Read Local BC

An Evening with Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2025-07-31 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | St James Community Square, 3214 W 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V6K2L2, Canada
We’re excited to present An Evening with Silvia Moreno-Garcia with her new novel The Bewitching!
Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.
There are two ticket types available: $15.00 plus GST for just a ticket or $46.50 plus GST for a ticket AND copy of The Bewitching.
You must have your shopping location set to Langley Warehouse to purchase tickets for this event.
Books will be available for pickup at the event.
Doors will open at 6:30 pm and seating is general admission. The event will begin at 7:00 pm.
Silvia will in conversation with local book blogger Rachel Sargeant. There will be a discussion, followed by a Q&A, and book signing.
St. James Community Square, 3214 W 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC.
We will have a list of ticket purchasers at the door, but please do retain your receipt.

Book Launch of The Bone Raiders by Jackson Ford
2025-08-13 18:30 - 21:00 | Book Warehouse – Main Street, 4118 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5V 3P7, Canada
Join us for the launch of Vancouver author Jackson Ford’s new novel The Bone Raiders, the first in the Rakada series.
The start of a no‑holds‑barred, action‑packed fantasy series from the always irreverent Jackson Ford where a group of charmingly-named Bone Raiders harness the power of gigantic, fire-breathing lizards to defend their homeland from an invading enemy.
Jackson will be in conversation with Kristy Gardner, author of The Broken Stars series.
Doors at 6:30 pm, event starts at 7:00 pm; free to attend and all are welcome.

Urban Matters: Poetry in the City
2025-09-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 6B1, Canada
Join authors Daniela Elza and Daniel Cowper for a launch, reading, and discussion on celebration of the life of a city and an interrogation of its cost on our well-being.
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Daniela Elza was longlisted for the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize for poems from her latest book SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025). Her debut prose collection Is This an Illness or an Accident? (Caitlin Press, 2025) delves into the conflicts and contradictions of what it means to belong, to work, and to find home. Daniela is the recipient of the 2024 Colleen Thibaudeau Award for Outstanding Contribution to Poetry.
Daniel Cowper’s poetry and critical writing has appeared in numerous publications in Canada, the US, Ireland, and the UK. His poems have been collected in The God of Doors (winner of the Frog Hollow Press Chapbook contest) and Grotesque Tenderness (MQUP, 2019). His latest work is Kingdom of the Clock, a novel in verse about urban life. He is a contributing editor with New Verse Review, and lives on Bowen Island.

Write on Bowen
2025-09-12 08:00 - 2025-09-14 17:00 | Bowen Island
Once again being held on beautiful Bowen Island/Nexwlélexwm! We have an excellent line-up of events and activities planned for writers of any genre and level of experience.

The Canine Library
2025-09-13 13:00 - 15:00 | John Hendry Park / Trout Lake, 3300 Victoria Drive, Vancouver, BC, V5N 4M4, Canada
We’re back for the 2025 Canine Library at John Hendry Trout Lake Park. Borrow a St. John Ambulance certified therapy pup, read them poetry, or join a poetry workshop. Sign-ups start at 12:30 pm—spots go fast, so don’t be late!
Enjoy books, barks, and fun with VPL’s Children’s tent and VPL’s Writer in Residence, Selina Boan, at this rain or shine party in the park. Stop by and visit the BiblioBike, our electric cargo trike that brings the Vancouver Public Library to you! Get a library card, check out a book, explore VPL’s digital library, and ask about library related services.
*Please note, you can only register for The Canine Library in person at the park. Kids 14 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Once you’ve registered to receive your bark-code, you can check out a pup for a 10 minute session. The pup lineup will be announced as soon as they calm down from all of the excitement.
Presented in partnership by Vancouver Public Library, Paws 4 Stories, St. John Ambulance BC/Yukon and Trout Lake Community Centre.

