Now celebrating its 30th year, this community-engagement project, made possible through a partnership with TransLink and BC Transit, is an opportunity to bring BC’s regional poetry to BC readers and transit riders. On Saturday, September 19 at 2-3:30 p.m. at Word Vancouver, hear this year’s featured poets: Cynthia Woodman Kerkham, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Eve Joseph, Fenn […]
Join us for a special 30th-anniversary celebration of Poetry in Transit, hosted by Rob Taylor and featuring poets Junie Désil, Natalie Lim, and Fiona Tinwei Lam. We will also have other activations on site, including an interactive “30 Years of Poetry in Transit” timeline and a “Community Poetry” board for festival attendees.
As the headliner for the Indigenous Author Series, David A. Robertson, one of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, brings his acclaimed book 52 Ways to Reconcile to life in this keynote designed to engage, inspire, and empower audiences to move reconciliation forward in tangible ways.
Join Squamish-based alpinist and award-winning author Michael Schauch in celebrating the launch of his new book, Anattā: Heart of Wisdom (Hohm Press), with a special community event on Wednesday, September 23, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Brackendale Art Gallery in Squamish. The evening will feature readings from the book, conversation and audience Q&A, […]
Join us for the launch of Syl-Lo-Therapy by Crystal Hurdle, a bold, witty, and imaginative collection of poetry that brings together two of literature’s most iconic figures: Nabokov’s Lolita and poet Sylvia Plath. Through free verse, prose poems, pop-culture references, and sharp feminist insight, Hurdle explores power, obsession, identity, and the stories we tell about […]
We’re back for the 2026 Canine Library at John Hendry Trout Lake Park. Borrow a St. John Ambulance certified therapy pup and read them poetry. Sign-ups start at 12:30 pm—spots go fast, so don’t be late! The event takes place in the park at Victoria Drive on East 19th Ave. behind the community centre on […]
Join Upstart & Crow in celebrating the launch of Brotherhood Is a Constant Possibility: Asian Masculinity in a World Made for Whiteness, the debut from Vancouver-based author Ryan Cho. Drawing from his own experiences and interviews with other Asian men and nonbinary people, Cho explores how culture, sexuality and race combine to influence identity. Along […]
Join internationally acclaimed Haisla and Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson for an unforgettable evening exploring the power of Indigenous storytelling, mythology, and imagination. Register now and get your signed copy of The Sorceress of Sky Serpents! Celebrated for her award-winning novels Monkey Beach and the bestselling Trickster trilogy, Robinson returns with a sweeping new fantasy inspired […]
Did I choose the artist or did the art choose me? Could I know that the work revealed me as much as I uncovered its hidden mechanisms? Not yet. Where writing leads cannot be anticipated. The great lesson of writing, children, is abandonment. No theory, no thesis comes into play beforehand. The writer looks on […]
Originally from Vancouver Island, meet Vancouver author Ryan Cho who will be in the store signing copies and chatting about his book Brotherhood is a Constant Possibility. This is a free event. About the book: In this timely and insightful memoir, Ryan Cho unpacks ideas about masculinity and Asian men in a world of stereotypes […]