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SUMMARY:Incite: Fiction as a Tempest
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and TELUS. \nThis spring brings rare talents and heart-rending prose in the form of Janice Lynn Mather’s explosive short story collection Uncertain Kin (Doubleday Canada) and Tsering Yangzom Lama’s impassioned debut novel\, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies (McClelland & Stewart). Joined by moderator Eddy Boudel Tan\, author of The Rebellious Tide (Dundurn Press)\, our final May Incite will feature an absorbing conversation on relationships\, displacement and longing\, as well as all of the minute and miraculous ways we find ourselves in the world. \nAbout the Books \nWe Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama \nA haunting first novel that recounts a Tibetan family’s fifty-year journey through exile and their struggles to forge new lives of dignity\, love\, and hope. Named one of Publisher Weekly‘s Writers to Watch\, and a most anticipated book of the year by The Millions and Ms. \nIn the wake of China’s invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s\, Lhamo and her sister\, Tenkyi\, arrive at a refugee camp on the border of Nepal. As Lhamo tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community\, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle. \nBreathtaking in scope and powerfully intimate\, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is a gorgeously written meditation on colonization\, displacement\, and the lengths we’ll go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands. Told through the lives of four people over fifty years\, this beautifully lyrical debut novel provides a nuanced portrait of the world of Tibetan exiles. \nUncertain Kin by Janice Lynn Mather \nFrom Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Janice Lynn Mather comes a mesmerizing collection of linked stories that explores the beauty and brutality of being alive. \nSet against the vivid backdrop of The Bahamas\, eighteen luminous and haunting stories introduce women and girls searching for certainty and belonging as they navigate profound upheaval. The characters are bold and big-hearted\, complex and intimately familiar. They grapple with the bonds of kinship and the responsibilities of parenthood\, with grief\, longing\, betrayal\, coming of age and what it means to be a woman. \nTinged with folklore and the surreal\, Uncertain Kin is grounded by its emotional richness and breathtaking insight into our relationships with others—and ourselves. This extraordinary collection signals the debut of an important new voice in literature. \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to pick up the book at your favourite independent bookseller. \nThis event can be attended in-person or online. At checkout\, we will ask you if you plan to join us online or in-person.  \nThe Vancouver Writers Fest encourages patrons to wear face masks at its events. While not currently mandated by the BC health authority\, face masks continue to offer assurance and safety for many of the communities the VWF serves. We thank you for your understanding and consideration.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-may-18
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Incite: Kiss the Red Stairs with Marsha Lederman
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and TELUS. \nIn a powerful and intimate Incite event\, long-time Festival friend\, moderator\, and award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman returns to our in-person stages for the launch of her stunning memoir on intergenerational trauma\, monumental change\, and survival. Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust\, Once Removed explores the impact of a generation’s anguish on her family\, beginning when Lederman was only five years old\, and asked her mother why she didn’t have any grandparents. \nIn conversation with Kathryn Gretsinger\, another beloved moderator of the Festival\, this heart-to-heart will explore the rippling effect of Lederman’s family history throughout her own life\, including being a mother to a young son\, experiencing a difficult divorce\, and an ever-present need to explore and understand the stories and experiences of those that have gone before. \nRSVP to join us for the first in-person Incite events in two years—a momentous occasion made even more special for the friends we’ll have together on stage. If you would prefer to join us online\, register to receive the livestream link! \nFrom the publisher \nFor readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson\, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman. Marsha was five when a simple question led to a horrifying answer. Sitting in her kitchen\, she asked her mother why she didn’t have any grandparents. Her mother told her the truth: the Holocaust. \nDecades later\, her parents dead and herself a mother to a young son\, Marsha begins to wonder how much history has shaped her own life. Reeling in the wake of a divorce\, she craves her parents’ help. But in their absence\, she is gripped by a need to understand the trauma they suffered\, and she begins her own journey into the past to tell her family’s stories of loss and resilience. Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir of Holocaust survival\, intergenerational trauma\, divorce\, and discovery that will guide readers through several lifetimes of monumental change. \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to pick up the book at your favourite independent bookseller. \nThis event can be attended in-person or online. At checkout\, we will ask you if you plan to join us online or in-person.  \nThe Vancouver Writers Fest encourages patrons to wear face masks at its events. While not currently mandated by the BC health authority\, face masks continue to offer assurance and safety for many of the communities the VWF serves. We thank you for your understanding and consideration.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/kiss-the-red-stairs
