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SUMMARY:Incite: Maggie Helwig on Encampment
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n\n\n\nThe housing crisis plaguing major urban centres across Canada has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022\, some of them found their way to the yard beside the Anglican church in Toronto’s Kensington Market\, where Maggie Helwig is the priest. They pitched tents\, formed an encampment\, and settled in. Known as an outspoken social justice activist\, Helwig has spent the last three years getting to know the residents and fighting tooth and nail to allow them to stay. \nWinner of the 2025 Toronto Book Award and one of CBC Books’ and the Globe and Mail’s best books of 2025\, Encampment tells the story of Helwig’s life-long activism as preparation for her fight to keep her churchyard open to people needing a home. More importantly\, it introduces us to the Artist\, to Jeff\, and to Robin: their lives\, their challenges\, their humanity. It confronts our society’s callousness in allowing so many to go unhoused and demands\, by bringing their stories to the fore\, that we begin to respond with compassion and grace.  \nHelwig shares her story and theirs\, and answers audience questions\, with The Tyee senior editor Jackie Wong\, whose journalism on housing and drug policy has been published widely. Books will be for sale at the event by Upstart & Crow\, with a signing afterwards.  \nAbout Incite\nPresented by the Vancouver Writers Fest and Vancouver Public Library\, Incite is a free quarterly series offering fascinating conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents. Incite is open to all\, in-person at the VPL’s central branch or online. Books will be for sale at the event\, and most events will have a signing after the talk. Can’t make the date? Sign up for the livestream to receive the recording in your inbox! 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-helwig
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: Bob Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n\n\n\nWhen Bob Joseph released 21 Things™ You May Not Know About the Indian Act\, it spent an entire year on the BC bestsellers list and enlightened hundreds of thousands of Canadians about the complex issues connected to the Indian Act. The book ignited conversations around questions like: “Can we get rid of the Indian Act?” and “What would that look like\, and would it work?” Joseph returns with an essential new read that shows us the current path forward\, in which Indigenous self-governance is not only already happening\, but is also an absolute necessity that we need more of sooner rather than later. \nIn this Incite event\, Joseph will present on some examples of Indigenous self-government arrangements that are already working\, and share future possibilities from his new book\, 21 Things™ You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government. A certified Master Trainer who has been providing training on Indigenous relations since 1994\, Joseph will then hold an extended audience Q+A session for both in-person and online audience members\, where he will answer questions with his trademark deep wisdom and empathy. This is an unmissable event for understanding the future of decolonization. \nBooks will be for sale at the event from Massy Books. \nAbout Incite\nPresented by the Vancouver Writers Fest and Vancouver Public Library\, Incite is a free quarterly series offering fascinating conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents. Incite is open to all\, in-person at the VPL’s Central Library or online. Books will be for sale and most events will have a signing after the talk. Can’t make the date? Sign up for the livestream to receive the recording in your inbox! 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/bob-joseph
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: BC and Yukon Book Prizes
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and BC and Yukon Book Prizes. \nMeet acclaimed local writers and celebrate their trailblazing new books at this Incite event\, featuring authors shortlisted for this year’s BC and Yukon Book Prizes! We’re thrilled to welcome all five finalists for the 2025 Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes\, which recognizes writing that challenges or provokes the ideas and forces that shape what writing\, art\, and/or society can become. \n\nCarleigh Baker\, Last Woman: Stories — A blistering short story collection that delves into fear for the future\, intergenerational misunderstandings\, and the complexities of belonging.\nBilly-Ray Belcourt\, Coexistence: Stories — A must-read collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from the author of A History of My Brief Body and A Minor Chorus.\nChristopher Cheung\, Under the White Gaze: Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism — A candid investigation into the state of race in Canadian media today that challenges the way we think about the news\, and calls on newsrooms to think critically about representation.\nSarah Leavitt\, Something\, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love — A poignant and beautifully illustrated graphic memoir articulating cartoonist Sarah Leavitt’s grief after her partner of twenty-two years\, Donimo\, died with medical assistance.\nLoghan Paylor\, The Cure for Drowning — A boundary-pushing love story and wartime Canadian historical novel that boldly centres queer and non-binary characters in unprecedented ways.\n\nThe prize’s namesake\, Jim Deva\, opened Little Sister’s Gay and Lesbian Bookstore and Art Emporium with his partner Bruce Smyth\, and was a pillar of the LGBTQ+ community\, championing the rights of the queer community\, sex workers\, and anyone who was not free to be themselves. In a time of fraying social connections and disturbing attacks on the rights of multiple marginalized communities\, we are honoured to gather and discuss books that challenge\, comfort\, and inspire visions of a more empathetic society. The event will be hosted by Megan Cole\, the BC & Yukon Book Prizes Interim Executive Director. \nAbout Incite\nPresented by the Vancouver Writers Fest and Vancouver Public Library\, Incite is a free quarterly series offering fascinating conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents. Incite is open to all\, in-person at the VPL’s central branch or online. Books will be for sale by Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books\, and most events will have a signing after the talk. Can’t make the date? Sign up for the livestream to receive the recording in your inbox! 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/bcybp-2025
