On Sunday, April 23 at 2pm, join the Friends of the White Rock Library in celebrating local literature for the Read Local: Author’s Open House. This entertaining afternoon program features five local authors reading from their latest works. Read Local is a wonderful opportunity for avid readers and aspiring writers to connect with local literary […]
Join us for an evening of earthquake-themed readings! First, share YOUR work with us at the open mic. Then, we'll hear from Gregor Craigie, reading from his nonfiction book about earthquakes, On Borrowed Time; fiction author Jen Neale, reading from her novel-in-progress about the Vancouver earthquake, Frances Peck reading from her debut novel about the […]
Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating new books by two local authors: Ali Blythe and Jason Jobin! Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art — Breaking open John Keats’s “Last Sonnet,” in his third book of poetry, Stedfast, Ali Blythe writes marginality into the canon, at once claiming, reviving, and un-fixing the Romantic […]
Please join Munro’s Books for the launch of new books by two beloved local poets! Award-winning poet Arleen Pare’s latest collection, Absence of Wings, is both an intimate family portrait and a public documentation of how we, as a society, can fail to protect our children. Absence of Wings depicts the extraordinary and tragically foreshortened […]
Please join Munro’s Books in launching two new books by local authors about wildlife conversation!! We'll present Greg Cummings, author of Gorilla Tactics: How to Save a Species and Sarah Cox, author of Signs of Life: Fieldnotes From the Frontlines of Extinction in conversation with Bob McDonald, author of The Future is Now: Solving the […]
Join Massy Books, Penguin Random House, and Brian Thomas Isaac for the launch of "Bones of a Giant" at 7 pm on Monday, June 2nd! Books will be for sale at the event, including "All the Quiet Places." Venue: The event will be hosted at the Massy Books, at 229 East Georgia Street in Chinatown, […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]