VWF 2015 Program Guide

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F ro m t h e Art i st ic Directo r & BOARD CH AIR 3Welcome to the Vancouver Writers Fest on Granville Island Contents Every year, planning the Festival is like embarking on a voyage of About Us 6 discovery. The truth is there are more great authors and more fine writing out there than any of us can possibly stay on top of. I confess I had only Festival Authors 7 heard of Jeff VanderMeer (winner of the most recent Nebula Award amongst a host of other honours), but through him we plunged into the Venues & Parking 8 world of weird fiction, which led to other interesting writers and the creation of two events at the Festival. In planning an event to launch How to Buy Tickets 9 Freeman's, our friend John Freeman (former editor of Granta) absolutely raved about a young writer named Laura van den Berg, a name that was Our Supporters 10, 14-16new to me. We are delighted to bring this brilliant new voice to the Festival. The writing ofDavid Constantine from the UK seems to be a revelation to just about everyone on this side Join Us! Become a Member 11of the Atlantic. Mysteriously, not until this year's publication with Biblioasis had his workappeared in North America. Now we have a chance to read and hear from one of the finest The Festival Experience 13short story writers alive. So regardless of your familiarity with some of the names at this year'sFestival, check them out. Take a chance on an event where you haven't read or even heard of Festival Bookstore 13any of the authors. I guarantee you will discover writers whose work you will be reading withgreat pleasure for many years to come. Support the Festival 14 Hal Wake, Artistic Director In Memoriam 16 The Writers Fest is a core offering in Vancouver’s cultural life. We bring Spreading the Word 17 readers and writers of all ages together for must-see events that help us reimagine our lives and our worlds. Great writers from Canada and from La Joie de lire 17 around the world tell us their experiences here are unique. Audiences love the intimate, informal atmosphere and unparalleled conversations Events By Genre 19 about books. Festival at a Glance 32–33 Our members provide the solid foundation on which we are building a national and international reputation for outstanding quality and Author Biographies 46-61community impact. Members enjoy sneak previews of festival events and first crack at orderingtickets. I invite you to become a member and enjoy the many benefits on offer. Ev e n t s s c he dul e 20–22 24–27Individual donors are critical to the Writers Fest’s success, transforming our artistic team’s Tuesday, October 20 28–31vision into your lived experience. Help us bring that experience to new and diverse audiences Wednesday, October 21 36–38by becoming a donor yourself. Thursday, October 22 40–42 Friday, October 23 44–45In June, we bid farewell to our Executive Director Camilla Tibbs, who served the Writers Saturday, October 24 Fest skillfully, loyally, and passionately for seven years. We also welcomed our new Executive Sunday, October 25 Director, Nicole Nozick, who brings us a rich education, many leadership experiences, andgreat energy. Ho w t o C hoo s e a n Ev e n t Sandra Jakab, Board Chair By Author: Each author bio lists (by number) events in which that author is appearing. By Genre: In the Event by Genre section (pg. 19), Festival events have been categorized under 15 popular genres. To locate a venue: refer to the map on page 8. If you have any questions, give us a call at 604.681.6330, or check our website at writersfest.bc.ca for updated Festival information. /VanWritersFest @vancouverwritersfest @VanWritersFest #VWF15

4 An engaged audience at the 2014 Festival. All Photos by Chris Cameron

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie \" There has never been aat the 2006 Festival. year where I haven’t learned something new. The VWF energizes my thoughts and my own writing. — 2014 audience memberChecking out the program An audience member asks aguide during the 2009 Festival. question during the 2014 Festival.

6 About Us PHOTO: J.HALLE Founder and LEFT TO RIGHT: Kathryn Fowler, Nicole Nozick, Sandra Millard, Hal Wake, Arielle Spence, Judith Walker, Clea Young, Ann McDonell Lifetime Member MISSING: Ilona Beiks, Anne Guagliardo, Michelle Harrison, James Tyler Irvine, Eduardo Ottoni, Carolina Sartor, Katja Schlueter, Heideh White Alma Lee Staff Program Guide Board of Directors Artistic Director: Hal Wake Editors: Ann McDonell & Arielle Spence Executive Director: Nicole Nozick Festival Design: Hangar 18 Creative Group Chair: Director of Marketing & Development: Ann McDonell COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: Albert Normandin Artistic Associate: Clea Young Proofreading: Courtesy of members of the Sandra Jakab Administrator: Sandra Millard Editors’ Association of Canada, BC Branch: Development & Marketing Assistant: Arielle Spence Nancy Tinari (editorial co-ordinator), Vice-Chair: Bookkeeping Services: Office Alternatives Viktoria Cseh, Karen Barry, Dee Noble, Advertising Sales: Jocelyn Wagner Juliann Krushen, Anastasia Koutalianos, Leslie Hurtig Education Co-ordinator: Ilona Beiks Christine Rowlands, Meagan Kus Programmer, La joie de lire: Anne Guagliardo Secretary: Catering Co-ordinator: Carolina Sartor Eco Audit Food & Beverage Co-ordinator: Heideh White Shirley Lew Media Relations Manager: Judith Walker This program guide is printed by Mitchell Office Intern: Cristina Melo Press on recycled paper made with 30% Treasurer: Production Manager: Eduardo Ottoni post-consumer waste, and bleached without Production Co-ordinator: Katja Schlueter the use of chlorine or chlorine compounds, Yaseen Al-Salam Operations Co-ordinator: Leanne Zacharias resulting in measurable environmental Volunteer Manager: Kathryn Fowler benefits and the following savings: Members: Assistant TO THE VOLUNTEER MANAGER: Michelle Harrison ·· 38 trees Website Design: Malcolm van Delst ·· 60,923 liters of water Alison Broddle ·· 16 million BTUs of electricity Jonathan Burke ·· Carbon credit: 1,346 kilograms Sandi Case Jane Estey Source: Paper Task Force Ian Gill Sally Harding Harvey McKinnon Shannon Taylor Paul Whitney A Dram Come True Committee Chair: Kim Thorne Members: Mark French Alison Hart Curt Hubert Frank Leffelaar Dave Mason Shannon TaylorWe would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the 300+ dedicated volunteers who contribute so much to the Festival each year.

Festival Authors 7Jordan Abel Paula Hawkins Sigal Samuel ALLITERASIANSamuel Archibald Elizabeth Hay Anakana SchofieldShauna Singh Baldwin Steven Hayward Owen Sheers Twenty Years of Ricepaper MagazineSara Blaedel Robert Heidbreder Lori ShenherÉdith Bourget Lawrence Hill Jim Shepard A wide-ranging anthologyGeorge Bowering Tony Hoagland Åsne Sierstad marking the twentiethDavid R. Boyd Greg Hollingshead Yrsa Sigurðardóttir anniversary of Ricepaper, theBrian Brett June Hutton Bill Slavin pioneering periodical devotedCarellin Brooks Marlon James Neil Smith to Asian-Canadian writing.Nicole Brossard Susan Juby Michael V. SmithSteve Burrows Hannah Kent Karen Solie Come celebrate AlliterAsianGiuseppe Catozzella Wab Kinew Bradley Somer and Ricepaper at a VWF eventMichel Chikwanine Irina Kovalyova Jordan Stratford featuring Ann Marie Fleming,Jillian Christmas Tanya Lloyd Kyi Rich Terfry Evelyn Lau, Yasuko Thanh, FredJohn Colapinto Patti LaBoucane- Russell Thornton Wah and Rita Wong.Trevor Cole Sara TilleyDavid Constantine Benson Steve Toltz arsenal pulp press arsenalpulp.comLorna Crozier JonArno Lawson John VaillantCraig Davidson Catherine Lepage Laura van den BergTJ Dawe Tracey Lindberg Jeff VanderMeerElisabeth de Mariaffi Kelly Link Leslie VryenhoekCharles Demers Elaine Lui Sheryda WarrenerPatrick deWitt Ian McAllister Mélanie WattFarzana Doctor Joan McEwen Robert WiersemaMarilyn Dumont Paige McKenzie Damien WilkinsSarah Dunant Denise Mina Simon WinchesterMarina Endicott Lucia Misch Sarah WinmanJohn Freeman Michelle Mulder Ronald WrightAlejandro Frid Viet Thanh Nguyen Rachel WyattDaniel Galera Barbara Nickel Gene Luen YangRoxane Gay Susin Nielsen Paul YeeKallie George Kenneth Oppel Cybèle YoungUlrikka S. Gernes Susan PhilpottCamilla Gibb Anna PorterShilpi Somaya Gowda Beth PowningLauren Groff Sabrina RamnananDarren Groth Nino RicciStella Harvey Bill Richardson Paul Roux