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: Garth Mullins on Surviving the War on Drugs
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n\n\n\nGarth Mullins was born into a world too bright for him to fully see\, and too unforgiving to fully accept him. Bullied by both kids and adults\, who mocked his albinism and trivialized his blindness\, Garth turned to activism and punk rock\, and discovered a scene that embraced him for who he was. And yet he still couldn’t quell a haunting pain that had overwhelmed him since he was a child—until he tried heroin. \nGarth’s experience as a heroin user—including dopesickness\, incarceration and overdose—is an all-too-common story for those struggling with drug addiction. Crackdown is an intimate portrait of his relationship with opioids\, and a searing indictment of a broken system. With street drugs getting more toxic by the day\, drug users and their families\, friends\, and communities are left to pay the price. And for Garth\, it was this revelation that propelled him to the forefront of drug user activism. \nGarth joins us at Incite in conversation with The Globe and Mail health reporter Andrea Woo. These two award-winning journalists will discuss a radical reimagining of our approach to drug use\, and lead us to envisage a system that helps rather than punishes. \nAbout Incite\nPresented by the Vancouver Writers Fest and Vancouver Public Library\, Incite is a free quarterly series offering fascinating conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents. Incite is open to all\, in-person at the VPL’s central branch or online. Books will be for sale by Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books\, and most events will have a signing after the talk. Can’t make the date? Sign up for the livestream to receive the recording in your inbox! 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-crackdown
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: David A. Robertson on Living with Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n\n\n\nFrom the outside\, David A. Robertson looks as if he has it all. The author of over 25 books in various genres\, his achievements include numerous awards—not to mention a loving family and a platform for speaking on Indigenous perspectives\, cultures and concerns. But what we see on the outside rarely reveals what is happening inside.  \nRobertson lives with “little monsters”: chronic\, debilitating health anxiety and panic attacks accompanied\, at times\, by depression. During the worst periods\, he finds getting out of bed to walk down the hall an insurmountable task.  \nThe Canadian Mental Health Association reports that by the time we reach 40 years of age\, half of Canadians will have—or previously have had—a mental health problem. Generalized anxiety disorders are on the rise\, particularly among young people aged 15–24. In All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety\, Robertson shares his personal story with warmth and candidness\, in the hope of making other people’s mental health journeys a little less lonely. \nDavid A. Robertson joins us at Incite in conversation with Vancouver Writers Fest Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig. He’ll speak about the tools that have helped him carry on\, including community\, therapy\, medication\, and the simple question he asks himself on repeat: what if everything will be okay? \nBooks will be for sale courtesy of Book Warehouse/Black Bond Books\, with a signing afterwards. Can’t make the event time? Register for the livestream option and we’ll send you a link to watch the recording!  \nJoin us for Incite all year-round\, in-person or online! This quarterly series is free and open to all\, offering conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-little-monsters
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: BC and Yukon Book Prizes
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and BC and Yukon Book Prizes.\n \nWe’re closing out this season of Incite with one of our favourite events: an evening of celebrating the finalists of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. Joining us on-stage are three lauded local authors\, each nominated in a different category of this year’s awards:  \n\nHenry Tsang\, nominated for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver \nSamantha Nock\, nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for A Family of Dreamers\nBrandon Reid\, nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Beautiful Beautiful\n\nWhite Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver is a thought-provoking collection of essays and photographs that documents the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment. Samantha Nock redefines where and what “home” is in her debut poetry collection. And Beautiful Beautiful is a coming-of-age story exploring indigeneity\, masculinity\, and cultural tradition. \nThe authors will discuss their shortlisted titles\, and the importance of place in each of their works\, with Megan Cole\, the Prize’s Director of Programming and Communications. Their insightful conversation will be rounded out by readings and an audience Q+A.  \nBooks will be for sale at the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. Can’t make the event time? Register for the livestream option and we’ll send you a link to watch the recording!  \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/bcybp-2024
