Gender-nonconforming artist and activist moves fluidly between standup comedy, poetry, and public speaking
Read MoreWhen the RuPaul’s Drag Race winner hits the Chan Centre at UBC, she’ll talk politics and draw heavily from her book The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag
Read MoreAwards across fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and more to be announced September 28
Read MoreMichael Posner’s latest Leonard Cohen: Untold Stories installment, Jonathan Freedland’s The Escape Artist, and more standout conversations at annual event at JCC
Read MoreAward-winning Afro-Caribbean-Canadian multidisciplinary artist has previously worked with the Vancouver Writers Fest and Verses Festival of Words
Read MoreProgram run by the BC and Yukon Book Prizes has provided school libraries with over $100,000 worth of diverse titles since 2007
Read MoreVancouver Writers Fest highlights the long-time collaborators’ new book, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island
Read MoreVancouver-set work, following the story of two men’s struggles during the Chinese Immigration Act, is a passion project for the award-winning author
Read MoreAmong the B.C. finalists are Angela Sterritt’s Unbroken, Susan Musgrave’s Exculpatory Lilies, and Harrison Mooney’s Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
Read MoreThe Chop Theatre artist returns to Ashcroft for her aching yet funny new memoir
Read MoreThe local author says reality television is the great equalizer in social situations
Read MoreThe In My Own Moccasins author’s second memoir charts her journey through grief to trusting her own intuition
Read MoreNonfiction book praised for “deep insights into how and why arts and cultural funding is vital to safeguarding Canada’s present and future”
Read MoreTitles include Billy-Ray Belcourt’s queer Indigenous fiction work A Minor Chorus, Karen Bakker’s The Sounds of Life, and more
Read MoreClimate-crisis panels, Giller Prize finalists, and Rick Mercer in conversation with singer Jann Arden among other events October 16 to 22
Read MoreEvelyn Lau, Tara McGuire, Danny Ramadan, Chelene Knight, and Michele Assarasakorn and Nathan Fairbairn are all up for the prize, plus a book about Jan Wade’s art
Read MoreMatilda’s Stephanie Graham and The Prom’s Tracey Power share some of their literary faves
Read MoreThe fair-inspired tome tells of teenage scammers, tough guys, and local sports legends
Read MoreBIPOC writers to share their work in event hosted by Harrison Mooney
Read MoreThe multitalented artist’s new poetry collection finds him extolling a few simple pleasures
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