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  • July 2023

  • Tue 11
    July 11, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    Meet the Authors Night at 40 Knots Winery

    40 Knots Winery 2400 Anderton Rd, Comox, BC, Canada

    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 […]

    $5
  • Thu 27
    July 27, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    The Effects of The Postmedia Effect :: Plus! Panel discussion @ SFU

    SFU Harbour Centre 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Join us for an informative and fascinating discussion at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus on Thursday July 27, as Edge leads a panel discussion on topics surrounding Postmedia and its fall from grace, Canadian media, and democratic media policies and what they mean for the future. Thursday July 27th, 7:00pm Teck Gallery Lounge Room 1400 (Updated)– SFU Harbour […]

  • August 2023

  • Thu 24
    August 24, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm

    Wild Prose Readings Presents: Troubled Towns and Waters with Curtis LeBlanc, Michael Melgaard and Mike Sadava

    Paul Phillips Hall 1923 Fernwood Road, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Please join us for an evening of small-town and watery crime literature! The evening will begin with an open mic at 7 - bring your writing to share! Featured readers will begin at 7:30 p.m.: Vancouver-based poet and novelist Curtis LeBlanc will read from his debut novel, Sunsetter, which is about crime and drugs at […]

    $5.00
  • September 2023

  • Thu 7
    September 7, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    Dear Friends &: A reading with Junie Désil, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, and Isabella Wang

    The Western Front 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Thursday, September 7, 2023 Doors at 7 pm / Readings at 7:30 pm Free admission In-person at Western Front + Virtual attendance by livestream Dear Friends, The Capilano Review and Western Front are pleased to invite you to the next event in our monthly reading series, Dear Friends &. Please join us at 7:30 pm […]

    Free
  • November 2023

  • Sat 25
    November 25, 2023 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Escape to Paris: History, Archives and the City of Light

    Vancouver Island Regional Library, Sidney/North Saanich Branch 10091 Resthaven Drive, Sidney, BC, Canada

    Join local author and archivist Sonia Nicholson as she takes you to one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Following some of the locations featured in her novel, Provenance Unknown, travel from Victoria to Paris using local history and sense of place as a gateway for storytelling. This casual talk will include an […]

    Free
  • Sun 26
    November 26, 2023 | 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    An Afternoon With Authors Featuring Tellers of Tales and Poetic Justice

    I Heart New West Community Art Space Unit 103 - 78 10th Street, Columbia Square Plaza, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

    Royal City Literary Arts Society presents An Afternoon With Authors Featuring Tellers of Tales and Poetic Justice Sunday November 26, 2023, 1pm to 5pm Location: I Heart New West Community Art Space Unit 103 - 78 10th Street Columbia Square Plaza, New Westminster Tellers of Tales – 1:00pm • Winona Kent – The Jason Davey […]

    Free
  • December 2023

  • Sun 3
    December 3, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

    Wild Prose Readings Presents: Boy, Interrupted

    Please join the Wild Prose Reading Series for Boy, Interrupted—readings from books about young men whose lives were interrupted, and the story of how they came back. Jason Jobin will read from his memoir, The Wild Mandrake, about his struggle with cancer as a young man; Katłįà will read from her novel, This House is […]

    $5
  • January 2024

  • Thu 25
    January 25, 2024 | 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

    Wild Prose Reading Series Presents: The Subversives

    Paul Phillips Hall 1923 Fernwood Road, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Please join us for The Subversives—readings from books about women and nonbinary people subverting the status quo. JD Derbyshire will read from Mercy Gene, the Man-Made Making of a Madwoman, a genre-smashing work of auto-fiction about gender confusion, patriarchy, addiction, and mental health; Kathryn Mockler will read from her book of short stories, Anecdotes, a […]

    $5
  • April 2024

  • Sun 14
    April 14, 2024 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    RCLAS presents Poetic Justice In Celebration of National Poetry Month Featuring Isabella Wang & Catherine Lewis with Alan Hill

    #IHeartNewWest Community Art Space Columbia Square Plaza, Unit 103 - 78 10th Street, New Westminster. Unit 103 - 78 10th Street, New Westminster, BC, Canada

    Royal City Literary Arts Society presents “Poetic Justice” In Celebration of National Poetry Month Sunday, April 14 from 2-4pm Featuring poets Isabella Wang and Catherine Lewis with host Alan Hill. Plus, additional readings from “A Poetry of Place: Journeys Across New Westminster”, the poetry postcard anthology project, curated and edited by Alan Hill, published in […]

    Free
  • May 2024

  • Thu 30
    May 30, 2024 | 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

    Wild Prose Reading Series Presents: BACK to the Future!

    Paul Phillips Hall 1923 Fernwood Road, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Join the Wild Prose Reading Series on Thursday, May 30th for BACK to the Future! Readings about time travel and nostalgia, from Astrid Blodgett (This is How You Start to Disappear), Kevin Chong (The Double Life of Benson Yu), and Lori Hahnel (Flicker)! We’ll begin with an open mic, as always (ALL genres welcome) at […]

    $5
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