Wordfest presents Authors Unbound: M. NourbeSe Philip. Description Experience the full intellectual and creative force that is poet, writer, playwright, and former lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip in the 50-seat Motel. Internationally acclaimed, Philip is a Fellow of the Guggenheim and Rockefeller (Bellagio) Foundations and the MacDowell Colony. Her Festival book Blank: Essays and Interviews explores […]

Whistler Writers Festival presents the Literary Cabaret, featuring Sandra Ridley (Silvija) and Leanne Dunic (To Love the Coming End). Local musicians provide a vibrant and improvisational accompaniment to our guest authors as they read and perform from their masterworks. Featuring authors David Chariandy, Leanne Dunic, Terry Fallis, Steven Heighton, Helen Humphreys, Grant Lawrence, Mark Leiren-Young, […]

Whistler Writers Festival presents "Speaking Our Silence –The Poetry of Courage", featuring Sandra Ridley, author of Silvija. Roo Borson, Kevin Connolly, Sandra Ridley and Suzannah Showler. Life’s most meaningful experiences can leave us tongue-tied. But the inexpressible can also transform us. Poets Roo Borson (Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar), Kevin Connolly (Xiphoid Process), Sandra Ridley […]

Wordfest presents Sane Takes on an Insane World, featuring M. NourbeSe Philip, author of Blank. Description This timely showcase features an uncensored conversation with authors whose works explore the vulnerability of human rights in an increasingly polarized world. Be prepared to be challenged, as they delve into hot-button topics such as the refugee crisis, extremist […]

Wordfest presents No Holds Barred, featuring M. NourbeSe Philip, author of Blank. Also with Michael Adams, and Lauren McKeon. Tickets $17 - $20

Draft Reading Series presents Jennifer LoveGrove, author of Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes. More info to come.

The IFOA joins its Etobicoke partners to bring Sylvain Prudhomme, one of the most exciting contemporary novelists in France, to the By the Lake Book Club! He will discuss his most recently translated book The Greats with Wendy O’Brien. In this work, Sylvain Prudhomme revisits the famous 70s music group Super Mama Djombo, as seen through […]

Vancouver Writers Festival presents "Dance to the Coming End", featuring Leanne Dunic, author of To Love the Coming End, The Open Book Art Collective, and The Deep Cove. Leanne Dunic is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer whose debut book, To Love the Coming End, has defied categorization—lyric novel or poetic prose or …? Slipping […]