In Part 1 of this interview, award-winning author and Vancouver Manuscript Intensive director Betsy Warland described the vision behind the unique mentorship program she has created for emerging writers.
In this second and final installment, she talks about opening VMI to international applicants.
When Vancouver Manuscript Intensive founder and director Betsy Warland won the Mayor’s Arts Award for Literature last month, MC Bill Richardson said that “literary Vancouver would not be the same without her.”
The VMI team–eight mentors and many alumni–agree.
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.
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.