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Incite: Kiss the Red Stairs with Marsha Lederman
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and TELUS. \nIn a powerful and intimate Incite event\, long-time Festival friend\, moderator\, and award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman returns to our in-person stages for the launch of her stunning memoir on intergenerational trauma\, monumental change\, and survival. Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust\, Once Removed explores the impact of a generation’s anguish on her family\, beginning when Lederman was only five years old\, and asked her mother why she didn’t have any grandparents. \nIn conversation with Kathryn Gretsinger\, another beloved moderator of the Festival\, this heart-to-heart explores the rippling effect of Lederman’s family history throughout her own life\, including being a mother to a young son\, experiencing a difficult divorce\, and an ever-present need to explore and understand the stories and experiences of those that have gone before.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-05-04-2022-multimedia
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Multimedia
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SUMMARY:Incite: Creativity and Motherhood
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and TELUS. \nAt a time when the challenges of parenthood have only increased\, and “work/life” balance feels increasingly complex in the midst of the pandemic\, we’re delving into the often-underexplored topic of creativity and parenthood. \nJoin author and co-editor Jen Sookfong Lee\, along with co-editor Stacey May Fowles and contributors Jónína Kirton and Kellee Ngan from Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity (Book*hug Press) in an event that promises solace\, celebration and humour. \nWith further contributions by Heather O’Neill\, Lee Maracle\, Jael Richardson\, Jennifer Whiteford\, Rachel Giese and Teresa Wong—amongst others—this anthology goes beyond the clichés to share the often-invisible challenges of a literary life with little ones and to celebrate the systems that nurture writers who are mothers. \nLet’s talk about two of the fundamental joys\, and challenges\, of life. \nFrom the publisher: Good Mom on Paper is a collection of twenty essays that explore the fraught\, beautiful\, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. These texts disclose the often-invisible challenges of a literary life with little ones: the manuscript written with a baby sleeping in a carrier\, missing a book launch for a bedtime\, crafting a promotional tour around child care. But they also celebrate the systems that nurture writers who are mothers; the successes; the intricate\, interconnected joys of these roles. Honest and intimate\, critical and hopeful\, this collection offers solace and joy to creative mothers and asks how we can better support their work. \nMothers have long been telling each other these vital stories in private. Good Mom on Paper makes them available to everyone who needs them. \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to pick up the book at your favourite independent bookseller. \nThis is an online\, live event. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/creativity-motherhood
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: Transcendent Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and TELUS. \nWe’re hosting three poets whose collections are just in time for National Poetry Month! Join us for a fascinating evening in conversation with writers at the cutting edge of poetry in Canada. \nInternationally-acclaimed and Giller-shortlisted author Shani Mootoo shares with us an anticipated return to poetry. Cane | Fire (Book*hug Press) is deeply personal—akin to a poetic memoir—and shares evocative depictions of moves from Ireland to San Fernando and finally to Canada. We begin to understand how life can not only be shaped\, but reimagined. \nEach One a Furnace (Penguin Random House)\, from the GG-winning author Tolu Oloruntoba\, trails the global mobility of birds to chronicle the struggle within and between cultures. It is a deeply powerful work that explores how those unable to be at rest in the world may take to improbable flight. \nJason Purcell is known across the country for their exceptional (co-owned) store\, Glass Bookshop\, in Edmonton. Their debut collection\, Swollening (Arsenal Pulp Press) examines the queer\, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope. \nThey are joined in conversation by moderator\, writer and poet\, Shazia Hafiz Ramji. \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to pick up these collections at your favourite independent bookseller. \nThis is an online\, live event. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/transcendent-poetry
