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’.
Unfortunately the Lost Lagoon/lost in thought book launch scheduled for March 19, 2020 is postponed.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Claudia Caspar, author of the award-winning The Mercy Journals, and Vancouver Manuscript Intensive mentor, will receive the Distinguished Artist Award from FANS (Fund for the Arts on the North Shore) on Friday, November 2, 2018, at the West Vancouver Municipal Hall.
