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Unpacking the Idea of Home – Reading Event
Tickets available now for the Travel, Place, Identity: Unpacking the Idea of Home reading event Friday May 17, 7pm at the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre. Buy tickets. Read More
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Rachel Hartman Teaches Speculative Fiction Workshop
March 12, 2019: Whistler, B.C. – The Whistler Writing Society is delighted to offer the creative writing session Building Worlds: Speculative Fiction Workshop with Rachel Hartman, Saturday April 13 from 10am – noon at the Whistler Public Library. Buy tickets. Read More
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Whistler Writer in Residence
The Whistler Writer in Residence (WWR) is an intensive workshop program for emerging or established writers seeking to raise the level of their writing craft, while working on a specific writing project. Read More
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Carmen Aguierre Writing Retreat Announced Feb.21-24, 2019
Launch your memoir into the next level by participating in the intensive writing retreat with Carmen Aguierre – From the Ground Up: Scaffolding Your Story, happening Feb. 21-24, 2019 in Vancouver.
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Penning This Place
Penning This Place: Writing Whistler’s Literary Landscape Workshop
November 3, 2018 | 10am-4pm | Maury Young Arts Centre, Whistler
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Participants will engage in a variety of writing exercises which will creatively explore different ways of relating to and writing our relationships to pla Read More -
Honesty and Vulnerability Key Components in Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
A Book Review of Darrel J. McLeod’s Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
Reviewed by Katherine Fawcett
While immersed in Darrel J. McLeod’s Governor General’s prize-nominated memoir Mamaskatch, I found myself flipping frequently to a picture on the front cover. Read More -
Poetry and Thin Places
Poetry reading event explores boldness, loss and the power of women at Whistler Writers Festival on Oct. 13
A Review by Mary MacDonaldThe autumn rains have arrived hard, lashing the trees. Fog is making the mornings muted, shadowy and inward. Evening arrives earlier and earlier. Read More
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Book Review: Something for Everyone by Lisa Moore
by Karen McLeod
In her third collection of short stories, Canadian author Lisa Moore takes you to familiar places—the shoe store, an insurance office, a night class—and introduces you to some regular people.
There’s a librarian, a caretaker, a wifey-wife. Read More -
Book Review: The Imam of Tawi-Tawi by Ian Hamilton
A book review of The Imam of Tawi-Tawi by Ian Hamilton. Read More
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Dropping the F*BOMB: Why we all need to re-claim feminism
The Whistler Writing Society is proud to support Whistler’s Celebration of INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL and their event Dropping the F*Bomb: Why we all need to re-claim feminism. The event takes place Saturday October 13, 6:00pm at Maury Young Arts Centre, and is designed for anyone ages 12+. Read More
Whistler Writers Festival
Presented by the Whistler Writing Society
