This week on Lit Pen we’ll hear from Larissa Lai, an alumnus of VFA 2022. Larissa’s books include the The Lost Century, The Tiger Flu, Iron Goddess of Mercy and Salt Fish Girl. Recipient of the Duggins Novelist’s Prize, the Lambda Award, the Astraea Award, and the Otherwise Honor Book, she has been a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Mitchell Award, the Livesay Prize and the Gabrielle Roy Prize. …
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Lit Pen with Jack Wang
This week on Lit Pen we’ll hear from Jack Wang, an alumnus of VFA 2020. Jack is the author of We Two Alone, winner of the 2020 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for best debut collection in English and longlisted for Canada Reads 2022. He has received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the University of East Anglia.…
Lit Pen with Leanne Dunic
This week on Lit Pen we’ll hear from Leanne Dunic, an alumnus of VFA 2017 and VFA2020. Leanne Dunic is a multidisciplinary artist. She’s the fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review and the leader of the band The Deep Cove. Her book of lyric prose and photographs, Wet, is forthcoming with Talon Books in Spring 2024. Leanne lives on the unceded and occupied traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.…
Lit Pen with Richard Van Camp
This week on Lit Pen we’ll hear from Richard Van Camp, an alumnus of VFA 2019. Richard is a proud Tlicho Dene from Fort Smith, NWT. He is the author of 27 books these past 27 years in just about every genre. His novel, The Lesser Blessed, is now a feature film with First Generation Films, and you can watch it on CBC Gem.…
Lit Pen with Lorna Crozier
This week on Lit Pen we’ll hear from Lorna Crozier, an alumnus of VFA 2018 and 2020. AnOfficer of the Order of Canada, Lorna Crozier’s latest book is Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats), singled out by both McLean’s Magazine and The Globe and Mail as one of the best books of the year. This fall, McClelland & Stewart will be publishing After Than, her collection of poetry on grief.…
Lit Pen with Brian Francis
This week on Lit Pen we’ll hear from Brian Francis, an alumnus of VFA 2019. Brian Francis’s most recent book, Missed Connections: A Memoir in Letters Never Sent, was a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. His 2019 YA novel, Break in Case of Emergency, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards. His first novel, Fruit, was a 2009 CBC Canada Reads finalist.…