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240530
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SUMMARY:Incite: BC and Yukon Book Prizes
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and BC and Yukon Book Prizes.\n \nWe’re closing out this season of Incite with one of our favourite events: an evening of celebrating the finalists of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. Joining us on-stage are three lauded local authors\, each nominated in a different category of this year’s awards:  \n\nHenry Tsang\, nominated for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver \nSamantha Nock\, nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for A Family of Dreamers\nBrandon Reid\, nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Beautiful Beautiful\n\nWhite Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver is a thought-provoking collection of essays and photographs that documents the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment. Samantha Nock redefines where and what “home” is in her debut poetry collection. And Beautiful Beautiful is a coming-of-age story exploring indigeneity\, masculinity\, and cultural tradition. \nThe authors discuss their shortlisted titles\, and the importance of place in each of their works\, with Megan Cole\, the Prize’s Director of Programming and Communications. Their insightful conversation is rounded out by readings and an audience Q+A. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-05-29-2024-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
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SUMMARY:Incite: Unforgettable Short Stories
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nShort stories pack infinite ideas\, questions\, character explorations\, and worlds into deceptively slim packages. Discover some of the season’s best in new short fiction at this Incite event featuring three intriguing releases. Our award-winning guests will speak with VWF Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig. \nVincent Anioke’s stunning debut story collection offers a nuanced exploration of masculinity\, religion\, marginalization\, repressed (queer) desires\, and self-expression through the lens of (un)conditional love. Set largely in Nigeria\, the stories in Perfect Little Angels capture the shocking violence and confrontational drama in the power dynamics—between headmasters and students\, brothers and sisters\, mothers and sons—that shape our lives. \nFloods and wildfires\, toxic culture\, billionaires in outer space\, or a purse-related disaster while on mushrooms—in today’s hellscape world\, there’s no shortage of things to worry about. Last Woman\, the new collection of short fiction by Carleigh Baker\, wants you to know that you’re not alone. With sharp wit\, these stories delve into fear for the future\, intergenerational misunderstandings\, and the complexities of belonging. \nDeath by a Thousand Cuts from Shashi Bhat is a breathtaking\, sharply funny collection about the everyday trials and impossible expectations that come with being a woman. A writer discovers that her ex has published a novel about their breakup. An immunocompromised woman falls in love\, only to have her body betray her. And when a woman begins to lose her hair\, she embarks on an increasingly nightmarish search for answers.  \nBooks will be for sale at the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. Can’t make the event time? Register for the livestream option and we’ll send you a link to watch the recording!  \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-short-stories
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: Unforgettable Short Stories
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nShort stories pack infinite ideas\, questions\, character explorations\, and worlds into deceptively slim packages. Discover some of the season’s best in new short fiction at this Incite event featuring three intriguing releases. Our award-winning guests speak with VWF Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig. \nVincent Anioke’s stunning debut story collection offers a nuanced exploration of masculinity\, religion\, marginalization\, repressed (queer) desires\, and self-expression through the lens of (un)conditional love. Set largely in Nigeria\, the stories in Perfect Little Angels capture the shocking violence and confrontational drama in the power dynamics—between headmasters and students\, brothers and sisters\, mothers and sons—that shape our lives. \nFloods and wildfires\, toxic culture\, billionaires in outer space\, or a purse-related disaster while on mushrooms—in today’s hellscape world\, there’s no shortage of things to worry about. Last Woman\, the new collection of short fiction by Carleigh Baker\, wants you to know that you’re not alone. With sharp wit\, these stories delve into fear for the future\, intergenerational misunderstandings\, and the complexities of belonging. \nDeath by a Thousand Cuts from Shashi Bhat is a breathtaking\, sharply funny collection about the everyday trials and impossible expectations that come with being a woman. A writer discovers that her ex has published a novel about their breakup. An immunocompromised woman falls in love\, only to have her body betray her. And when a woman begins to lose her hair\, she embarks on an increasingly nightmarish search for answers. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-05-15-2024-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
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SUMMARY:Incite: A Reading with Michael Ondaatje – A Year of Last Things
