Rehearsal

Written by Katherine Fawcett of The Sea to Sky Strings Orchestra | #NoOneSucceedsAlone Show up. Sit down. Unlatch. Open, remove laugh – Pet the dog. Tighten, rosin, tune. Talk: kids, news, dreams, dotted eighth notes, hair, eyeglasses, skiing. Late-comers arrive. Apologies. Unlatch. Open, remove, laugh – pet the dog. Tighten, rosin, tune. A quick scale, […]

Finally, a space that believes being an artist is serious business.

Written by Carolyn Marie Souaid | #NoOneSucceedsAlone In 2013, the Banff Centre became my home for seven weeks while I wrote the first draft of my cross-cultural love story, Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik. Not only did it provide a cheery setting, gourmet meals, and a private studio in the woods (an old, refurbished fishing […]

Whistler Writers Festival Unveils Author Line-up and Program

Master storyteller Peter Carey to headline alongside literary stars Eden Robinson, Esi Edugyan, Billy-Ray Belcourt and more August 13, 2018: Whistler, B.C. – The Whistler Writing Society is thrilled to unveil the list of authors attending this year’s Whistler Writers Festival, with legendary international author Peter Carey headlining alongside literary heavyweights Eden Robinson, Esi Edugyan, […]

WOOLDRIDGE, ANDREW

ANDREW WOOLDRIDGE is the publisher at Orca Book Publishers. Founded in 1984, Orca Book Publishers is an independently owned Canadian children’s book publisher of award-winning, bestselling books in a number of genres. With over 1,000 titles in print and more than 80 new titles a year, Orca prides itself on publishing Canadian authors and bringing them […]

Williams, Megan

MEGAN WILLIAMS is the award-winning author of Our Interrupted Fairy Tale and also the co-authored a children’s book with her 10-year-old step-daughter, Madison. Through The Self Publishing Agency, Megan supports indie authors in writing, publishing and marketing their books. Her clients have been featured in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail and Global TV and their books are […]

Wiebe, Sam

SAM WIEBE  is the author of the Vancouver crime novels Cut You Down, Invisible Dead, and Last of the Independents. Wiebe’s work has won an Arthur Ellis award and the Kobo Emerging Writers Prize, and been shortlisted for the Shamus Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award. His short stories have appeared in Thuglit, Spinetingler, […]

WATT, K. JANE

K. JANE WATT PhD, principal of Fenton Street Publishing House, works with academic, corporate, government, and non-profit clients to tell the stories of BC. She is an author and editor who has written numerous regional histories, including High Water: Living with the Fraser Floods, winner of the BCHF’s Lieutenant-Governor’s medal for historical writing in 2006. […]

Wake, Hal

HAL WAKE has been engaged with the literary community in Canada for more than 30 years. He has conducted on-stage interviews with Alice Munro, Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Ford, Sharon Olds, Rohinton Mistry, Michael Chabon, Joseph Boyden and Anne Michaels amongst many others. In the mid ‘80’s he was the book producer for the most […]

Tomlinson, Dania

DANIA TOMLINSON grew up in the Okanagan, and still lives there with her husband and young daughter. Dania’s fiction has won awards and been published in literary magazines, including Room and SubTerrain. Our Animal Hearts is her first novel.