by Feet Banks

Whistler’s visual arts scene is well established (and well documented) but these mountains have also inspired generations of wordsmiths, readers and folks of the literary persuasion.

Armchair Books in Village Square is ground zero for anyone who loves the written word and all the important local tomes are available there (the library is another obvious choice). On the fiction front, Whistler Writer’s Festival founder Stella Harvey is just one of the town’s numerous novelists and younger readers find local flavour in Janet Love Morrison’s Radar the Rescue Dog. Anyone interested in Whistler history will want to pick up Florence Peterson’s First Tracks: Whistler’s Early History and a good supplement to that is Stephen Volger’s Only in Whistler: Tales of a Mountain Town which covers the ski bum era and more.

For the whole article, including more on the Writers’ Adventure Camp, SFU Writing Studio Whistler and the Whistler Independent Book Awards, go to Tourism Whistler’s “Whistler Insider” here.