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Book Club 2022

Gurjinder Basran—Help! I’m Alive

Wednesday, June 22, 7:00-8:00 PDT

Gurjinder Basran’s debut novel, Everything Was Good-bye, was the winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award in 2011. Gurjinder was named as one of CBC’s “Ten Canadian women writers you need to read.”. She mentors writers at VMI, while also balancing a successful career in Telecommunication. She lives in Delta, BC.…

Harley Rustad—Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Death in the Himalayas

Wednesday, May 25, 7:00-8:00 PDT

Harley Rustad’s first book was Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees. He is a features editor and writer at The Walrus, a faculty editor at Banff Centre’s Mountain and Wilderness Writing residency, and founder of the Port Renfrew Writers’ Retreat. Harley is originally from Salt Spring Island.…

Kim Fu—Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Wednesday, April 27, 7:00-8:00 PDT

Kim Fu is the author of two novels and a collection of poetry. Her novel, For Today I Am a Boy, won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and her writing has appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Hazlitt, and the TLS .…

Yvonne Blomer – Last Show on Earth

Admission by Donation

Award-winning writer Yvonne Blomer served as the city of Victoria poet laureate from 2015–2018. In 2017 Yvonne edited the anthologies Refugium: Poems for the Pacific and in 2020, Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds, both with Caitlin Press. The Last Show on Earth is her latest collection. 

In The Last Show on Earth, Victoria’s former poet laureate explores death, disability and the fate of our imperilled world.…

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