Word Vancouver
2025-09-14 08:00 - 2025-09-20 17:00 | UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC, V6E 1A7, Canada
To foster the joy of the written word and inspire creativity by bringing together readers and writers from all backgrounds in an annual, inclusive and free literary arts festival, connecting local communities and celebrating literary arts through the collective experience. We aspire to embrace innovation, encourage discourse and provide a safe and accessible experience for all members of our richly diverse communities.

Indigo Mayfair: Book Signing
2025-09-14 12:00 - 15:00 | Chapters Indigo – Victoria, 1212 Douglas St, Victoria, BC, V8W 2E5, Canada
Visit Indigo Mayfair from 12PM – 3PM on September 14th for a signed copy of “Opheliac” by British Columbian author Emma Sloan (and your limited-time gift with purchase).

Women of the Fur Trade: An Evening with Playwright and Journalist Frances Koncan
2025-09-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 6B1, Canada
Frances Koncan’s play Women of the Fur Trade is about the Métis-led Red River Resistance against European colonisers. In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel.
Winner of the Toronto Fringe Best New Play Contest 2018, this lively historical satire of survival and cultural in-heritance shifts perspectives from the male gaze onto women’s power in the past and present through the lens of the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade.
Frances will be in conversation with Lois Anderson, Artistic Director at Touchstone Theatre for a delightful evening around the playwriting process and the Canadian theatre scene.
Storylines invites audiences into the creative worlds of Canada’s leading playwrights through a series of rich conversations presented by Touchstone Theatre and the Vancouver Public Library.
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Frances Koncan is an Anishinaabe and Slovene playwright and theatre artist from Couchiching First Nation. They hold an MFA in Playwriting from the City University of New York Brooklyn College. They were the Writer-in-Residence at the Winnipeg Public Library (2022-2023) and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Manitoba (2021-2022), as well as journalist at the Winnipeg Free Press (2019-2021).
Productions of their work include Women of the Fur Trade (2023) at the Stratford Festival directed by Yvette Nolan, Women of the Fur Trade (2024) at the National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre/Great Canadian Theatre Company directed by Renae Morriseau, Space Girl (2023) at Prairie Theatre Exchange directed by Krista Jackson, The Crows (2023) at Gwaandak Theatre directed by Miki Wolf, and Women of the Fur Trade (2020) at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre directed by Audrey Dwyer.
Lois Anderson is the Artistic Director of Touchstone Theatre, and an Adjunct Professor at UBC in the Department of Theatre and Film. She won the Jessie Award for Best Direction (Pericles, Bard on the Beach) and the 2019 Critic’s Choice Award for Innovation (Lysistrata). She has worked extensively in Canada and Australia and has been an Artistic Associate with The National Arts Centre most recently directing You Used to Call Me Marie by Tai Amy Grauman. Her directing credits include Behind the Moon, Henry V, Fun Home, Medea, Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Iphigenia at Aulis, CHILDISH, Gertrude and Alice, Taming of the Shrew, My Granny the Goldfish, Buffoon.
In partnership with Touchstone Theatre.

Encrypted: A Reading with Arleen Paré
2025-09-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Upstart & Crow, 1387 Railspur Alley Vancouver, BC V6H 3R7, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3R7, Canada
Join us for an evening in celebration of Paré’s newest poetry collection on grief, family, and loneliness.

Reading by C. E. Gatchalian
2025-09-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Summerland Library ORL Branch, 9533 Main Street, Summerland, BC, Canada
Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man—a lyrical exploration of race, desire, and artistic identity shaped by literature, film, and family history.
For those interested, at 4pm, Gatchalian will lead Writing the Unraveling Self, a workshop that invites participants to embrace emotional rawness and creative disruption through guided prompts and reflection. The reading is Pay What You Can, and the workshop is $25.