8 V e n u es & Par k ing GSRTRANEEVTILLE BRIDGEMap Legend FALSE PUBLIC MARKET COURTYARD CREEK 1 Granville Island SQTURAIARNEGLE TAXI STAND BROKER’S BAY JOHNSTON STREET Public Market FISH E R M AN M A DURANLEAU STREET OLD BRIDGE STREET RAILSPUR DISTRICT RAILSPUR PARK RON BASFORD PARK 2 Granville Island Stage RITI M CARTWRIGHT STREET ALDER BAY FOR ESHORE WALK BOATLIFT LANE 1585 Johnston Street MAST TOWER ROADE ANDERSON STREET MARITIME MEWS 3 Improv Centre WME A K 1502 Duranleau Street R ATERPARK 4 Waterfront Theatre T SUTCLIFFE PARK 1412 Cartwright Street ’S W H A R F 5 Vancouver Writers Fest Box Office, Main Floor, Festival House, 1398 Cartwright Street 6 Studio 1398, 3rd Floor, Festival House 1398 Cartwright Street 7 Performance Works 1218 Cartwright Street 8 Festival Bookstore Rear of Performance Works 1218 Cartwright Street 9 Granville Island Hotel 1253 Johnston Street #D5O0WBNUTSOTWON VANCOUVER LAMEY’S MILL ROAD BUS STOP GRANVILLE STREET 2ND AVENUE BRIDGE #S5K0YTBRUASINTOSTOALTYIMONPIC TOUR BUS STOP BUS STOPOff Site Venues Parking InformationSt. Andrew’s-Wesley Free daytime parking in most spots on Granville Island is limited to three hours between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm.United Church Read the signs carefully: some spots are for one hour only, and many have recently changed to 20 minutes.1012 Nelson Street Granville Island pay parking garages and lots charge: $3.50 hourly or $15 daily.The Vancouver Playhouse600 Hamilton Street Parking is free and unlimited in most spots (including the pay parking garages and lots) each evening from 7:00 pm until 7:00 am.The Beaumont StudioArtist Society The EasyPark lot just east of the entrance to Granville Island, at 990 Lamey’s Mill Road, offers all-day parking316 5th Avenue West for $9, or $1.50 hourly. There is also parking on the north side of False Creek. Consider leaving your car there and coming across on False Creek Ferries or the Aquabus.

How to Buy Tickets 912015_Kidsbooks ad_concept.ai Advance Ticket Sales Door Sales (day of event only) September 1, 2015: Advance ticket sales for The box office at venues will open 45 minutes Vancouver Writers Fest members only. before the start of each event. Cash, MasterCard September 8, 2015: General public ticket sales. and Visa are accepted. Call 604.681.6330 for ticket availability information, or check online at Tickets can be purchased online, by phone or writersfest.bc.ca. Note that many events sell out in person. All prices include GST. Mastercard, in advance. Visa and cash (in person) accepted. School Group Tickets Online: vancouvertix.com By phone: 604.629.8849 School group tickets go on sale Monday, In person: The Festival box office is located on the main floor of Festival House, 1398 Cartwright September 14, 2015. Please visit our website at Street, Granville Island. writersfest.bc.ca for details. Box Office Hours General Information Monday to Friday: 10:00 am−4:00 pm • Discount of $2 offered to seniors and students Saturdays: (from September 12): noon−4:00 pm. who present valid ID, people on fixed incomes Closed holidays. and the unemployed. VancouverTix surcharges are applied to all • Discount of $2 offered to Festival members who C tickets purchased online or by phone. The Festival box office charges a $1 surcharge per purchase advance tickets at the Festival box M ticket and is open for in-person sales only. office. Please present your membership card. Y Advance ticket sales end at 4:00 pm on the day • Programming is subject to change without before the event. notice. Refunds will be provided only when an CM Public Transit event is cancelled. MY TransLink Schedule Information • Latecomers may not be seated. 604.953.3333 between 6:30 am and 11:30 pm • As a courtesy to other patrons, no babies or CY translink.ca small children at adult Festival events. CMY Ferries • No flash photography or audio or video K Ferries travel from various locations along recording please. the north and south shores of False Creek to Granville Island at frequent intervals. Please check tickets carefully. There will be no exchanges or refunds. False Creek Ferries 604.684.7781 All Festival venues are wheelchair granvilleislandferries.bc.ca accessible. please reserve in advance by calling 604.681.6330 EXT 107. Aquabus 604.689.5858 theaquabus.com

10 Thanks to Our SupportersTitle Support Festival Sponsors BestsellerGovernment Support limited editionWe acknowledge the financial support DESIGN SPONSORs Albert MEDIA SPONSORSof the Government of Canada through Normandinthe Department of Canadian Heritage. PhotographyNous reconnaissons l’appui financier dugouvernement du Canada pas l’entremisedu ministère du Patrimoine canadien. Spreading the Word Sponsor limited edition SPECIAL EVENT SPONSOR IN-KIND SPONSORS INCITE SERIES SPONSORS

Join Us! 11Writers Fest Membership: What’s in it for you?Get the Festival Program Guide Delivered.We’ll mail the Festival program guide to you, so you’ll be sure to knowwhen Festival details are announced.Buy Festival Tickets First.Members can purchase tickets before the general public.* This is the bestway to ensure you get tickets for those must-see, sell-out events.Save Money.Members get a $2 discount on each Festival ticket* and enjoy a 10%discount on purchases at several affiliated local bookstores. We also offerdiscounted memberships for book clubs.Stay Connected.Members are invited to our exclusive annual preview event in the earlysummer.Support the Festival.Members play an important role in helping us present events for adultsand outreach programs for elementary and secondary school students.How do you sign up?• Annual Membership: $35• Two-year Membership: $60• Book Club Membership: $20 per person per year (minimum of five book club members; please call for details)Sign up online at writersfest.bc.ca, or call 604.681.6330 ext 0.Sign up your book club and get great benefits!Join our current Book Club Members:Babes Bookclub MHT The Lunars Book ClubBelle's Book ClubBook Bags Book Club Richmond University The Vintage ReadersCanada House Reads Women's Book ClubColophon Book Club We Eat Books For DinnerCook Book Club Serious Reader's Book Book ClubEast Side Story Bookclub Club The Faking It Book Club The Happy BookersWhat’s in it for us?Membership fees provide vital support to the Vancouver Writers Fest andhelp us continue to present great writers and valuable education programs.It’s also a demonstration to our public and corporate funders that we havecommunity support.*Limit of two tickets per member per event.

12 Ann-Marie MacDonald signs book at the 2014 Festival All Photos by Chris CameronA teen asks a question at the 2013 Festival. Poetic License performs at The Literary Cabaret

The Festival Experience 13 Explore a World of Books and Ideas on Granville Island The Vancouver Writers Fest on Granville Island offers a world of books and ideas to explore for readers of all inclinations. Join us for a wide range of readings, discussions, debates and performances—and meet an eclectic array of writers from Canada and around the world. Festival events will get you thinking, introduce you to new authors and, if your aspiration is to write, inspire your creativity. Festival events are just part of what’s on offer. We are proud to be part of the vibrant Granville Island community, and our location adds so much to our audience’s enjoyment of the Festival. Granville Island is truly a cultural oasis in the heart of Vancouver. Along with the wonderful Public Market, restaurants and cafés, there are many hidden shops, galleries and artists’ studios to discover, and the ferries are the ultimate way to get here. Experience the excitement that permeates Granville Island during the six days of the Festival—enjoy! Granville Island is managed on behalf of the Government of Canada by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The Vancouver Writers Fest is a proud cultural partner of CMHC Granville Island. Festival Bookstore The Festival Bookstore is conveniently located at the rear of Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright Street, near the Granville Island Hotel at the east end of Granville Island. Books are also sold at the venues following each event, and all featured writers are available to sign their works. The bookstore’s stock of current and backlisted titles by each Festival author makes it the ideal place to browse between events. The bookstore is operated by the Festival's official bookseller, Kidsbooks, a successful independent bookseller known throughout the province for its comprehensive selection of titles for young readers. Festival Bookstore hours: October 20 – 25 Tuesday, 4:00 pm–10:00 pm Wednesday to Saturday, 10:00 am–10:00 pm Sunday, 10:00 am–5:00 pm See page 63 for information on the Vancouver Writers Fest's Writing Contests.

