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2026 Festival: Oct 18–25

Briony Penn

British Columbia

BRIONY PENN is an award-winning writer, naturalist and environmental activist. Her books include Following the Good River, winner of the Victoria Butler Book Prize, and The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan, which won the BC Book Prize and the Hamilton Mack Laing Award for Environmental History.

2026 Reading List: