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05. Coming of Age 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. Becoming yourself isn’t easy, no mat
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09. Mark Medley on Pursuing Impossible Goals In Live to See the Day, journalist Mark Medley sets out to find people who have devoted their lives to dreams they know have little chance of coming true. Interviewing more than 250 people, Medley immersed himself in a question many have reckoned with: ho
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12. Ayad Akhtar: The Radiance Ayad Akhtar’s previous book, Homeland Elegies, was one of Barack Obama’s favourite books of the year, and included in best of lists from The New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. This daring new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer continues hi
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17. Canary in a Coal Mine There are 3 billion fewer birds in North America than a half century ago. Worldwide, almost 50% of bird species are in decline. The ones who remain are still trying to warn us of impending danger—we would be wise to listen before it’s too late, as these three authors detail
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21. Us Against the World 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. These gorgeously written new
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25. We Are Connected 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. What makes you feel connected? Wh
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29. Housing Inc. with Leilani Farha In Vancouver, in Canada, and across the globe, housing has become a crisis of humanity—one engineered by dictators, presidents, and prime ministers, and perfected by the financial firms that turn homes into sites of extraction. This year’s Massey Lectures will be
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33. The World We Long For with Vivek Shraya and Kai Cheng Thom Join two of Canada’s most beloved trans authors as they celebrate the release of two works of fiction exploring dystopian and utopian worlds that are frightening, fantastical, and not so far away from the world we live in today: Vivek Sh
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37. Masterclass with Faith Erin Hicks 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. Writer and artis
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41. So the Story Goes Short stories are one of our favourite forms of storytelling at the Festival, and the authors of these three exceptional collections have gifted us with a bounty of astonishing worlds, multifaceted characters, and profound insights to fill our hearts and our shelves. The clever
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45. Crime Time Conversations Discover some of the most anticipated mystery, suspense, and crime novels of the season, as three authors take the stage to introduce their books in conversation with Marian Botsford Fraser. Lower City is a bold debut from Alex Spring AKA Jared Bland, blending a high-sta
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50. A Haunting of Novels The pages of these engrossing new novels are haunted by the ghosts we’ve long known, along with the ones born out of our current techno-capitalist age. The jump scares here come from isolation, guilt, technology, corporate bureaucracy, and the corpse of one reanimated execut
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54. Storytelling from the Edge of Reality Taking place in the liminal spaces between reality, fantasy, and dreams, these mesmerizing novels will root themselves in your psyche, and linger for a long time to come. An unraveling couple are sucked into a maze of duplicate selves when they stumble on a
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59. Sally Hayden: This Is Also a Love Story Celebrated foreign correspondent Sally Hayden has spent her career on the frontlines—with headlines in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and other outlets across the world—uncovering some of the darkest crises of our time.
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67. The Politics of Fiction Fiction wields a uniquely compelling power to critique or disseminate political ideas, and in doing so, bend the course of history. Whether they examine a lost history of labour buried underneath Paris, a rent-controlled apartment in modern-day Manhattan, or a proletarian
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72. David Treuer in Conversation Growing up on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota, bestselling author David Treuer inherited two often opposing views of America. His mother, the first American Indigenous woman judge in the country, grew up facing poverty and violence perpetuated by racist insti
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79. Beauty and Terror: Kevin Hardcastle and Zak Jones in Conversation These acclaimed, must-read new novels immerse readers in searing family dramas set in rural North American communities. With unforgettable storylines and breathtaking prose, they illuminate heartwrenching generational inheritances
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83. Kliph Nesteroff: Sorry, We're Funny “You can hardly move about Hollywood and Manhattan without bumping into Canadians," wrote Variety in the 1960s. Scores of talented Canadian comics had already infiltrated American writers’ rooms and studios, while dreaming of a comedy scene they could call the
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87. The Conversations This popular returning event is like witnessing a live recording of your favourite literary podcast—no headphones required. Moderator Marsha Lederman conducts back-to-back interviews with the authors of some of the most talked about novels of the season. Sharon Bala, the bestse
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91. Best of BC Mysteries From the waters of False Creek to seemingly idyllic rural towns, these page-turners from lauded local crime writers delve into chilling or charming mysteries based right here in British Columbia. Guns Across the River, the gritty sixth novel in Sam Wiebe’s renowned Wakeland
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76. The Dating Game: Romance Novel Edition Looking for a hot new romance novel to sweep you off your feet? We’ve got four irresistible suitors for you! Inspired by dating game shows of yore, this panel puts romance authors in the hot seat to help you find your next match. Bal Khabra explores an unex