• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Victoria Festival of Authors

An annual celebration of writers and literature

  • VFA 2025
    • Events
    • Author Interviews
  • Accessibility
  • Partners
  • Support Us
    • Donate
    • Sponsor Us
    • Volunteer
  • About Us
    • Our mission
    • Strategic Plan
    • History
    • Who we are
    • Contact Us
  • Archive
    • Q&A
    • Panels
    • Podcasts
  • Get Tickets

Previous Q&A

Q&A with Sarah Weinman

Interview by Sharleen Jonsson Sarah Weinman is the author of The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World (September 2018). She is editor […]

Q&A with Dina Del Bucchia

Poet and short fiction writer Dina Del Bucchia is the author of three collections of poetry, a recent book of short fiction, Don’t Tell Me What to Do, co-host of the […]

Q&A with Palabra Flamenco

Interview by Barbara Black The 2018 Victoria Festival of Authors once again offers an event that draws the written word out of its solitary context and, this year, into a […]

Q & A with Sarah Selecky

Sarah Selecky’s new novel, Radiant Shimmering Light(2018), proves again, Barbara Gowdy says, that Selecky, “is a writer perfectly attuned to the music of the present moment.” Interview by Margaret Laxton ML: […]

Q&A With Bill Gaston

By Nancy Pearson Bill Gastonis the author of seven novels and seven collections of short fiction, as well as a book of poems and the memoir, Midnight Hockey.  His recent […]

Q&A with Geoff Berner

by James Kendrick James Kendrick: You work in a lot of different fields. What project(s) are you working on at the moment? Geoff Berner: I’m writing the next album, a […]

Q&A with Yvonne Blomer

Sugar Ride recounts the three-month trek by bicycle through Southeast Asia that Yvonne Blomer and her husband Rupert Gadd made to mark the end of two years living and working […]

Q&A with Clea Young

Clea Young’s stories have been included in The Journey Prize Stories three times and anthologized in Coming Attractions 13. Her work has appeared in Event, Grain, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire and Room. Clea completed an MFA at […]

Q&A with Gregory Scofield

Gregory Scofield is Red River Metis of Cree, Scottish and European descent, and one of Canada’s most recognized poets. Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his […]

Q&A with Robert Wiersema

Robert Wiersema is the author of three novels, a novella, a memoir and, most recently, a short story collection. “It’s not that Wiersema wants to tell a good story, it’s […]

Q&A with Sharon Butala

by Nancy Pearson Nancy Pearson: Where I Live Now portrays how the unique solitude of your life on the ranch offered you the opportunity to become a writer. Following Peter’s […]

Q&A with Leanne Dunic

by Emily Olsen Leanne Dunic is a musician, artist, and author of the book To Love the Coming End published by Bookthug/Chin Music Press 2017. Dunic is the singer/guitarist in the band The […]

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 12
  • Page 13
  • Page 14
  • Page 15
  • Go to Next Page »

Footer

  • Facebook
  • YouTube

Victoria Festival of Authors respectfully acknowledges that we are located on the traditional territories of the Lekwungen people now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt nations.
Copyright © 2025 Victoria Festival of Authors.