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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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Photos: VMI Celebrates 2017 Grads

Congratulations to this year’s VMI grads, who celebrated the completion and development of their manuscripts at the Havana Café on June 4, 2017.

Thirteen writers read from their prose, poetry, creative non-fiction, and cross-genre manuscripts, including two who came all the way from Saskatchewan and Alberta.

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Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Celebrates Its 2016 Alumni

Thanks to everyone who came out to VMI’s 2016 alumni reading last Sunday afternoon at Britannia Library in East Vancouver.

This diverse  group of poets, fiction and  non-fiction writers regaled the audience with writing about a cariboo queen, a traveller on the Camino de Santiago, a reluctant American,  environmentalism, and much more.

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Reading: Vancouver Manuscript Intensive 2016

Join us for our Vancouver Manuscript Intensive 2016 Reading on June 5th at 3PM and hear eight diverse and dynamic nonfiction and fiction writers read from their manuscripts.

Penny Allport
Rachel Grav
Jodi Lundgren
Marie Maccagno
Margaret Macpherson
Anuradha Rao
Elana Scraba
DG Thiel

Every year, VMI audiences have commented that this is one of the most enjoyable readings they’ve attended so do mark it on your calendar.

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