, The Last Best West contains essays exploring different aspects of Western Canadian identity. Individual pieces focus on small-town life with respect to rural education, theatre, literature and film, the visual arts, quality of life, and much more. It is edited by ANNE GAGNON, W.F. GARRETT-PETTS, JAMES HOFFMAN, Henry Hubert, Terry Kading, Kelly-Anne Maddox, and Ginny Ratsoy. Other contributors include Tanis MacDonald, Yaying Zhang, Kalli Paakspu, Mervyn Nicholson, Pamela Cairns, Gloria Filax, Kimberley Mair, and Rachel Nash.
The Last Best West is the fruit of a collaboration between New Star Books and the journal TEXTUAL STUDIES IN CANADA, published out of Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC. It is the second book produced by this partnership. Garrett-Petts is an editor of THE SMALL CITIES BOOK: On the Cultural Future of Small Cities, published by New Star in 2005. "