Join North Shore libraries for a refreshing summer series with local authors and local brews! Attend all four Brews & Books to win a prize (details below). Join us at Bridge Brewing Co. to learn more about camping in Western Canada! Author Jayne Seagrave will explain how she started researching Provincial Park camping in the […]
Grab a glass of wine and join three BC travel writers - Ella Harvey, Meaghan Hackinen, and Lisa Duncan - for an evening of stories, slides, and enticing readings from around the world! Books available for purchase. Ella Harvey "In A Time of Light and Shadow, Ella Harvey gracefully ties together the multiple landscapes of […]
Join North Shore libraries for a refreshing summer series with local authors and local brews! Attend all four Brews & Books to win a prize (details below). Rescue Me takes you behind the scenes of some of North America’s riskiest search and rescue operations. Author Cathalynn Labonté-Smith shares real-life stories as told by volunteer members […]
This annual festival brings together readers and writers and all lovers of the spoken and written word. We gather on idyllic Bowen Island to spend two days engaged in stimulating writing workshops, facilitated by professional writers, authors, poets, screenwriters and others. We feature special events including author readings, panel discussions and other activities.
In partnership with TransLink and BC Transit, Read Local BC presents the launch of this year’s Poetry In Transit campaign at Word Vancouver. Now celebrating its 27th year, this beloved community-engagement project displays the work of ten BC poets on public transit vehicles throughout the province. Join us to hear a selection of the featured […]
Celebrate the Adventurous Spirit of Coastal Living in the 1970s. Two new Books are being launched in the inviting ambience of the Osborne Bay Pub. You can buy a beer, buy a book, meet the authors, and get your books signed. From the vibrant era of the 1970s when adventure seekers, dreamers, and wanderers flocked […]
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. SiWC will be a hybrid in person and online conference again in 2023. SiWC runs October 20-22, 2023 (in person […]
Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the release of two highly anticipated new novels by critically acclaimed writers Mona Awad and Lauren Groff, in conversation with CBC Radio's Kathryn Marlow!! From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes Mona Awad's Rouge, a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death […]
Please join Munro’s Books for a book signing with award-winning, globe-trotting, history-hunting storyteller, Ken McGoogan! In his latest book, Searing for Franklin: New Light on the Great Arctic Mystery, arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring […]
Please join Munro’s Books for a book signing with beloved local author, Darrel J. McLeod!! Darrel J. McLeod will be in-store to sign copies of his debut novel, A Season in Chezgh'un. A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a […]