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 […]
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, […]
Honesty and Vulnerability Key Components in Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
A Book Review of Darrel J. McLeod’s Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age Reviewed by Katherine Fawcett While immersed in Darrel J. McLeod’s Governor General’s prize-nominated memoir Mamaskatch, I found myself flipping frequently to a picture on the front cover. The adorable Cree boy in the photo, probably about eight or nine years old, had […]
Poetry and Thin Places
Poetry reading event explores boldness, loss and the power of women at Whistler Writers Festival on Oct. 13 A Review by Mary MacDonald The autumn rains have arrived hard, lashing the trees. Fog is making the mornings muted, shadowy and inward. Evening arrives earlier and earlier. The coming dark is a time for shifting, for […]
I’m drawn to the stories where a person takes a dark journey that irrevocably changes them
Written by Maureen Medved | #NoOneSucceedsAlone Over the years I’ve been influenced by the writers who’d come before me. I’m thinking of writers in every form and from every time, the archetypal stories that have been told through the centuries, to the contemporary writers in every genre who have inspired me over the years. I’ve […]