Whistler Writers Festival presents The Literary Cabaret, with Lee Maracle (Hope Matters and My  Conversations with Canadians), plus a host of other authors. The authors will read while musicians enhance their reading performances. Ticketed event.  

BookFest Windsor presentsBFW19 Panel #3: Poetry: with Gwen Benaway, author of Holy Wild. Also with Melanie Janisse Barlow and Jim Johnstone. Tickets for BookFest Windsor are on sale at Eventbrite or in person at Biblioasis Bookstore 1520 Wyandotte Street W., Windsor, or at the door before each event. All prices are listed on the BookFest […]

Whistler Writers Festival presents New Voices Rising, with Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of I am a Body of Land, and more. Ticketed event.

Vancouver Writers Fest presents Hope Matters, with Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter. “Hope frees, hope relieves; hope moves us… In the end, Hope Matters.” So begins a powerful collection of poetry from literary matriarch, Lee Maracle, and her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, depicting the journey of Indigenous peoples from colonialism to […]

Vancouver Writers Fest presents Lee Maracle: A Life’s Work. “A walking history book,” one of the most prolific Indigenous authors in Canada, recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and an Officer of the Order of Canada, mentor, teacher and Stó:lo— mythmaker/storyteller: Lee Maracle’s work in art and activism places her amongst the most influential—and […]

Vancouver Writers Fest presents The Fiction of Belonging, with Derek Mascarenhas, author of Coconut Dreams. Canada’s new generation of authors write powerfully to the challenge of balancing cultures and communities. Derek Mascarenhas’ nationally lauded Coconut Dreams traces Indian Canadian Aiden and Ally Pinto’s youth, growing up in a predominantly white Canadian suburb. First-generation cultural expectations […]