Read Local BC

Panel: Speaking the Unspeakable: Black Migration, Living Transformations
2023-04-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | Beaumont Studios, 316 & 326 W. 5th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3P1, Canada
On Wednesday, April 19th at 7pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and the Beaumont Studios for Speaking the Unspeakable: Black Migration, Living Transformations, an evening of conversation in celebration of Suzette Mayr’s new award-winning book The Sleeping Car Porter.
A thrilling, visceral novel that explores labour, desire and memory, The Sleeping Car Porter highlights an often overlooked part of the past through the perspective of a queer Black man. In conversation with Wayde Compton, author of The Blue Road, the two will speak on the topic of unspeakable histories – unspeakable in how racism in the razing of Hogan’s Alley is guised under “urban renewal” and in the ways Black queerness is untold and hidden from our past. This illuminating evening, moderated by poet and spoken word artist, Brandon Wint with a musical opening by Khari Wendell McClelland, invites us to consider invisibility/visibility and to re-examine what has been forgotten.
This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
Header Image Credit: Library and Archives Canada (PA-212572). From left to right: Shirley Jackson, Pete Stevens, Harry Gairey and Jimmy Downes.
Tickets
Tickets for this event are $15. There are also tickets at $10 available for Indigenous, Black, queer, disabled and community members with intersections that typically exclude them from accessing literary events.

BC Book Day
2023-04-17 - 2023-04-18

WORKSHOP: Interior Dialogues: Poetry Workshops with Kerry Gilbert and Al Rempel
2023-04-15 13:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
Workshop with Kerry Gilbert:
“Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.”—Marilyn Hacker
How can you make your writing more attractive to readers by paying close attention to energy? This workshop explores ideas around the core principles of energy, including movement/heat, leaps/gaps, energetic word choice, and the use of specifics. “Energy gives your writing power, drama, originality, and life. Energy is what makes your creative writing stand out from everyone else’s” (Heather Sellers). This will be a hands-on exploration, with some literary models to look at, and a lot of room for experimentation in your own writing during the workshop.
Workshop with Al Rempel:
What does zooming, spelunking, and tumbling have in common? Find out all the ways in Painting Powerful Images, a workshop that will focus on generating and tightening up your poetic imagery. You will be presented with a few tools and techniques you can take with you into your writing practice, and there will be time to try them out and ask questions during the workshop.

READING: Remnants: Reveries of a Mountain Dweller
2023-04-04 18:30 - 19:30 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 6B1, Canada
Join Natalie Virginia Lang as she reads from Remnants: Reveries of a Mountain Dweller as part of the Vancouver Public Library’s ongoing Writer’s Showcase Series. Natalie will be joined by two other authors.
After the reading, there will be a Q&A and an opportunity to meet Lang and purchase books for cash. More information can be found by emailing info@vpl.ca or calling 604.331.3603

WORKSHOP: The Write Stuff: From Memoir to Fiction
2023-04-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Joseph Kakwinokanasum discusses how writing memoir prepared him for writing fiction, and describes some of the methods and tools he used to write his first novel.
A member of the James Smith Cree Nation, Joseph is a graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio and the author of My Indian Summer (Tidewater Press, 2022). Joseph writes on the unceded territory of the T’souke Nation.

National Poetry Month
2023-04-01 - 2023-05-01

Community Salon Reading Series: West-Coast Lit with Cedar Bowers, Margot Fedoruk & Andrea Routley
2023-03-30 19:00 - 22:00 | Community Salon, 1129 Meares Street, Victoria, 1129 Meares Street, Victoria, Canada
Victoria’s only prose reading series presents West-Coast Literature in March! Cedar Bowers will read from her BC and Yukon Book Prizes shortlisted and Giller long-listed debut novel Astra, Margot Fedoruk will read from her debut memoir about life as a sea urchin-diver’s wife on Gabriola Island, Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives: An Island Memoir, and Andrea Routley will read from her book of five novellas that feature queer women in the rugged West Coast, This Unlikely Soil.

