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Presented in partnership with BCIT School of Business + Media and Libro.fm, and with the generous support of Hotfusion Communications Inc.
Binge-watching worthy of book lovers — get front-row, online access to the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest!
This year’s flagship Festival brought together celebrated authors from across Canada and the world, inspiring brilliant dialogues to spark empathy, action, and transformation. Now, experience it again—or for the very first time—with the Digital Festival: a curated selection of 26 outstanding, full-length events from our 2025 Festival, each professionally-recorded and fully captioned. Watch on your own schedule from wherever you are, from December 16 through February 2.
Buy a pass, get a free audiobook! You’ll receive a free audiobook credit from our friends at Libro.fm when you purchase a Digital Festival pass at regular price ($100). Your credit can be used for an audiobook of your choice from their catalog of 500,000+ audiobooks. Credits will be e-mailed once the Digital Festival ends.
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Give the gift of literature! Enjoyable over the winter holidays and beyond, the Digital Festival makes a meaningful gift for any book lover, and can be delivered by email as soon as you purchase it, or whenever you choose. Print this festive gift certificate if you’d like to give your recipient something that can be slipped in a card or stocking. |
Sliding Scale Pricing:
$100 – Regular Price Pass
$25–50 – Pay What You Can
$10 – Accessible Price Pass
If the payment options provided present a barrier to you, please reach out to us at boxoffice@writersfest.bc.ca.
Join the global audience. We hope these events, many of which were sold out weeks prior to the Festival, will reach people far and wide. These events represent the world-class standards we hold ourselves to in sharing books and ideas with our community, including recording high quality videos of our events and livestreaming Youth events for free during the Festival. For those unable to attend in person (or who couldn’t be in two places at once!), we’re proud to provide this online offering for a limited time.
2025 Digital Festival Line-Up
26 full-length events from the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest are included in this all-access pass (click the title to view the description from our October Festival program):
01. Ahead By A Century: Lyrics Night
Featuring Holly Brickley, Jill Yonit Goldberg, Claire Cameron, Yiming Ma, Marcello Di Cintio, David A. Robertson, Antonio Michael Downing, Haley Mlotek, Georgia Toews, Eddy Boudel Tan, Bindu Suresh, Terry Fallis, David Moscrop, and Paul Vermeersch. Hosted by Elamin Abdelmahmoud with DJ Ice B.
02. Blood in the Pen: Stories, Crises, Repair, and the Writer
Featuring Madeleine Thien, Saeed Teebi, and Otoniya J. Okot Bitek. Moderated by Guest Curator Canisia Lubrin.
03. Gems of the Emerald Isle
Featuring Emma Donoghue and Eimear McBride, with harp music by Rebecca Blair. Moderated by Robert J. Wiersema.
04. It Runs in the Family: Georgia and Miriam Toews
Moderated by David A. Robertson.
05. Danielle Leavitt on Seven Lives and One Year in Ukraine
In conversation with Maria Reva.
06. Ronald Deibert on Cyber Espionage and the Fight for Democracy
In conversation with William Johnson.
07. Reconciliation and You
Featuring David A. Robertson and Bruce McIvor. Moderated by Michelle Cyca.
08. Saeed Teebi: You Will Not Kill Our Imagination
In conversation with Adel Iskandar.
09. Cory Doctorow: Enshittification
In conversation with David Moscrop.
10. Writing in Today’s America
Featuring Jess Walter, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Anne de Marcken. Moderated by John Freeman. Regrets: Leila Mottley.
11. Indigenous Voices: A Steady Brightness of Being
Featuring Kyle Edwards, David A. Robertson, and Niigaan Sinclair. Moderated by Stephanie Sinclair.
12. Visions of Chinatown
Featuring Donna Seto and Carol Lee. Moderated by Anna Ling Kaye.
13. On Book Banning and Censorship
Featuring Ira Wells, Mike Curato, and Jeremy Tiang. Moderated by Marian Botsford Fraser.
14. Elbows Up!
Featuring Jen Sookfong Lee, David Moscrop, Niigaan Sinclair, and Leslie Hurtig. Moderated by Elamin Abdelmahmoud.
15. The Conversations
Featuring Elaine Feeney, Jack Wang, and Ian Williams. Moderated by Tara McGuire.
16. Curtis Sittenfeld in Conversation with Alix Ohlin
17. The Feminine Grotesque
Featuring Mona Awad, Jen Sookfong Lee, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Moderated by Mattea Roach.
18. Verses of Transformation
Featuring Danez Smith, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Karen Solie, Cecily Nicholson, Junie Désil, and Paul Vermeersch. Moderated by Guest Curator Canisia Lubrin.
19. Building Suspense
Featuring Terry Fallis, Jonathan Lethem, and Eddy Boudel Tan. Moderated by Robert J. Wiersema.
20. Crosscurrents of History
Featuring Kyle Edwards, Maria Reva, and Jeremy Tiang. Moderated by Guest Curator Canisia Lubrin.
21. The Lit Cab
Featuring Anne de Marcken, Fiona McFarlane, Danez Smith, Antonio Michael Downing, and Michael Bennett. Original music by Benjamin Millman and the Oxymorons. Regrets: Michael Redhill.
22. On Tyranny: Timothy Snyder
In conversation with John Freeman.
23. Global Political Narratives
Featuring Sheung-King, Jeremy Tiang, and Maria Reva. Moderated by Renée Sarojini Saklikar.
24. Kiran Desai in Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel
25. A Trio of Vast Ideas
Featuring Claire Cameron, elin kelsey, and Niigaan Sinclair. Moderated by Minelle Mahtani.
26. Closing Night Event: Susan Orlean with The Current’s Matt Galloway