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nWith A Year of Last Things\, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry\, where he began his career over fifty years ago. It also marks his first return to the Vancouver Writers Fest since 2018. We are thrilled to connect the Booker Prize-winning author with Vancouver readers at this free Incite event. \nBorn in Sri Lanka during the Second World War\, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London\, and later moved to Canada. These poems reflect the life of a writer\, traveller and watcher of the world—describing himself as a “mongrel\,” someone born out of diverse cultures. Here\, rediscovering the influence of every border crossed\, he moves back and forth in time\, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery\, love and loss.  \nA Year of Last Things has already been named “Ondaatje’s finest.” (Quill & Quire) Hear mesmerizing readings from this new work\, and a contemplative conversation between the celebrated Canadian author and his dear friend Jenny Penberthy\, a renowned scholar in the field of modern poetry and poetics.  \nBooks will be for sale at the event—including copies pre-signed by Ondaatje!—courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. There will be no live signing at this event. Can’t make the event time? Register for the livestream option and we’ll send you a link to watch the recording!  \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-ondaatje
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: A Reading with Michael Ondaatje – A Year of Last Things
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nWith A Year of Last Things\, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry\, where he began his career over fifty years ago. It also marks his first return to the Vancouver Writers Fest since 2018. We are thrilled to connect the Booker Prize-winning author with Vancouver readers at this free Incite event. \nBorn in Sri Lanka during the Second World War\, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London\, and later moved to Canada. These poems reflect the life of a writer\, traveller and watcher of the world—describing himself as a “mongrel\,” someone born out of diverse cultures. Here\, rediscovering the influence of every border crossed\, he moves back and forth in time\, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery\, love and loss.  \nA Year of Last Things has already been named “Ondaatje’s finest.” (Quill & Quire) Hear mesmerizing readings from this new work\, and a contemplative conversation between the celebrated Canadian author and his dear friend Jenny Penberthy\, a renowned scholar in the field of modern poetry and poetics.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-04-24-2024-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
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SUMMARY:Incite: All About Love
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nThis Incite event is all about love—romantic\, familial\, tender\, fierce\, gut-wrenching\, and wondrous love. Three LGBTQ+ authors join us on-stage to discuss their highly anticipated novels\, which boldly explore love in all its expressions. \nIn Christina Cooke’s searing debut novel\, Broughtupsy\, Akúa returns home to Jamaica for the first time in ten years and is forced to confront the difficult reality of being gay in a deeply religious family\, and of what it means to feel at home. \nAnne Fleming’s Curiosities is a genre- and gender-bending historical novel with a modern twist. We follow a present-day amateur historian\, Anne\, as she pieces together seventeenth-century manuscripts that tell conflicting stories about two lovers\, living in a time when there were no labels for who they might truly be. \nWhat if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship\, again and again\, in the hopes that it would work out? Myriam Lacroix’s How It Works Out explores just this\, as a queer love story plays out in many alternate realities to paint a darkly comic portrait of love’s many promises and perils. \nJoin us for a vivacious conversation\, as the authors sit down to discuss their books with author Candie Tanaka.  \nBooks will be for sale at the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. Can’t make the event time? Register for the livestream option and we’ll send you a link to watch the recording!  \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-love
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: All About Love
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nThis Incite event is all about love—romantic\, familial\, tender\, fierce\, gut-wrenching\, and wondrous love. Three LGBTQ+ authors join us on-stage to discuss their highly anticipated novels\, which boldly explore love in all its expressions. \nIn Christina Cooke’s searing debut novel\, Broughtupsy\, Akúa returns home to Jamaica for the first time in ten years and is forced to confront the difficult reality of being gay in a deeply religious family\, and of what it means to feel at home. \nAnne Fleming’s Curiosities is a genre- and gender-bending historical novel with a modern twist. We follow a present-day amateur historian\, Anne\, as she pieces together seventeenth-century manuscripts that tell conflicting stories about two lovers\, living in a time when there were no labels for who they might truly be. \nWhat if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship\, again and again\, in the hopes that it would work out? Myriam Lacroix’s How It Works Out explores just this\, as a queer love story plays out in many alternate realities to paint a darkly comic portrait of love’s many promises and perils. \nJoin us for a vivacious conversation\, as the authors sit down to discuss their books with author Candie Tanaka.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-04-17-2024-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240320T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240320T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20240227T223413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T223434Z