Poetry Bus! Celebrating the 29th Year of Poetry in Transit
2025-09-20 14:00 - 15:30 | UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC, V6E 1A7, Canada
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 29th 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 2025-26 poets read from their work, followed by a short discussion and Q&A in which you can engage with the poets over your love of the written verse!
READERS
HOST Elee Kraljii Gardiner is an author, editor, and creative mentor whose award-winning books of poetry include Trauma Head and serpentine loop, and the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living and V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and three chapbooks: Residence, WATCHER with Gary Barwin, and Trauma Head: the medical file. A frequent collaborator with choreographers, musicians, and visual artists, Elee is currently collaborating with nature via a series of durational installations that investigate the law of thermodynamics and cultural ideas regarding the passing of time. Originally from Boston, she lives in Canada where she directs Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, a program pairing authors with mentors. eleekg.com

Susan Alexander’s poems have appeared in Canadian and international anthologies and literary magazines, such as The Southern Review, Pangyrus, Arc and Grain. Her most recent publication is Berberitzen with Raven Chapbooks (2024). She is the author of two full collections, Nothing You Can Carry (2020) and The Dance Floor Tilts (2017) with Thistledown Press. Her poetry has won multiple awards, including the 2022 Vancouver’s City Poem Prize. She has hosted poetry readings and panels for the Federation of BC Writers and Victoria’s Festival of Writers. Susan lives on Nexwlélexm/Bowen Island, the traditional and unceded territory of the Squamish people.

Jen Currin is the author of seven books, including Hider/Seeker: Stories, which was a finalist for a ReLit Award and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book, and The Inquisition Yours, which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award and was a Lambda finalist. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, on the traditional territories of the Multnomah, Chinook, Clackamas, and other tribes, Currin lives in New Westminster, BC, on unceded Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, and Musqueam territories and teaches creative writing and English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Junie Désil, born to Haitian immigrant parents in Montréal and raised in Winnipeg, has devoted over two decades to empowering communities made marginalized. An accomplished poet, her debut collection, eat salt | gaze at the ocean (2020), was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and explores themes of Black sovereignty and the Haitian diaspora. Currently residing on the Traditional Territories of the Homalco, Tla’amin, and Klahoose, Junie mentors emerging writers at Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio. Beyond her professional life, Junie enjoys writing, coaching, consulting, and raising goats.

Joseph Kidney’s poems have been published in Best Canadian Poetry 2024, Vallum, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The Ex-Puritan, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (in Arabic translation), and more. He has won the Short Grain Contest, the Young Buck Poetry Prize, and Arc’s Poem of the Year. Devotional Forensics is his first full-length collection.

Natalie Lim is a Chinese-Canadian poet living on the unceded, traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples (Vancouver, BC). She is the winner of the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and Room magazine’s 2020 Emerging Writer Award, with work published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2020 and elsewhere. She is the author of a chapbook, arrhythmia (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022).

Lauren Peat is a poet, translator, and teacher based in Vancouver, BC. Her poems, essays, and translations from French have appeared in a wide variety of journals and magazines, and her many collaborations with composers are featured in the repertoire of acclaimed vocal ensembles across North America. Her debut poetry chapbook, Future Tense, was published by Baseline Press in 2024.

Tom Wayman’s prolific literary career includes writing more than twenty poetry collections, three collections of critical and cultural essays, three books of short fiction and a novel, as well as editing six poetry anthologies. He received British Columbia’s 2022 George Woodcock Award for Lifetime Achievement in the literary arts. In 2015, he was named a Vancouver Literary Landmark, with a plaque on the city’s Commercial Drive commemorating his championing of people writing for themselves about their daily employment. He won the Western Canada Jewish Book Awards prize for fiction in 2016 (for the short story collection, The Shadows We Mistake for Love) and for poetry in 2023 (for Watching a Man Break a Dog’s Back: Poems for a Dark Time). His memoir, The Road to Appledore (or How I Went Back to The Land Without Ever Having Lived There in the First Place), was published in 2024. Wayman lives in Winlaw, BC, and his website is www.tomwayman.com.

