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Year: 2019

BARLOW, MAUDE

MAUDE BARLOW is the international bestselling author of 19 books, including Whose Water Is It, Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands which will release this fall. She is the honorary chair of the Council of Canadians and of the Washington-based Food and Water Watch. She is on the executive committee of the Global Alliance […]

BARRETT, BRANDON

Brandon Barrett

BRANDON BARRETT is a performer, theatre producer, improv instructor and playwright. The co-founder of sold-out sketch show Comedy Quickies, part of the Whistler Writers Festival, he has written or co-written three feature-length plays. He is also an award-winning journalist and features editor for Whistler’s Pique Newsmagazine and was the 2018 recipient of the John Collison […]

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 […]

Writing Contest

Unpacking the Idea of Home Writing Contest Do you live in the Sea to Sky Corridor, and want to try your hand at a writing contest? The Unpacking the Idea of Home Writing Contest is now open for entry to anyone living in the Sea to Sky region between Lions Bay and Lillooet. Writers may […]

Finding the Words for Adventure

Sat. May 18 | 3 – 4:30pm | Whistler Public Library | Free Writing the lives of a tribe can be a challenge. With their unique rituals, totems and taboos, tribes can be hard for outsiders to understand — and this is as true for the tribe of outdoor adventurers as it is for any […]

Unpacking the Idea of Home Reading Event

Travel, Place, Identity: Unpacking the Idea of Home May 17 | 7pm | Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre | Tickets $22 [templatic_button link=”https://whistlerwritersfest.ticketleap.com/unpacking-the-idea-of-home/” size=”large” type=”basic”] BUY TICKETS [/templatic_button] How is our sense of self influenced by where we live, or where we travel? What will we find when we examine our sense of place under 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 […]