UID:10000281-1710961200-1710964800@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: Cozy Mystery with Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nLooking for a murder mystery to spark that warm\, fuzzy feeling inside? Featuring amateur detectives\, fascinating supporting casts\, and a focus on solving clues over violence and gloom\, cozy mysteries have taken the publishing world by storm. Hear from some of the best in the genre at this Incite event with Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti\, authors of Bury the Lead.  \nBury the Lead follows Cat Conway\, a big-city journalist who’s recently fled her high-profile career to join the staff of a paper in cottage country. One of her first assignments is to interview legendary actor Eliot Fraser. When Eliot ends up dead onstage on the theatre’s opening night\, the curtain rises on the sleepy town’s secrets. Can Cat solve the mystery before she loses her job or becomes the next victim of a killer with a theatrical bent for vengeance? \nFor fans of Louise Penny\, Agatha Christie\, and Only Murders in the Building\, this intimate event is not to be missed. Both bestselling and acclaimed authors for their previous works\, Hilton and Renzetti will speak with Globe and Mail journalist and author André Picard.   \nBooks will be for sale at the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. Can’t make the event time? Register for the livestream option and we’ll send you a link to watch the recording!  \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-mystery
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240320
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240321
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20241120T013827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241120T013827Z
UID:10000299-1710892800-1710979199@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: Cozy Mystery with Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nLooking for a murder mystery to spark that warm\, fuzzy feeling inside? Featuring amateur detectives\, fascinating supporting casts\, and a focus on solving clues over violence and gloom\, cozy mysteries have taken the publishing world by storm. Hear from some of the best in the genre at this Incite event with Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti\, authors of Bury the Lead.  \nBury the Lead follows Cat Conway\, a big-city journalist who’s recently fled her high-profile career to join the staff of a paper in cottage country. One of her first assignments is to interview legendary actor Eliot Fraser. When Eliot ends up dead onstage on the theatre’s opening night\, the curtain rises on the sleepy town’s secrets. Can Cat solve the mystery before she loses her job or becomes the next victim of a killer with a theatrical bent for vengeance? \nFor fans of Louise Penny\, Agatha Christie\, and Only Murders in the Building\, this intimate event is not to be missed. Both bestselling and acclaimed authors for their previous works\, Hilton and Renzetti speak with Globe and Mail journalist and author André Picard. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-03-20-2024-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://writersfest.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Incite-multimedia-2.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240306T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240306T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20240216T190217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T224940Z
UID:10000280-1709751600-1709755200@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: Divine Debut Fiction with Lily Wang and Scott Alexander Howard
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nDebut novelists Lily Wang and Scott Alexander Howard unveil moving works of literary fiction that will enchant readers with exquisite prose\, and a touch of the otherworldly. Explore threads of memory\, longing\, loss\, and the surreal at this Incite event.   \nLily Wang’s Silver Repetition tenderly illuminates the fullness of identity despite fractures in language\, culture\, and relationships. Having left China for Canada with her parents as a child\, Yuè Yuè yearns to discover who she is as she nears the end of her degree and starts a new relationship. In urgent poetic fragments\, she seeks common ground with her Canadian-born younger sister and grieves the cousin she lost touch with back home. \nFor fans of Emily St. John Mandel\, David Mitchell\, and Kazuo Ishiguro\, The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard is a literary speculative novel set in an unnamed valley\, where bereaved residents can petition to cross a forbidden border to see their lost loved ones again. This masterful modern fable has been called “unforgettable” (Kevin Chong) and “astonishingly brilliant” (Liz Nugent).   \nOur guests will speak with Tara McGuire\, author of the moving memoir Holden After & Before.   \nBooks will be for sale at the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. Can’t make the event time? Register for the livestream option and we’ll send you a link to watch the recording!  \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-debuts
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240307
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20241120T013546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241120T013546Z
UID:10000298-1709683200-1709769599@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: Divine Debut Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nDebut novelists Lily Wang and Scott Alexander Howard unveil moving works of literary fiction that will enchant readers with exquisite prose\, and a touch of the otherworldly. Explore threads of memory\, longing\, loss\, and the surreal at this Incite event.   \nLily Wang’s Silver Repetition tenderly illuminates the fullness of identity despite fractures in language\, culture\, and relationships. Having left China for Canada with her parents as a child\, Yuè Yuè yearns to discover who she is as she nears the end of her degree and starts a new relationship. In urgent poetic fragments\, she seeks common ground with her Canadian-born younger sister and grieves the cousin she lost touch with back home. \nFor fans of Emily St. John Mandel\, David Mitchell\, and Kazuo Ishiguro\, The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard is a literary speculative novel set in an unnamed valley\, where bereaved residents can petition to cross a forbidden border to see their lost loved ones again. This masterful modern fable has been called “unforgettable” (Kevin Chong) and “astonishingly brilliant” (Liz Nugent).   \nOur guests speak with Tara McGuire\, author of the moving memoir Holden After & Before.   \n 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-03-06-2024-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://writersfest.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Incite-multimedia-.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240221T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20240201T170055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T235757Z
