2022 Volunteer Ticket Lottery
Every Writers Fest volunteer serving a minimum of 12 hours during the Festival Week or 15-20 hours pre-festival is entitled to one complimentary ticket to a Festival event.
Volunteer captains who meet shift requirements are guaranteed two tickets, with one of the “winning” tickets being one of their top two (or three) choices.
Please make sure you are not working during the event you’ve selected or that you’re not attending another event at the same time!
We thank you for your enthusiastic commitment and for volunteering at the Vancouver Writers Fest!
Ticket Lottery Choices
This year, we are only offering comp tickets for the events listed below.
Details about the Festival events are available here: Festival events
NOTE: If you select only 1 event you are not guaranteed a ticket to that event. Selecting fewer than 9 events does not increase your odds for the events you have selected.
Available events:
Event 11: Sisters in Resistance: Tilar J. Mazzeo in Conversation with Marsha Lederman
Event 12: The Alma Lee Opening Night Event: Family Matters
Event 13: What Home Means
Event 14: Ali Hassan in Conversation with Brent Butt
Event 23: An Evening with Wayne Johnston
Event 24: Freeman’s Spotlight, featuring Tess Gunty
Event 25: UBC Creative Writing
Event 26: Fabulous Historical Fantasy
Event 27: Memory of Self
Event 28: An Evening with Billy-Ray Belcourt
Event 29: Latin American Brilliance
Event 38: Short Story Masters
Event 39: The Power of Story: Live Recording for CBC’s The Next Chapter
Event 40: Fiction from Reality
Event 41: Writing History
Event 42: Don’t You Want Me, Baby?: Authors Do 80s Lyrics
Event 43: A Gallant Day: The Great Coincidence of August 11
Event 44: The Truth Ain’t What It Used To Be: Journalism in the 21st Century
Event 45: Generational Fiction: Stories of Lineage, History and Things Passed Down
Event 46: Wry Humour for Modern Life
Event 47: Douglas Stuart in Conversation with Eddy Boudel Tan
Event 48: Writing Indigeneity with Shelagh Rogers
Event 49: The City of Vancouver Book Awards Ceremony
Event 50: Poems for the Twelfth Hour
Event 51: An Evening with Heather O’Neill
Event 52: Writing The Self
Event 53: The Narrator’s Tale: Playing with Truth
Event 54: Eleanor Wachtel Interviews Pierre Jarawan
Event 55: In the Heart of Montreal: Fiction from La Belle Province
Event 56: The Poetry Bash
Event 57: Queer Little Nightmares
Event 58: Bestseller to Blockbuster
Event 59: Jane’s Rights and the Freedom to Choose
Event 60: Une force de la nature: club de lecture avec Violaine Huisman
Event 61: Wildness: Stories for an Unraveling World
Event 62: Building Suspense
Event 63: Poets in Conversation
Event 64: The State of Women
Event 65: American Debuts: Emerging Authors, Exceptional Tales
Event 66: Blending Genres
Event 67: An Evening with Elif Batuman
Event 69: Writing Across Cultures
Event 70: Good Reids
Event 71: The Crime [Writing] of the Century: Linwood Barclay and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir in Conversation
Event 73: The Future is Now, with Bob McDonald
Event 74: Across Cultures and Place: Poets in Conversation
Event 75: Killer Plots
Event 76: Emerge
Event 77: Short Stories, Expansive Worlds
Event 78: Dr. Gabor Maté in Conversation
Event 79: The Afternoon Tea
Event 80: Her Image on the Mirror: A Tribute to Mavis Gallant