14 Thanks to our Individual SupportersSupport the Festival Benefactors Clarissa Green Todd Martin ($1,000 - $10,000) Elizabeth Harrison John MastersonYou know the impact that books, stories and ideas have on our lives; the way they Leslie Hurtig Ed Montagueengage our imaginations, challenge our world view and make us more empathetic. Collector's Edition Argiro Kotsalis Tessa NichollThat is why the Vancouver Writers Fest matters, and why your donation is critical. ($10,000) Patricia Laidley Nicole & Jason NozickYour gift will help create a tolerant, civil society that is fed by new ideas and Alma Lee Elise Partridgethoughtful conversations. Maureen & Larry Lunn Moshe Mastai Kit Pearson Gerald & Sheahan McGavin Karla PedersonAs a non-profit charitable organization, the VWF depends on your financial Classic ($5,000+) Tracey McVicar Joseph Plantasupport. Your donation will help us continue to bring the world’s best writers Angela & George McWhirter Stephen Radcliffeto Vancouver audiences, nurture young writers and put Vancouver on the Cheryl Berge & Brian Margaret & William New Nancy Richlerworld literary map. In addition your gift will reach children and spark their Fearncombe Debra Nordheimer Shannon Ronneimaginations, encouraging a lifelong love of learning. Liesa Norman Kathryn Shoemaker Jonathan Burke Roberta Rich Jane SlemonAs a donor to the Writers Fest you’ll support a range of exceptional free and Colin & Helen Harris Linda Robbins Camilla Tibbsaccessible programs, including: Bonnie Mah Mary Robertson Bruno Wall·· The Reading with Writers program for Lower Mainland schools in need Rob Sanders & Ian Weir·· The Writer in Residence program for schools in small BC communities Bestseller Edition·· Thirty-six Spreading the Word events for schools at the Festival Colleen MacMillan New Edition ($100+)·· Discounted Festival tickets for students and seniors ($2,500+) Bonnie Sheldon in honour Cathy Abrossimoff·· The free Incite reading series at Vancouver Public Library Sandra Garossino of Yulanda Faris Susan Adams Sandra Jakab & Robert Tracy Sherlock Leslie AlexanderLeave a Legacy Patricia L. Shields Janet Allwork Lesperance Donald Shumka M. Catherine AlpaughYour bequest to the Vancouver Writers Fest will help us continue to Joan McEwen & Deborah Torrko Tim Ambleroffer literary events with the world’s best writers as well as programs David & Susan Van Blarcom Danielle Arcandthat encourage and inspire children to read and write. Bequests can be Irwin Nathanson Hal Wake Sarah Armstrongmade through your will or by naming the Festival as a beneficiary of a Kip Woodward Rosalie Walls Elizabeth Austinlife insurance policy or RRSPs. Anonymous (1) Mark Wentzell Janet Austin Katherine Wreford Heather BakerDonations of Stocks Special Edition Peter Battershill FIRST Edition ($250+) Gillian BeattieThe Vancouver Writers Fest accepts donations of publicly traded ($1,000+) Larry Bisarosecurities and bequests. Anthony Abrahams Lisa Blachut Janice & Doug Dalzell David Allard Russel Black Benefits for donors may include invitations to special events Diana Debenham Deb Armour Maurice & Susan Bloch and receptions, and recognition in the Festival program Patrick Dunn Margaret Atwood Deborah Bouska guide and newsletter. For full details, see our website, Yulanda & Moh Faris John Bell Peter Brady writersfest.bc.ca/donate. Judy Gale Kinji Bourchier Connie Braun Anne & Tony Giardini Cathleen Boyle Lindy Bremner For more information on making a donation Sally Harding Linda Brandt Brian Brett or leaving a gift in your will, please call Zena Henriquez Sherry & Allan Buium Diane Bridges 604.681.6330 ext. 0 Richard Johnston MaryLynn Burke Ruth Brodie Shirley Lew Murray Campbell Florence Bullock Carol McClelland Sandra Case James Burchill Harvey McKinnon Jennifer Conkie John Burgoyne Judith Miller Susan Connor Martin & Ebie & Ian Pitfield Lynn Copeland Allyson Nelson Phillip Cotterill Cheryl Burian Bonnie & Don Sheldon Corinne Durston Doug Burns Marvin Storrow Roberta Ellis Justin Callison Ian & Jane Strang Paul Evans Trevor Carolan Shannon Taylor Craig Ferris Ann Carroll Kim Thorne Diana Filer David Chariandy Paul Whitney Janet Fretter Stephen Chatman Thomas Woods in honour of Crissy George Jane Cherry Ian Gill Michael Cholod William C. McConnell Judith Hager John Christian Anonymous (2) Alison Hart Thyrza Cohen Stephanie Hollis David Conlin Limited Edition ($500) Bruce Howard Patricia Crowe Violet Hughes Kathleen Cummins Yaseen Al-Salam Trudy Jaskela Patricia Curtis Richard & Virginia Angus Alexia Jones Cynthia Davis Maureen Attwell Lorey Lasley Barbara Dawson Ingrid Barnes Mary MacAulay Jo Baxendale Alison Broddle Claudia Casper Jane Estey Mark French Mike Gray

Charlene de Faye Andy & Woon Ai Tsang The Alma Lee Legacy Fund 15Mary Doherty Georgina Macdonald Carol TulparDeb Durocher Penelope Turpin The Festival’s endowment fund celebrates the RIENDSAnne Elliott Wendi Mackay Shelagh Van Kempen accomplishments of Alma Lee, the Festival’s founder.Catherine Epstein Linda MacKinley-Hay Robert Van Nus Revenue from this fund provides stable funding for the of theLynda Erickson Fran Maclean Baz Van Riet Festival, helps us offer Spreading the Word programs for Vancouver Public LibraryAl Etmanski Brian MacNeil Ellen Volden schools and allows us to plan for the future.Susan Fielden Bill MacPherson Olga Volkoff BOOK DONATIONSCynthia Flood Susan Masi Susan & Lead DonorsLily Fong Dave Mason and other media acceptedBruce Forster Noni Mate Jerry Wasserman Colin & Helen Harris throughout the year.Jeanette Froese David Matthews Mike Watson Jab SidhooGlenn Gardner Bruce Maunder Ray Weremczuk Yosef Wosk ON-GOING USEDNancy Garrett Jim & Joan Mayhew Birgit Westergaard The Vancouver Sun BOOK SALE atGary Geddes Kelsey McDermott Lynn Westwick Cynthia Woodward Development Fund book’mark,Barbara Gelfant Marlene McDonald Valerie White The Library StoreRoss Gentleman Ann McDonell Gordon Wilcox Sandra Garossino @ Central LibraryMary Gianoulis Bev McDowell Mark Winston Sheahan & Gerald McGavinWilliam Gibson Barbara-jo McIntosh Jay Wollenberg Rudy & Patricia North More information:Karen Gilmore Sharon McKibbon Patrick Woo friendsofthevpl.caMaryke Gilmore Myles McNeil Sabine Wood Megan AbbottSurya Govender Pam McPhail Jori Woodman Douglas Coupland (604) 331- 4049Linda Graham Victoria Mendes Ronald Wright Yulanda & Moh FarisZoe Grams Peter Meredith Rachel Wyatt Anne & Tony Giardini Proceeds from used book salesThomas Groppi Howard Mickelson Max Wyman Scott Griffin support special libraryLianne Gulka Sandra Moe Patricia Young KMC Foundation programs and projects.June Harrison Alexandra Montgomery Anonymous (6) Caroline LawrenceMichael Harstone Susan Morabito Anonymous in honour Bonnie MahKarin Hartner Marlene Moretti Joanne & David McDonaldAinslie Harvey Terri Newell of Cody Reedman & Tracey McVicarElizabeth Hay Carol Newson Jacqueline KirznerWilliam Hay Susin Nielsen to the Alma Lee Brenda & Michael O’KeefeRobert Heidbreder Peggy Olive Legacy Fund Ebie & Ian PitfieldHolly Hendrigan Nora Osborne Rod & Laurie ScheuermanRees Hill Maria Pacella bequest Helen ShoreNicole Holas Mike Paddison Yasmeen & Andrew StrangWarwick Holland Cathy Paperny Beth Coleman Thomas Allen & Son Ltd.Stephanie Hollis Maggie Pappas W.A.U. Nicoll Robertson Charitable Foundation TrustTony Hume Helen Rose Pauls Volunteer John WelsonTamara Hunter Talea Pecora Program Donors Jan Whitford & Michael StevensonTom Hunter Elaine PeddieValerie Hunter Doug Perry Patrick DunnRyan Jaeger Betty Port Catherine McKeehanKatherine Johansson Susan Powelson Danelle LaidlawDiana Keng Beverley Price Dale FlexmanMargaret Kennedy Nicole Racette Anita SalchertLinda King in honour of Karen Rideout Betti Port Elise Roaf Elizabeth Austin Hugh Davidson Peter Roberts Lisa BlachutMatthew Kirchner Sylvia Roberts Melanie LastDolya Konoval Shirley Rudolph Susan MasiMladen Korbelik Michelle Rupp Lonnie Propas &Keith Kruger Anita SalchertMelanie Last Minna Schendlinger Susan Olgul-PropasLeslie Lee Helen Shore Jane SlemonFrank Leffelaar Veronica SingerChantal Leger Helen Smith Donations received between June 30, 2014 and July 9, 2015. Thank you for yourMarshall Letcher Lynda Spratley generous support. We make every effort to be accurate. Please call us if you haveAnita Leung Dan Steiner any questions about this list, 604.681.6330.Jim Littleford Barrie SullivanZdravko Loborec Eve SzaboGloria Loree Adrienne TannerPatricia Lundh Linda ThayerKarin Lypkie Deborah ThomasKarin Macaulay Fiona Tinwei Lam Rhea Tregebov