UID:10000277-1708542000-1708545600@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: Sheila Heti in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nLiterary innovator Sheila Heti—known for experimental and philosophical books such as Motherhood\, Pure Colour\, and How Should a Person Be?—returns to Incite with what might be her most intimate work yet. Discover ten years of her diaries\, curiously rearranged in Alphabetical Diaries. \nA little over a decade ago\, Heti began looking back at the diaries she’d kept over the previous ten years\, searching for signs of deeper change inside herself. She loaded all 500\,000 words of her journals into Microsoft Excel\, to order the sentences alphabetically and seek out patterns and repetitions. With the sentences untethered from the narrative of her diaries\, she started to see herself—and the Self—in a new way. The result is something fresh and sublime.  \nThe New York Times called reading Alphabetical Diaries “a profound experience.” Experience it for yourself at this insightful conversation between Heti and author Molly Cross-Blanchard.  \nBooks will be for sale at the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. Can’t make the event time? Register for the livestream option and we’ll send you a link to watch the recording!  \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-heti
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240221
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240222
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20240307T000227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240307T000227Z
UID:10000283-1708473600-1708559999@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: Sheila Heti in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\n \nLiterary innovator Sheila Heti—known for experimental and philosophical books such as Motherhood\, Pure Colour\, and How Should a Person Be?—returns to Incite with what might be her most intimate work yet. Discover ten years of her diaries\, curiously rearranged in Alphabetical Diaries.  \nThe New York Times called reading Alphabetical Diaries “a profound experience.” Experience it for yourself at this insightful conversation between Heti and author Molly Cross-Blanchard.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-02-21-2024-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://writersfest.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/incite-multimedia-heti.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20240127T010021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240126T193442Z
UID:10000276-1707332400-1707336000@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: CBC’s Canada Reads – Téa Mutonji and Kudakwashe Rutendo
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and CBC’s Canada Reads.\n \nCanada Reads is back! The annual battle of the books is a lively debate between five champions\, who each defend one book as the title the whole country should read this year. Celebrate this year’s contenders at Incite\, where finalist Téa Mutonji will sit down with her champion\, actor and TIFF Rising Star Kudakwashe Rutendo.  \nIn Shut Up You’re Pretty\, Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection\, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding; a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes; a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish; and a young woman decides to shave her head in the waiting room of an abortion clinic. On CBC Radio’s Commotion\, Rutendo commented: “At once feminist\, unapologetic and potent\, Shut Up You’re Pretty presents the opportunity to reconcile what we’ve been carrying at a time when it couldn’t be more needed.” \nCanada Reads finalists become national bestsellers. Come meet two emerging Canadian icons.  \nBooks will be for sale at the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. Can’t make the event time? Register for the livestream option and we’ll send you a link to watch the recording!  \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-mutonji
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240208
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20240306T231844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240306T231844Z
UID:10000282-1707264000-1707350399@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: CBC’s Canada Reads – Téa Mutonji and Kudakwashe Rutendo
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and CBC’s Canada Reads.\n \nCanada Reads is back! The annual battle of the books is a lively debate between five champions\, who each defend one book as the title the whole country should read this year. Celebrate this year’s contenders at Incite\, where finalist Téa Mutonji sat down with her champion\, actor and TIFF Rising Star Kudakwashe Rutendo.  \nIn Shut Up You’re Pretty\, Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection\, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding; a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes; a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish; and a young woman decides to shave her head in the waiting room of an abortion clinic. On CBC Radio’s Commotion\, Rutendo commented: “At once feminist\, unapologetic and potent\, Shut Up You’re Pretty presents the opportunity to reconcile what we’ve been carrying at a time when it couldn’t be more needed.”