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: Short Stories\, Big Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and TELUS. \nMuch like sunny days in Vancouver\, short stories never go out of fashion. Come join us for a thrilling night of buzzworthy tales from authors dominating the genre at our next Incite! \nSharing themes of restlessness and fragmented lives\, this trio of critically-acclaimed short story collections are beguiling explorations of unexpected bonds and people adrift. Rawi Hage (Stray Dogs\, Knopf Canada)\, Angélique Lalonde (Glorious Frazzled Beings\, Groundwood Books)\, and Christopher Evans (Nothing Could Be Further From The Truth\, Groundwood Books) masterfully wield humour and complexity in their “tiny worlds.” \nJoin us for an incredible conversation with these three powerhouse authors\, moderated by Festival friend and Journey Prize-shortlisted author\, Anna Ling Kaye. \nABOUT THE BOOKS \nCalled a “superb collection” by Maclean’s\, Stray Dogs is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories from the award-winning author of Beirut Hellfire Society and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winning novel\, De Niro’s Game. As his publisher notes\, the stories are “wise\, humane\, relevant and caustically funny\, revealing the singular vision of Hage at his best.” \nOne of the most discussed books of 2021\, Lalonde’s Glorious Frazzled Beings was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was named a CBC Best Book of the Year. “A haunting dream of a book” according to David Chariandy\, this is a collection that sings a love song to the homes we make\, keep\, and break. \nThe characters in Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth are\, as his publisher notes\, “people with strays—those who fall for the allure of nostalgia\, grapple with male fragility\, deny family trauma\, and acquiesce to authority.” John Elizabeth Stintzi lauds the collection as “fracturing the mundane to reveal a bedrock of absurdity.” \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to pick up these collections at your favourite independent bookseller. \nThis is an online\, live event. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/short-stories-big-ideas
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
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SUMMARY:Incite: Sheila Heti in Conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and TELUS. \nSheila Heti\, internationally acclaimed author of the novel Motherhood\, a New York Times Best Book of the Year\, joins our next Incite event with her tenth book\, Pure Colour. This latest work is a contemporary bible\, an atlas of feeling\, and a shape-shifting epic; Esquire called it one of the Best Books of 2022 to “Provoke\, Persuade and Perturb You.” A philosopher of modern experience\, Heti has reimagined what a book can hold. On March 9\, she’ll share the secrets of Pure Colour with Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author Billy-Ray Belcourt. \nPure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive\, celestially bright\, huge\, and streaked with beauty. The Guardian called it a “mystical\, wildly original study of grief and love”\, and “a book that says something new for our difficult times.” As Kirkus Reviews put it\, this is “that rarest of novels—as alien as a moon rock and every bit as wondrous.” Join us at this live\, virtual event to be put under the spell of Heti’s luminous creation myth\, which has been included in lists of the most anticipated new books by The Globe and Mail\, CBC Books\, Publishers Weekly\, The A.V. Club\, Vulture\, and more. \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to pick up Pure Colour at your favourite independent bookseller. \nThis is an online\, live event. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/sheila-heti
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:Incite: Marlon James in Conversation with Cherie Jones
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and TELUS. \nMarlon James’ Black Leopard\, Red Wolf was a show-stopping tour de force of literary fantasy\, an instant bestseller\, and the first book in what has now become a highly-anticipated series\, the Dark Star Trilogy. James returns to shelves—and the Vancouver Writers Fest’s virtual stages—with Moon Witch\, Spider King\, heralded by writers such as Neil Gaiman and Salman Rushdie\, and praised by Buzzfeed as “even more brilliant than the first” and “the literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe” by The New York Times. This is sure to be one of the most anticipated events of the season. As the Washington Post reports: “Stand aside\, Beowulf.” \nJoined by Cherie Jones\, 2021 Festival guest and the acclaimed\, award-winning author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House\, this spectacular Incite event will explore rich narratives and powerful reimaginings\, emotive writing and more\, from two of the industry’s most respected visionaries. Submit your questions in advance! \nFrom the publisher: In Black Leopard\, Red Wolf\, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch\, Spider King\, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened to the boy\, and how she plotted and fought\, triumphed and failed as she looked for him. It’s also the story of a century-long feud—seen through the eyes of a 177-year-old witch—that Sogolon had with the Aesi\, chancellor to the king. It is said that Aesi works so closely with the king that together they are like the eight limbs of one spider. Aesi’s power is considerable—and deadly. It takes brains and courage to challenge him\, which Sogolon does for reasons of her own. \nBoth a brilliant narrative device—seeing the story told in Black Leopard\, Red Wolf from the perspective of an adversary and a woman—as well as a fascinating battle between different versions of empire\, Moon Witch\, Spider King delves into Sogolon’s world as she fights to tell her own story. Part adventure tale\, part chronicle of an indomitable woman who bows to no man\, it is a fascinating novel that explores power\, personality\, and the places where they overlap. \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to pick up Moon Witch\, Spider King at your favourite independent bookseller. \nThis is an online\, pre-recorded event. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/marlon-james
