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.
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive founder, director and mentor Betsy Warland was honored earlier this month with a Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for her contributions to literature. The ceremony, held at the Roundhouse Community Centre, was hosted by Bill Richardson.
Dear Writers,
What’s your New Year’s resolution for 2017?
I know, I know–you haven’t even bought your Halloween candy yet, so why am I pestering you about a holiday that’s more than four months away?
Dear Writers,
We have some great news: Evelyn Lau, acclaimed author of twelve books, has joined Vancouver Manuscript Intensive as our new poetry and creative non-fiction mentor. We’re very excited to offer you the opportunity to work with this award-winning author.
Dear Readers and Writers,
Are your working on a memoir? Does your intuition tell you that your life experiences have narrative–and perhaps even poetic–potential?
If you have three Saturdays to spare this fall, consider signing up for Betsy’s upcoming course, Memoir of Inquiry, at SFU Harbour Centre, Continuing Studies.
Thanks to everyone who came out to VMI’s 2016 alumni reading last Sunday afternoon at Britannia Library in East Vancouver.
This diverse group of poets, fiction and non-fiction writers regaled the audience with writing about a cariboo queen, a traveller on the Camino de Santiago, a reluctant American, environmentalism, and much more.
Hello to all those planning to attend the reading by Vancouver Manuscript Intensive grads this Sunday, June 5th: there has been a location change. The new details of the reading are as follows:
*NEW location*: Lower Level of the Britannia Library, 1661 Napier Street.
Join us for our Vancouver Manuscript Intensive 2016 Reading on June 5th at 3PM and hear eight diverse and dynamic nonfiction and fiction writers read from their manuscripts.
Penny Allport
Rachel Grav
Jodi Lundgren
Marie Maccagno
Margaret Macpherson
Anuradha Rao
Elana Scraba
DG Thiel
Every year, VMI audiences have commented that this is one of the most enjoyable readings they’ve attended so do mark it on your calendar.
I have miles of writing in my journals and notebooks and over the years, I return again and again to themes and issues––is that catharsis, compost or content?
I guess my real question is how to break out of habitual approaches, find new energy in this content, and discern what belongs in poetic voice and form?
I am hoping to contact publishers with a query letter. I have 22 short stories; 11 have been published in literary journals. Are 22 tales too many? Should I cut some or wait and let the editor do so?
