Kylie Lung

Summer 2020 may not be the season of traveling and parties we all anticipated, but online readings and workshops (from Sept. 19–27) will be available for those interested in the work of countless Canadian authors and poets.

Dakshana Bascaramurty, a Globe and Mail journalist, shares her debut non-fiction book This is Not the End of Me at the Loss, Grief and Writing event through Word Vancouver.

“Talking about death makes a lot of people deeply uncomfortable,” says Bascaramurty, “but it shouldn’

Carol Rose Goldeneagle is a woman of many talents. The award-winning author, artist and musician published Bone Black in 2019. This novel offers the reader a much-needed view into the reality of living as a young Indigenous woman in Canada as well as its possible dangers.

From the moment she was born, Goldeneagle had to face the harsh realities of living as an Indigenous person in northern Saskatchewan. She was a product of the ‘Sixties Scoop,’ a practice that involved taking Indigenous childre

Vancouver may be shut down, but the Vancouver Writers Fest continues to march on. Last month, the festival hosted a virtual Facebook event with authors David Bergen, Maria Reva, and Souvankham Thammavongsa.

The event, titled Voices of Place: Short Fiction of a New Decade, showcased the writing of three authors and the varied landscapes and environments in their short fiction. The whole event is available on the Vancouver Writers Fest Facebook page and can be enjoyed anytime, anywhere.

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The world is in a time of turmoil and many people are looking inward for peace and comfort. Reading poetry, during National Poetry Month and beyond, can satisfy the desire to travel outside of living rooms as well as discover some inner peace in an uncertain time.

Sonja Grgar and Jeff Derksen are poets who can help take people’s minds off of crisis, and focus on the beauty of literature and the feelings it evokes within readers all over the world.

Born in New Westminster, Derksen is the author

A story of isolation, family ties, and virtual reality is set to hit the stage in Tetsuro Shigematsu’s play, Kuroko. This new play is directed by Amiel Gladstone and the world premiere will take place Nov. 6–17 at the Cultch Historic Theatre.

Shigematsu is the visionary behind Kuroko and many other successful plays like Empire of the Son, which had a sold out theatrical run at the Cultch Theatre when it premiered. Kuroko is a multi-layered tale which focuses around Japanese family dynamics in a

A unique multimedia experience is coming to the Central Library (VPL) Sept. 19 as Michelle Sylliboy presents her book of hieroglyphic poetry, Kiskajey – I Am Ready. Sylliboy’s anticipated book is the first Mi’kmaq hieroglyphic poetry book ever published.

Sylliboy is an artist raised on unceded territory in We’koqma’q Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She has always had a passion for art, as well as a love for teaching and has worked for almost 20 years in the Vancouver Public school system. Today Sylli

A sweeping tale of perseverance and the strength of the human, especially female, spirit is the journey readers experience as Nazanine Hozar tells a story about her homeland of Iran in her debut novel Aria.

Hozar, a UBC Alum, has been published in The Vancouver Observer and Prairie Fire magazine; and June 25, at the Central Library, Hozar will be in conversation about her book with Hal Wake, former artistic director of Vancouver Writers Fest.

“I don’t think [Aria] has to be an Iranian thing,”