2014 FESTIVAL
Welcome to the 13th annual Whistler Readers and Writers Festival. Each year we strive to bring the very best Canadian and international authors to Whistler for a weekend packed with readings, workshops and opportunities for you to meet some of your favourite authors.
Final Blog and Save the date
2014 marked the 13th anniversary of the Whistler Readers and Writers festival. And what an incredible event it was.
The Orenda – Book Review
I couldn’t watch the gratuitous violence in the film Pulp Fiction and I couldn’t read Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. But I devoured every word of the nearly 500 pages of The Orenda.
Pique Interview with Ann-Marie MacDonald
‘I thought I was sneaking up on myself’: Ann-Marie MacDonald on her new novel.
Friends – A Flashback
It was a small gathering then, some twenty people in my living room, a potluck dinner, and a discussion about writing with our guest author Andreas Schroeder…
Lucky Thirteen – BCBookLook
The Whistler Readers and Writers Festival, celebrating its thirteenth anniversary, has continued getting bigger and more innovative
Non-fiction. Really
…if someone asked me to define the broad genre of non-fiction, my knee-jerk reaction would be to lean hard against the opposite pole of the literary kingdom—fiction—and reply “it’s the stuff you can’t make up.”
The Confabulist – Book Review
Now you see it, now you don’t-ish
Award-winning author Steven Galloway’s tricky tale of Houdini and the man who killed him
Whistler Writers Festival enters 13th edition
Literary Cabaret, Spoken Workshop, plus all-day self-publishing workshop join cooks for books and novelists Joseph Boyden and Ann-Marie
SoBo Cookbook
This week we have two reviews of the SoBo Cookbook: Go ahead and burn it. It will taste better if you do, and A Journey to the West Coast.