Join us for a celebration reading by the 2021 VMI cohort on Zoom!
We are delighted to showcase the accomplishments of this unique group on completion of the six-month program and invite you to gather with us across time zones to listen.
Welcome to the VMI newsletter highlighting the accomplishments, publications, and writing-related news from the VMI community.
Susan Olding has a new book, Big Reader, Essays from Freehand Books.
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’.
The November 9 application deadline is approaching for the VMI six month program beginning in January 2021.
The inaugural VMI Fellowship is also open for applications until November 9. Read more about the VMI Fellowship here.
For a writer of exceptional promise with a manuscript in progress, who has faced significant barriers to fulfilling that promise, including but not limited to racism, poverty or class barriers, geographic dislocation or refugee status, single parenthood, disability or serious illness.
2007-2020 Farewell
Betsy Warland, Founding Director and Mentor Emerita
When I offered Vancouver Manuscript for the first time in 2007, I had two motivations. I loved mentoring writers working on their manuscripts and I wanted to do more of this work.
We support community health and want to ensure writers are best equipped to present their material.
Given the difficulties surrounding Covid-19 and social distancing, VMI has cancelled the June public group reading. In light of the unforeseen turn of events we have converted this loss into a gain: two extra hours of mentoring in which authors can attend to extra editing, conversation, or questions with their mentors.
Unfortunately the Lost Lagoon/lost in thought book launch scheduled for March 19, 2020 is postponed.
***Apologies for cross-posting ***
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.
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is accepting applications for 2020. 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. Our newest mentor is the author of fiction, essays and poetry Susan Olding.
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.
