How to Ask for More and Get It the Art of Creative Negotiation Thomas Kiernan
Who We Are
Words shape our worlds.
They tin can delight, inspire, provoke, comfort and unite—as do the authors, journalists and poets who wield them. At the Vancouver Writers Fest we encourage readers of all ages to explore the power of storytelling, and books, through our dozens of events with local and international writers.
Our activities include both yr-round programming and our flagship, annual literary Festival: ane of the largest and most prestigious in Due north America. Tens of thousands of readers visit the cultural hub of Granville Isle and venues around Vancouver to connect with local and international authors during this week-long event.
Throughout the year we offer costless and paid events with established and emerging authors, in improver to youth teaching opportunities.
Mission: We connect people to exceptional books, ideas and dialogue through yr-round programming that ignites a passion for words and the world around us.
Vision: A world in which the transformative ability of books and ideas is the foundation of an empathetic, inspired and merely society.
Notice out more about our programs beneath.
History of the Festival
The Festival was inaugurated in 1988 by founding Artistic Director Alma Lee. Artistic Directors have included Alma Lee, Hal Wake and Leslie Hurtig.
In its 33 year history, the Vancouver Writers Fest has presented multiple accolade-winning writers from Canada and across the world including: Zadie Smith, Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Madeleine Thien, Marlon James, Malcolm Gladwell, Roxane Gay, David Sedaris, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Esi Edugyan, Alice Munro, Salman Rushdie, Rachel Kushner, Kevin Kwan, Kate Atkinson, Ian McEwan, Thomas King, Naomi Klein, Ian Rankin, Marilynne Robinson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and more.
FAQ
When does the Festival happen?
The almanac Festival happens in the 3rd week of Oct. We as well host a range of Special Events throughout the year, and a free reading series, Incite, in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library. The 2021 Festival takes identify from October 18-24.
Are there events yr-round?
Our Incite reading serial runs twice monthly from January to June at the VPL Central Library. These events are free to the public. We also host Special Events throughout the year featuring acclaimed authors with newly released titles. The best way to hear about upcoming events is to subscribe to our gratis weekly east-newsletter, Books & Ideas, which includes information virtually upcoming events and links to interesting literary reviews and ideas.
Is the organization a registered charity?
Yes, our charitable registration number is 12260 5678 RR0001. If y'all make a cash donation to the Vancouver Writers Fest, we can issue a tax receipt. Every bit our $xl membership comes with benefits such equally discounts on tickets and at participating bookstores, that portion of your gift is not deductible.
How do I get a member?
Delight run across our Membership page for more details.
Are you hiring?
Any bachelor chore postings volition be made available in the Get Involved section. Thanks for your interest in working with us.
When is the Festival lineup announced each year?
We announce our October programme in mid-August, and the first of our Incite events in early Jan. Special Events are announced when finalized, unremarkably at to the lowest degree four weeks prior to the appointment of the event.
Where is the Festival?
The 2021 Festival is a combination of digital and in-person events taking identify on Granville Island in Vancouver.
How long are events? What are they similar?
Virtually events are approximately ninety minutes unless otherwise noted. Sometimes solo events with one author are shorter, and events with an pause are ofttimes slightly longer. Children's events are usually under ane 60 minutes. Events take many forms: readings, panel discussions, performances or interviews. All events are directed at the book-reading public.
Why aren't there more applied "hands-on" courses or workshops offered for aspiring writers?
The focus of the VWF is on connecting writers with readers through interviews, performances, panel discussions and readings. Aspiring writers may wish to check out the Federation of BC Writers or look at many workshops offered past other organizations across the Lower Mainland.
How can I buy tickets?
You can purchase tickets on this website by visiting the event page you are interested in.
Are in that location surcharges on tickets?
The ticket prices posted will include GST and a nominal processing fee. The ticket corporeality you lot see listed is the final amount y'all will pay.
Volition books be bachelor for sale? May I bring a copy of a book to be signed?
At the time of writing, book signings are not possible during COVID-19. We will review this as the pandemic abates.
You can purchase Festival books at a discount from one of our local independent bookseller partners or from the Kidsbooks Festival Bookstore during the Festival.
May I bring children to the events?
Children are welcome at our events. Our Youth events have suggested age ranges between grades K-12. Delight note there may be content just suitable for adults at other events. We ask our audition to use their ain discretion if bringing children.
What age groups are your events suitable for?
Our events are suitable for a wide range of ages, and older children volition oftentimes enjoy events for adults, depending on the nature of conversation or reading. In addition to our events for adults, nosotros too offering events for children as part of the Festival in October. The age/grade level for school groups for our daytime educational events will exist indicated in the Festival Program Guide.