Reading: Cedar Bowers, Margaret Fedoruck, Andrea Routley
2023-03-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Community Salon, 1129 Meares Street, Victoria, 1129 Meares Street, Victoria, Canada
Astra, by Cedar Bowers
Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives, by Margot Fedoruk
This Unlikely Soil, by Andrea Routley
We’ll have books for sale at the event.
Please bring cash.

READINGS: Regional Spotlight: Clayoquot Writers Group
2023-03-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
The Regional Spotlight series highlights groups and organisations from across British Columbia. This event features readings from David Floody, Heather Hendry, Helen Mavoa, and Joanna Streetly, with FBCW host Meaghan Hackinen.
Readers and writers from across the province and beyond are welcome to this showcase celebrating the talent of the Clayoquot Writers Group.

WORKSHOP & BOOK LAUNCH: Write for the Reader Brain & Launch of emily & elspeth
2023-03-26 14:00 - 17:30 | Mission Point House, 4603 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Davis Bay, BC, V0N 3A1, Canada
Join us Sunday, March 26, 2 pm, Mission Point House, 4603 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Davis Bay, for two extraordinary guests.
Cheryl Stephens, a leader in plain language communications, presents Write for the Reader Brain.
Cheryl Stephens found her calling as an educator, trainer, and consultant in communications. For over thirty years she has been writing, speaking, and teaching about plain language, helping clients to become more successful communicators using plain language principles.
Cheryl has mined the varied fields of neuroscience to apply research results to explain human processes for reading, thinking, and decision-making. Since 2019, she has been speaking internationally about writing for the reader brain.
Cheryl has three books in process with publication expected this year. Her earlier works include Plain Language Legal Writing and Plain Language In Plain English. Learn more about her at cherylstephens.com
After a refreshment and social break, starting at 3:30 pm:
Catherine McNeil (Cat Mac) will read from her new poetry book emily & elspeth (Caitlin Press). The delightful cover of the book was created by local artist RoseAnn Janzen.
She is the author of under the influence (Bedazzled Ink) 2016 which won Milieu’s National Emerging Writers Competition. She has been widely published in literary magazines, including Event, Queer Chroma, Sinister Wisdom, and the Capilano Review, and in anthologies throughout Canada, the United States & England for the past thirty years. She lives in Halfmoon Bay, BC, with her dog, Gaia and her cat, Lavender. She is also a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Book sales and signing to follow.
scwes.ca 604-724-3534 sunshinecoastwritersandeditors@gmail.com

WORKSHOP: Audiobooks: How-To With Cassie Smyth
2023-03-26 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
Join us for a deep dive into the audiobook production process, from creating an audiobook script, casting a narrator, recording, editing sound files and correcting errors, to sending the finished product out to the world.
Cassie Smyth is the Audiobooks Manager at ECW Press. She manages the production of more than 120 audiobooks per year, all by Canadian publishers and authors, and narrated by Canadian voice talent.

Reading: SAM WIEBE
2023-03-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Sunshine Coast Arts Council, 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt, BC, V0N 3A3, Canada
“The best crime writer in Canada” – Charles Demers
Terse dialogue reminiscent of Raymond Chandler, complex characters and a very real Vancouver characterize Wiebe’s writing. His first crime novel, the standalone Last of the Independents, won both the Kobo Emerging Writer and the Arthur Ellis Awards. He has been shortlisted for the Edgar, Hammett, Shamus, and City of Vancouver book prizes and was a former Vancouver Public Library Writer in Residence.
Dave Wakeland is the protagonist of the Wakeland detective series, “one of the most authentic and acclaimed detective series in Canada.” – Crime Writers of Canada
Wiebe will be reading from Sunset and Jericho the fourth in his Wakeland series.
“The Wakeland novels are an incredible combination of social commentary and just the best of the crime genre.” – Charles Demers