16 In Memoriam THA NKS TO OUR DONORS wYu- landa Faris Corporate Support Foundations A Dram Come True Donors On April 23, 2015, we lost one of the Festival’s true champions, Ampersand Canada's Book & Gift Al Roadburg Foundation Andrea Dillon & Associates Ltd. a devoted and longtime member Agency Inc.: in honour of Dot Chris Spencer Foundation Andy & Georgina Macdonald of our community. Yulanda Faris Middlemass F.K. Morrow Foundation Authentic Wines & Spiritswas passionate about many different art forms— The Hamber Foundation Benton Brothers Fine Cheesemusic, dance and books chief among them—and Harbour Publishing NWM Private Giving Foundation Bill Brandesher passion was contagious. Yulanda believed in Harvey McKinnon Associates Black Rock Oceanfront Resortthe transformative nature of art, and that everyone Lesperance Mendes Lawyers – The Stevenson-Whitford Bruce Forstershould have the opportunity to explore and be Orca Book Publishers Inc. Family Fund Dave Masonchanged by art. To make that possible, she put much Palimpsest Press DB Gardening & Diane Bridgesof her heart, soul and determination into supporting TELUS Charitable Giving Program RBC Foundation Duso's Italian Foodsartists and organizations as a donor, an audience Urban Impact The Rix Family Foundation Dussa's Ham & Cheesemember and an advocate. She was particularly Vancouver Public Library R.J. Nelson Family Foundation Eagranie Yuhsupportive of young artists. We were privileged to East India Carpetshave Yulanda serve on our Board of Directors for a Travel Assistance In-Kind Donors Fawcett Insurancetime, and her many contributions to The Vancouver Fets Whisky KitchenWriters Fest were significant and far-reaching. Arsenal Pulp Press A La Mode Fisherman's Resort & MarinaShe will be greatly missed. Australia Council for the Arts and the Bean Around the World at Gigi B. Granville Island BrewingRuth Rendell P.D. James Melbourne Writers Festival Point Grey Village Granville Island Hotel & Dockside Bayard Canada Benton Brothers Fine CheeseElise Partridge David Godfrey Jamie Reid Biblioasis Canadian Linen & Uniform Service Restaurant Breakwater Books Cats Social House Granville Island Tea Company Bureau des Affaires Francophones et Consulate of Australia in Vancouver Greg Bridges Consulate of New Zealand in Vancouver House of Himwitsa Native Art Gallery Francophiles Curry 2 U Caitlin Press Daniel Le Chocolat Belge & Lodge Coach House Books Duso’s Italian Foods Jam Jar Conseil des arts du Nouveau-Brunswick Fraser Valley Juice & Salad Kim Thorne Consulate General of the United States Granville Island Florist Kingfisher Oceanside Resort & Spa Consulate General of Italy in Vancouver Granville Island Tea Company Leslie Hurtig Kaisereck Delicatessen Lesperance Mendes & Istituto Italiano di Cultura Kin’s Farm Market Lorne Folick in Toronto La Tortilleria Paul Whitney Cormorant Books Laurelle's Fine Foods Pirate Adventures Creative New Zealand Lee's Donuts Promosapien Dundurn Mix the Bakery Richard & Virginia Angus ECW Press Muffin Granny Sally Harding Exile Editions Olde World Fudge Company Sandi Case Freehand Books Oyama Sausage Company Sandy Jakab & Robert Lesperance Greystone Books Pacific Coastal Airlines Shannon Taylor Groundwood Books Pane e Formaggio TD Vancouver International Jazz Hachette Book Group Canada Planet Veg Restaurant HarperCollins Canada Quality Fruit Growers Festival House of Anansi Press Sunrise Produce Terra Breads Kids Can Press Taco Shack Tinhorn Creek NORLA Terra Breads Top Table Group Orca Books The Milkman Vancouver Foodie Tours Pedlar Press The Salmon Shop Wedgewood Hotel & Spa Penguin Random House Top Ten Market West Coast Whisky Society Publishers Group Canada Zara’s Italian Deli & Fresh Pasta White Ocean Gallery Raincoast Books Wishes + Luck RésoSanté Colombie Britannique Community PartnersWe pay tribute to some of the powerful literary and Conseil Scolaire Francophonevoices we lost in 2015, including bestselling crime de la Colombie Britannique Chapters/Indigowriters Ruth Rendell and P.D. James, both of Signature Editions DOXAwhom appeared at the Vancouver Writers Fest. Red Deer Press Indian Summer FestivalWe also acknowledge the loss of three local literary Simon & Schuster Canada Queer Film Festivalfigures: award-winning BC poet Elise Partridge; Tundra Booksco-founder of House of Anansi Press David UBC Creative WritingGodfrey; and North Vancouver poet and activistJamie Reid.

Spread i n g t h e Wo rd 17It's about reading and writing, books and writers.It's eclectic, exciting, entertaining and thought-provoking. Spreading the Word, the Vancouver Writers Fest's schools program, offers K–12students and teachers the rare opportunity to engage with internationally renowned writers at the Festival and in the classroom.Photo by Chris CameronAt the Festival Reading with WritersFestival events for schools (in English and French) are lively, Local and visiting writers visit schools in need to talk with studentsengaging and thought-provoking, with plenty of opportunity for about reading and writing, and engage in lively discussions aboutdiscussion and audience questions. books and the writing process.“We attended the event as a writing class looking for some tips for “Chris Gilpin made me look at poetry a lot differently. When he wasdeveloping our storytelling skills. The author managed to keep our performing, he made his poems sound cool … I would have neverclass—loaded with grade 11 boys—entertained.” joined a spoken word poetry club, but his visit changed my mind.”—Craig Ketchum, teacher at Maple Ridge Christian School —Gaby, student, City Central Learning Centre in Surrey, BCWriter in Residence La Joie de lireThe Writer in Residence program inspires an entire community La Joie de lire est à la fois le titre et l’objectif des programmesby sending a Festival author to a small BC town for a one-week en français du Vancouver Writers Fest qui vous offre une paletteresidency. The author works intensively with students in workshops éclectique, divertissante et stimulante d’activités et de rencontres avecand gives readings at community centres. des auteurs canadiens et étrangers de renom. Ce programme donne aux élèves de la maternelle à la 12e année l’occasion unique d’entrer “A week in a school allows a poet to expose their heart and, in turn, en rapport avec de grands écrivains à la fois au Festival et en classe.allows others to expose theirs. There were poems from grade ninestudents that would not have emerged without Jillian Christmas andher heart.”—Brad Cunningham, English teacher at Reynolds Secondary in Victoria, BC

Penguin Random House welcomes our authors to The Vancouver Writers Fest.Changing the world Marina Endicott | Camilla Gibb one book Daniel Galera | Lauren Gro | Paula Hawkins at a time. Elizabeth Hay | Marlon James | Wab Kinew Kelly Link | Elaine Lui | Susin Nielsen Beth Powning | Sabrina Ramnanan | Nino Ricci Owen Sheers | Jim Shepard | Neil Smith Jordan Stratford | Rich Terfr | Steve Toltz John Vaillant | Mélanie Watt Ronald Wright Visit penguinrandomhouse.ca/events for more details on all our authors on tour

Events by Genre 19 Events by Genre Contemporary Global Issues Thriller/Crime Non-Fiction 13 An Intimate Evening with Lawrence Hill 14 Icelandic Incantations 25 Whose Story is It? 15 Thriller Night 25 Whose Story is It? 28 The Wild in You (1) 27 Shock and Awful 28 The Wild in You (1) 40 The Wild in You (2) 31 Sisters in Crime 40 The Wild in You (2) 44 Trigger Warning 68 Paula Hawkins in Conversation with 46 Buying A Better World 46 Buying A Better World Elaine Lui 47 Simon Winchester in Conversation 48 Words for the Undocumented 72 An Unlikely Path with Gloria Macarenko 54 Hope Springs 76 Women in Peril 54 Hope Springs 63 1,000 Lashes 74 Let Justice be Done 67 Freedom of Expression Sci Fi/Horror/Weird Fiction 80 Stories Behind the Personalities 76 Women in Peril 11 Labels and Fables Readings Poetry 30 Weird Fiction 81 An Intimate Evening with Jeff VanderMeer 29 Between the Pages: An Evening with the 10 George Bowering in Conversation Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists with Colin Browne Humour 62 The Literary Cabaret 28 The Wild in You (1) 79 The Poetry Bash 40 The Wild in You (2) 45 The Lighter Side 85 The Sunday Brunch 45 The Lighter Side 86 The Dhahan Prize 53 Pure Poetry Historical Fiction 89 The Afternoon Tea 60 Poetry: What's It Good For? 70 Up with the Birds 14 Icelandic Incantations Interviews 79 The Poetry Bash 32 Intoxicated with the Past 50 An Intimate Evening with Jim Shepard 9 Making Sense of Real Horror Graphic Novel/Comics 51 The Big Idea 10 George Bowering in Conversation with 59 Frontier Colin Browne 55 Taking the Message to a New Medium 83 Getting Under Their Skins 46 Buying A Better World 88 The Raw Material 47 Simon Winchester in Conversation Solo Author Events with Gloria Macarenko Voices of Europe 50 An Intimate Evening with Jim Shepard 9 Making Sense of Real Horror 63 1,000 Lashes 10 George Bowering in Conversation 9 Making Sense of Real Horror 66 An Intimate Evening with Patrick deWitt with Colin Browne 14 Icelandic Incantations 68 Paula Hawkins in Conversation with 13 An Intimate Evening with Lawrence Hill 31 Sisters in Crime Elaine Lui 46 Buying A Better World 73 Elena Ferrante: a Literary Mystery 87 The Interviews 47 Simon Winchester in Conversation with Gloria Macarenko First Nations Biography/Personal Experience 50 An Intimate Evening with Jim Shepard 63 1,000 Lashes 55 Taking the Message to a New Medium 56 Belonging 64 Inspired By: A Multimedia Performance 69 The Way Forward 63 1,000 Lashes 66 An Intimate Evening with Patrick deWitt 80 Stories Behind the Personalities 74 Let Justice be Done 68 Paula Hawkins in Conversation with 75 Platforms Elaine Lui 80 Stories Behind the Personalities 81 An Intimate Evening with Jeff VanderMeer 84 Laid Bare 83 Getting Under Their Skins The Literary World Music 11 Labels and Fables 62 The Literary Cabaret 29 Between the Pages: An Evening with 64 Inspired By: A Multimedia Performance the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists 73 Elena Ferrante: a Literary Mystery 77 Freeman's