What is your inclusivity policy?
Please see our About department to read our Inclusivity policy.
Are your events free?
Our in-person, Festival events are ticketed and are not free.
Pay What Yous Can pricing is available for all Fall 2021 digital events except for Book Lodge events.
The Incite reading series is free, as are numerous additional events throughout the twelvemonth. We are a registered not for profit and rely on ticket sales in add-on to generous donations.
Nosotros offer discounted tickets to students, and costless tickets to social service or community organizations that are impeded by the cost of the events. Email info[at]writersfest.bc.ca for information.
How do I volunteer?
Positions vary from year to yr, with a broad diverseness of jobs that can be done during Festival week. If yous are interested in volunteering please email kfowler@writersfest.bc.ca and our Volunteer Coordinator will contact you lot in August when we are beginning the volunteer recruitment process for the Festival.
I'one thousand not a writer, can I still get involved?
Yeah! You tin be an audience member, a Member of the Festival (discounts on Festival event tickets and earlybird ticket buying privileges), or a Volunteer. Our events are for readers—whether you are besides a writer or non.
Inclusivity and Accessibility
The Vancouver Writers Fest believes engaging with stories, authors, and ideas is an inclusive effort. Our stages polish a light on human being experiences, challenge personal perspectives, and build empathy. Thus they should be attainable to all.
During Festival Week and throughout the year in our Incite and Book Club events, VWF strives to create a welcoming and accessible space for anybody to appoint with ideas that tin can transform our world.
For more data on how to access courtesy seating, sliding scale tickets, schoolhouse subsidies, or request ASL interpretation (two weeks before event date), delight email info@writersfest.bc.ca
We strive to provide safe, inclusive, low-bulwark experiences for patrons past:
Supporting inclusion for people of varying abilities
- All venues are accessible to people using mobility aids.
- Courtesy Seating offered for anyone with mobility challenges, physical disabilities, or chronic pain.
- Hearing Support provided through ASL interpretation at select events throughout Festival Week, and on request at all alive events. Live captioning provided for digital events.
Ensuring inclusion for people of all financial capacities
- Pay-What-You-Can options at Festival events.
- Subsidized tickets for schools.
- Reduced ticket prices for seniors and young people (under 30).
- A full flavour of free events through our INCITE series in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library.
Fostering a sense of belonging and inclusion for all participants
- Gender-neutral facilities at all venues.
- Sensory sensitivity – nosotros request all patrons limit the use of heavily scented perfumes and products.
- We ensure we e'er have a real, live person to talk to (or buy tickets from) for those who don't take admission to or patience with the cyberspace.
Squad
Twelvemonth-Round Team
Leslie Hurtig
Artistic Director
Leslie was built-in into a house of books and has made her career from various points within Canada'southward book industry. She has worked for some of Canada'southward best bookstores, acted as a sales representative and publicist for some of North America'due south cracking publishers, and worked as a strange rights and contracts manager at Raincoast Books. Leslie saturday on the Board of Directors for the Vancouver Writers Fest before taking on this role as Creative Director; a role which she says is her dream chore come true.
Kaile Shilling
Executive Manager
Kaile has spent the terminal two decades working for nonprofits focused on supporting young people and the power of stories and creativity to foster modify. She graduated from Harvard University, where she focused on the role of the arts as a means of expressing and shifting social values, and has a Master of Theological Studies from Loyola Marymount Academy. She lives in Vancouver with her journalist hubby and their ii crawly little bookworms (aka kids)!
Chelsee Damen
Operations Managing director
Chelsee has a philosophy BA from VIU. She founded the Nanaimo Fringe, where she was GM 2011-16. Chelsee so covered a series of leave replacements at Vancouver Fringe 2016-17 as Director and Executive Manager, before joining the Writers Fest in 2018. Her interests include neurodiversity, resilience, resurgence, music, and the way words bridge the gap.
Zoe Grams
Marketing & Publicity Director, ZG Stories
Zoe is Main of the marketing bureau ZG Stories. Following an MA in Philosophy, Zoe began her career at a trend-marketing agency in London, Uk, before moving to Canada where she worked with some of Vancouver'south superlative PR firms, followed by D&Chiliad Publishers.
Ariel Hudnall
Marketing & Publicity Manager, ZG Stories
Ariel holds a Masters of Publishing from Simon Fraser University. She has been a traveler for most of her life, built-in in the bayous of Louisiana and raised along the declension of California, before heading east for Asia.
Lauren Dembicky-Polivka
Development Manager
Lauren initially moved to Vancouver from Toronto to complete her Master of Publishing at SFU and ended upwards staying for the ocean, mountains, and arts and crafts beer. Working at literary magazines—The New Quarterly and Geist—gave her a passion for short stories and emerging writers.