LAUNCH: How Your Heart Grows with Catherine Hernandez, Hari Alluri, Kimmortal
2023-03-19 18:00 - 20:00 | The Lido, 518 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC, V5T 1X5, Canada
On Sunday, March 19 at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and The Lido for a magical night of togetherness in How Your Heart Grows. Celebrating chosen family in the diaspora, including our queer kin, this evening will feature award winning author of Scarborough and finalist for Canada Reads 2022, Catherine Hernandez, who will read from her new book The Story of Us.
A captivating narrative of sisterhood, community, hope and belonging, The Story of Us paints a tender portrait of the resilience of migrant women. In conversation with Hari Alluri, poet and author of Our Echo of Sudden Mercy, the two discuss ideas around diasporic identities, home and kinship. This remarkable event will also offer a musical opening by Kimmortal. We invite you for an evening to find the joy of finding love in unlikely places.
This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
Tickets
Tickets for this event are $15, or $10 available for Indigenous, Black, queer, disabled and community members with intersections that typically exclude them from accessing literary events.
Venue & Accessibility
The event will be hosted at The Lido at 518 E Broadway in Vancouver.
Registration is on a sliding scale and required for entrance. The space is wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.
Covid 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.

Book Launch: How Your Heart Grows with Catherine Hernandez + Hari Alluri + Kimmortal
2023-03-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Massy Books, 229 E. Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, V6A 1Z6, Canada
On Sunday, March 19 at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and The Lido for a magical night of togetherness in How Your Heart Grows. Celebrating chosen family in the diaspora, including our queer kin, this evening will feature award winning author of Scarborough and finalist for Canada Reads 2022, Catherine Hernandez, who will read from her new book The Story of Us.
A captivating narrative of sisterhood, community, hope and belonging, The Story of Us paints a tender portrait of the resilience of migrant women. In conversation with Hari Alluri, poet and author of Our Echo of Sudden Mercy, the two discuss ideas around diasporic identities, home and kinship. This remarkable event will also offer a musical opening by Kimmortal. We invite you for an evening to find the joy of finding love in unlikely places.
This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
Tickets
Tickets for this event are $15, or $10 available for Indigenous, Black, queer, disabled and community members with intersections that typically exclude them from accessing literary events.
Venue & Accessibility
The event will be hosted at The Lido at 518 E Broadway in Vancouver.
Registration is on a sliding scale and required for entrance. The space is wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.
Covid 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.
Featuring Author
Catherine Hernandez (she/her) is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She is a proud queer woman who is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Indian descent and married into the Navajo Nation. Her first novel, Scarborough, won the Jim Wong-Chu Award for the unpublished manuscript; was a finalist for several awards including Canada Reads 2022. She wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Scarborough, which was nominated for 11 Canadian Screen Awards and won 8 including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Her second novel, Crosshairs, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and made the CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction, NOW Magazine’s 10 Best Books, Indigo Best Book, and NBC 20 Best LGBTQ Books list of 2020. Her third novel, The Story of Us, was published this year by HarperCollins Canada. She is currently working on a few television projects and her fourth novel.

WORKSHOP: Non-Fiction Points of View With Lyndsie Bourgon
2023-03-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
To write rich narratives that elicit empathy, writers need to get into the heads and lives of characters they might disagree with. In this conversation, we’ll explore the sometimes murky area between truth and honesty, and discuss methods for writing stories from all angles, including oral history interviews, archival research, and fieldwork.
Lyndsie Bourgon’s first book, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods, was a New York Times editors’ choice. She is a writer, oral historian, and 2018 National Geographic Explorer.

Caitlin Press Book Launch & Readings: Susan Braley, Judy LeBlanc, Andrea Routley
2023-03-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Fanny Bay Hall, Fanny Bay
Judy LeBlanc will be launching her debut novel The Broken Heart of Winter and reading alongside Andrea Routley and Susan Braley. All three writers are published by Caitlin Press.
Susan Braley will be reading from her recently released collection of poetry Tilling the Darkness and Andrea Routley will be reading from her novella collection This Unlikely Soil published in Fall 2022.
For more information on these books and their writers visit the Caitlin Press website.
This event will be held at the Fanny Bay Hall, 7793 Island Highway, between Qualicum and Courtenay. Donations at the door.

