Events, Readings and Book Launches
FedBCW members: If you are reading, launching a book, or holding a book signing, please tell us and we will post it here. For a timely posting, send your notice at least two weeks in advance of the scheduled event. Email your information (follow our standard copy format as seen below), including date, time, title, description, location, “more info” contacts, and any particulars to bcwriters@shaw.ca. For a listing of regular slams and open mike readings, see here: http://www.bcwriters.com/reading.php
Vancouver and Lower Mainland
Friday September 5, 6:30-8:30 pm
(Coles in the Willowbrook Shopping Mall in Langley at the corner
of #10 Highway and 200 Street) - and -
Saturday September 6, 11 am – 1 pm
(Langley Chapters, 62nd Ave. and 200 Street)
WOMEN MOUNTIES – DO THEY "ALWAYS GET THEIR MAN"? Jane Hall author of The Red Wall: A Woman in the RCMP, signs her book.
Saturday September 6 - 10 am to 12:30 pm [next one]
GRIND WRITERS GROUP MEETS…
And writes, reads, gives/gets feedback, and offers community and support. Every 2 weeks at the Grind Gallery Café, 4124 Main Street @ King Edward Ave (aka 25th Ave). Writers of all ages, stages, genres, genders, orientations & outlooks are welcome. We write at every meeting, so bring pen & paper or your laptop. Occasionally we do move the venue, so email before you come to your first meeting, or if you have any questions - please email Margo Lamont wonderwords@shaw.ca.
Sunday September 7, 11 am
VANCOUVER COMICON
Featuring Steve Leialoha, regular contributor to Marvel Comics, including Star Wars, Howard the Duck, and Fables; Dark Horse Comics editor Diana Schutz, and many more. Tix $3; kids under 14 free. At the Heritage Hall (3102 Main Street, Vancouver).
Sunday September 7, 7:30 pm
THE TRUTH BEHIND THE JIMMY CARTER CONTROVERSY
Dr. Kenneth Stein discusses President Carter and his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. Part of the Jewish Federation's Annual Campaign. Tix $24 (plus service charges and fees) from www.ticketmaster.ca/. At the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Road, UBC, Vancouver). More info: www.jewishvancouver.com/.
Tuesday September 9, 7 pm
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
Book-signing and talk by author Eliza Mada Dalian. Free. In the Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver).
Wednesday September 10, 7 pm
CANADIAN AUTHORS ASSOCIATION
Featuring Annette Humphries of Trafford Publishing as guest speaker. Free admission for members; $5 non-members. At the Alliance for Arts and Culture (938 Howe Street, Vancouver).
Thursday September 11, 7:30 pm
JONATHAN HARRINGTON on THE CLIMATE DIET
In his new book, The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs, and Save the Planet, author Jonathan Harrington has written a must-have guide to the most important diet ever. Free. In the Alma VanDusen Room, Lower Level, Central Library (350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver). More info: VPL - 604-331-3603.
Thursday September 11, 730 pm
AGE OF CITIES
The Vancouver Public Library invites you to join Brett Josef Grubisic as he reads from his novels The Age of Cities and Location. Free. In the Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level, Central Library (350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver). More info: VPL at 604-331-3603.
Thursday September 11, 7:30-9:30 pm
SFU’S THE WRITER’S STUDIO SEPTEMBER READING EVENT:
THEME -- “FAMILY” at Rhizome Café (317 East Broadway @ Kingsway, Vancouver). Rhizome has a great menu and serve beer and wine, so please come early and enjoy a meal and grab a good seat. The theme this month is 'Family,' which will be presented through poetry, fiction and nonfiction pieces. More info: Jane Mellor TWS Reading Series Host, 2008 - Tel: 604-734-5353 or www.janemellor.com.
Thursday September 11, 7:30pm
LET HER ENTERTAIN YOU….
The highly entertaining Alberta poet, Kimmy Beach, will read from her latest book, in Cars (Turnstone, 2007) and she’ll also share a work in progress – poems about her most recent obsession, James Bond. Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and the League of Canadian Poets. Free. At the White Rock Community Arts Council Gallery (#90, 1959 – 152nd Street). More info: www.whiterockartscouncil.com.
Saturday September 13, 11 am – 1 pm
WOMEN MOUNTIES – DO THEY "ALWAYS GET THEIR MAN"?
Jane Hall author of The Red Wall: A Woman in the RCMP, signs her book in the Willowbrook Shopping Mall in Langley at the corner of #10 Hwy and 200 Street.
Saturday September 13, 9 am to 2 pm COOKBOOK SWAP
The Vancouver Farmers’ Market presents their annual Cookbook Swap. Bring all those cookbooks and food magazines that are taking up room on your shelves and trade them in for new-to-you cookbooks and magazines at the Trout Lake Farmers’ Market. In the parking lot of Trout Lake Community Centre (15th Avenue & Victoria Drive, Vancouver). More info: www.eatlocal.org.