20 TUESDAY, OCTO B ER 2 0Finding Freedom 1 Modern Family 2 Talking Garbage 3Michel Chikwanine Darren Groth, Susin Nielsen Michelle MulderIn Conversation with Kathryn Gretsinger 10–11:30 am 10–11:15 am10–11:30 am WATERFRONT THEATRE STUDIO 1398GRANVILLE ISLAND STAGE $17 / $8.50 for student groups $17 / $8.50 for student groups$17 / $8.50 for student groups Complicated family dynamics have always been “What is garbage?” asks Michelle Mulder.As a teenage refugee to Canada, Michel the stuff of novels. The deep bonds and feuds Garbage is something that is no longer useful.Chikwanine found it hard to relate when his high that develop within this most intimate cast of But usefulness, she suggests, is in the eye of theschool friends complained about their privileged characters fascinate us, not only because we beholder. For example, old jeans can be used forlives. He was only five when Congolese rebel recognize our own families in them, but also housing insulation, and tires can be transformedsoldiers descended on an after-school soccer game, because the combinations and conflicts often into planters and furniture. With photos andforced him and his friends into trucks and carted surprise us. Darren Groth and Susin Nielsen artwork, and through stories and anecdotes fromthem off into the jungle to be trained as child have each penned new portraits of the modern her travels around the world, Mulder providessoldiers. In his graphic novel, Child Soldier: When family. Blended families, gay parents, parentless a history of garbage that reveals all sorts ofBoys and Girls are Used in War, Chikwanine retells children and children with mental disabilities— alternatives to incineration, landfills and oceanthis traumatic experience—the horrors of which these are just some of the situations from which dumping. She will get kids thinking and leavedidn’t end when he escaped. Now a vocal peace difficulties and love grow in Are You Seeing Me? them inspired to spearhead initiatives ofadvocate, Chikwanine has spoken to more than and We Are All Made of Molecules. Groth and their own.100,000 people across North America, inspiring Nielsen prove they are keenly aware of the issuesaudiences young and old to believe in their ability facing many kids, and how families still provide Suitable for grades 4–7to create change. the support needed to help to get children through life.Suitable for grades 5–8 Suitable for grades 7–10Wind, Wandering and 4 Outspoken in Unison 5 Illustrate and Imagine 6Wonderment Jillian Christmas, Dia Davina, Erin Kirsh, Bill Slavin, Cybèle YoungRobert Heidbreder, JonArno Lawson, Sonya Littlejohn, Lucia Misch, 1–2:30 PmBarbara Nickel Alessandra Naccarato, RC Weslowski WATERFRONT THEATRE10–11:00 am Host: Johnny Macrae $17 / $8.50 for student groupsIMPROV CENTRE 1–2:30 Pm$17 / $8.50 for student groups GRANVILLE ISLAND STAGE The art of telling stories through illustration is $17 / $8.50 for student groups a fine art indeed. Bill Slavin has won numerous awards and illustrated more than 100 books,Explore a summer evening after dark. Let winds The Writers Fest’s spoken word events are but all for other authors. Now, Elephants Neverfrom around the world tangle your hair. Discover among the most popular, fastest-selling events Forget is Slavin’s first series featuring his owntreasures littered on sidewalks and boulevards. in the entire Festival. This year we’ve added to story and illustrations, starring an elephant withThese three award-winning Canadian authors our traditional Word! format (see Events 16 and peanut allergies whose allergies are the least ofwill spend time with young readers highlighting 39) an exciting new event that is polyphonic his worries. Cybèle Young’s tale of a royal partythe enchantment and awe of the world around us. and syncopated. The Wordplay Poets ensemble gone awry uses delightful illustrations to show theJoin Robert Heidbreder, JonArno Lawson and commissioned spoken word artists to work in world as seen through the eyes of many differentBarbara Nickel for an hour of storytelling that is pairs to develop two-voiced poems on the themes creatures—sharks, snakes, goats, dragonflies, squid,sure to delight young minds. of being outspoken and speaking in solidarity. At and even mystery-solving sea urchins. It’s both a times during the performances the poets will be science lesson about how different animals see andSuitable for grades K–3 in dialogue, other times they will be speaking in a whimsical story of a missing shadow. unison, occasionally they will be in dissonance. Count on lots of energy, dare-devil timing, Suitable for grades 2–5 humour and honesty. Suitable for grades 8–12 and adults

TUESDAY, OCTO BER 20 21Des albums illustrés 7 High School Jinks 8à la bande dessinée Susan Juby, Susin NielsenÉdith Bourget, Paul Roux Moderator: Caroline Adderson13 h à 14 h 30 1–2:30 pmSTUDIO 1398 IMPROV CENTRE17 $ / 8,50 $ pour les groupes d’élèves $17 / $8.50 for student groupsPaul Roux et Édith Bourget vous feront voyager Get set for some hijinks this afternoon as twodans un univers d’aventure et de rêve. Artiste high-energy authors who are no strangers to youngeffervescente Mme Bourget nous fait découvrir son adult readers take the stage. In Susan Juby’s novel,album illustré Rouge Tomate dans lequel Tom sait The Truth Commission, 16-year-old Norm (shortcomment transformer le quotidien en aventure. for Normandy) walks a fine line between tellingM. Roux, bédéiste talentueux, nous présentera Pas the complete truth and uncovering truths that mayde cadeaux pour les héros! – une aventure palpitante, be better hidden. Susin Nielsen’s novel, We Areoù se mêlent des élans d’amitié, un don de All Made of Molecules, features teens Stewart andclairvoyance et un clin d’œil aux petites passions Ashley, who are thrown together in a blended fam-du quotidien. ily and also thrown together to defend each other in their high school hallways. Behind the fun, thesePour les élèves de la troisième à la BC authors touch on tough issues that many youngseptième année. people grapple with daily.Cet événement se déroulera exclusivement en français et Suitable for grades 7–10donnera lieu à de nombreuses possibilités d’interactionentre les élèves et l’animatrice. This event is organized in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts to celebrate the 2015 edition of the Governor General’s Literary Awards. On Granville Island. PhotoS by Chris CameronMaking Sense of Real 9 George Bowering in 10Horror Conversation with Colin BrowneAsne Seierstad in Conversation withKathryn Gretsinger 6-7:15 pm6–7:15 pm STUDIO 1398WATERFRONT THEATRE $20$20Åsne Seierstad is an investigative reporter whose Respected poet, novelist, essayist, critic, teacher,book, The Bookseller of Kabul, has been translated historian, editor, author of more than 70 books,into 42 languages and has sold millions of copies. one of only three Canadian writers to have won aTrying to make sense of non-fiction horror closer Governor General’s Literary Award for both fictionto her home, Seierstad now chronicles the terrible and poetry, Canada’s first Poet Laureate, recipientday in 2011 when Anders Breivik opened fire of the BC Lieutenant-Governor Award for Literaryon a Norwegian youth camp and within an hour Excellence, translated into six languages—Georgehad killed 69 young people. This is the story of a Bowering turns 80 this year. Over many decadespolitical terrorist or a madman—yet it also pays of work, Bowering has remained true to his love ofclose attention to his victims, how Norway’s language and his passion for writing, and he’s notpolicing system allowed a lone gunman to wreak stopping. This year alone, he will publish three moreterror for so long, and the country’s debate about books—one short fiction, one collection of poetryMuslim immigration. It’s a story of sorrow and an anthology of his Okanagan writings. We’reand compassion. holding a party in his honour—and you’re invited! David Mitchell at the 2010 Festival

