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.
Betsy Warland will judge The Malahat Review‘s 2017 Open Season Awards in the creative nonfiction category.
The Open Season Awards offer a grand total of $4500 in prize money in three categories: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
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 VMI Fiction mentor Claudia Casper, who has won the Philip K. Dick Award for her novel The Mercy Journals.
This prestigious prize is awarded yearly to a distinguished science fiction work published in paperback in the US.
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.
Join us for our Vancouver Manuscript Intensive celebratory public reading of prose and poetry on June 4th from 3-5pm at the Havana Cafe Theatre (on 1212 Commercial Drive).
This year, we have so many successful grads, that the room cannot accommodate all of their guests at once!
Join us for our Vancouver Manuscript Intensive celebratory public reading of prose and poetry on June 4th from 3-5pm at the Havana Cafe Theatre (on 1212 Commercial Drive).
Doors open at 2:40.
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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.
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is an in-depth one-to-one mentorship program that pairs you with a professional author to develop your manuscript to its fullest potential. The next six-month session begins in January 2017, and the deadline for application is November 21, 2016–this coming Monday.
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.
