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MEMBER TICKETS NOW ON SALE📚
General Public tickets on sale September 17 💫📚
Vancouver Writers Fest members, you have access to purchase 2024 Festival tickets now! 🎟️ Check your email for instructions.
Tickets go on sale to the general public in one week, on September 17.
We can’t wait to see you at #VWF2024.
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Excellent coverage by @DouglasTodd on the Galloway case and the problems with anti-SLAPP law. This is not what justice looks like.
Douglas Todd: Why Steven Galloway has been denied his day in court for so long vancouversun.com/opinion/col… via @VancouverSun
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Breaking News: High Court Win for Steven Galloway in
@BCCourtofAppeal
#ubcaccountable #CanLit #BCLegal #bclawyers #cdnlaw #bcpoli
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Read and share to help end blacklisting and censorship in Canadian Literature. #CanLit #cdnpoli #bcpoli #UBCUpdates #ubcaccountable
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Want a unique gift for clients or the books & ideas lover in your life? Give a Digital Festival pass as a gift! @VanWritersFest
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There are just 5 days to go until #VWF2023! Authors from across Canada and the world will gather on @granville_isle and beyond for thought-provoking conversations, captivating readings, and one fabulously nostalgic 90s dance party.
Tickets: writersfest.bc.ca/2023-festi…
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Announcing the new DC Reid Poets’ Grant which will anonymously deliver grants of $5,000 to poets of modest means to help fund their writing. The new program is generously supported by author DC Reid.
Find program details at: writerstrust.com/DCReid
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It’s official! Fatimah Asghar is the winner of the first ever Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for their novel, When We Were Sisters (@OneWorldLit ). Asghar has won $150K USD, generously donated by @BMO, and a residency at the award-winning Fogo Island Inn. @asgharthegrouch
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Congratulations to all finalists for the 2023 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for Emerging Writers:
◢ POETRY
Kyo Lee
Dora Prieto
Cooper Skjeie
◢ SHORT FICTION
Vincent Anioke
Zak Jones
Zilla Jones
Read their work at: writerstrust.com/BronwenWall…
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We are honoured and excited to be presenting @AKurkov with his prescient collection of dispatches from Ukraine amid the invasion by Russia. “This new Ukrainian reality far outdoes my writer’s imagination”. Join Upstart & Crow and @VanWritersFest to hear from this singular author. – at Vancouver, British Columbia
On June 1, the VWF and Upstart & Crow welcome Ukraine’s most celebrated writer, @AKurkov to discuss Diary of an Invasion and Grey Bees (@DeepVellum) with @globeandmail correspondent @nvanderklippe. 🇺🇦
Tickets: writersfest.bc.ca/event/kurk…
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Check out Charles Foran's essay in the @globeandmail discussing the writing of his new memoir JUST ONCE, NO MORE: tgam.ca/41kBlt4
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“In both her poetry and prose, @ericavioletlee’s voice rings with authority, naming, shaming, and demanding an end to the everyday brutality of colonial oppression,” said selector @candacesavage of the 2023 #WTRisingStar. More on Lee and her work at writerstrust.com/RisingStars
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“In her poetry Manahil Bandukwala gives us what we perennially yearn for, but always anew, in literature: the exposition and understanding of the human heart,” said selector @shanimootoo about 2023 #WTRisingStar @manahilbanduk. More on Bandukwala at: writerstrust.com/RisingStars
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“@teresempierre’s writing is startlingly versatile, moving back, forth, and between the literary and the speculative, and artfully engaging social issues & deep character formation at once.” —@WaydeCompton on the 2023 #WTRisingStar. Details on her work at writerstrust.com/RisingStars
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2023 #WTRisingStars announced! ⭐ These #CanLit writers are poised to produce exceptional & enduring creative work. Immense congrats to @manahilbanduk, @KatiaBelkhodja, @ericavioletlee, @JulieMannell, and @teresempierre. Learn more about the program at writerstrust.com/RisingStars
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“All of a sudden, the whole front erupted at once. A hundred meters of forest - up, poof, gone.”
What had, a moment earlier, been a line of trees was now a towering wall of flame. Judging by its effect on the fire, Stephenson's firehose might as well have been spraying gasoline.
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Wayne Grady's Pandexicon is published in the UK on 27th April!
Fascinating book from @greystonebooks about the words coined during Covid. Did using militaristic language make the pandemic feel even worse? theneweuropean.co.uk/did-usi…
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Support from the Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation enables an increase to the #WestonPrize purse from $60k to $75k. The Weston Awards will deliver more than $230K to writers each year, representing one of the most generous commitments to nonfiction literature in the world.
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In PANDEXICON, Wayne Grady takes us into a linguistic journey on how vocabulary evolved throughout the pandemic and contemplates what may come after it. PANDEXICON is out today, from Greystone Books! (@greystonebooks ) bit.ly/3Y6fK5u
ALT Pandexicon’s cover is teal, with orange circles containing black shoe imprints lined up in the middle of the cover, mimicking social distancing stickers common at the beginning of the pandemic.