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Becky Livingston Publishes Memoir: The Suitcase and the Jar
Becky Livingston, 2015 VMI alumna, will publish her memoir, The Suitcase and the Jar: Travels with a Daughter's Ashes, on Sept 14, 2018. For twenty-six months, Livingston travelled to Italy, Spain,...
VMI alumna Jan Redford on Memoir, Marriage, Motherhood, and Mountains
Jan Redford, VMI alumna and author of the memoir, End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood (Random House Canada, 2018) will be in conversation with Hal Wake, former director of the...
Oscar of Between adapted for musical performance
Oscar of Between by Betsy Warland will be performed with musical accompaniment on September 19, 2018! You are cordially invited to a read-through performance of The Art of Camouflage for mezzo...
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Accepting Applications
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is accepting applications for 2019. VMI is an in-depth one-to-one mentorship program that pairs you with a professional author to develop your manuscript to its...
Upcoming Deadline: The Malahat Review’s “Queer Perspectives” Issue
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...
Chelene Knight Named Executive Director of Word Vancouver Festival
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...
VMI Alumna Jan Redford Publishes Memoir with Penguin Random House
Jan Redford, Vancouver Manuscript Intensive alumna, has published her memoir, End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood with Penguin Random House. Hearty congratulations to Jan! The...
Betsy Warland to Edit The Malahat Review’s “Queer Perspectives” issue
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...
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