Spring is in the air, and the literary events are picking up, sprouting like crocuses. Here are some great events to get you in from the spring drizzle.
Growing Room, which began yesterday evening with a fantastic event at the Fox Cabaret, continues throughout the weekend, March 1-4, with workshops, panels, discussions, and readings. Read our feature with programming director Chelene Knight to understand the importance of this literary festival.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/growing-room-2018/
The Journey Forward, Novellas on Reconciliation: Two voices, two stories, two covers, one book.Lucy & Lola by Monique Gray Smith & When We Play Our Drums, They Sing! by Richard Van Camp launches this weekend, Saturday, March 3. These middle-grade novellas on Reconciliation are by award-winning authors Monique Gray Smith and Richard Van Camp and will be bound together in a “flipbook” format with gorgeous cover art and interior spot illustrations by Julie Flett.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/launch-journey-forward-novellas-reconciliation/
LifeTree Media is co-hosting an all-day conference on book publishing on Tuesday, March 6. Learn from industry experts such as Nancy Flight of Greystone Books, and entrepreneurs who have made their own leap into publishing such as Lousie Green (Big Fit Girl).
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-publishing-boot-camp/
Both sides of the strait feature crime book events this Tuesday, March 6. The Crime Writers of Canada continues their 35th-anniversary celebration at Munro’s Books in Victoria with Janet Brons, Stan Evans, George Mercer, and Kay Stewart.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/crime-writers-canadas-35th-anniversary-victoria/
And in Vancouver, join Sam Wiebe, Dietrich Kalteis, Eve Lazarus, and Kate Bird as they tackle the facts and fictions of Vancouver crime at Book Warehouse on Tuesday, March 6.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/vancouver-crime-fiction-fact/
Poet Mercedes Eng will be at Mosaic Books in Kelowna on Wednesday, March 7 to read from her latest poetry collection, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes (Talonbooks). The long poem was inspired combines text from government questionnaires, reports, and corporate websites, lyric poetry, and photography, to examine the prison system in Canada. It examines the systemic racism of the Canadian prison system through the personal lens of her own family history.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/prison-industrial-complex-explodes-mercedes-eng-kelowna/