Calvin Wharton has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., Wales, Sweden, and Denmark. He is a former chair of Creative Writing at Douglas College and writer in residence at the University of Wales. His books include a collection of short fiction, Three Songs by Hank Williams, and poetry collections The Song Collides, The Invention of Birds, and This Here Paradise.

Poetry Bus: at Word Vancouver
2025-09-20 14:00 - 15:30 | UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC, V6E 1A7, Canada
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 29th year, this beloved community-engagement project displays the work of ten BC poets on public transit vehicles throughout the province.
Join us On Saturday, September 20 at UBC Robson Square, hear a selection of the feature 2025-26 poets read from their work, followed by a short discussion and Q&A in which you can engage with poets over your love of the written verse! Hosted by Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Vancouver’s Poet laureate.
This event is FREE and outdoors! No registration required. Plus, hop on the Poetry Bus 🚎 parked at the event to be the first to see this year’s poems in action!

The 41st Annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes Gala
2025-09-21 13:00 - 17:00 | University Golf Club, University Golf Club 5185 University Blvd., Vancouver, BC, V6T 1X5, Canada
The 41st Annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes Gala will take place on Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 1:00 pm at the University Golf Club in Vancouver, British Columbia. Your ticket includes entry to our reception, awards ceremony, snacks, canapes, and a glass of bubbly. The venue is wheelchair accessible and free parking is available onsite.
For 2025 we’re changing the style of our Gala to offer a standing reception (a mix and mingle). Snacks and canapes will include a mix of hot and cold items with vegan and gluten-free offerings. There will be limited seating available at the event. Please let us know if access to seating is required.
Tickets for members and non-members ares $85. The deadline to purchase tickets is Friday, September 12th.

An Evening with Holly Howe, author of Mouthwatering Sauerkraut
2025-09-23 18:00 - 20:30 | Vinca’s Kitchen Shop, 5042 48 Ave, Delta, British Columbia, V4K1V8, Canada
Join us at Vinca’s Kitchen for a special evening with Chef Holly Howe to celebrate the release of her new cookbook Mouthwatering Sauerkraut: Fermentation Made Easy!
Tickets are $40.00 plus tax and come with a copy of the new cookbook. There are only 35 tickets available.
Doors open at 6:00 pm and the event will start at 6:30 pm. Chef Holly will be demonstrating a couple of recipes, providing samples, and answering all your questions!
PLEASE NOTE – to purchase a ticket for this event online you MUST have your shopping location set as the Ladner store OR the Langley Warehouse location.

Author Talk: Daniel Kalla
2025-09-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Richmond Public Library, Brighouse Branch, 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, V6Y 1R8, Canada
Join Richmond Public Library as they welcome back international best-selling author Daniel Kalla as he reads and answers your questions about his newly released novel, The Deepest Fake.

Booksmack! An evening of book reviews and laughter
2025-09-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Okanagan Regional Library, Vernon branch, 2800 30th Avenue, Vernon, BC, V1T 8S3, Canada
Do you love to read? Our highly specialized team of wild and nerdy bibliophiles go head to head as they race against the clock to speed review their favourite books, podcasts and more! Booklists and laughter are included. Drop-in and free of charge.

An Evening with Richard Van Camp
2025-09-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Richmond Public Library, Brighouse Branch, 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC, V6Y 1R8, Canada
Join us for an amazing storytelling event with best selling author, Richard Van Camp. He will share his life’s work of reclaiming stories, family and community medicines and interviews with Elders from his community of Fort Smith, NWT. You’ll hear miracle stories about how he and others whose parents went to residential schools have spent their adults lives reclaiming what was almost lost.
Richard Van Camp is a proud member of the Dogrib Nation from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. He is an internationally renowned storyteller and best-selling author, and the recipient of the Order of the Northwest Territories. He is the author of five collections of short stories, six baby books, three children’s books, five comics and much more.

