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Connecting people to exceptional books, ideas, and dialogue. 📚 Special Events Year-Round 💡 Books & Ideas series January–June 📖 2026 Festival Oct 18–25
@writersfest.bc.caAndrew Westoll - Born to be Wild: Reckoning with the Zoo in the Age of Extinction Iona Whishaw - A False and Fatal Claim Sam Wiebe - Guns Across the River Damien Wilkins - Delirious
@writersfest.bc.caEmily Varga - The River She Became Kawai Strong Washburn - The Names of the New World Jesse Wente - Tough Lies: Indigenous Belonging and My Healing Through Golf Dan Werb - Our Wild Familiars: How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World
@writersfest.bc.caGet excited! These authors join us very soon at #VWF2026, from October 18–25.
@writersfest.bc.caIn Tell Others: Storytelling for a World in Turmoil, Kim Echlin explores how literature offers solace, thwarts censorship, and incites meaningful acts of resistance against the darknesses of our world. She speaks with Aislinn Hunter at #VWF2026.
@writersfest.bc.ca‼️ Previously sold out – tickets available now!
Hear dynamic spoken word performances from Brandon Wint, fanny kearse, and Ayda Niknami, with host Jillian Christmas.
October 20
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October 22 at 1:00pm
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@writersfest.bc.caFiction wields the power to critique or disseminate political ideas, thus bending the course of history. Jordy Rosenberg, Lisa Robertson, and Geoffrey D. Morrison join us at #VWF2026 with novels that do just that. Moderated by David Moscrop.
@writersfest.bc.ca42. David Szalay: Flesh 🏅 David Szalay’s Flesh won the 2025 Booker Prize. He speaks with Alix Ohlin. 🗓️ October 22 at 5:30 PM
@writersfest.bc.ca65. An Evening with the Scots: Douglas Stuart and Damian Barr 🏅 Enjoy an evening in the company of two of Scotland’s most renowned writers! Douglas Stuart’s John of John is shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize. Damian Barr’s debut novel was shortlisted for six major awards. 🗓️ Oct 23 at 7:00 PM
@writersfest.bc.ca81. Edwidge Danticat in Conversation 🏅Edwidge Danticat’s Dèy is shortlisted for the 2026 National Book Award. The renowned author will be interviewed by Eleanor Wachtel. 🗓️ October 24 at 8:00 PM
@writersfest.bc.ca82. The Responsibility of War 🏅The Small Ones by Nazanine Hozar is shortlisted for the 2026 Giller Prize. She joins Jamaluddin Aram and Sally Hayden to discuss the horrors and violence of war, and our collective responsibility to humanity. 🗓️ October 24 at 8:00 PM
@writersfest.bc.ca79. Beauty and Terror: Kevin Hardcastle and Zak Jones in Conversation 🏅Fancy Gap by Zak Jones is shortlisted for the 2026 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Kevin Hardcastle’s work has won the Trillium Book Award and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction. 🗓️ October 24 at 5:00 PM
@writersfest.bc.caLiterary award season is in full swing. 🏆 While every #VWF2026 author is a winner in our hearts, we’re thrilled to welcome a number of major award-winning and nominated fiction authors to the Festival, including (but not limited to!) these offerings. 🧵
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@writersfest.bc.caYasuko Thanh - Pizza Before We Die: An Eyewitness Account in Gaza @razorfemme - The Shapeshifter's Guide to Gym Class David Treuer - The Savage Mind: An Indigenous Legacy John Vaillant - Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, The Golden Spruce, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
@writersfest.bc.caChanel Sutherland - Layaway Child David Szalay - Flesh Ece Temelkuran - Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century Elle Tesch - The Hanging Bones
@writersfest.bc.caMeet more authors in the #VWF2026 line-up, including this year's guest curator, John Vaillant!
@writersfest.bc.caElite Canadian athlete Clara Hughes is the only person in history to have won multiple medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. She shares her story with Joanna Cheek at #VWF2026. Presented in partnership with Simon & Schuster Canada.
October 25
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@writersfest.bc.caCanada is under siege from the intertwined threats of climate change ravaging the land, and foreign interference undermining our democracy. Hear from L.E. Fox, Katłı̨̀ą, and Patrick Lennox on the survival of the north. Moderated by David Moscrop.
October 25
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@writersfest.bc.caThese mesmerizing novels will root themselves in your psyche, and linger for a long time to come. Take a trip to the thresholds of reality with Angélique Lalonde and Portia Elan, with moderator Michelle Cyca.
October 23 at 10:00 AM
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@pancouver.bsky.socialReposted by @writersfest.bc.ca“The Book Is Not Dying”: Vancouver Writers Fest artistic director Leslie Hurtig on reading in a distracted age. This years festival runs from Oct. 18 to 25 at Granville Island. @writersfest.bc.ca @pancouver.bsky.social @lesliehurtig.bsky.social pancouver.ca/the-book-is-...
@writersfest.bc.caJason Stanley - Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future Robin Stevenson - The Book of Jupiter Douglas Stuart - John of John