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-02-07-2024-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240201
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20240207T233615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T233615Z
UID:10000278-1706659200-1706745599@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: Deb Perelman in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.  \nGet inspired in the kitchen with Deb Perelman\, a self-taught home cook and the force behind SmittenKitchen.com. An international sensation among home cooks\, Perelman has authored three New York Times bestselling cookbooks\, most recently Smitten Kitchen Keepers\, and has amassed over 2.7 million followers worldwide for her comforting\, accessible recipes. For our very first Incite of the season\, Perelman shares ‘seasoned’ insights from the kitchen and her career. We know you’ll be smitten. In conversation with Bronwen Tate.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-01-31-2024-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://writersfest.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/01-31-incite-multimedia.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240124T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20240108T211332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240115T204850Z
UID:10000275-1706122800-1706128200@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: Deb Perelman in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.  \nGet inspired in the kitchen with Deb Perelman\, a self-taught home cook and the force behind SmittenKitchen.com. An international sensation among home cooks\, Perelman has authored three New York Times bestselling cookbooks\, most recently Smitten Kitchen Keepers\, and has amassed over 2.7 million followers worldwide for her comforting\, accessible recipes. For our very first Incite of the season\, Perelman will share ‘seasoned’ insights from the kitchen and her career. We know you’ll be smitten. In conversation with Bronwen Tate. \nCopies of Deb Perelman’s books will be available for sale before and after the event courtesy of Blackbond Books | Book Warehouse. \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-perelman
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230531T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230531T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20230503T163023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230530T195733Z
UID:10000261-1685559600-1685565000@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: Fire Weather – John Vaillant
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.\nMasks are optional in VPL’s spaces.  \nThe 2023 Incite season finale is sure to be one of our most riveting\, incandescent events yet. John Vaillant\, author of the nationally bestselling non-fiction titles The Golden Spruce and The Tiger\, joins us with his latest work—a stunning account of a colossal wildfire\, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind. He’ll speak with award-winning journalist Laura Lynch\, host of CBC’s What On Earth. \nFire Weather: The Making of a Beast takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America’s oil industry and the birth of climate science. In May 2016\, Fort McMurray\, the hub of Canada’s petroleum industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier\, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster drove 88\,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter\, more flammable world. \nJoin us for an urgent and necessary conversation about our new century of fire\, which has only just begun. \nBooks will be for sale before and after the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-vaillant
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230601
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20230601T204156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230601T204156Z
UID:10000264-1685491200-1685577599@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: Fire Weather – John Vaillant
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.  \nThe 2023 Incite season finale is sure to be one of our most riveting\, incandescent events yet. John Vaillant\, author of the nationally bestselling non-fiction titles The Golden Spruce and The Tiger\, joins us with his latest work—a stunning account of a colossal wildfire\, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind. He’ll speak with award-winning journalist Laura Lynch\, host of CBC’s What On Earth. \nFire Weather: The Making of a Beast takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America’s oil industry and the birth of climate science. In May 2016\, Fort McMurray\, the hub of Canada’s petroleum industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier\, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster drove 88\,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter\, more flammable world. \nJoin us for an urgent and necessary conversation about our new century of fire\, which has only just begun.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-05-31-2023-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://writersfest.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Website-banner-multimedia-05-31.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230518
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20230601T203511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230601T203511Z
UID:10000263-1684281600-1684367999@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: Love\, Lives – An Evening with Casey Plett and Hazel Jane Plante
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.  \nJoin us at Incite for a lively celebration of the re-issue of A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett\, and the release of Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante. The two Lambda Literary Award-winning authors will be in conversation with C.A. Tanaka\, author of Baby Drag Queen. \nMulti-award-winning author Casey Plett made her literary debut with the short story collection A Safe Girl to Love. After a long absence\, this beloved collection of stories about the lives of young trans women is back in print. Plett\, whose books have recurring characters and themes\, has come to view A Safe Girl to Love as the first book in a loose trilogy along with her novel Little Fish and her story collection A Dream of a Woman. \nAny Other City is the much-anticipated novel from Hazel Jane Plante\, whose debut novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) won a Lambda Literary Award in 2019. The novel is written as the fictionalized memoir of trans indie musician Tracy St. Cyr and “sparkles with heart and sex\, art and life”—Michelle Tea. This is a love letter to trans femmes and to art itself. \nDiscover two of the most sought-after young writers in Canada\, at the Vancouver stop of their popular North American tour.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-05-17-2023-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230503T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230503T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20230419T163041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T164917Z
UID:10000258-1683140400-1683145800@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: BC and Yukon Book Prizes