Book Launch: The Broken Heart of Winter
2023-03-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Fanny Bay Hall, Fanny Bay
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The Broken Heart of Winter by Judy LeBlanc is available to pre-order from Indigo, caitlin-press.com, and your local independent bookstore.
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In award-winning writer Judy LeBlanc’s debut novel, three women are linked by generations of hardship, displacement, and the mystery of an eighteenth-century French musket that has been passed down through the LeBlanc family since the time of the Acadian expulsion. A riveting and heart-wrenching look at the effects of cultural trauma on Canada’s Acadian community, The Broken Heart of Winter takes readers on a riveting ride from modern-day Canada to a 19th-century Maritime island to untangle a family’s web of secrets and lies.
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“If you are Acadian, Mi’kmaq, or a Vietnamese baker working the night shift in Victoria, BC, what does survival—physical, familial, cultural and financial—look and sound and feel like? This powerful, beautifully written novel explores the grim historical realities of Acadian expulsion and exile as well as the glorious small and large-scale triumphs of survival in the 1830s and modern-day Canada. A timely and necessary contribution to understanding and empathy for this planet’s perennial population of refugees, the exiled, those who perished and those who survived.”
—Caroline Woodward, author of Alaska Highway Two-Step
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LeBlanc will launch her book in Fanny Bay with fellow Caitlin Press authors Andrea Routley (This Unlikely Soil) and Susan Braley (Tilling the Darkness).

Fat Oyster Reading Series at the Fabulous Fanny Bay Hall
2023-03-17 18:30 - 20:30
Join author Judy LeBlanc as she launches her debut novel, The Broken Heart of Winter, with fellow Caitlin Press authors Susan Braley (Tilling the Darkness) and Andrea Routley (This Unlikely Soil). Admission by donation.
Location: Fanny Bay Hall, 7793 Island Highway

READING: Mercy Gene: The Man-Made Making of a Mad Woman
2023-03-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Massy Arts, 23 East Pender, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
On Thursday, March 16 at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and Goose Lane Editions for the launch of JD Derbyshire’s debut novel Mercy Gene: The Man-Made Making of a Mad Woman, alongside guest readers Adrienne Wong, Cecily Nicholson and Zsuzsi Gartner.
Traversing genres, memories and time, Mercy Gene is a stunning, honest and humorous examination of queerness, trauma and mental health. Featuring guest readers Adrienne Wong, Cecily Nicholson and Zsuzsi Gartner, this evening is an invitation towards healing, forgiveness and acceptance.
This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.

READING: An Evening with Tara MacLean
2023-03-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Bolen Books, #111-1644 Hillside Ave., Victoria, BC, V8T 2C5, Canada
Singer/songwriter Tara MacLean has had an extraordinary musical career. From being discovered singing on a BC ferry to touring with Dido, Tom Cochrane and Lilith Fair, her solo albums and those with the band Shaye have touched legions of fans. But she hasn’t, until now, disclosed the details of how the power of song saved her from a childhood filled with danger. Come out and hear her story as she introduces her new memoir, Song of the Sparrow, with both readings and songs. It’s going to be an evening of beautiful things!

Double Book Launch: Ecologist Don Gayton and adventure cyclist Meaghan Hackinen
2023-03-14 19:00 - 21:00 | George Ryga Arts & Cultural Centre, 9525 Wharton Street, Summerland., 9525 Wharton Street, Summerland, BC, Canada
Summerland Book Launch: Ecology + Bicycle Travel!

Join renowned ecologist & nature writer Don Gayton and adventure cyclist Meaghan Hackinen for a doubleheader book launch on Tuesday, March 14 at 7:00 pm in Summerland, BC.

