VMI will be at AWP, the Association of Writers &Writing Programs Conference,in Seattle.

Join us at our offsite reading!

Friday March 10, 2023 at 7pm-8:30pm at the Vermillion Art Bar at 1508 11th Ave.

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Our fall was stacked with events and announcements, including the winner of the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award. Remnants by Celine Huyghebaert, translated from the French by Aleshia Jensen for Book*hug Press was selected by judge Susan Olding.

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Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is delighted to announce the recipient of the 2023 Yosef Wosk VMI Fellowship. Shantell Powell will be working with VMI Mentor Gurjinder Basran on her fiction project during the January-to-June Six Month Intensive.

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Fall Features

Hello everyone! We have exciting news for the fall…

VMI Q&A
Sunday, Oct 16 at 12pm PST
Are you curious about how VMI’s mentoring options can support your work-in-progress?

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We had a wonderful 2022 season with the Six-Month Intensive cohort and now turn towards summer plans. As always, we welcome your SOLO and VMI Pro applications throughout the year and your Intensive and Fellowship applications for the 2023 cohort by November 9, 2022.

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We welcome you to the year-end celebration reading of the 2022 cohort including our two VMI Fellows and VMI Pro author! Join us for a Zoom event on Sat June 18, 4pm PST-5:15pm PST by RSVPing for a link to info AT vancouvermanuscriptintensive.com

This is a chance to hear the works-in-progress of our fantastic Six-Month Intensive cohort as introduced by their mentors:

VMI Fellow Brandon Wint is a poet, spoken word artist and multi-disciplinary collaborator based in western Canada.

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Here’s our latest newsletter, full of accomplishments, new books, awards, exciting events and collaborations! Please share and support our VMI community in whatever ways suit you—reposting on social media, buying books, sending the authors a note, or attending an event. 

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VMI invites our alumni to a special reading event with two exceptional guest authors this spring, translator and author Jennifer Croft and novelist and poet Farzana Doctor. These separate evenings of craft conversation, discussion, and Q&A are a unique opportunity for the VMI community to learn firsthand about the work of two creative writers.

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VMI is delighted to welcome Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang. Sarah, who is based in Toronto, will be available for mentoring in poetry, children’s literature, and graphic novel. Her experience and enthusiasm for connecting with authors makes her a great addition to the VMI community. 

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Here’s our latest newsletter, full of accomplishments, new books, awards, exciting events and collaborations! Please share and support our VMI community in whatever ways suit you–reposting on social media, buying books, sending the authors a note, or attending an event. 

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We are delighted to welcome two Fellows for the 2022 season to work with director Elee Kraljii Gardiner. Congratulations to Brandon Wint and Olajide Salawu!

VMI is pleased to offer these two Fellowships in the second year of this developing and important program.

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—SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED—

We are delighted to announce the finalists for the Inaugural Betsy Warland Between Genres Award. Given to an exceptional title of Canadian literature published in 2021 that celebrates the hybrid and unclassifiable through innovation in genre, the winner will be announced at a ceremony at Vancouver Writers Fest on Sunday, October 24, 2021, 2pm-4pm PST, and presented $500 by judge Wayde Compton with special guest of honour Betsy Warland in attendance.

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