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and BC and Yukon Book Prizes.  \nWe’re partnering with the BC and Yukon Book Prizes for an evening of celebrating our dazzling local literary talent. This free Incite event will honour three of the shortlisted authors of the 2023 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize\, awarded to the best work of literary fiction by a BC writer. \nThe event features: \n\nBilly-Ray Belcourt\, Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author from the Driftpile Cree Nation\, nominated for A Minor Chorus\nMarion Ehrenberg\, psychologist\, professor\, and writer\, nominated for The Language of Dreams\nDanny Ramadan\, Syrian-Canadian author and advocate for LGBTQ+ refugees\, nominated for The Foghorn Echoes \n\nThe authors will discuss their shortlisted titles\, and then have a rousing conversation about the writing process with Vancouver Writers Fest Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig. \nOther nominees for this year’s award\, who are unfortunately unable to join us this evening\, are Tsering Yangzom Lama and Janice Lynn Mather. \nPrevious winners of the Ethel Wilson Prize have included Ruth Ozeki (The Book of Form and Emptiness)\, Eden Robinson (Trickster Drift)\, and David Chariandy (Brother). Come and meet your next favourite author\, and get a signed copy of their book\, at Incite! \nBooks will be for sale before and after the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-bcybp
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://writersfest.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-Incite_social_05-03_banner-1.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230504
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20230509T194142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230509T194618Z
UID:10000262-1683072000-1683158399@writersfest.bc.ca
SUMMARY:Incite: BC and Yukon Book Prizes
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and BC and Yukon Book Prizes.  \nWe partnered with the BC and Yukon Book Prizes for an evening of celebrating our dazzling local literary talent. This free Incite event honours three of the shortlisted authors of the 2023 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize\, awarded to the best work of literary fiction by a BC writer. \nThe event features: \n\nBilly-Ray Belcourt\, Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author from the Driftpile Cree Nation\, nominated for A Minor Chorus\nMarion Ehrenberg\, psychologist\, professor\, and writer\, nominated for The Language of Dreams\nDanny Ramadan\, Syrian-Canadian author and advocate for LGBTQ+ refugees\, nominated for The Foghorn Echoes \n\nThe authors discuss their shortlisted titles\, then have a rousing conversation about the writing process with Vancouver Writers Fest Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig. \nOther nominees for this year’s award\, who were unfortunately unable to join us this evening\, are Tsering Yangzom Lama and Janice Lynn Mather. \nBooks will be for sale before and after the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-05-03-2023-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://writersfest.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Website-banner-multimedia-05-01.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230405T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230405T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T211257
CREATED:20230310T230049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230310T025108Z
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SUMMARY:Incite: Poetry for This World
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.  \nThough T.S. Eliot called April the “cruelest month”\, at least we have the indomitable power of poetry to carry us through. Celebrate National Poetry Month with readings and musings from poets whose new collections will provoke\, console\, and reveal other ways of seeing. \nTrinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from poet Jen Currin\, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda finalist. Weaving together the meditative and the disruptive\, the queer and quotidian\, and the worlds of the dead and the living\, Currin’s poems vibrate with unexpected shifts and precise\, startling imagery. \nMétis Ukrainian\, ReLit Award-winning writer Conor Kerr’s sharp and incisive poems move restlessly across landscapes and time. Old Gods defies colonialism on the Prairies\, situating readers in the Métis mindset: the old gods of the land are alive within the rivers\, the birds\, the hills and the prairies that surround us\, and they’ll always be here. \nSheryda Warrener is the author of two previous collections\, and a recipient of The Puritan‘s Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for poetry. The poems in Test Piece began from her impulse to see herself more clearly\, and grew into more expansive meditations on seeing and vision. These poems are informed by collage—with their echoes and reverberations\, a greater complexity is revealed. \nThey’re joined by host Bronwen Tate—author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore\, and professor and Undergraduate Chair at the School of Creative Writing at UBC—for a thoughtful conversation about the power of poetry to challenge and help explain the world we live in. \nBooks will be for sale before and after the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-poetry-2023
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: Poetry for This World
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.  \nThough T.S. Eliot called April the “cruelest month”\, at least we have the indomitable power of poetry to carry us through. Celebrate National Poetry Month with readings and musings from poets whose new collections will provoke\, console\, and reveal other ways of seeing. \nTrinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from poet Jen Currin\, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda finalist. Weaving together the meditative and the disruptive\, the queer and quotidian\, and the worlds of the dead and the living\, Currin’s poems vibrate with unexpected shifts and precise\, startling imagery. \nMétis Ukrainian\, ReLit Award-winning writer Conor Kerr’s sharp and incisive poems move restlessly across landscapes and time. Old Gods defies colonialism on the Prairies\, situating readers in the Métis mindset: the old gods of the land are alive within the rivers\, the birds\, the hills and the prairies that surround us\, and they’ll always be here. \nSheryda Warrener is the author of two previous collections\, and a recipient of The Puritan‘s Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for poetry. The poems in Test Piece began from her impulse to see herself more clearly\, and grew into more expansive meditations on seeing and vision. These poems are informed by collage—with their echoes and reverberations\, a greater complexity is revealed. \nThey’re joined by host Bronwen Tate—author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore\, and professor and Undergraduate Chair at the School of Creative Writing at UBC—for a thoughtful conversation about the power of poetry to challenge and help explain the world we live in. \nJoin us for Incite all season\, in-person or online! This readings series offers conversations with celebrated authors and emerging talents every two weeks from January to June. Incite is free and open to all. Books will be for sale before and after the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-04-05-2023-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
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