Don will read from his new release, “The Sky and the Patio” (New Star Books) a collection of essays that fuses ecology and deeply personal insights about Don’s Okanagan Valley homeland–and beyond; Meaghan will read from her travel memoir “South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels” (NeWest Press), a rollicking Tolkien-inspired journey down the coast from Northern BC to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Presented in partnership with the Ryga Arts Festival. Q & A to follow; signed books available for purchase.

Date: March 14
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: George Ryga Arts & Cultural Centre, 9525 Wharton Street, Summerland.
Cost: Free!

Book Launch: Don Gayton & Meaghan Hackinen
2023-03-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Ryga Arts & Cultural Centre, 9525 Wharton Street, Summerland, British Columbia, V0H 1Z0, Canada
Come celebrate ecology and travel writing!
Join well-known regional writers Don Gayton and Meaghan Hackinen for a Summerland book launch, presented in partnership with the Ryga Arts Festival. Gayton explores diverse aspects of Okanagan ecology and culture in The Sky and the Patio (New Star Books). Hackinen recounts an epic bicycle trip in South Away (NeWest Press), pedalling from Terrace, BC down to (almost) the tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. Both Gayton and Hackinen have received awards for their writing.
The launch takes place at the Ryga Arts Centre, Tuesday, March 14, beginning at 7:00 pm. Come and meet two engaging and talented writers!
Admission is free and the public is welcome. Books will be available for purchase, and refreshments will be served.

Panel: Caller ID: Poetry That Calls Back
2023-03-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Massy Arts, 23 East Pender, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
On Monday, March 13 at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and a directory of authors in Caller ID: Poetry That Calls Back—featuring David Bradford, Hari Alluri and River Halen.
Crossing essays, poems and journal entries, these three collections are deeply personal, tender explorations of inheritance, grief, joy and loss through encounters in the everyday. Hosted by author, Danielle LaFrance, this evening calls us to consider the ability of language to create new ways of being. Consider these works voicemails to your future selves.
This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.

Dead Poets Reading Series
2023-03-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Massy Arts, 23 East Pender, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
On Sunday, March 12th at 3pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and four fantastic readers for a bi-monthly literary seance: Dead Poets Reading Series.
Readers act as a medium, inviting us to time travel by reading a selection of work by their favourite dead poet. Previously held in North Vancouver and the Vancouver Public Library, Massy Arts Society offers a new home for this longstanding series since it first kicked off in 2007.
This month:
• Mark Aguhar (1987 – 2012) read by Laura Fukumoto
• Robin Blaser (1925 – 2009) read by Stephen Collis
• Lee Maracle, OC (1950 – 2021) read by Joanne Arnott
• Edward Taylor Fletcher (1817 – 1897) read by James Gifford
Register
Venue & Accessibility
The event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown, Vancouver.
Registration is free, open to all and required for entrance. The gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.
For more on accessibility including parking, seating, venue measurements and floor plan, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility
Covid 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.

Interview: Eleanor Catton in Conversation with Bill Richardson
2023-03-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre, 950 W 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2N7, Canada
Eleanor Catton makes a highly anticipated return to the Vancouver Writers Fest with her first novel since The Luminaries was published a decade ago; the mysterious, intricately structured tale sold 1.5 million copies worldwide, and made her the youngest ever winner of the Booker Prize. Now, Catton plunges readers into the world of a gripping new page-turner. Probe the urgent political issues of our times at this Vancouver Writers Fest Special Event, featuring a literary thriller that Stephen King has called “as good as it gets.”
Birnam Wood is a fast-paced, character-driven, psychologically penetrating work of climate fiction that explores the tense encounter between Birnam Wood—an internally conflicted guerrilla gardening collective, whose members plant crops on land they don’t own—and an American billionaire who intends to use his newly purchased plot of New Zealand farmland to build an apocalypse bunker. With a title inspired by Macbeth, Birnam Wood aims Shakespearean wit and drama at our various contemporary crises.
Come and discover the book that the Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Maclean’s, Vogue, Kirkus Reviews and more have named one of the most anticipated of 2023. Catton joins award-winning author and esteemed moderator Bill Richardson on Saturday, March 11 for an incisive conversation about greed, power, and reckoning with our global existential threat.
Books will be for sale at the event courtesy of Upstart & Crow.

