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<p>Spat Ryan has demons. They haunt him by day and share his drink at night.

<p><b>Shortlisted for the City of Hamilton book award</b></p> <p>At times comic, tender, dark, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin’s latest fiction collection marvels

<p><i>Toy Gun</i> continues the exploration of character and fate on the streets of Vancouver that began with the novel <i>Stupid Crimes</i> (1992) and continued in &l

<p>Pamela Stewart is a self-described ?literary proctologist,? and her writing often looks into places that people generally don?t want to look.

<p>ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015</p> <p>Winner, Type Books Award</p> <p>In this daring act of self-examination and confession, the late novelist Nelly Arcan explores the

<p>Winner, ReLit Award (Novel)</p> <p>CBC Books' "Writers to Watch" Pick</p> <p>Nate’s nervous mother chews gum at warp speed and has a bob that resembl

<p>Fiction Pick, <i>Broken Pencil Magazine</i></p> <p><i>Suburban Pornography</i> is contemporary literature, which documents Canadian urban life in a raw

<p>Winner, 3-Day Novel Contest </p> <p><i>Tacones</i> is a hangout for a subculture of outlaws and rejects--crackhead murderers, transvestite prostitutes, biastogeront

<p>Reissued as part of Anvil Press's Lost BC Literature series</p> <p>Set in Vancouver in the mid-1960s, <i>Mirror on the Floor</i> focuses on one summer in the l

<p><i>The Dreamlife of Bridges</i> is the debut novel from Vancouver writer Robert Strandquist.

<p>”To give a feeling of Christopher Gudgeon’s new collection, let’s turn to the story that gives the book its name.

<p>New Edition as part City of Vancouver’s Legacy Book Project, with foreword by historian Daniel Francis</p> <p><i>Who Killed Janet Smith?</i> examines one of the mos

<p>Longlisted for the ReLit Award</p> <p>Best Fiction 2006, <i>Ottawa Xpress</i></p> <p><i>Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit</i> is a singularly Ca

<p><i>Five Little Bitches</i> chronicles the rise and fall of the all-woman band, Wet Leather.

<p>Homelessness is not new to Vancouver. There have been homeless people in Vancouver since it was founded in 1886.