Wine Country Writers' Festival
2025-09-26 08:00 - 2025-09-27 17:00 | Penticton, BC, Canada
A creative gathering for emerging and established writers who want to grow their craft, build genuine community, and experience the magic of storytelling in one of Canada’s most scenic regions

An Evening with Eve Lazarus
2025-10-01 18:30 - 19:30 | BC
Join us for an evening with Eve Lazarus, author and true crime podcast host (Cold Case Canada) as she gives a talk, a reading, a Q&A and a book signing for her new book, Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck.

Indigo Park Royal: Book Signing
2025-10-11 13:00 - 15:00 | Chapters Indigo – Park Royal, 900 Park Royal S., West Vancouver, BC, V7T 1A1, Canada
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.”

Victoria Festival of Authors
2025-10-15 - 2025-10-20 | Victoria, BC
The Victoria Festival of Authors celebrates its 10th anniversary with 40 luminary guests including 2025 Booker Prize nominee Maria Reva, Booker Prize nominee Madeleine Thien, Emma Donoghue, Brian Thomas Issac, Conor Kerr (all Scotiabank Giller Prize nominees), and a wide range of talented and award-winning Canadian and local authors including Joseph Dandurand, Katherena Vermette, Sheri-D Wilson and more. This year’s festival continues its hybrid format with in-person programming, livestream viewing for some events, and virtual readings and panels with authors from around Canada. Join us and celebrate 10 years of literary arts from Oct. 15 to 19, 2025.

Love At First Page
2025-10-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 6B1, Canada
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.
Featuring 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.
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Natalie 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.
Noreen 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.
Leanne 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.
Jacqueline 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.
***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.
In partnership with Perfect Match Bookshop (Vancouver’s first romance bookstore).

Vancouver Writers Fest
2025-10-20 - 2025-10-27 | various around Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
They can delight, inspire, provoke, comfort and unite—as do the authors, journalists and poets who wield them. At the Vancouver Writers Fest we encourage readers of all ages to explore the power of storytelling, and books, through our dozens of events with local and international writers.
Our activities include both year-round programming and our flagship, annual literary Festival: one of the largest and most prestigious in North America. Tens of thousands of readers visit the cultural hub of Granville Island and venues around Vancouver to connect with local and international authors during this week-long event.
Throughout the year we offer free and paid events with established and emerging authors, in addition to youth education opportunities.

On Edge Reading Series Fall 2025 presents: Hajer Mirwali
2025-10-23 17:30 - 18:30 | Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2, Canada
The On Edge Reading Series showcases the work of writers who are doing the freshest, most interesting, and relevant work, writers who are also artists, volunteers, literary award winners, social justice organizers, prison abolitionists, literary organizers, dancers, managing editors, filmmakers, creative writing instructors, and scholars.
FEATURING:
Hajer Mirwali
Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 5:30PM PT
ONLINE ONLY: https://emilycarru.zoom.us/meeting/register/f7TPNA51RA-7ShKqfoyWnw
Hajer Mirwal is a Palestinian and Iraqi writer living in Toronto. Her first book, Revolutions (Talonbooks, 2025), is a collection of poetry on shame, pleasure, and Arab Muslim girlhood. Two poems from the collection also appear in an anthology of Palestinian poetry called Heaven Looks Like Us (Haymarket Books, 2025). Hajer’s work has been published in The Ex-Puritan, Brick Magazine, Room Magazine, and Joyland. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph
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All readings are FREE and open to the public. ASL interpretation is provided for all readings. On Edge is organized and hosted by Mercedes Eng and assisted by Eliza.
On Edge on social media: https://www.instagram.com/onedgereadingseries/
For any other inquiries: Please email onedge@ecuad.ca
The series is support by the Emily Carr Writing Centre with grateful acknowledgement to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Coast Salish First Nations whose traditional lands we are on.