Leena Desai
Outreach Coordinator
Leena is a contempo graduate of the Master of Publishing programme at Simon Fraser Academy. She earned her caste in 2018. She has worked on magazines since 2011, with a two-year stint at Architectural Assimilate with Condé Nast India. Her piece of work experience earlier that includes several film and tv projects in her hometown of Mumbai.
Sarah Wang
Programming Coordinator
Sarah has a BA in international relations and history of art, and a graduate certificate in museum studies. Having initially worked in government research in Canada and Europe, she found herself gravitating more toward the arts, working for the Vancouver Art Gallery and serving on the Lath(s) of the Roedde House Museum, CARFAC BC, SEARA Fund and researching for museum institutions in the U.s. and South America.
Matt Ros
Operations & Admin Coordinator
Matt has a BA in Computer Science and a pocket-size in Italian Studies from Duke University. Earlier returning to his hometown here in Vancouver, he did three years of technical training in New York City, working in operations and software roles for two beginning-ups.
Joyce Wan
Marketing & Digital Production Coordinator
Joyce has a BA in English Literature from UBC, with a minor in human geography. Subsequently graduating, she taught English and worked as a freelance travel and civilisation writer for ii years in Hokkaido, Nihon. She has worked for the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture and served on the board of the Car Gratuitous Vancouver Society, overseeing the Vancouver Car Costless Day festivals, where she developed a passion for arts festivals.
Team
Our Additional,
Festival-Time Team
Kathryn Fowler
Volunteer Manager
Kathryn loves the Vancouver Writers Fest, its celebration of words, the discoveries it offers and the communities forged anew every yr. A VWF volunteer for 11 years offset in the mid-90s, she too oversaw volunteers for The Playhouse for three seasons earlier joining the festival staff in 2006.
Eduardo Ottoni
Production Manager
Passionate about arts and culture, and edifice community through live events, Eduardo has over 25 years of experience in the production manufacture. It's no secret that the Writers Fest was the showtime festival in the metropolis to hire him as a Product Manager way back in 2003, and he has worked with us ever since!
Team
Our Lath
A statement from the Board of Directors
The Vancouver Writers Fest recognizes the systemic imbalances that exist and persist in the environments we create and piece of work within. Nosotros recognize the ongoing piece of work of members of our community, who work in the face of dandy barriers to right those imbalances, and nosotros are committed to working together and in solidarity toward the goal of a more equitable and just environment for our authors, audiences, volunteers, staff, and communities. In pursuit of these goals, we commit to utilizing our resources, identifying our internal biases, and applying our varied privileges and skills with purpose. In this procedure, we commit to remaining open and accountable to our mistakes.
We remain grateful to the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people for their shared knowledge and guidance on these lands, as we attempt to move frontward in a good way, fostering a world in which the transformative ability of books and ideas is the foundation of an empathetic, inspired and merely society on these unceded territories.
The Vancouver Writers Fest strives to create a welcoming space for everyone to engage with ideas that can transform our world. Safety, inclusion and acceptance are essential components of our Festival and our values.
Alexia Jones
Chair
Alexia launched Alexia Jones Hr/LR Consulting in 2019 where she develops partnerships and collaboration between managers, union representatives, employees and other stakeholders in order to strategize successful approaches to circuitous labour relations issues and implement creative solutions to workplace problems. Alexia has worked in 60 minutes/LR in both the public and private sectors for over twenty years.
Kyla Epstein
Vice-Chair
Living on the unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and working at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) provides Kyla with opportunities to foster community through relationships built on trust, connexion, accountability and shared values.
Robert McLean
Treasurer
Every bit Vice President of Connor, Clark and Lunn Private Capital, Robert provides admission to a comprehensive range of services to aid build and protect wealth. Specializing in charitable giving strategies, he works with families, corporations and foundations to enhance their philanthropic legacy.
Holman Wang
Secretarial assistant
Holman Wang is a lawyer who also finds fourth dimension to make children's books. He and his brother, Jack, are the twin powers behind the board book series Cozy Classics and Star Wars Epic Yarns, which abridge literary and cinematic classics into just 12 words and 12 needle-felted images.
Hurriya Burney
Hurriya Burney is a full-time broker and a part-time blogger. As Vice President – Commercial Banking, at RBC, Hurriya, forth with her team, is committed to supporting the growth of small and mid-sized local businesses. Outside of piece of work, Hurriya enjoys mentoring early on-career professionals and sharing insights on leadership, careers, and diversity on her blog on Medium.com. Hurriya holds an MBA in Finance from the University of British Columbia.
