Cove, Rodger

COVE, RODGER has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and has been teaching story and screenwriting for 18 years. His own work includes Hair of the Sasquatch (Calgary International Film Festival, 2008), and The Patio, (the Grand Junction International Film Festival in Colorado, and the NYC Downtown Short Film Festival, both in 2014). He […]

God is in the Details: A Writing Workshop with Rebecca Wood Barrett

Whistler’s own Rebecca Wood Barrett will be teaching a free creative writing workshop Friday, September 29th from 6-8pm at Maury Young Arts Centre during BC Culture Days. All writers, whether beginner or experienced, are welcome to participate. Please bring a pen and paper, or laptop as there will be writing exercises. Email rwoodbarrett@gmail.com to register. […]

Book Donations Needed for Annual Book Sale

This is the perfect time to make room on your bookshelves by clearing out all your previously read and loved books. Please pop your books in the collection boxes at the TD Bank in Marketplace or at Nesters Market. Alternatively, you can drop off larger donations at the home of Jane Reid: 8582 Buckhorn Drive, […]

Jane Eaton Hamilton on Risk

Probably the biggest risk in writing Weekend was using they/them pronouns for one of my characters. I hadn’t read a book which had done that, and it can dazzle with confusion, both for the author and the reader (was that correct? Was that really what the author meant? Wait … who is the author talking […]

Gowdy’s Little Sister Weird and Wonderful

A book review by Katherine Fawcett Barbara Gowdy’s new book Little Sister is a tale of psychic leap-frog that explores identity, sanity, control, and the porous relationship between mind, spirit and body. The main character is Rose, a woman in her mid-thirties who runs a repertory theatre with her mother Fiona, and is in a […]

Poet Gary Geddes Gives Talk at Quest Sep. 13

Poet Gary Geddes is giving a talk about his book Medicine Unbundled at Quest University Canada tomorrow, Wednesday September 13th at 7:00 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room.          

Shelley O’Callaghan on Risk

I am a 69 year-old retired lawyer and I am embarking on writing a memoir. I am a private person. I don’t share my innermost thoughts easily. But when writing my memoir, How Deep is the Lake: A Century at Chilliwack Lake, I find that when I open my heart, my writing comes alive. I […]

Shaw TV Features the Fest

Shaw TV Sea to Sky and Stella Harvey, Festival Director, give us a look inside the treasure box of the festival’s offerings – guest author readings, craft workshops, and publisher pitch sessions!  

Claudia Casper on Risk

Researching my second novel I decided I needed to experience spelunking, and specifically, being in a squeeze. Vancouver Island has the largest concentration of caves in North America. I found a woman in Campbell River willing to take me spelunking in a spectacular limestone and marble cave system near Gold River. When I pulled up […]

Sheena Kamal on Risk

The very act of writing requires a leap of faith, a somewhat crazed belief that, with your words, you can create a story that another person—a living, breathing human being— will want to read. It’s the riskiest thing imaginable to sit and face a blank page armed with nothing but this belief and the germ […]