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08. Graphic Novel Masterclass with Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our we
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11. Up Next: Debuts to Watch We take great joy in spotlighting debut authors at the Festival; they get to introduce their remarkable work to an enthusiastic and well-read audience, and you get the opportunity to meet them in a more intimate venue, before their inevitable rise to fame. These three au
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16. Arizona O'Neill: Opioids and Organs It’s 2015, and Montreal author-illustrator Arizona O’Neill grieves at the hospital bed of her father, a man she hardly knew, brain dead after a fentanyl overdose. Doctors encourage her to act quickly to recast him as a hero by way of organ donations. Distraugh
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20. Storytime with Friends This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Little ones will delight in
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24. Jackie Morris: The Art of The Book of Birds Jackie Morris’s gorgeous, nature-inspired artwork has captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages, and is held by multiple public art collections. She is also a great lover of birds, and this love is palpable on every page of Th
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32. UBC Night Class This returning event is a perennial favourite of writers aspiring, emerging, and established! Night Class is an interactive workshop offering writing tips and prompts across various genres, from instructors at UBC’s renowned School of Creative Writing. Learn key writing skills in
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28. Chantel Acevedo: Spotlight on Cuba Chantel Acevedo has “written the impossible: an Odyssey for the Cuban 20th century” (Junot Diaz). Born in Miami to Cuban parents, Acevedo is the award-winning author of multiple books; Cages is her most personal and heartfelt yet. Over a thirty-year arc, Cages
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36. Turi King: The Secrets of our DNA This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Professor Turi K
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40. Masterclass with Monique Gray Smith This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. When Charlie’s
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44. Kawai Strong Washburn in Conversation Kawai Strong Washburn’s debut novel, Sharks in the Time of Saviors, made him an instant literary phenomenon; it won the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award, was longlisted for the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize, and was selected as one of the year’s top books by
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48. Yasuko Thanh: An Eyewitness Account in Gaza In the midst of the genocide in Gaza, ordinary Palestinian citizen Hassan Kanafani began posting about his daily experiences on Reddit. Three activists, moved by his words, collected his posts—which made their way to award-winning author Yasuko Thanh,
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53. Do It Wrong: Poetry Masterclass with Derek Beaulieu In this radically liberating masterclass, Derek Beaulieu will hand poets, students, and educators a permission slip to take a path others reject, do the counter-intuitive thing, and embrace the weird. Beaulieu is the Director of Literary Arts a
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58. Monique Gray Smith: Sharing the Light Award-winning author Monique Gray Smith’s books resonate with readers of all generations and backgrounds. In Sharing the Light, she weaves together short stories, poignant reflections, and thoughtful questions that invite readers to pause and reconnect with
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62. Liz Nugent in Conversation Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre, and television. We’re lucky she turned her efforts to writing perfect jewels of crime fiction, like Skin Deep, Our Little Cruelties, and Strange Sally Diamond. Her #1 bestselling books have won her
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Anakana Schofield: Library of Brothel Embark on a literary journey like nothing before in Anakana Schofield’s Library of Brothel. In a class with Beckett, Joyce, and O’Brien (The Guardian), Schofield’s absurdist creation is a cri de coeur for human connection and the right to meaningful work, told
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71. Poets in Conversation Join an exhilarating conversation about craft, language, and meaning as three renowned Canadian poets sit down for a wide-ranging conversation about the art of verse. Canisia Lubrin guided many memorable conversations as our 2025 Guest Curator; the Carol Shields Prize for F
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75. Blending Genres Each of these authors combine the unexpected—either writing in many genres across works, or blending multiple genres in one book. The result, in every case, is a work as fascinating for its form as its story. Bestselling author Camilla Gibb’s debut poetry collection, I Used to Be
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78. Sarah Ellis in Conversation Sarah Ellis's wife had been toughing it out with multiple sclerosis for more than a decade when she finally received a date for a medically assisted death in Switzerland. In My Year in Fairyland, Ellis, a celebrated children's book author, shares an unforgettable memo
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82. The Responsibility of War These authors have been touched by war, and their works refuse to look away from the horrors and violence that are devastating territories around the globe. In the midst of deep suffering, there is also unassailable humanity, resistance, and hope; the authors come toget
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86. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim: My Friend Kim Jong-Un On an island located an hour from Seoul, North Korea sits visible from cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s home and studio. The spectre of the infamous dictatorship looms over daily life. In My Friend Kim Jong-Un, the Harvey Award-winning Korean graphic no
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90. Women's Voices from Europe Here is a rare opportunity to hear from three influential, contemporary European writers, all on one Vancouver stage. Award-winning Estonian writer and poet Carolina Pihelgas shares her first work to be translated into English; The Cut Line follows a woman who flees to