Natascha Kiernan
Natascha Kiernan is an experienced independent director who currently serves on several public, private and non-profit boards. She is also the principal and founder of Bellevue Strategic Advisory, which advises clients on the negotiation and structuring of major corporate transactions.
Tracy Rogers
Tracy has been a lover of books for equally long as she can recall, happily reading anything and everything, and is thrilled to join the Vancouver Writer's Fest Board. Her love of literature propelled her to complete her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature from the University of British Columbia, but every bit a realist, Tracy knew she did not have the creative chops it takes to actually write a novel, so she turned her listen towards business organization where she has worked at the executive level in Homo Resources for the past xx plus years.
Nisha Sikka
Nisha lives on the unceded traditional territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam peoples, also known as Vancouver, BC, with her husband and two cats. Nisha is a lawyer at First Peoples Constabulary LLP, where she represents Indigenous Peoples on a variety of matters. Nisha obtained her J.D. from the Academy of Alberta and her Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) from Simon Fraser Academy.
We love our volunteers!
Volunteers are the courage of Festival Week, and nosotros're proud to have so many returning volunteers each year.
Our volunteers help with author hospitality, box office, raffle, book sales, photography, social media distension, copying, press, and Programme Guide distribution. We provide lite snacks, good cheer, and a chance to hang with some of the most exciting thinkers on the planet.
Click hither for more information about volunteering.
If you're a lensman willing to volunteer your skills, delight email our marketing squad.
Due to rapidly changing Covid health policies, we're unsure of our volunteer requirements this yr, so look lots of last-minute changes and please be patient and agreement. Returning volunteers receive scheduling priority and volition sign up for shifts first. Start Fourth dimension volunteers will be invited to register and sign up for remaining shifts as of September 16th.
For further data, please contact the Volunteer Director Kathryn Fowler at kfowler@writersfest.bc.ca.
The Festival
Our flagship Oct
Festival on Granville Island.
The highlight of our twelvemonth, our week-long Festival welcomes more than 20,000 attendees to Granville Island and thousands more from around the globe through our online streaming platforms. Featuring 100+ events at venues of all sizes, our events are highly curated, offering audiences the opportunity to heed to globe-leading writers in conversation near a range of themes.
In addition to curation by our Artistic Director, the Festival welcomes a Guest Curator and Spoken Word Curator to envision multiple events each year.
Special Events
Year-round events for historic new releases.
During our Special Events, nosotros host some of the almost celebrated names in the Canadian and international literary community. These sold-out events take place on Vancouver's premiere stages, igniting conversation and book buying, or most with a book and ticket model when social distancing is required.
Incite
Free springtime events in collaboration with Vancouver Public Library.
Our gratuitous reading series offers conversations betwixt authors every 2 weeks from January to June, presented in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library and with support from the Vancouver Downtown Business Improvement Association. Guests include emerging authors and established writers, speaking with a moderator and each other near multiple themes
Youth
Books, events and resources to spark students' imaginations.
Our Youth Education Programming (Yeah) connects students with celebrated writers from beyond the globe through a series of initiatives. These include our flagship Festival events designed specifically for young people, teachers, schools and pupil groups, in addition to our Writers in the Classroom program and Youth Writing contest. Detect more than about YEP here.
Books & Brunch
Sumptuous nutrient, views and ideas on Granville Isle.
Books & Brunch combines author conversation with a delicious brunch at Dockside Restaurant in the boutique Granville Isle Hotel. These leap and summer events regularly sell out, and have previously featured authors Shelley Wood (The Quintland Sisters), Terry Fallis (The Boundness) and Karma Brown (Recipe for a Perfect Wife).
Book Club
Our quarterly book and ticket serial with earth-renowned authors
These special events, which include a copy of the author's book and a chance to receive a signed bookplate, provide readers across Canada the opportunity to hear from some of the literary world'due south most exemplary talents in intimate Q&As and conversations.
The Book Club is presented in partnership with SFU Continuing Studies.
Whisky & Words
Our annual whisky tasting fundraiser
During weekend-long events, patrons can nourish Masterclasses, relish globe class whisky and favourite local food pairings. Our primary fundraising event has been a vital source of revenue to back up our Youth Education Program, connecting over vii,000 BC kids to celebrated writers, empowering them to see the bear on of books and words on enhancing our community.
Visit whiskywords.ca for more information.
My Roots
A writing workshop for new immigrants to explore their craft
Our almanac, two-mean solar day writing workshop encourages immigrants to develop and share their stories of place, as mentored by an laurels-winning writer and instructor. Through a mix of writing exercises and easy lessons on how to write well, the workshop encouraged writers at all levels to call up imaginatively virtually those places and landscapes called 'home'.
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