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Winner of Inaugural VMI Fellowship

We are delighted to welcome Pervin Saket to VMI’s Fellowship for the 2021 season to work on her poetry manuscript with VMI director Elee Kraljii Gardiner.

PERVIN SAKET is the author of the novel ‘Urmila’ and of a collection of poetry ‘A Tinge of Turmeric’.

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Poetry Workshop with Sherwin Bitsui

Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Presents

Diné Patterns: A Two Hour Poetry Workshop with Sherwin Bitsui

Thursday, January 30, 2019

7pm-9pm

Perchance Café, 3363 Dunbar St, (at 17th) Vancouver

 

Registration opens to VMI participants Dec 3, 2019 before opening to the general public Dec 10.

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Photos: VMI Celebrates 2019 Grads

Thanks to everyone who came out to VMI’s 2019 alumni reading last Sunday afternoon at Havana Cafe Theatre in East Vancouver.

This diverse group of fiction and non-fiction writers kept the audience rapt in their tales of growing up in South Africa, of the Toronto art scene, of experiencing the Paris Attacks, of being raised in a Hindu cult, of growing up in an Italian immigrant family, as well as submerging us in tales of various realms of speculative fiction.

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The Malahat Review’s “Queer Perspectives” | Launch on March 23

The Malahat Review‘s “Queer Perspectives” issue is in stores and in circulation now!

Please join The Malahat Review for readings and a conversation celebrating the publication of Queer Perspectives, which features contemporary writing by LGBTQ2S?+ writers in Canada chosen by guest editors Ali Blythe, Trevor Corkum, and Betsy Warland.

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