CAROLINE ADDERSON is the author of five novels (A History of Forgetting, Sitting Practice, The Sky Is Falling, Ellen in Pieces, and most recently, A Russian Sister) and two collections of short stories (Bad Imaginings, Pleased to Meet You), as well as many books for young readers, including It Happened on Sweet Street. Published in […]

A Conversation with Omar El Akkad, author of American War

Whistler Writers Festival’s Alli Vail caught up with Omar El Akkad to talk about his book American War, and this year’s theme of the festival – Discourse. He’ll be appearing in the Saturday Night Gala, with author Maude Barlow Oct. 19. Alli: American War was a 2018 CBC Canada Reads Selection, A Globe and Mail […]

Whistler Author’s Third Novel Stirs a Longing for Home

Book Review: Finding Callidora by Stella Leventoyannis Harvey By Karen McLeod It’s your castle, your plot of land. It’s where you hang your hat. Home. In Stella Leventoyannis Harvey’s new novel, Finding Callidora, home means this and more to the four generations of the Greek Alevizopoulos family. The prologue, an enchanting moment in the present, […]

Small Game Hunting Packs an Intersectional Wallop

Book Review by Alli Vail Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles packs an intersectional wallop. Not even 20 pages and two characters in, and author Megan Gail Coles has tackled racism, identity, poverty, sexism, the marginalization of indigenous people, family, alcoholism and revenge. Set in Newfoundland on Valentine’s […]

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.

And then there are his poems, which inspired me before we met.

Written by Lorna Crozier | #NoOneSucceedsAlone From the desk where I write, I can roll back in my chair, stick my head out the door and ask, “How do you spell…?” Patrick, my companion for forty years, and who works at his desk in the room right next to mine, sometimes answers. Other times he tells […]