22 TUESDAY, OCTO B ER 2 0Labels and Fables 11 Grand Openings 12 An Intimate Evening with 13Craig Davidson, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, The Alma Lee Opening Night Event Lawrence HillKelly Link, Jeff VanderMeerModerator: Ian Weir Giuseppe Catozzella, David Constantine, 8:30 pm6–7:15 pm Denise Mina, Steve Toltz, Damien Wilkins, WATERFRONT THEATREIMPROV CENTRE Sarah Winman $20$20 Host: Caroline Adderson 8:00 pm Lawrence Hill became a household name withFabulist, fantasist, magic realist, crime writer. PERFORMANCE WORKS the 2007 publication of The Book of Negroes.Are these labels helpful or hindering for writers $26 The novel received huge critical acclaim, wonwhose works slide between genres and literary prestigious prizes and was adapted as a miniseriesfiction? Craig Davidson skirts the issue by writing From Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Italy and that aired on CBC television. Tonight, Hillhis horror stories under a pseudonym. Elisabeth the United Kingdom, tonight’s illustrious authors presents, The Illegal, his new novel inspired byde Mariaffi, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller set the stage for the week ahead. Italian Giuseppe survival stories of undocumented refugees. “InPrize for her short stories, has now published Catozzella fictionalizes the true and tragic story Canada, the United States and around the world,a “literary thriller.” Kelly Link, an American of a young Somali athlete. British fiction master millions of people have to survive with a huge“national treasure” according to Neil Gaiman, is a David Constantine reads from the first North question mark hanging over their lives,” says Hill.short story writer who frequents the realms of sci- American publication of his work. New Zealand “Will they be deported? Persecuted? Executed?fi and fantasy. Jeff VanderMeer has been labelled lyricist, poet, playwright and novelist Damien What do their lives look like while they are hiding“the king of weird fiction.” The blurring of genre Wilkins reads from Max Gate, titled after Thomas in rich nations and trying, against all odds, toconventions is not new, but it begs the question: Hardy's Dorset home where the book is set. get on with their lives?” In today’s global climate,“If Kafka had been labelled a fantasy writer, would Gritty Glaswegian realist Denise Mina presents these are relevant questions that Hill addresseswe all know about The Metamorphosis?” the fifth book in her crime series featuring with empathy and grace. detective Alex Morrow. Man Booker-shortlisted Australian Steve Toltz reads from his latest, Quicksand, and British author Sarah Winman charms with her sophomore work, A Year of Marvellous Ways. The Writers Fest brings the world to you—sit back and enjoy.Icelandic Incantations 14 Thriller Night 15Hannah Kent, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Sara Blaedel, Elisabeth de Mariaffi,Moderator: Anne Giardini Owen Sheers, Robert J. Wiersema8:30 pm 8:30 pmSTUDIO 1398 IMPROV CENTRE$20 $20Join us for a night in Iceland—through the eyes As Michael Jackson sang, “It's close to midnightof a native and a newcomer. Hannah Kent’s debut and something evil’s lurking....” This ‘Thrillernovel, set in 1829, is based on the true story of Night’ starts a little earlier but is filled with anthe last woman executed in Iceland. It’s been equal variety of chills. In Denmark, Sara Blaedeltranslated into 20 languages, shortlisted for the has been voted “most popular author” three timesBailey’s Women’s Prize and longlisted for the for her crime novels. Literary writer Elisabeth deInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Mariaffi's novel grew out of her own experienceThose “delicate incantations of an inhospitable coming of age in the climate of fear generatedplace” also play large in the work of celebrated by Scarborough rapist Paul Bernardo in the lateIcelandic author Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. All of her 1980s. Owen Sheers’ highly-crafted novel ofadult novels have been European bestsellers and suspense is driven by subtle ideas and little knotsare translated into more than 30 languages. Amid of panic, and a causal web leading to a suddenall those hours of darkness, “what we have to shocking “accident.” In Robert J. Wiersema’soffer,” she says, “are crimes that result from the evil genre-bending novel, Black Feathers, a communityin ordinary people.” of street-dwellers is rocked by night terrors and the spectre of a serial killer. This event is sponsored by Harper Collins Canada Ltd.

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24 W E D NES DAY, OCTOB ER 2 1Word! (1) 16 The Haunting of Sunshine Girl 17 DNA Detective 18Jillian Christmas, TJ Dawe, Lucia Misch Paige McKenzie in Conversation Tanya Lloyd KyiHost: Chris Gilpin with Susin Nielsen 10–11:15 am10–11:30 am 10–11:30 am WATERFRONT THEATREGRANVILLE ISLAND STAGE PERFORMANCE WORKS $17 / $8.50 for student groups$17 / $8.50 for student groups $17 / $8.50 for student groups Want to find out why humans are more like flies orBy grade five, Jillian Christmas knew she wanted to Almost five years ago, Paige McKenzie, then mice than we’d like to admit? How about how tobe a poet. Now she’s living her dream, performing and 16 years old, uploaded a short video to YouTube clone a sheep? In her book DNA Detective, Tanyawinning slam titles as well as facilitating spoken word and a mockumentary series—The Haunting Lloyd Kyi, award-winning author of 16 books forworkshops for youth. “Give [young poets] a platform of Sunshine Girl—was born. With more than young people, unravels the mystery of our geneticto speak their stories and they’ll blow your mind with 150,000,000 views, the show takes 80 hours a blueprint. She explains the basics of genetics andfresh ideas,” she says. Vancouver-based playwright, week to produce and has become McKenzie’s reveals the entertaining and fascinating stories ofdirector and performer TJ Dawe is guaranteed to shake full-time job. McKenzie says, “In the web series the researchers who discovered pieces of the DNAthings up with his moving, often hilarious, personal not much is told about Sunshine’s life before she puzzle. From genetically engineered pets to a datingmonologues. Dawe says, “No matter how rehearsed or moved into the haunted house or why her house app that helps Icelanders avoid marrying theirhow much time I’ve spent crafting the script, there’s no is haunted.” Now, with her book of the same title, cousins, Lloyd Kyi’s DNA tales will surprise andsubstitution for an audience.” Joining them is 2010/11 McKenzie is able to tell “a bigger, more behind- delight young readers.Vancouver Slam Team member Lucia Misch, who the-scenes story.” Join this modern-day story-began writing and performing at 15. The energy in teller as she dishes on the amazing evolution of Suitable for grades 5–8the room will be palpable, fuel for performers and Sunshine Girl.audience alike. Suitable for grades 7–10(This event is repeated at Thursday at 1pm at the GranvilleIsland Stage.)Suitable for grades 8–12 and adults. Warning:Content in this event may not be suitable for all classes.From Ordinary to 19 Deux Auteures Hors Pair 20 Against All Odds 21Extraordinary Édith Bourget, Mélanie Watt Michel Chikwanine, Tanya Lloyd Kyi 10 h à 11 h Moderator: Shannon OzirnyCybèle Young IMPROV CENTRE 1–2:30 pm10–11:15 am PERFORMANCE WORKSSTUDIO 1398 17 $ / 8,50 $ POUR LES GROUPES D’ÉLÈVES $17 / $8.50 for student groups$17 / $8.50 for student groups Venez rencontrer deux auteures-illustratrices de When Michel Chikwanine was five, he wasIn Cybèle Young’s book, Some Things I’ve Lost, renom: Édith Bourget et Mélanie Watt. Les albums de kidnapped by Congolese rebel soldiers who hauledordinary household objects that often get Mme Watt débordent d’humour, d’ironie et de charme, him into the jungle to be trained as a child soldier.misplaced or lost—wallets, keys, glasses—are et laissent place à l’interprétation et à la réflexion. Mme Chikwanine has seen death and violence close-uptransformed into exquisite sculptures. A Governor Watt viendra nous raconter quelques aventures de son yet his success as a speaker and his belief in theGeneral’s award-winning illustrator, Young petit rongeur préféré connu sous le nom de Frisson possibility for change make him remarkable.looks beyond the everyday item to what it could l’écureuil et nous présentera également son tout nouveau Tanya Lloyd Kyi’s When the Worst Happens tellsbecome if it were cut and reformed, patched and livre, La mouche dans l’aspirateur. Son dernier bijou intense, true stories of survival—such as those ofrepurposed. A satchel could morph into a wood raconte les aventures d’une mouche qui entre dans une 17-year-old Juliane, who lived through a planebug and then into a porcupine. A watch could maison par une porte entrouverte... Mme Bourget rêve crash in the jungle, or 12-year-old Bala, whosebecome a cluster of budding flowers and then be de paix et souhaite que ses mots et ses tableaux boat capsized off the Australian coast. Join theserearranged to form a bottom-dwelling fish. The contribuent à alléger des cœurs, à ouvrir des yeux, et à writers for a riveting discussion about why peoplepower of the imagination is on full display as donner envie de protéger la vie. Tutti-Frutti est le surnom act the way they do in the worst imaginableYoung invites children to consider the possibility donné à la petite Lili qui aime tellement les fruits qu’elle circumstances and what we can learn aboutof change and delight in new perspectives. pourrait finir par se transformer en salade de fruits! surviving and thriving. C’est finalement ce qui se produira un jour… dans un mauvais rêve.Suitable for grades 3–6 Pour les élèves de la maternelle à la troisième année. Suitable for grades 5–8 Cet événement se déroulera exclusivement en français et donnera lieu à de nombreuses possibilités d’interaction entre les élèves et l’animatrice.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 25Zeros and Ones 22 L’angoisse servie sur la 23 Seasoned Storytellers 24 planche à dessinJordan Stratford, Gene Luen Yang JonArno Lawson, Barbara Nickel,Moderator: France Perras Catherine Lepage Mélanie Watt1–2:30 pm 13 h à 14 h 15 1–2:00 pmWATERFRONT THEATRE STUDIO 1398 IMPROV CENTRE$17 / $8.50 for student groups 17 $ / 8,50 $ POUR LES GROUPES D’ÉLÈVES $17 / $8.50 for student groupsBlending fact with fiction, these authors will Catherine Lepage signe avec Fines tranches JonArno Lawson is a three-time winner of thesweep you up in their mysteries while lacing their d’angoisse une bande dessinée pleine d’humour qui Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence instories with intriguing puzzles and computer met le doigt sur les maux du siècle : la dépression North American Children’s Poetry. He’s here thisprogramming. Going back in time to 1826, et l’angoisse. Ce livre superbement illustré est afternoon to share his new wordless picture book,Jordan Stratford introduces you to the first book un joyau de concision et d’autodérision qui Sidewalk Flowers, an “ode to the importance ofof his Wollstonecraft Detective Agency series. impressionne autant par la douleur émanant du small things, small people and small gestures.”This series stars real-life historical figures Lady propos que par la beauté et la jovialité des mots et Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Litera-Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, des illustrations. Mme Lepage nous montrera les ture Prize, Barbara Nickel presents A Boy Askedand Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, who as chemins qu’emprunte l’angoisse, la recette pour the Wind, a spectacular evocation of winds aroundchildren solve the case of the missing moonstone. l’entretenir et les quatre phrases pour s’en sortir. the world. Mélanie Watt of Scaredy Squirrel su-Graphic novel superstar and high school computer perstardom reveals her new stand-alone book, Bugprogramming teacher Gene Luen Yang presents Pour les élèves de la huitième à la douzième année. in a Vacuum. Children will be on the edge of theirhis first book of a new series starring Hopper and seats, keen to soak up these seasoned storytellers’her friend. Their growing prowess with computer Cet événement se déroulera exclusivement en every word.coding helps solve the mysteries that abound in français et donnera lieu à de nombreuses possibilitésStately Academy. d’interaction entre les élèves et l’animatrice. Suitable for grades K–3Suitable for grades 4–7Sarah Waters and Bill Richardson at the 2009 FestivalPhoto by Chris Cameron

