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October is national library month! Libraries across the territory are celebrating Yukon Public Libraries Week October 18-23.
Love your local library! Read More »
October is national library month! Libraries across the territory are celebrating Yukon Public Libraries Week October 18-23.
Love your local library! Read More »
Owen Laukkanen is unabashedly a writer of commercial fiction, also known as “genre” fiction, having produced a novel every year since The Professionals came out (and was nominated for four major genre awards) in 2012.
Owen Laukkanen: “Keep writing and edit your own work ruthlessly” Read More »
PHOTO: Dan Davidson The Yukon Writers’ Festival takes place May 2 through 5, with events throughout the Yukon In 1990, a number of organizations
Gearing up to explore ideas and the written word Read More »
In keeping with this column’s focus on Yukon related material, I’m returning this week to a successful thriller that is set in a version of
Strange things won from the midnight sun Read More »
Summer, 1972 Pierre Berton recreated a trip he had taken back in the 1930s rafting from Bennett Lake to Dawson City.
Drifting Home covers 3 generations of Bertons Read More »
Auguries, by Clea Roberts Whitehorse author Clea Roberts newest book, Auguries, is published by Brick Books. The title “Auguries” refers to an ancient practice of
Fresh poetic summer reads Read More »
The Yukon Imagination Library — non-profit organization that gives free books to Yukon children from birth to age four — is turning 10 this year.
There’s Always a Stack of Books Hidden Under Their Quilts Read More »
James Bernard MacKinnon, commonly bylined as J.B. MacKinnon, will be coming to the Yukon from Vancouver to be the Yukon Public Libraries’ choice as a
Writing as a Full Time Profession Read More »
Born in England, but transplanted to Newfoundland when she was very young, Kathleen Winter credits libraries with kick starting her interest in writing. “We moved
A Mentor for Yukon Young Writers Read More »
Built in 1987, the Yukon College Library opened in 1988. It’s a place of constant change and with a budget for renovations in the area
From Library to Learning Commons Read More »
There’s a warm glow as soon as you step inside the front doors of Hospice Yukon – a feeling of being held, as if inside
When You’re Ready, The Door is Open Read More »
Libraries are the most thrilling silent spaces to walk into; to me, they’re goldmines of intrigue. But when going in blind, the variety and selection
How to Choose a Library Book Read More »
“There’s no ‘should’ or ‘should not’ when it comes to having feelings. They’re part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control.
I have become bread-obsessed. There is a fine layer of all-purpose flour on surfaces in rooms nowhere near the kitchen. A person suffering from
Writing poetry since she was a child, Nova Scotia based author Shauntay Grant says she has always loved creative writing. “The oldest poem I’ve kept
Fresh Words and Deep Roots Read More »
There are six bookcases in my study, and two of those are arranged so that I can shelve paperbacks on both sides of them. On
The (Book) Case for Real Books Read More »
Sharon Shorty and I first met back in 2005 when I worked at the Yukon College Library with her awesome husband, Derek Yap. Sharon was
The FBI hunt for slippery John Dillinger was the match of the century. He was the bureau’s first public enemy number one during the crime
Wanted: Dead or Alive Read More »
Something new was added to the Takhini Hot Springs Road neighbourhood, where I live, last fall. We now have a Little Free Library at Bean
The Little Free Library that Could Read More »
Books really get around in the Yukon. On a behind-the-scenes tour of the Whitehorse Public Library, with Joyce Kashman, librarian, and Julianne Ourom, director of
It’s Not About “Shushing” Anymore Read More »
When Bette Colyer arrived in Whitehorse in 1961, her challenge was “to build a library system from a desk and a pencil.” Born in Cape
World of Words: The Yukon’s Rugged Librarian Read More »
Imagine a new book mailed to every child, every month, until they are five years old. That’s what Dolly Parton did. Now imagine literacy in
My first exposure to the Yukon came last December, when I arrived in Dawson City for a stint as writer-in-residence at Berton House. Like many
I have to give credit to my wife for this column. Leonie suggested we take a trip to the Whitehorse Public Library, something I have
Free Fun at the Library Read More »