Saturday September 13, 2-4 pm
A FOUR WHEEL DRIFT – AUTHOR READING
Mel Dagg will be doing a reading from his short story collection, Four Wheel Drift, as part of the Nanaimo Arts Council Creative Currents Series. At the Downtown Nanaimo Art Gallery (150 Commercial). Free but pre-register at 250-729-3947. An informal workshop will follow the reading.
Monday September 15, 7:30 pm
SPECIAL EVENT….WITH MIRIAM TOEWS
The Vancouver International Writers Festival and Random House of Canada presents this bestselling author of A Complicated Kindness and Summer of My Amazing Luck who will read from her new book, The Flying Troutmans. Appearing on the same bill will be Joan Barfoot, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlisted Luck and a new novel Exit Lines. At the Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston Street, Vancouver). Tix $15/$13 plus $2 facility surcharge. Tix went on sale Aug at VancouverTix: 604-629-VTIX (8849) or www.vancouvertix.com. More info: 604-681-6330.
Sunday September 21, 7 pm
THE FOREVER WAR—AN AUTHOR TALK
IKON Speaker Series New York Times foreign correspondent, Dexter Filkins, will give a talk on his new book, The Forever War - a memoir from the front lines of the Iraq War that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. TiX $18/$15. At the Capilano Performing Arts Theatre (2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver). Box Office: 604-990-7810. More info: www.capcollege.bc.ca/theatre.
Sunday September 21 THANK HEAVENS FOR MARGARET VISSER
CBC Radio’s Studio One Book Club is launching their fall season with the incomparable Margaret Visser. Her new book The Gift of Thanks explores all aspects of gratitude, from how the simple phrase of "thank you" is received in different cultures, to how acts of reciprocation and rejection are treated in folklore, mythology and fiction. For all the details and to win tickets to this fascinating conversation, go to www.cbc.ca/bc/bookclub.
Saturday September 27, 1 to 4 pm
FRASER VALLEY AREA WRITERS MEET 'N GREET
Open to experienced writers, newbies and wannabes. Readings - book exchange - networking - refreshments - door prizes - Show 'n Tell table of participants’ recent publications. Presented by LPwordsolutions in cooperation with Surrey Public Library. $5 admission. At the Semiahmoo Library Meeting Room (1815 - 18 Avenue, Surrey). For more info or to offer to read from your recent work, and/or to request space on the Show 'N Tell table to display your recent publications. Lois Peterson: lpwordsolutions@hotmail.com.
September 2008
CANADIAN AUTHORS’ ASSOCIATION (CAA) MEETINGS
Vancouver Chapter
Meets monthly on the second Wednesday, Sept. through June, from 7 to 9 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.). Meetings are open to the general public for a nominal fee and are held at the Alliance for Arts & Cultural Events Suite 100, 938 Howe Street Vancouver, BC. In addition to our regular meetings, we offer one or two workshops each year, for which a fee is charged. These workshops are offered at a discount to our members. For details, see our Meetings & Workshops on the website: http://www.canauthorsvancouver.org/meetings.html.
September 20, check time
MONTHLY MEETING – ROMANCE WRITERS OF AMERICA®
Greater Vancouver Chapter
Speakers will be Mary Forbes and Wendy Roberts talking about collaging. This group is a network of romance writers who strive to support and encourage each other through all stages of their writing careers. Members range from beginners working on their first manuscript to published authors working on their 30th book. Monthly newsletter, sponsored writing contests, regular Writing Week Challenges; workshops and seminars to promote the craft of writing. We meet once a month to exchange news and hear guest speakers. At the regular meeting place: Ebenezer Baptist Church (53rd and Fraser, Vancouver). More info at the website: http://www.rwagvc.com/ or email: rwagvc@hotmail.com.
Sunday September 28th – 11 am to 5 pm
THE WORD ON THE STREET
The Word On The Street is an annual one-day festival celebrating literacy and the written arts. Held in four cities across Canada simultaneously, TWOTS celebrates reading and writing with free exhibits, performances, readings and hands-on activities every September. This fest attracts tens of thousands of visitors, and hundreds of participating exhibitors, authors, and performers for literary readings, cookbook demonstrations, music, contests, panel discussions, and much more.
We invite you to join us and become part of Vancouver's favourite annual celebration of words and reading. At Library Square, downtown Vancouver (between Homer & Hamilton streets between Robson & Georgia). Free. Day's program is on the website: http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/vancouver.php
Volunteers needed: for everything from program guide distribution to box office and production to front of house and bar & concession help. For info, call 604-788-8340, or email srduncan@shaw.ca. You can register on-line now at: http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/community/volunteers.
Thursday October 2, 7 pm
READINGS AT LITTLE SISTER’S
Enjoy queer women writers Marion Douglas, Nairne Holtz, Larissa Lai, as they tackle scapegoating and small towns, conspiracy freaks and butch casanovas, and shape-shifters and durian fruit. Douglas, who won the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, has just published a new novel, Dance Hall Road. Holtz is the author of The Skin Beneath, which won the Alice B. Lesbian Debut Fiction Award and was a finalist for the McAuslan First Book Prize. Larissa Lai is the author of Salt Fish Girl, which was shortlisted for the Sunbust Award and the City of Calgary Book Prize. At Little Sisters’s (1238 Davie Street, Vancouver).
