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WORKSHOP & BOOK LAUNCH: Write for the Reader Brain & Launch of emily & elspeth

Mission Point House 4603 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Davis Bay, BC, Canada

Join us Sunday, March 26, 2 pm, Mission Point House, 4603 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Davis Bay, for two extraordinary guests. Cheryl Stephens, a leader in plain language communications, presents Write for the Reader Brain. Cheryl Stephens found her calling as an educator, trainer, and consultant in communications. For over thirty years she has been writing, […]

Free

READINGS: Regional Spotlight: Clayoquot Writers Group

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The Regional Spotlight series highlights groups and organisations from across British Columbia. This event features readings from David Floody, Heather Hendry, Helen Mavoa, and Joanna Streetly, with FBCW host Meaghan Hackinen. Readers and writers from across the province and beyond are welcome to this showcase celebrating the talent of the Clayoquot Writers Group.

Free – $10.00

Reading: Cedar Bowers, Margaret Fedoruck, Andrea Routley

Community Salon, 1129 Meares Street, Victoria 1129 Meares Street, Victoria, Canada

Astra, by Cedar Bowers Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives, by Margot Fedoruk This Unlikely Soil, by Andrea Routley We’ll have books for sale at the event. Please bring cash.

Community Salon Reading Series: West-Coast Lit with Cedar Bowers, Margot Fedoruk & Andrea Routley

Community Salon, 1129 Meares Street, Victoria 1129 Meares Street, Victoria, Canada

Victoria's only prose reading series presents West-Coast Literature in March! Cedar Bowers will read from her BC and Yukon Book Prizes shortlisted and Giller long-listed debut novel Astra, Margot Fedoruk will read from her debut memoir about life as a sea urchin-diver's wife on Gabriola Island, Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives: An Island Memoir, and […]

Free

WORKSHOP: The Write Stuff: From Memoir to Fiction

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Joseph Kakwinokanasum discusses how writing memoir prepared him for writing fiction, and describes some of the methods and tools he used to write his first novel. A member of the James Smith Cree Nation, Joseph is a graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio and the author of My Indian Summer (Tidewater Press, 2022). Joseph writes on […]

Free – $10.00

READING: Remnants: Reveries of a Mountain Dweller

Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Join Natalie Virginia Lang as she reads from Remnants: Reveries of a Mountain Dweller as part of the Vancouver Public Library's ongoing Writer's Showcase Series. Natalie will be joined by two other authors. After the reading, there will be a Q&A and an opportunity to meet Lang and purchase books for cash. More information can […]

Free

WORKSHOP: Interior Dialogues: Poetry Workshops with Kerry Gilbert and Al Rempel

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Workshop with Kerry Gilbert: “Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.”—Marilyn Hacker How can you make your writing more attractive to readers by paying close attention to energy? This workshop explores ideas around the core principles of energy, including movement/heat, leaps/gaps, energetic word choice, and the use of specifics. “Energy gives your writing power, […]

Free – $10.00

Panel: Speaking the Unspeakable: Black Migration, Living Transformations

Beaumont Studios 316 & 326 W. 5th Ave., Vancouver, BC, Canada

On Wednesday, April 19th at 7pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and the Beaumont Studios for Speaking the Unspeakable: Black Migration, Living Transformations, an evening of conversation in celebration of Suzette Mayr’s new award-winning book The Sleeping Car Porter. A thrilling, visceral novel that explores labour, desire and memory, The Sleeping Car Porter highlights […]

$10 – $15