2007-2020 Farewell
Betsy Warland, Founding Director and Mentor Emerita
When I offered Vancouver Manuscript for the first time in 2007, I had two motivations. I loved mentoring writers working on their manuscripts and I wanted to do more of this work.
We support community health and want to ensure writers are best equipped to present their material.
Given the difficulties surrounding Covid-19 and social distancing, VMI has cancelled the June public group reading. In light of the unforeseen turn of events we have converted this loss into a gain: two extra hours of mentoring in which authors can attend to extra editing, conversation, or questions with their mentors.
Unfortunately the Lost Lagoon/lost in thought book launch scheduled for March 19, 2020 is postponed.
***Apologies for cross-posting ***
Join Betsy for a reading followed by a conversation with Cynthia Flood. Hosted by Shaena Lambert.
Date: March 19, 2020 POSTPONED
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Cafe Lokal, 2610 W.
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.
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is accepting applications for 2020. VMI is an in-depth one-to-one mentorship program that pairs you with a professional author to develop your manuscript to its fullest potential. Our newest mentor is the author of fiction, essays and poetry Susan Olding.
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.
Join Betsy Warland and Vancouver Manuscript Intensive mentors, Claudia Casper, Shazia Hafiz, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Jónina Kirton, and Cathleen With for the 2019 VMI reading!
Writers will read from a range of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction on June 9, 2019 at the Havana Café and Theatre.
Betsy Warland was a featured poet for Jane’s Walk, a citizen-led walking tour. Jane’s Walk on Saturday, May 5 was hosted by Kevin Spenst.
Jane’s Walk, in honour of Jane Jacobs, is “a community-based approach to city building that uses citizen-led walking tours to make space for people to observe, reflect, share, question and re-imagine the places in which they live, work and play.”
Jane’s Walks take place in many cities across the world.
The 2019 CNFC conference will take place from June 14 to 16 in Vancouver at UBC’s Point Grey Campus.
At CNFC this year, Betsy Warland is a panelist on “Genre-bending: The Many Ways to Tell True Stories,” alongside Helen Humphreys, Chelene Knight, Betsy Warland, and Renee Saklikar.
For CanWrite! 2019, Betsy Warland will offer a workshop on the role on inquiry and imagination in memoir.
Imagination and inquiry are essential aspects of writing a memoir as engrossing as a good novel.
Betsy Warland will offer a manuscript consultation workshop at the Federation of BC Writers’ Spring Writes Festival in May 2019.
As writers, we are now almost solely responsible for our manuscript going through an in-depth editing process regardless of whether a publishing house takes it or we self-publish.
