2020 Whistler Writers Festival Fundraiser
“Action is the foundational key to success.” Pablo Picasso I need your help. Before I delve into that though, first let me thank you for attending our 2019 Whistler Writers Festival. The conversations generated, the relationships forged, and creative expression released – were incredible. We succeed because of you. We’re launching on ongoing fundraising campaign. […]
Stella Harvey headlines The Writers Studio Reading Dec. 5
Everyone is invited to The Writers Studio reading series at Hood 29 (4470 Main Street) for the last reading series of 2019 on Thursday, December 5th at 8:00pm led by headliner STELLA HARVEY. We won’t be back until February, so be sure to get your poetry, fiction and non-fiction fix this week! STELLA is a fiction writer […]
Book Review: Raven Lane by Amber Cowie
Book Review by Libby McKeever Amber Cowie is a new voice on the domestic thriller-fiction stage and her second novel Raven Lane is one that sticks to your skin and makes you second guess your assumptions. Leafy Raven Lane is a secluded cul-de-sac of five similar homes hidden above Fraser City, where resident realtor Kitty […]
A Conversation with Maude Barlow, author of Whose Water Is It, Anyway?
Whistler Writers Festival’s Alli Vail caught up with Maude Barlow to talk about her book Whose Water Is It, Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands, and this year’s theme of the festival – Discourse. She’ll be appearing in the Saturday Night Gala, with author Omar El Akkad Oct. 19. Alli: As a writer and […]
Book Review: Akin, by Emma Donoghue
By Nicola Bentley Emma Donoghue’s newest novel, Akin, transports the reader from the streets of New York, where the drug trade’s worst outcome is death, to the Promenade in Nice, France, where the city is about to celebrate its annual Carnival. Retired professor Noah Selvaggio is preparing to travel to Nice, a place he has […]
Talk is the Stuff of Story: Katherine Koller blog
Can we talk? That’s what I’d say to the friendly-looking young couple who trailed me through Save-on Foods. After I paid for my huge order (at the time I cooked for eight), I pushed my grocery cart, in the winter dark, over the snow-rutted parking lot. One half of the young couple ran from behind […]
Food as the Great Conversation Starter: Christina Loucas blog
When asked to write a little blog about combining the idea of discourse and some element of my book, what came to mind first is how food is one of those topics that seems to engage most people. No matter whether I was a lawyer practising in Singapore, out for a client lunch years ago […]
Talking with Alta Lake: A blog by Cornelia Hoogland
Swimmers in wet suits, the fins of their arms rhythmic, choreographed, elbowing up, splashing down. The sounds paddles make––the boarders and kayakers who dip them into, then stroke them out of the water. Sounds in miniature. Blue jay skirts over the cedar rail, its nails clicking. Blueberry Hill on the east side of the lake, […]
Yvonne Blomer on Discourse
“Yvonne!” “Hi, how’s it going?” “Great, but you won’t believe this. Refugium has a review in Pacific Yachting!” “What?!” “I know, right!” A friend and subscriber to Pacific Yachting had called with this news. As a kid, growing up in land-locked Alberta, the most I knew of the Pacific was my dad’s yearly trips to […]
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 […]