To kick off the 10th anniversary of the Victoria Festival of Authors, the VFA’s board is offering an afternoon writing workshop at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Poets and writers will be invited to creatively respond to the Architectures of Protection exhibition (running from May 24-October 26, 2025) through language, image, metaphor, description, and […]

with Tharani Balachandran, Shauntelle Dick Charleson, Jeremy Loveday, Alessandra Naccarato, Sheri-D Wilson, and Brandon Wint Long before there were printing presses, there were poets. Modern spoken word is a euphonic continuation of ancient oral traditions that deeply consider the aesthetics of performance as a vessel to carry what we deem most important. From hybrid bodies […]

with Robert Davidson, Brian Thomas Isaac, Conor Kerr, katherena vermette, and Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson. How do memory, family, and land shape the stories we tell—and the futures we imagine? Join a powerful lineup of Indigenous authors whose work spans poetry, memoir, fiction, and visual storytelling as they explore the many ways home and identity intersect. From […]

with d’bi.young anitafrika, Wayde Compton, Sonnet L'Abbé, and Paul db Watkins Seemingly insubstantial yet nonexistent without a medium to give it a way from maker to hearer (even when maker and hearer are one and the same), its material vibrations creating anything from noise and nonsense to harshly or harmonically searching significance, sound has astonishing […]

with Cecily Nicholson, Christina Shah, and Karen Solie In a world on fire—ecologically, politically, spiritually—what can poetry do? Three acclaimed poets—Karen Solie, Cecily Nicholson, and Christina Shah—join moderator Kyeren Regehr to explore the role of poetry in the face of crisis. Their recent books resist erasure, centring the lives of those that persist despite systems […]