Festival 2017 photos
Photography by Joern Rohde
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 […]
Short Films That Kill It
by Rebecca Wood Barrett I caught up with three Whistler filmmakers who are die-hard World Ski and Snowboard Festival 72 Filmmaker Showdown competitors, to hear about their fledgling mistakes, and their award-winning flights. Angie Nolan has competed in the Showdown nine times. She’s a two time Finalist and Winner of the People’s Choice Award for “Adventures […]
From Fledgling to F*#@ing Flight
WARNING Not a festival to censor, the below blog includes some carefully placed symbols. From Fledgling to F*#@ing Flight An A&*!!@hole’s Ten Tips to Elevate Your Prose By Juan Hitta #1 most important is to write all the f*#@ing time. the good thing about going to writing school is it forces you to pump out […]
The Brink of Freedom
A book review by Rebecca Wood Barrett Stella Leventoyannis Harvey’s new novel The Brink of Freedom tells the story of desperate searches for new beginnings. The ensemble cast are struggling to escape in so many ways—to shed some shameful aspect of the person they’ve become, or seek liberation from the miseries of poverty and violence. […]
Inside The Outside Circle
A book review by Katherine Fawcett First Nations communities have long known the healing power of story-telling. But healing can be a painful process, and like splitting open infected wounds and washing them with salty tears, those stories are often hard to hear. The Outside Circle, a graphic novel by Patti LaBoucane-Benson (illustrated by Kelly […]
Oh My!
Katherine Fawcett’s short story collection, Little Washer of Sorrows Review by Karen McLeod How does Katherine Fawcett come up with these fantastic, original stories? I picture the author and her friends on a dock, it’s a summer evening, they’ve had a few, and then the “What if?” conversation starts. The first story in the collection, […]