26 W E D NES DAY, OCTO B ER 2 1Whose Story Is It? 25 Strange Bedfellows 26 Shock and Awful 27John Colapinto, Åsne Seierstad Steve Toltz, Leslie Vryenhoek, Sarah Winman Samuel Archibald, Craig Davidson,Moderator: Kathryn Gretsinger Moderator: Aislinn Hunter Yrsa Sigurðardóttir6-7:15 pm 6-7:15 pm Moderator: Robert J. WiersemaPERFORMANCE WORKS WATERFRONT THEATRE 6–7:15 pm$20 $20 STUDIO 1398 $20Is the disinterested reporter really possible? “A friend is one who knows you and loves youAnd whose story are non-fiction writers actually just the same.” Good fiction often introduces Horror fiction has not usually been taken seriouslytelling? Two writers tackle this timely and thorny readers to friends who are interdependent, as literature, but that appears to be changingissue. New Yorker staff writer John Colapinto, independent, get along, grow apart—and with as authors who work in other genres turn theirauthor of As Nature Made Him, fell afoul of family whom we are sorry to part at the end of the hands to horror. Samuel Archibald lectures onsensitivities and secrets that made the writing of book. Steve Toltz’s novel is a saga of friendship fiction and horror movies at the University ofthe book extraordinarily difficult. When Åsne and misadventure between Australian brothers- Quebec, and his latest stories feature wild beastsSeierstad published The Bookseller of Kabul, the in-arms who deadpan their way through disaster and ritual mutilation. Giller Prize-nominatedhighest selling non-fiction book in Norwegian after disaster. Leslie Vryenhoek writes about the Craig Davidson has also published three horrorhistory, it was denounced as inaccurate and uneven allegiance between two friends who are novels, which Stephen King raved “scared the hellinvasive by its main characters and led to an eight- burdened with emotional debt and pay a high out of me.” Iceland’s Yrsa Sigurðardóttir writesyear legal battle that eventually cleared Seierstad’s price for their loyalty. Sarah Winman imagines crime and children’s fiction, but her stand-alonename. Seierstad says, “You have to stand by your friendship between an old Cornwall woman horror novels are reviewed as “stomach-churning”choices and your angle because that is journalism.” coming to the end of her life and a young and “genuinely bone-chilling.” What is theJoin these thoughtful, professional journalists for soldier who sees little point in going on with writer’s attraction to horror? What is the reader’sa discussion about the difficulties, satisfaction and his. Join us in exploring some of the rewards and fascination with horror? We might keep the lightssurprises that come with seeing a story through. complications of friendship. on for this event...The Wild in You (1) 28 Between the Pages: 29 Weird Fiction 30 An Evening with TheLorna Crozier, Ian McAllister Scotiabank Giller Prize Kelly Link, Neil Smith, Jeff VanderMeer,6–7:15 pm Finalists Robert J. WiersemaIMPROV THEATRE Moderator: Peter Darbyshire AUTHORS TO BE ANNOUNCED 8:30 pm$20 Host: Bill Richardson PERFORMANCE WORKS $20Along British Columbia’s coast between 8:00 pmVancouver Island and Alaska lies the Great VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE Normally, “weird” is an insult, but not for theseBear Rainforest. It’s only two short flights from authors. “Weird fiction,” says Robert J. Wiersema,Vancouver but, as the Governor General’s Literary $26 “isn’t so much a genre in itself as a stripping awayAward-winning poet Lorna Crozier discovered and blurring of conventions to create somethingin 2013, it’s “as far from ordinary life as you can The longlist will be announced in mid-September, entirely new.” Jeff VanderMeer describes weirdget.” Nature photographer Ian McAllister lives and the shortlist in early October. But the first fiction this way: “Just as in real life, things don’tin the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. In public event that will bring all the shortlisted always quite add up… and in that space weThe Wild in You, these two collaborate to offer Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists together will discover some of the most powerful evocations ofreaders an opportunity to see up close what makes happen tonight. This is a chance to meet the what it means to be human or inhuman.” In Kellythis remote area worth preserving for future finalists for the richest literary prize in Canada, Link’s short stories, it’s perfectly fine to encountergenerations. You’ll want to close your eyes to which has a history of changing a writer's life two lovers who reunite after death in a nudistvisualize the poems, but open them wide to be and career forever. One of these authors will be camp. Their deep human sentiment is true, even ifawed by the photographs that show a place where the winner on November 10. Join the finalists all else is fecund imagination. Neil Smith’s debutthe unique and the magnificent can survive. and the ever-entertaining Bill Richardson—and novel delves into the minds of 13-year-olds in an check writersfest.bc.ca on October 5 for the afterlife. Come tour worlds slightly askew, guided(This event is repeated on Thursday at 1pm announcement of the line-up. by some of their creators.at Performance Works)

WE DNES DAY, OCTO BER 21 27Sisters in Crime 31 Intoxicated with the Past 32 BETWEEN THE PAGESSara Blaedel, Denise Mina, Sarah Dunant, June Hutton, AN EVENING WITH Ronald Wright THE SCOTIABANKYrsa Sigurðardóttir Moderator: Annabel Lyon 2015 GILLER 8:30 pm PRIZE FINALISTSModerator: Lonnie Propas Studio 13988:30 pm $20 VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSEWATERFRONT THEATRE OCTOBER 21, 2015$20Three of Europe’s most celebrated and significant crime Three writers sip a heady brew of history tonight and arewriters talk about unlikely detectives, criminals and keen to share a glass with you. After spending a summercrafting a great crime novel. Detective Louise Rick is in Florence in 2000, Sarah Dunant “became intoxicatedknown in 23 countries and her creator, Sara Blaedel, was with what happened there 500 years ago.” She has nowvoted Denmark’s most popular novelist for the fourth written four novels set in the turbulent Renaissance,time in 2014. Even as a child this “queen of crime” culminating in her take of that most infamous of realfound peace with crime novels. Detective Inspector Alex families, the Borgias, in Blood and Beauty. June HuttonMorrow, the creation of Glasgow’s Denise Mina, knows taps the truth for her story, blending fact and fictionfirst-hand the social evils that create criminals, having in the 1920s Pacific Northwest tale of Morris Cohenencountered some of the worst through five novels so and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen—part otherworldly Western, partfar. Mina is praised by Ian Rankin as “the most exciting historical tale. Ronald Wright returns to his intensecrime writer to have emerged in Britain for years.” At the interest in 16th century Peru in The Gold Eaters, featuringsummit of Nordic crime writing is Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, conquistadors plundering the gold of Peru, overthrownwhose Thora Gudmundsdottir crime novels have been Inca leaders and a young boy who straddles thesetranslated into 30 languages. worlds—all based on real historical events.This Really Happened 33Trevor Cole, TJ Dawe, Susan Juby,Rachel Wyatt and moreHost: Maria Turner8:30 pmIMPROV THEATRE$20This Really Happened is a live storytelling Think AUTHORevening when writers tell true stories, withoutnotes, in front of a live audience. Although Choose from four part-timeThis Really Happened events have taken place creative writing options inat literary festivals from Montreal to Calgary, Vancouver, Surrey and online:this year marks the first time in Vancouver. The Writer’s StudioAfter telling her story in 2013 in Calgary, Lisa Application deadline October 31Moore wrote: “Many thanks for including me The Southbank Writer’s Programin this because it was thrilling and pushed me Specialized coursesout of my comfort zone (way the hell out!!).” Manuscript consultationsOn the theme of “Secrets and Lies,” This ReallyHappened presents some of this year’s Festival sfu.ca/creative-writingwriters as they step outside of their owncomfort zones to confess their deep secrets, SCOTIABANKGILLERPRIZE.CAembarrassing white lies or bold-faced whoppersout loud.This event is presented in partnershipwith Carte Blanche.

