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SUMMARY:Indigo Park Royal: Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Visit Indigo Park Royal between 1PM – 3PM on October 11th to meet local author Emma Sloan and claim your free gift with purchase of your signed copy of “Opheliac.”
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/indigo-park-royal-book-signing/
LOCATION:Chapters Indigo – Park Royal\, 900 Park Royal S.\, West Vancouver\, BC\, V7T 1A1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Love At First Page
DESCRIPTION:Writing a book is a labour of love that often involves working through complex relationships right on the page. Join four Canadian novelists writing at the intersections of romance\, comedy and mental health as they discuss creating lovably flawed characters\, share the process of writing second chance storylines and offer their tried-and-true writing tips to emerging authors. Author meet-and-greet with book signings to follow after the event\, courtesy of bookseller Perfect Match Bookshop. \nFeaturing Natalie Sue\, bestselling author of I Hope This Finds You Well & 2025 Leacock Medal winner; Noreen Nanja\, debut author of breakout hit The Summers Between Us; Leanne Toshiko Simpson\, 2025 Kobo Prize in Romance winner for Never Been Better; and Jacqueline Firkins\, author of 5 novels – including Marlowe Banks\, Redesigned – and UBC professor & costume designer. A selection of Jacqueline’s romance cover dresses will be on display at VPL during this event. \n— \nNatalie Sue is the bestselling and award-winning author of I Hope This Finds You Well. She is a Canadian author of Iranian and British descent. She spent her formative years moving around western Canada with a brief stint in Scotland\, where she discovered her passion for storytelling as a means of connection and reading as a means of comfort. When she’s not writing\, she enjoys bingeing great and terrible TV\, attempting pottery\, and procuring houseplants. She lives in Calgary with her husband\, daughter\, and dog. \nNoreen Nanja is the author of contemporary romance debut The Summers Between Us. As a second-generation Canadian\, Noreen’s writing explores themes of identity\, race and belonging\, wrapped in stories of romantic and familial love. Born and initially raised in small-town British Columbia\, she then spent her formative years in Edmonton before moving to Montreal to pursue her Bachelors in Psychology and English Literature at McGill University and then the University of Calgary to complete her medical degree. She currently lives with her partner and her small dog in Toronto\, where she enjoys working in healthcare\, drinking vast amounts of strawberry matcha and exploring local bookshops. \nLeanne Toshiko Simpson is an award-winning writer\, educator and mental health advocate from Toronto. She writes joyful\, messy\, laugh-out-loud stories about living with mental illness and the moments of hope that help us get out of bed day after day. Leanne’s mental health rom-com Never Been Better won the 2025 Rakuten Kobo Prize for Romance. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto and spends her free time designing mental health greeting cards for Pebbles and Company. \nJacqueline Firkins is a writer (Marlowe Banks\, Redesigned)\, costume designer\, and lover of beautiful things. She’s on the full-time faculty in the Department of Theatre & Film at the University of British Columbia where she teaches character design\, world building\, and period costume construction courses. When not obsessing about where to put the buttons or the commas\, she can be found running by the ocean\, eating excessive amounts of gluten\, listening to earnest love songs\, and pretending her dog understands every word she says. \n***Jacqueline’s dresses (#booksasfashion) will be on display during the event and afterwards (until October 20th) through the windows of the Yosef Wosk Poet’s Corner on level 9 where the rooftop garden is. \nIn partnership with Perfect Match Bookshop (Vancouver’s first romance bookstore).
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/love-at-first-page/
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library\, Central Branch\, 350 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 6B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Discussion,Book Signing,Reading
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening lost in translation with three talented poets as they discuss the often overlooked art of translation. How do you carry a book from one language to another\, line by line\, with precision? UBC Associate Professor Bronwen Tate will moderate the discussion with poets Rhea Tregebov\, Rahat Kurd and Deborah Woodard. \n— \nBronwen Tate is the author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore. She is an Associate Professor of Teaching and Undergraduate Chair in the UBC School of Creative Writing\, where she offers courses in poetry\, creative writing pedagogy\, and literary translation. A Practical Guide to Teaching Creative Writing: Supporting Inclusive Pedagogy\, a collaboration with colleague John Vigna\, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic in Spring 2026. \nRhea Tregebov is the author of eight collections of poetry\, most recently\, Talking to Strangers. She edited and co-translated the anthology Arguing With the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers and taught workshops in literary translation at UBC. In 2019 she taught a graduate course for the English Department at Tsuda University in Tokyo entitled “Translating the Self: Issues in Literary Translation.” Tregebov has translated poetry from French and Spanish and has worked in tandem translation from Japanese\, Catalan and Finnish\, languages she does not know. She is now an Associate Professor Emerita at the School of Creative Writing at UBC. \nRahat Kurd is a poet\, writer\, and editor of Kashmiri and north Indian family origin\, born in Canada and based in Vancouver. The Book Of Z\, published by Talonbooks this fall 2025\, is her second full-length work of poetry. Her previous literary titles with Talonbooks are The City That Is Leaving Forever: Kashmiri Letters\, (2021)\, co-authored with Kashmiri poet Sumayya Syed\, and Cosmophilia\, (poems\, 2015). In her work as a beginner translator of contemporary Urdu poetry\, Rahat Kurd is particularly interested in the ways lyrical resonances from the classical ghazal tradition have influenced modern and feminist Urdu-language poetic sensibilities. \nDeborah Woodard studied with Charles Simic at the University of New Hampshire and has a PhD from the University of Washington. Her books include Borrowed Tales (Stockport Flats) and No Finis: Triangle Testimonies\, 1911 (Ravenna Press). With Roberta Antognini\, she has translated the poetry of Amelia Rosselli in Hospital Series (New Directions)\, Obtuse Diary\, The Dragonfly\, and Notes Scattered and Lost (Entre Rios Books). Their translation of Rosselli’s Document has just been published by World Poetry Books. Deborah teaches at Hugo House in Seattle\, Washington and co-curates the reading series Margin Shift. \n*This event is curated by writer\, Jen Currin (Disembark and Trinity Street amongst many others).
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/poetry-in-translation/
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library\, Central Branch\, 350 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 6B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Panel,Reading
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