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:INCITE: Hot Bestsellers with Nita Prose and Jessamine Chan
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library. \nGet ready for some of the most talked about books of the season! Our second Incite event features two new instant bestsellers: Nita Prose delivers a Clue-like\, locked-room mystery in her debut novel The Maid\, and Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers follows a young mother who lands in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance. They’ll speak with Ashley Audrain\, internationally bestselling author of The Push\, in a livestream event on February 9 at 7pm PT. \nThe Maid follows twenty-five-year-old Molly Gray\, who struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others\, but delights in her work as a hotel maid. Molly’s orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black\, only to find him dead in his bed. Molly’s unusual demeanour has the police targeting her as their lead suspect\, while friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black. But will they be able to find the real killer before it’s too late? \nNamed one of the most anticipated books of the year by Glamour\, W magazine\, PopSugar\, The Rumpus\, Book Riot\, The Globe and Mail\, Chatelaine\, and Canadian Living\, The Maid is a heartwarming debut\, which reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart. \nThe School for Good Mothers is a taut and explosive page-turner that has been called “horrifyingly unbelievable and eerily prescient all at once” (Vogue) and “impossible to put down and impossible to forget” (Library Journal). \nFrida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband\, Gust\, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet\, their cherubic daughter\, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has\, but she is just enough. \nUntil Frida has a very bad day. Because of one moment of poor judgment\, a host of government officials will now determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother’s devotion. Jessamine Chan’s debut is a transgressive novel of ideas about the perils of “perfect” upper-middle class parenting; the violence enacted upon women; the systems that separate families; and the boundlessness of love. \nThis conversation is sure to be just as riveting as the authors’ page-turning novels. RSVP now! \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to purchase the books at your favourite independent bookseller\, or use our Festival Bookstore partner\, kidsbooks. \nThis is an online\, live event. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/hot-bestsellers
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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SUMMARY:INCITE: Damon Galgut in Conversation with John Freeman
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library. \nThe new year has come\, and with it\, a dazzling new season of Incite! Kick off the 2022 season with Damon Galgut\, in celebration of his 2021 Booker Prize win for his novel\, The Promise\, in conversation with beloved Festival moderator and editor\, John Freeman.  \nIn an exclusive pre-recorded event streamed from dual locations in South Africa and the UK\, Galgut will share insights from both the process and pages of his recent tour de force\, set in the town of his birth. Raved about in media\, including The Guardian\, Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times (Editor’s Choice)\, The Promise is an incisory\, kaleidoscopic look at grief and guilt during a white family’s decline amidst South Africa’s transition out of apartheid—and the deterred promise the family has failed to keep for one of their servants. \nThis won’t be an event to miss! RSVP early. \nFrom the publisher: Haunted by an unmet promise\, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift\, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton\, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life’s unfulfilled potential; Astrid\, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest\, Amor\, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. \nReunited by four funerals over three decades\, the dwindling family reflects the atmosphere of its country—one of resentment\, renewal\, and\, ultimately\, hope. The Promise is an epic drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of national history\, sure to please current fans and attract many new ones. \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to pick up The Promise at your favourite independent bookseller\, or use our Festival Bookstore partner\, kidsbooks. \nThis is an online\, pre-recorded event. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-damon-galgut
LOCATION:Digital (YouTube)
CATEGORIES:Incite Event
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