BC Review Annual Fundraiser

BC Review Annual Fundraiser
A note from Richard Mackie

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Dear friends, supporters, and readers of The British Columbia Review:

On behalf of the Board of Directors and Advisory Board of The British Columbia Review, I must remind readers of our continuing need for financial support. This request for private donations is done annually to keep the review in a healthy state. We are most grateful to the 158 donors who contributed to our previous fundraiser — up from 111 in 2021. Thank you, everyone!

Our coverage of books is unmatched by any publication in Canada, digital or print, national or regional. We posted 348 reviews in 2022, and so far in 2023 — under the energetic leadership of interim editors Trevor Marc Hughes and Brett Josef Grubisic — we have published 290.

Our change in name in 2022 from The Ormsby Review has helped bring readers from all corners of British Columbia to our site. Every day some 300 people look at 1000 pages. Readers, authors, publishers, and bookstores rely on us increasingly for the latest from BC writers, and we post regularly on our Facebook, X, and Instagram accounts.

Unlike publications with a paywall, The British Columbia Review is free to anyone with access to the internet. But it is only free because we receive grants, private donations from our friends, and advertising revenue from publishers. We acknowledge the generous support of grants from Creative BC and the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Book Fund) and of publishers across Canada whose banner ads appear on all our pages. These sources of income allow us to pay our hard-working editors and our capable and knowledgeable reviewers. Last year we paid $25,200 to our editors and $24,000 to our reviewers in $100 honoraria.

Please consider showing your support by making a donation by PayPal, Interac e-transfer, or cheque through our secure donate button on our website.

Send cheques made out to the Ormsby Literary Society to:

Ormsby Literary Society
c/o The British Columbia Review
1865 Kitchener Street
Vancouver, BC
V5L 2W5

We can send you a receipt, but it won’t be tax deductible because we are a society, not a charity.

Finally, may I also invite you to join the 500+ people who subscribe to The British Columbia Review? Sign up here to receive an email with every third post. There is no cost to this.

Thank you for supporting The British Columbia Review.

Yours sincerely,

Richard Somerset Mackie
Publisher, The British Columbia Review

PS I’m delighted to add that Kelowna artist Wayne Wilson has sent me ten watercolour bookmarks on feather and tree patterns painted on BC topographic maps. These will be sent to the first ten donors. Please see below for a photo of the bookmarks. Thanks, Wayne!

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The British Columbia Review

Editors, 2023-24: Trevor Marc Hughes (non-fiction), Brett Josef Grubisic (fiction)

Publisher: Richard Mackie

Formerly The Ormsby Review, The British Columbia Review is an on-line book review and journal service for BC writers and readers. The Advisory Board consists of Jean Barman, Wade Davis, Robin Fisher, Barry Gough, Hugh Johnston, Kathy Mezei, Patricia Roy, Maria Tippett, and Graeme Wynn. Provincial Government Patron (since September 2018): Creative BC. Honorary Patron: Yosef Wosk. Scholarly Patron: SFU Graduate Liberal Studies. The British Columbia Review was founded in 2016 by Richard Mackie and Alan Twigg.

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