October 21-26, 2008
21st ANNUAL VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL WRITERS’
AND READERS’ FESTIVAL
Info at: http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/
Saturday October 25, 5:30-7 pm
WOMEN MOUNTIES – DO THEY "ALWAYS GET THEIR MAN"?
Jane Hall author of The Red Wall: A Woman in the RCMP, signs her book at the Surrey International Writers’ Conference in the Sheraton Guilford Hotel, Surrey, BC. Info at: http://www.siwc.ca/bookfair/index.php
The Islands
Nanaimo
WORDSTORM IN NANAIMO
From its beginning WordStorm has played to packed houses with a full slate of readers--some coming from as far away as Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria, Courtenay, Qualicum, Duncan, Ladysmith, Prince Rupert, Protection Island, Gabriola Island, Port Alberni and Ucluelet. It’s an ongoing reading series that focuses on all types of the spoken word -- poetry, short fiction, storytelling, improv, music, song -- with two components: a prearranged reading series, and an excitingly competitive spoken word competition.
Reserve a ticket and ask to be an open mike reader or sign up at the door. The readings are always be a mix of genres, and the sign-up for WordStorm will be in categories - poetry and prose. You can sign up for WordStorm Open Mike in advance by email, and also between 6:30 and 7:00 at the door. Admission is $5 at the door. At The Mermaid's Mug (357 Wesley Street, Nanaimo). More info: David Fraser at ascentaspirations@shaw.ca or Cindy Shantz at 250-722-2566 (cindyshantz@shaw.ca). Web: www.wordstorm.ca. Ongoing.
Some future featured readers/performers:
Sept 30 - Bernice Lever, Mike Matthews
Oct. 28 - Themed Night - Halloween - Many Lightning Performers
Nov. 25 - Dinah D, Yvonne Blomer
Victoria
September 2008
WORKSHOPS & MORE…
The Greater Victoria Public Library and Vancouver Island Regional Library are planning a Writer in Residence program to commence September 2008. This is a first for our library systems and with such a rich and diverse group of local authors, we hope this will be an annual event. The program will give a local author a paid opportunity to work on their material and also offer our communities the benefit of their experience and talent. The chosen author will be mentoring emerging writers including reading and commenting on manuscripts, conducting workshops and participating in other activities to share their experiences with our communities. More info: http://www.virl.bc.ca.
September 9, 2008
CANADIAN AUTHORS' ASSOCIATION (CAA)
Vancouver & The Islands chapter - monthly meeting
On Sept. 9th , 2008 a new season of monthly meetings begins. They are held from September through May, except December each year. Look for a new series of events beginning in September, including at least one workshop designed to hone your writing skills. Find out about CAA writers’ circles. More info on the website: http://www.canauthors.org/island/meetings.html.
Fraser Valley
Saturday September 27, 1 to 4 pm
FRASER VALLEY AREA WRITERS MEET ‘N GREET
Open to experienced writers, newbies and wannabes. Readings - book exchange - networking - refreshments - door prizes - Show 'n Tell table of participants’ recent publications. Presented by LPwordsolutions in cooperation with Surrey Public Library. $5 admission. At the Semiahmoo Library Meeting Room (1815 - 18 Avenue, Surrey). For more info or to offer to read from your recent work, and/or to request space on the Show 'N Tell table to display your recent publications. Lois Peterson: lpwordsolutions@hotmail.com.
Saturday November 1 – see times below
BOOK LAUNCH AND WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN
Surrey Lois Peterson, author of the children's novel Meeting Miss 405 (Orca, fall 2008) presents:
*10:30 am to 11:45 pm - “Spinning Stories,” an interactive workshop for kids aged 7 to 12;
*12 noon to 1:15 pm Book Launch - readings, Q&A, book sales, refreshments;
*1:30 to 4:30 pm. “The Building Blocks of Good Writing,” a workshop for adults. Workshops by voluntary donation with proceeds to Surrey Public Library's Legacy Fund (along with $1 from sale of each book sold during the day's activities - and 10% of author royalties on all other sales). At the Newton Library (13795 - 70th Ave.). Registration required for workshops: lp@loispeterson.net Book Launch - drop in , everyone welcome. www.loispeterson.net.
Central
South East
September 19-20-21
5th ANNUAL KOOTENAY BOOKWEEKEND – NELSON, BC
The 5th Annual Kootenay BookWeekend will be held in Nelson, BC on September 19, 20 & 21st. Celebrity author in attendance will be Jack Hodgins, Governor General's Award winner and bestselling author, who’ll be discussing his book, Broken Ground. The other selections for this year are: To All Appearances a Lady by Marilyn Bowering, The Rug Merchant by Meg Mullens and Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje. Come & join other passionate page-turners for this stimulating event. More info -- Website: www.kootenaybookweekend.ca. Email: kbw@kootenaybookweekend.ca. Phone Victoria at 250-352-6197.
North
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