Book Signing: Brooke Carter and Melinda Di Lorenzo
2023-03-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Black Bond Books – Maple Ridge, Haney Place Mall, 11900 Haney Place, Maple Ridge, BC, V2X 8R9
Maple Ridge dwellers!

Authors Brooke Carter and Melinda Di Lorenzo (Melinda Di Lorenzo) will be signing books at @blackbondbooks on March 11 from 12-2 PM!

Stop by and get your favorite books signed! #authorevent

Book Launch: We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action
2023-03-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Massy Arts, 23 East Pender, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
On Thursday, March 9 at 6pm PST, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and University of Regina Press for the unapologetically voice-giving launch of We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action. Recounting the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for today’s anti-fascist organizing in North America, it features extensive interviews with dozens of dedicated activists in hundreds of chapters who joined the Anti-Racist Action fight.
In a conversation with authors Gord Hill and Shannon Clay—this evening invites us to ask the revolutionary questions of risk-taking and what we owe anti-fascist movements of the past.
This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
Registration is free, open to all, and required for entrance.

Book Launch: Susan Braley, Karen Enns, & Jane Munro
2023-03-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Munro’s Books, 1108 Government Street, Victoria, BC, V8W 1Y2, Canada
Join Munro’s for an evening of inspiring readings celebrating the newest collections from three wonderful local Victoria poets!
Tilling the Darkness is Susan Braley’s debut poetry collection follows a young woman born into a family of eleven as she navigates the inequities of gender roles on the farm and in the church. Eventually leading us to how this woman, after leaving the farm, comes to appreciate the complex, bountiful legacy of her early life.
Karen Enn’s Dislocations takes the reader on a lyrical journey, wrapped in the vicissitudes of seasons and weather—while observing human and other-than-human lives. Enns invites us to peer and is concerned always with the locations and dislocations perspective implies and creates.
False Creek, Jane Munro’s collection, balances her signature themes—dream life, the visual arts, the mysteries of the natural world—with an urgent, more directly political voice. While not shirking painful realities, the poems support the human capacity to climb ladders, arrive at fresh points of view, listen to one another, and greet despair with attention, wit, and hope.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 8th, at 7:00PM. Doors open at 6:30PM.
WHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books! 1108 Government St.
WHAT: Susan Braley, Karen Enns and Jane Munro will be reading and talking about their newest poetry collections!
HOW: This event is free to attend.

Book Launch: Valley of the Birdtail with Andrew Stobo Sniderman + Douglas Sanderson
2023-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Massy Arts, 23 East Pender, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
On Monday, March 6th at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and Harper Collins for the launch of this multigenerational tale: Valley of the Birdtail by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii).
Spanning generations, Valley of the Birdtail brings together two families, one white and one Indigenous, and weaves their lives into the larger story of Canada. In conversation with Emilie Lahaie, partner in the Aboriginal Law Group at Cassels, this evening delves into these narratives of these two communities—separate and unequal—and how they create a layered story about community, history and reconciliation.
This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.

Panel: Yours, Mine & Ours: Rights, Royalties and Resistance
2023-03-05 14:00 - 17:00 | Massy Arts, 23 East Pender, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
On March 5th at 2pm, Yours, Mine and Ours, the itinerant copyright series brought to you by Artists Legal Outreach (BC), Artists Legal Advice Service (ON) and the National Network of Legal Clinics, presents Yours, Mine and Ours: Rights, Royalties and Resistance, a conversation between author, poet and rapper, Cadence Weapon (Rollie Pemberton) and author and broadcaster, Jen Sookfong Lee.
Venue & Accessibility
The event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown, Vancouver.
The gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.
For more on accessibility including parking, seating, venue measurements and floor plan, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility
Covid 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.
