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’. She was shortlisted for the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize ...read more
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. 4th Avenue, Vancouver BC. Free! Everyone welcome. Books for sale. **Apologies for cross-posting **
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. This two-hour poetry workshop will combine the reading of ...read more
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 ...read more
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. VMI 2019 Lineup: Gabriella Forbes Stephanie-Marie Candiago Nirmala ...read more
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. These four master writers discuss ways to blend genres and cross literary boundaries. To ...read more
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 will introduce you to some of these key strategies and reflect on several published memoirs she has been an ...read more
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. Typically, we think we’ve finished a ...read more
Canadian Authors–Victoria organizes writing events in Victoria, BC. We are affiliated with the Metro Vancouver Branch and are part of the Canadian Authors Association, which encourages and inspires writers of all genres. We offer aspiring, emerging, and professional writers opportunities and resources to hone their writing and business skills, network with others, and thrive in ...read more
