Today's Beyond the Page episode features a conversation with Timothy Taylor. Taylor is a
Vancouver-based author, journalist, and creative writing professor. His novels include
Stanley Park, The Blue Light Project, The Rule of Stevens, Storyhouse, and The Rise and
Fall of Magic Wolf. He has also published a collection of short fiction called Silent Cruise,
a nonfiction book called Foodville, and is widely published in magazines. Taylor has won the
Journey Prize and was a finalist or runner up for six other major national fiction prizes in
Canada. Timothy Taylor's debut novel, Stanley Park, which came out in 2001, was nominated for
the Giller and Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize, as well as the Vancouver and BC Book Awards,
and later chosen for One Book, One Vancouver in 2004. And then in 2007, Stanley Park was
selected for the annual Canada Reads Competition, where it was championed by Blue Rodeo Singer,
Songwriter, Jim Cuddy. We met up with Timothy Taylor on July 18th at the 2025 Denman Island
Readers and Writers Festival. Our thanks to the volunteers at the Dora Drinkwater Community
Library for letting us use their space in the island's community hall for our recording session.
