An annual celebration of writers and literature
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.…
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.…
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 .…
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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.…
