Chelene Knight, acclaimed poet and memoirist, has been appointed as the new executive director of the Word Vancouver festival, Western Canada’s largest free festival of reading and writing. Knight succeeds Bryan Pike, the festival’s fourth and previous...
The Malahat Review invites writers identifying as LGBTQ2S? to submit their work for consideration for an issue celebrating contemporary queer writing in Canada! Guest editors Ali Blythe, Trevor Corkum, and Betsy Warland are interested in considering submissions of...
Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Festival returns from March 1-4, 2018 at various venues in Vancouver, BC. Betsy Warland will be at Growing Room on Saturday and Sunday, where she will be participating in and moderating panels, respectively. SATURDAY, MARCH 3 From...
This summer, Betsy offers “Making Your Writing Fly,” a self-editing workshop for prose and poetry, presented by Island Mountain Arts. Effectively self-editing your work before you send it out to an editor, agent or publisher has become a must in...
Canadian Authors presents “Experimenting with the Potentials of Creative Non-Fiction,” a reading and talk by Betsy Warland, essayist, poet, and founder of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University. Reading from three of her non-fiction works,...
West Coast Writers is pleased to announce our upcoming urban retreat: a day-long intensive with critically acclaimed poet and author, Betsy Warland. Navigating contradictions, the unknown, or the forbidden in a group of poems or a lyric-prose narrative. When our...
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