Books make babies grow

Whistler Writer’s Festival will match up to five hundred dollars in picture book donations to the Lil’wat Nation By Nicole Fitzgerald My two-year-old daughter cries. We give her a book. She fusses bored at a doctor’s office. We give her a book. I want to go running. She reads to pass the time in her […]

So Ya Wanna Be a…

So Ya Wanna Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star… Writer? by G.D. Maxwell More frequently than is comfortable, people ask me how they can become a writer, which is to say, make some money, if not a living, writing. My first response is always the same. “Are you nuts?” If they answer no, or worse […]

Poetry of Place

A Review of Poets: Arleen Paré, Jane Munro, Garth Martens, Bren Simmers by Mary MacDonald Sometimes the road is dark. People we love suffer. Some of them leave. When that happens I think of light and holding space. Sometimes though, I saddle the horse and search for some place else to go. This year, the […]

Live Music Enlivens the Whistler Writers Festival!

    Every year the Whistler Writers Festival brings together talented writers from across Canada and around the world, but it also offers up an array of musical talent from Whistler, the Sea-to-Sky area and Vancouver. At this year’s festival you can kick off your weekend early with some lively ska, reggae, gypsy jazz and […]