Alcuin Wayzgoose: Letterpress Print & Book Arts Fair
2025-10-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 6B1, Canada
The Alcuin Society and Vancouver Public Library are pleased to present the biennial Alcuin Wayzgoose, the largest letterpress print and book arts fair in Vancouver!
Come and meet more than 27 many skilled book artists, printmakers, letterpress printers, papermakers and paper marblers and watch various book arts demonstrations throughout the day.
The exhibitors this year are:
Barbarian Press
Brigitte Potter-Mael
Canadian Typography Archives
Charles Van Sandwyk Fine Art Studio
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Greenboathouse Press
Hannah McKendry
Ibis Trading Inc
Introvert Press
Jean Kares
Jocelyn Barrable-Segal
Keith Valentine
Mariko Ando
Markus Fahrner
Mother Tongue Press
Murray Schellenberg
New Leaf Editions
Penny Parry
Phyllis Greenwood
Renée Alexander
Seawrack Press
Sim Publishing
Stefani Peter
Taaye Wong
The Haunted Bookshop
UBC Fine Arts Department of Art History
Westcoast Calligraphy Society
No registration is required

Whistler Writers Festival
2025-10-30 - 2025-11-03 | various in Whistler, BC
In 2025, the Whistler Writers Festival is pleased to gather in-person to welcome readers and writers to our mountain town. We continue to offer a select number of online events. Please review the program and website carefully to determine which options are available for each event.
We look forward to sharing stories again this year.

Poetry in Translation
2025-10-30 18:30 - 20:00 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 6B1, Canada
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.
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Bronwen 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.
Rhea 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.
Rahat 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.
Deborah 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.
*This event is curated by writer, Jen Currin (Disembark and Trinity Street amongst many others).

Fraser Valley Writers Festival
2025-11-07 - 2025-11-09 | BC
The Fraser Valley Writers Festival is an annual two-day literary festival featuring keynote addresses, readings, panel discussions, writing workshops, live podcast recordings, and more, hosted at the Abbotsford campus of the University of the Fraser Valley.
​November 7-8, 2025
UFV Abbotsford, Room B101

Neveah North (ON EDGE READING SERIES: FALL 2025)
2025-11-13 17:30 - 18:30 | Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2, Canada
The On Edge Reading Series showcases the work of writers who are doing the freshest, most interesting, and relevant work, writers who are also artists, volunteers, literary award winners, social justice organizers, prison abolitionists, literary organizers, dancers, managing editors, filmmakers, creative writing instructors, and scholars.
FEATURING:
Neveah North
Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 5:30PM PT
IN-PERSON in the Aboriginal Gathering Place at Emily Carr University (520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC)
Livestream option: Visit linked Zoom registration page!
Nevaeh Emily North is 36 years old and a proud member of the Carrier Nation, born in Kelowna and raised in Prince George, British Columbia. Her journey hasn’t been easy — she spent almost 16 years incarcerated. Those years shaped her in deep and lasting ways. They were some of the hardest of her life, but they also gave her strength, perspective, and a powerful sense of purpose. Today, Nevaeh stands rooted in her culture and identity. She carries forward the teachings of her ancestors and the lessons learned through both pain and resilience. She passionate about healing, growth, and giving back to her community — especially to others who feel forgotten or silenced. Navaeh’s story is still unfolding, but she walks forward with honesty, pride, and hope.
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All readings are FREE and open to the public. ASL interpretation is provided for all readings. On Edge is organized and hosted by Mercedes Eng and assisted by Eliza.
For any other inquiries: Please email onedge@ecuad.ca
The series is support by the Emily Carr Writing Centre with grateful acknowledgement to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Coast Salish First Nations whose traditional lands we are on.
Instagram: @onedgereadingseries

Rahat Kurd at Planet Earth Poetry
2025-11-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
On November 21, head to Russell Books to see Rahat Kurd feature at Planet Earth Poetry! Kurd will be sharing poetry from her brand new collection The Book of Z. Now in their 30th season, Planet Earth Poetry is Victoria’s longest-running poetry-only open mic and reading series. All of the information can be found here.
Rahat Kurd at Planet Earth Poetry
Russell Books
Victoria, BC
November 21, 2025
7:00 p.m.
