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SUMMARY:The Vancouver Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:The Vancouver Writers Fest connects people to exceptional books\, ideas\, and dialogue through year-round programming that ignites a passion for words and the world around us. \nMeet 115+ authors joining us at this year’s flagship Festival\, from October 16-22!
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LOCATION:Granville Island (various)\, 202-1398 Cartwright Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Surrey International Writers' Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Surrey International Writers’ Conference is the most comprehensive professional development conference of its kind in Canada. SiWC offers writers in all genres — from beginners to experts — the opportunity to hone their craft. \nSiWC will be a hybrid in person and online conference again in 2023. \nSiWC runs October 20-22\, 2023 (in person and virtual)\, with optional pre-conference master classes on October 18 (virtual) and October 19 (virtual and in person). \nThis Day We Write!
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LOCATION:Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel\, 15269 104th Avenue\, Surrey\, BC\, V3R 1N5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:56. Carving Space (VFW)
DESCRIPTION:At the Vancouver Writers Festival \nEstablished in 2017\, the Indigenous Voices Awards honour the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and nurture the work of emerging Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada. The awards have ushered in a new and dynamic generation of Indigenous writers\, with past recipients including Billy-Ray Belcourt\, Tanya Tagaq\, and Jesse Thistle. This anthology\, celebrating the awards’ fifth anniversary\, collects selected works by finalists over the past five years. \nWe welcome co-editor Carleigh Baker and three contributors to the anthology\, and former finalists of the Awards: Nathan Adler\, Troy Sebastian\, and jaye simpson. They’ll share readings from their works and discuss the writers they admire\, what it’s felt like to have their own writing careers burgeon\, and the exceptional breadth and depth in modern Indigenous writing. \nPresented in partnership with SFU Library
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SUMMARY:Tauhou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 20th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and House of Anansi Press in welcoming Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall to celebrate her innovative novel Tauhou. Kōtuku will be joined by moderator Shirarose Wilensky. \n“…Masterful dialogue and rich scenes move emotions like the currents around Aotearoa and the Salish Seas\, a beautiful display of lyricism that loudly proclaims that Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall belongs in the crescendo of rising voices in CanLit. Tauhou is not a collection to miss!” — jaye simpson\, author of it was never going to be okay \n“The stories in this collection move like the waves of the ocean that divide Vancouver Island and Aotearoa. Once you emerge from Tauhou’s narrative depths\, you’ll miss its imagination\, its rhythms\, its heart.” — Alicia Elliott\, author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the book: \nTauhou (House of Anansi Press\, 2023) \nAn inventive exploration of Indigenous families\, womanhood\, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. \nTauhou envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures\, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa that sit side by side in the ocean. Each chapter in this innovative hybrid novel is a fable\, an autobiographical memory\, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum\, a woman uncovers her own grave\, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes\, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past — all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores. \nIn a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women\, the two sides of this family\, Coast Salish and Māori\, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism. Tauhou is an ardent search for answers\, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home\, to return to the land and sea. \nAbout the author \nKŌTUKU TITIHUIA NUTTALL (Te Ātiawa\, Ngāti Tūwharetoa\, W̱SÁNEĆ) holds an MA from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She won the 2020 Adam Foundation Prize and was runner-up in the 2021 Surrey Hotel-Newsroom writer’s residency award. She lives on the Kāpiti Coast of Aotearoa New Zealand. \nAbout the moderator \nShirarose Wilensky is an editor at House of Anansi Press\, where she specializes in literary upmarket fiction and narrative non-fiction by BIPOC\, LGBTQ2S+\, and emerging writers. A winner of the Editors Canada Tom Fairley Award\, she attended Simon Fraser University’s Master of Publishing Program and has worked for Arsenal Pulp Press\, Greystone Books\, Douglas & McIntyre\, and Harbour Publishing. She lives in Port Moody\, BC. \n____ \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
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