• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Victoria Festival of Authors

An annual celebration of writers and literature

  • 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 Kathy Stinson

Among Kathy Stinson‘s 40+ books are the classic Red Is Best, the award-winning The Man with the Violin, and three biographies about outstanding women. She has enjoyed meeting with readers, always dressed, in every province and territory of Canada, the US, Britain, Liberia, Korea, and will soon in the UAE.  Big and small, short and tall, young […]

Q&A with Jess Housty

Jess Housty (‘Cúagilákv) is a parent, writer and grassroots activist with Heiltsuk and mixed settler ancestry. They serve their community as an herbalist and land-based educator. They are inspired and guided by relationships with their homelands, their extended family and their non-human kin. They live in Bella Bella, BC. Rooted in the territory and resilient, […]

Q&A with Christy Jordan-Fenton

Christy Jordan-Fenton is the author of four award-winning books about her Inuvialuk mother Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton’s time attending an Indian Residential School in the high Arctic during the 1940s. Though Margaret passed in 2021, with her blessing Christy has continued to share her story in trauma-informed and strengths-based ways. When eight-year-old Olemaun leaves her home […]

Q&A with Natalie Virginia Lang

Natalie Virginia Lang is a writer and teacher who has written several book reviews for The BC Review and has won multiple awards from Simon Fraser University for her work in the Graduate Liberal Studies department.  She lives on Sumas Mountain and is ardently dedicated to the preservation of natural spaces.  Remnants: Reveries of a Mountain Dweller offers a […]

Q&A with Katłįà Lafferty

Katłįà Lafferty is Dene, Cree, French and American from the Northwest Territories, and a current UVic law student. She is the author of the memoir, Northern Wildflower, and two novels: Land-Water-Sky, about Dene legends in modern times, and This House is Not a Home, about the northern housing system. She wrote them for her community, and they came to […]

Q&A with Susan Sanford Blades

Susan Sanford Blades Susan Sanford Blades’ debut novel, Fake It So Real, won the 2021 ReLit Award in the novel category and was a finalist for the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes’ Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her short fiction has most recently been published in Gulf Coast, The Malahat Review, and The Master’s Review. Susan will be showcasing […]

Q&A with Paul Dhillon

Paul Dhillon (he/him) is a second-generation newcomer to Canada. He lives on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, where he is a high school English teacher. His work has appeared in multiple literary journals and has been finalist for a National Magazine Award.  Interview by Nikki Hillman Nikki Hillman […]

Q&A with Sonnet L’Abbe

Sonnet L’Abbé is a Canadian poet, performer, editor, and professor. They are the author of A Strange Relief, Killarnoe, Anima Canadensis and Sonnet’s Shakespeare. They teach Creative Writing and English at Vancouver Island University, and are a poetry editor at Brick Books. They had their first solo performance of songs and poems at Nanaimo’s Port Theatre in 2021.  Sonnet will be […]

Q&A with Chelene Knight

Chelene Knight is an award-winning Vancouver-based writer whose recent works have explored carved-out pasts across the city. She is the author of the poetry collection Braided Skin and the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award and long-listed for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Her work has […]

Q&A with Alessandra Naccarato

Alessandra Naccarato was born and raised in Tkaronto (Toronto). Her debut poetry collection, Re-Origin of Species, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and named a Best Book of 2019 by CBC Books. Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene Imminent Domains  invites readers to join a contemplation of […]

Q&A with Joseph Dandurand

Joseph Dandurand is a storyteller, poet, playwright and member of Kwantlen First Nation located on the Fraser River. He is the director of the Kwantlen Cultural Centre and has authored several books of poetry. His poetry collection, The East Side of It All, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and in 2021, Dandurand received […]

Q&A with Ali Blythe

Ali Blythe is the author of three books exploring trans-poetics: the debut collection Twoism, the follow-up Hymnswitch, and the forthcoming Stedfast, all with Gooselane-Icehouse. His award-winning work has been called intelligent, charming, jangly, jarring, moody, dreamy and a little bit deadly. He lives in Quadra Village. Interviewed by Barbara Pelman Barbara Pelman (BP): This is a work in progress, I understand. […]

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 12
  • 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.