2019 Festival Reading List
We’re delighted to announce the 2019 Festival Reading List! This collection of featured books and authors will be presenting ideas for discourse in multiple events October 17 – 20, 2019, at the Whistler Writers Festival. Books are available through Armchair Books, or online.
AGM & Writing Workshop with Susan Juby
The Whistler Writing Society welcomes all members of the community to attend our Annual General Meeting Wednesday August 21st from 6 – 7 p.m. at the Whistler Public Library. Light refreshments will be served. Following the meeting award-winning author and humourist Susan Juby will lead a creative writing workshop Poke the Soufflé from 7 – […]
Media Release: Poet and writer Cornelia Hoogland named 2019 Whistler Writer in Residence
Poet and writer Cornelia Hoogland named 2019 Whistler Writer in Residence Two scholarships available through new equity initiative program June 24, 2019: Whistler, B.C. – The Whistler Writers Society is excited to announce that Cornelia Hoogland has been named the 2019 Whistler Writer in Residence and will move into the Alta Lake Artists Cabin, next to The […]
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. In this workshop award-winning YA author Rachel Hartman, author of Seraphina and Tess of the […]
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. Click here for more info.
Penning This Place
Penning This Place: Writing Whistler’s Literary Landscape Workshop November 3, 2018 | 10am-4pm | Maury Young Arts Centre, Whistler GET TICKETS Participants will engage in a variety of writing exercises which will creatively explore different ways of relating to and writing our relationships to place…this unique place. Open to and incorporating a wide variety of styles, […]
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+. Women’s Lib Equal Rights The sisterhood […]
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, […]
Finalists for 2018 Whistler Independent Book Awards
Our congratulations to the authors who have been selected as finalists for the 2018 Whistler Independent Book Awards. The fiction finalists are: T.G. Brown for Harvest (A Josh Ingram Novel) Laurel Deedrick-Mayne for A Wake for the Dreamland Emma L.R. Hogg for Winona Rising Mike Sadava for The Project The non-fiction finalists are: Mark Cote for That Lucky Old […]
Whistler Independent Book Awards 2018 Shortlist Announced
WIBA 2018 Shortlist Announced The entries for this year’s Whistler Independent Book Awards were of a high standard, their quality reflecting the professionalism of Canadian self-published authors. The competition in the fiction category was particularly strong, and selecting the nominees was a challenge for the evaluation committee. Our congratulations to the authors whose books have been shortlisted […]