Congratulations to the not-so-retired Barbara Tomlin
Barbara Tomlin, a WCEA founding partner, is one of the winners of the 2022 CANSCAIP Writing for Children Competition.
Good times, gin and tonics, and gossip in the graveyard
Last month, WCEA partners gathered for a long-overdue celebration of former partner Frances Peck’s retirement.
New novel by a WCEA alumna
Congratulations to WCEA partner alumna Frances Peck on the publication of her debut novel, The Broken Places, officially out in April 2022 from NeWest Press and available for preorder in bookstores now. Frances is part of the lineup at the…
Editing, writing, training for 30 years
May 2022 marks 30 years since Nancy Flight, Anne Norman, Claudette Reed Upton, Lois Richardson, John Ricker, Barbara Tomlin, and Yvonne Van Ruskenveld formed West Coast Editorial Associates (WCEA). What do you give a partnership on its 30th anniversary? Pearls?…
New year, new learning
As we say goodbye to the roller coaster of 2021 and welcome the new year, we also bid adieu to our affiliate partner, Frances Peck. Frances has hung up her training cloak to focus on creative writing; her first novel,…
And the award goes to…
We always love hearing the results of book awards, and we’re proud that WCEA partners have worked on some of the books recognized this fall. Baking Day with Anna Olson: Recipes to Bake Together, by Anna Olson (Appetite by…
Seen | Together
Congratulations to former WCEA partners Georgina Montgomery and Louise Oborne on their first collaborative art exhibition, Seen | Together. Opening today, October 15, at Errant artSpace in Victoria, the joint exhibition was a year in the making and a long-time…
New book by WCEA partner sheds light on watersheds
Rowena Rae has another new book out this month with Orca Book Publishers. (Our prolific partner also had a book out in August, the third in her Meg and Greg series, and she has another two titles forthcoming in 2022.)…
A nuanced look at Nature Out of Balance
Congratulations to our partner Merrie-Ellen Wilcox on the launch of her new book, Nature Out of Balance: How Invasive Species Are Changing the Planet. Merrie-Ellen’s third book, and her second in the Orca Footprints series, looks at how invasive species—humans…
Cover story
We’re delighted to see partner Rowena Rae and her sister, Elspeth, are the cover story on BC Booklook. The pair are the authors of the Meg and Greg series of chapter books for six- to nine-year-olds who struggle with reading.…