26. The Strength of Storytelling (VWF)

At the Vancouver Writers Fest

What a gift to be joined by three of the most lauded and creative Indigenous writers, who will share the strength of Indigenous women at the heart of their poignant and moving new novels.

Alicia Elliott’s And Then She Fell was published just this week to rave reviews. Heather O’Neill called it “shocking, riveting, uncomfortable, gorgeous and visionary.” Michelle Porter’s nationally bestselling debut novel A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of Métis women as they tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing. Multi-award-winning author katherena vermette returns with The Circle, an instant bestseller; “this book is truth in all her fluid forms.”—Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Presented in partnership with Penguin Random House and Talking Stick Festival