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Vancouver Writers Fest
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Connecting people to exceptional books, ideas, and dialogue.
📚 Special Events Year-Round
🖥️ Digital Festival Dec 16–Feb 2
📖 2026 Festival Oct 19–25
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The Digital Festival is live NOW! For a limited time, watch highlights from #VWF2025 online.

Featuring 26 full-length events, the Digital Festival offers hours of entertainment and inspiration.

🎟️ Sliding scale pricing. Get your pass at writersfest.bc.ca
2025 Vancouver Writers Fest Digital Festival — Trailer
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As we reflect on another spectacular year, we’re filled with gratitude for the community that shows up again and again to participate in the invaluable exchange of ideas.

From all of us at the Vancouver Writers Fest, we wish you a bright and merry holiday season! 🎄🎁🕯️ 🕎
December 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Uh oh! It’s Christmas Eve, and you’ve left a book-loving friend off your gift list. Purchase a pass for the VWF Digital Festival and you can deliver it instantly, granting your gift recipient access to 26 full-length literary events.

🎁 writersfest.bc.ca/event/digital-festival-2025
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Last minute gift idea for book/film lovers! Get thee with haste to a bookstore and pick up a copy of John Candy: A Life in Comedy, to pair with tickets to our upcoming January 21 event with author Paul Myers in conversation with Charlie Demers.

🎟️ Tickets: writersfest.bc.ca/event/paul-m...
December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Books & Ideas returns to Granville Island in the new year with headliner cultural icons. Paul Myers join us with John Candy: A Life in Comedy, in conversation with Charlie Demers.

Jan 21 at the Revue Stage on Granville Island.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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In @quillandquire.bsky.social, Canada’s book community—including VWF Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig, among other members of our local community—shares some of their favourite titles from 2025.

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Canada’s book community shares some of their favourite titles from 2025 - Quill and Quire
The Q&Q team reached out to reviewers, editors, authors, booksellers, and others in the publishing industry from across the country to find out which 2025 titles they’re still thinking about as the ye...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Some memories from our sold out event with Margaret Atwood, last week at the Orpheum. How lucky we were to end the year in her witty, luminous company.

Were you in the audience for this momentous occasion?

📸 Photos: Dillon Byrne
December 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The Digital Festival is live NOW! For a limited time, watch highlights from #VWF2025 online.

Featuring 26 full-length events, the Digital Festival offers hours of entertainment and inspiration.

🎟️ Sliding scale pricing. Get your pass at writersfest.bc.ca
2025 Vancouver Writers Fest Digital Festival — Trailer
YouTube video by VancouverWritersFest
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December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Hear Canadian authors Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mona Awad, and Jen Sookfong Lee’s fascinating and subversive conversation with Mattea Roach at #VWF2025, available now on CBC’s Bookends.
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3 Canadian authors on the power of depicting the female experience through horror | CBC Books Bookends
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mona Awad and Jen Sookfong Lee joined Mattea Roach at the Vancouver Writers Fest.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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@margaretatwood.bsky.social packed out Vancouver's Orpheum and was just so witty in conversation with @caroloff.bsky.social at the @writersfest.bc.ca last night.
Margaret Atwood waving on stage
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Fantastic night at @writersfest.bc.ca, watching @margaretatwood.bsky.social teach @caroloff.bsky.social how to be a windmill 😄
Margaret Atwood being interviewed on stage by Carol Off Margaret Atwood showing Carol Off how to be a windmill
December 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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A remarkable and memorable @writersfest.bc.ca evening, featuring @margaretatwood.bsky.social in a lively conversation with @caroloff.bsky.social - it's an evening that I'll remember forever. I can't wait to read her book and learn more about her life 📚
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Presenting the VWF Digital Festival lineup—including many events that were sold out at #VWF2025! 📚 From December 16, 2025 to February 2, 2026, watch 26 full-length events online, from anywhere in the world.

View the full details and get your pass:
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December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Significant cuts to public arts funding are affecting organizations across the country, including the Vancouver Writers Fest.

Support the stories that make us who we are. Please consider making a one-time or monthly donation this Giving Tuesday.

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December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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📣 Just announced! Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders joins us in Vancouver with his anticipated new novel, Vigil.

🗓️ Friday, February 6 at 7:30 PM
📍 St. Andrew's Wesley United Church

Tickets:
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December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Congratulations to #VWF2025 author @vincebeiser.bsky.social who has won the Writers' Trust of Canada Balsillie Prize for Public Policy for his book, Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future.
Book on the future of metal extraction wins $70K Canadian prize for public policy writing | CBC Books
Vancouver writer Vince Beiser's Power Metal is the 2025 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy winner.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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🖥️ Passes are on sale now for the Digital Festival! Get front-row, online access to the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest. 📚✨ Sliding scale pricing; visit our website to view all the details and get your pass.

Watch on your own schedule from anywhere, Dec 16 – Feb 2.

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2025 Digital Festival | Vancouver Writers Fest
Presented in partnership with BCIT School of Business + Media and Libro.fm, and with the generous support of Hotfusion Communications Inc. Sliding scale pricing — purchase your pass here starting…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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A huge congratulations to previous VWF guest Omar El Akkad, who has won the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his work, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
Canadian author Omar El Akkad's debut nonfiction work wins U.S. National Book Award | CBC Books
Akkad's powerful memoir won the U.S.-based award. The annual literary award program celebrates and honours authors for books published in the United States roughly during the award year.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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It’s been a phenomenal fall/winter Special Event season at the VWF. R. F. Kuang enchanted us with Katabasis; Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein transformed us with their conversation about Roy’s memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me; and Chris Hadfield took us on a journey to the stars in Final Orbit.
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Congratulations to Souvankham Thammavongsa, winner of the 2025 Giller Prize for her novel, Pick a Colour. This is Souvankham’s second time winning the prize. We were thrilled to hear her speak at #VWF2025 last month.

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Souvankham Thammavongsa wins the $100K Giller Prize for novel Pick a Colour | CBC
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November 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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It was a pleasure to chat with @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social about his new thriller Final Orbit at a sold-out event hosted by the Vancouver @writersfest.bc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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A fantastic @writersfest.bc.ca event tonight featuring @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social in conversation with Andre Picard. I can't wait to read Final Orbit..... will I still be reading at 3 am?
😄🚀📚
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of author, activist, and Disability Visibility Project founder Alice Wong. Her writing and steadfast advocacy changed so many lives.
thrasherxy.bsky.social Dr. Thrasher wants you to pre-order The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Nov 15
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Began in 2022 and an annual tradition ever since, Lyrics Night has quickly become a fan-favourite and author-favourite Vancouver Writers Fest event.

If you missed out or want to relive the magic, check out the 2025 VWF Lyrics Night Playlist on YouTube!
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November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 Writers' Trust Prizes! @writerstrust.bsky.social 🎉

We were thrilled to host Maria Reva—winner of the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize for fiction, for Endling—at the Vancouver Writers Fest last month.

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November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Congratulations to Cathryn D, the winner of the #VWF2025 50/50 Raffle! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who purchased a ticket in support of the Vancouver Writers Fest.
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM