2014 FESTIVAL

Welcome to the 13th annual Whistler Readers and Writers Festival. Each year we strive to bring the very best Canadian and international authors to Whistler for a weekend packed with readings, workshops and opportunities for you to meet some of your favourite authors.

Final Blog and Save the date

2014 marked the 13th anniversary of the Whistler Readers and Writers festival. And what an incredible event it was.

The Orenda – Book Review

I couldn’t watch the gratuitous violence in the film Pulp Fiction and I couldn’t read Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. But I devoured every word of the nearly 500 pages of The Orenda.

Friends – A Flashback

It was a small gathering then, some twenty people in my living room, a potluck dinner, and a discussion about writing with our guest author Andreas Schroeder…

Lucky Thirteen – BCBookLook

The Whistler Readers and Writers Festival, celebrating its thirteenth anniversary, has continued getting bigger and more innovative

Non-fiction. Really

…if someone asked me to define the broad genre of non-fiction, my knee-jerk reaction would be to lean hard against the opposite pole of the literary kingdom—fiction—and reply “it’s the stuff you can’t make up.”

The Confabulist – Book Review

Steven Galloway

Now you see it, now you don’t-ish
Award-winning author Steven Galloway’s tricky tale of Houdini and the man who killed him

SoBo Cookbook

This week we have two reviews of the SoBo Cookbook: Go ahead and burn it. It will taste better if you do, and A Journey to the West Coast.