Barbara Black, 2017 Vancouver Manuscript Intensive alumna, has won The Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition. Black received a $2,500 cash prize for her story, “His Invertebrate Existence.”
Based out of Victoria, B.C., Black’s work has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2017 Open Season Awards and her writing has appeared in venues such as CV2 and FreeFall.
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is accepting applications for 2018. 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.
VMI mentorship begins with an in-person meeting to develop a rapport, discuss your manuscript, and confirm your goals.
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is proud to welcome Elee Kraljii Gardiner to the roster of exceptional VMI mentors including Rachel Rose, Evelyn Lau, Jane Silcott, and more.
Gardiner will be editing poetry and creative nonfiction for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive.
Novelist, screenwriter, director, and VMI mentor, Karen X. Tulchinsky, made the list of the Top 10 Most Borrowed Canadian Books from the Vancouver Public Library’s collection.
The list was revealed by the Vancouver Public Library to celebrate Canadian literary contributions on Canada Day.
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.
Dear Writers,
Join VMI mentor Shaena Lambert at the Historic Joy Kogawa House, Monday, May 8th, 7-9 pm. She’ll read from her novel, Radiance, a gripping story about a young woman who survives the bombing of Hiroshima and is sent to the US for plastic surgery.
Dear Novelists,
Here’s a fantastic opportunity for you. Mother Tongue Publishing invites you to submit your manuscript to the 4th Great BC Novel Contest by August 1st, 2017.
The contest is open to all writers in British Columbia.
Want to spend 5 days delving deep into your writing? Want to do that to the sound of waves crashing on the beach? Join Shaena Lambert on Cortes Island, BC, June 2-7, 2017. Read Shaena’s letter below, and register for the workshop here.
Written in lyric prose that is “experimental yet playful,” Leanne Dunic’s To Love the Coming End is a unique book composed of 100 chapters, each a single page in length.
“This structure gives the language potency while providing space for reflection,” says the book’s synopsis.
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.
Read Local BC is a series of dynamic events organized by the BC Association of Book Publishers to promote local authors, book sellers, libraries and publishers throughout the province. If you live in Vancouver, you won’t want to miss two fantastic events featuring VMI faculty and alumni.