28 THURS DAY, OCTO B ER 2 2On the Case 34 High Wattage 35 Drawn to the Story 36Kenneth Oppel, Jordan Stratford Mélanie Watt Patti LaBoucane-Benson, Gene Luen YangModerator: Shannon Ozirny 10 – 11:15am 10–11:30 am10–11:30 am PERFORMANCE WORKS GRANVILLE ISLAND STAGEGRANVILLE ISLAND STAGE $17 / $8.50 for student groups $17 / $8.50 for student groups$17 / $8.50 for student groups An unsuspecting bug flies through an open The graphic novel has come a long way, providingThis morning, keep your ears open for hints and door and into a house. So begins bestselling visceral images to go along with stories. Pattiintimations—and your mind “on the case.” Best creative genius Mélanie Watt’s new book, Bug LaBoucane-Benson’s debut graphic novel setsknown for his trilogy of Silverwing, Sunwing and in a Vacuum. This bug’s life changes forever when down the realities of life in Canadian inner citiesFirewing, Kenneth Oppel turns his imagination it’s sucked (you guessed it) into the void of a and is based on 20 years of work and research onto something more menacing in The Nest. Oppel’s vacuum bag, where it moves through the five healing and reconciliation with gang-affiliated ormystery is an internal one as Steve, an anxious stages of grief—denial, bargaining, anger, despair jailed Aboriginal men. Author of the first graphicboy with a sick baby brother, becomes convinced and eventually acceptance—as it comes to terms novel to have been a finalist for the National Bookthat angels have come to his family’s aid. As he with its fate. Will there be light at the end of the Award, Gene Luen Yang takes the graphic novelstruggles to unravel the truth about these “angels,” tunnel? Will there be dust bunnies in the void? form to the foreign world of China in 1898 withhe also uncovers his deepest insecurities and We’ve all wondered what happens to that critter two integrated stories of young people caught indarkest fears. The first book in Jordan Stratford’s we’ve accidentally or intentionally sucked up as the real history of China.Wollstonecraft Detective Agency mystery we’ve cleaned up. Join Watt for a poignant lookseries, The Case of the Missing Moonstone, features at one such bug’s travails. Suitable for grades 10–12Ada Lovelace and Mary Shelley, real historicalfigures who, as he imagines them, form a “secret Suitable for grades 2–4constabulary” in 1826 London to catchclever criminals. This event is sponsored by Kidsbooks.Suitable for grades 5–8L’heure est à la bande dessinée 37 Animals at Large 38 Word! (2) 39Paul Roux Kallie George, Bill Slavin Jillian Christmas, TJ Dawe, Lucia Misch10 h à 11 h 15 Host: Chris GilpinSTUDIO 1398 Moderator: France Perras 1–2:30 pm17 $ / 8,50 $ POUR LES GROUPES D’ÉLÈVES GRANVILLE ISLAND STAGE 10–11:30 am $17 / $8.50 for student groupsPaul Roux est l’auteur du petit roman IMPROV CENTREhumoristique Le détestable cousin, qui racontel’histoire d’Ernest qui en a assez d’être toujours $17 / $8.50 for student groupspuni à la place de son cousin! Mathis est un experten mauvais coups. Il est même considéré comme The animal kingdom has always loomed large By grade five, Jillian Christmas knew she wanted toun ange, alors que c’est un petit démon. Comment in children’s imaginations—and in books, too. be a poet. Now she’s living her dream, performing andfaire pour piéger cet imposteur et révéler son Vancouver-based author Kallie George and winning slam titles as well as facilitating spoken wordvrai visage? celebrated children’s illustrator Bill Slavin have workshops for youth. “Give [young poets] a platform written new books that feature animals at their to speak their stories and they’ll blow your mind withPour les élèves de la troisième à la septième année. lively hearts. Clover’s Luck is the first in George’s fresh ideas,” she says. Vancouver-based playwright, Magical Animal Adoption Agency series in which director and performer TJ Dawe is guaranteed toCet événement se déroulera exclusivement en a young girl stumbles upon a mysterious cottage shake things up with his moving, often hilarious,français et donnera lieu à de nombreuses possibilités in the woods, home to all kinds of orphaned personal monologues. Dawe says, “No matter howd’interaction entre les élèves et l’animatrice. creatures: fairy horses, unicorns and a fiery young rehearsed or how much time I’ve spent crafting dragon. Slavin’s Big Star Otto is the final book in the script, there’s no substitution for an audience.” his graphic novel trilogy featuring the misadven- Joining them is 2010/11 Vancouver Slam poetry tures of Otto, the peanut-allergic elephant, and his team member Lucia Misch, who began writing and pals Georgie the chimp and Crackers the parrot. performing at 15. The energy in the room will be This morning you’ll meet many furry, heart- palpable, fuel for performers and audience alike. warming characters you won’t soon forget. (This event is repeated on Wednesday at 10am at the Suitable for grades 2–5 Granville Island Stage) Suitable for grades 8–12 and adults. Warning: Content in this event may not be suitable for all classes.

THURS DAY, OCTO BER 22 29The Wild in You (2) 40 The Nest 41 Fairy Tale Feasts 42Lorna Crozier, Ian McAllister Kenneth Oppel Paul Yee1 – 2:30pm 1–2:15 pm 1–2:15 pmPERFORMANCE WORKS WATERFRONT THEATRE STUDIO 1398$17 / $8.50 for student groups $17 / $8.50 for student groups $17 / $8.50 for student groupsAlong British Columbia’s coast between Kenneth Oppel always thought wasps’ nests A great introduction to any culture or country isVancouver Island and Alaska lies the Great looked vaguely womb-like. “Why couldn’t [one] through its food. Meals bring people together asBear Rainforest. It’s only two short flights from give birth to a baby?” In Oppel’s The Nest, Steve they share stories over steaming plates and dishes.Vancouver but, as the Governor General’s Literary worries a lot. He worries about his sick newborn Congee, green onion pancakes, watercress soup,Award-winning poet Lorna Crozier discovered baby brother, about his parents who are struggling dan dan mian, crisp tofu, fish with black beanin 2013, it’s “as far from ordinary life as you can to cope and even about the wasps’ nest hanging in sauce… In celebrated author Paul Yee’s new book,get.” Nature photographer Ian McAllister lives the eaves. When a wasp queen enters his dreams, Chinese Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook,in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. In promising to grow a healthy baby to replace Yee weaves together the tales and characters ofThe Wild in You, these two collaborate to offer his ailing brother, Steve thinks his prayers have historical China with classical Chinese recipesreaders an opportunity to see up close what makes been answered. Join Oppel as he talks about his and vibrant folk art. Learn about China’s culinarythis remote area worth preserving for future latest “eerie masterpiece,” a book that explores traditions from a master storyteller. You’ll leavegenerations. You’ll want to close your eyes to disability and diversity, fears and dreams, and what with your mind burbling with Yee’s quirkyvisualize the poems, but open them wide to be ultimately makes a family. renditions of ancient fables, and maybe you’llawed by the photographs that show a place where inspired to pull your apron on, pick your favouritethe unique and the magnificent can survive. Suitable for grades 4–7 basic recipe and help out in the kitchen at home.Suitable for grades 8–12 and adults Suitable for grades 3–7 award-winning author n e wIn her latest book, TLalKonyyyi daFPO: Ad DNA Detective, Lloyd Kyi challenges kids to solve a mystery using DNA evidence. With its clear, simple language, fascinating stories and humorous illustrations, this book is ideal for introducing young readers to important scientific ideas. Ages 11–14annick press | www.annickpress.com | available from your favourite bookseller

30 THURS DAY, OCTOB ER 2 2On craque pour Mélanie Watt! 4313 h à 14 h 15 at the Chan CentreIMPROV CENTRE17 $ / 8,50 $ POUR LES GROUPES D’ÉLÈVESTout au long de son parcours, Mélanie Watt a inventé une foule de personnages, aussi Words in Motioncolorés les uns que les autres et est célèbre pour avoir mis en vedette Frisson l’écureuil etChester. Qu’elle aborde le thème de l’amitié, de l’égocentrisme ou de la vente sous pression, Fri Mar 18 & Sat Mar 19 2016 / 7:30pmses albums débordent d’humour, d’ironie et de charme, et laissent place à l’interprétation et Telus Studio Theatreà la réflexion. Dans tous ses livres, elle s’inspire de son enfance pour créer et avoue qu’il y aun peu d’elle-même dans chacun de ses personnages. Mme Watt viendra nous dévoiler son chancentre.com/beyondwordstout nouveau livre, La Mouche dans l’aspirateur, histoire émouvante remplie de suspenset d’humour.Pour les élèves de la troisième à la septième année.Cet événement se déroulera exclusivement en français et donnera lieuà de nombreuses possibilités d’interaction entre les élèves et l’animatrice.Trigger Warning 44 Writer/choreographer partners Carmen Aguirre & Olivia C. Davies, Aislinn Hunter & Anusha Fernando and Nancy Lee & ParaskevasJohn Colapinto, Tracey Lindberg, Anakana Schofield Terezakis bring three very different visions to the marriage ofModerator: Ian Weir words and movement.6–7:15 pmPERFORMANCE WORKS$20At colleges and universities assigned reading that may cause discomfort comes with a Buying a Better World 46trigger warning. Off campus how should a writer prepare the reader for material that maycause offence or should they at all? John Colapinto’s Undone was rejected by 41 publishers Anna Porter in Conversation with Kirk LaPointein the US and every publisher in Europe before being released in Canada. Written with 6–7:15 pman unexpectedly jaunty tone, it deals with pseudo-incest that unravels a man. Tracey STUDIO 1398Lindberg’s Birdie is a witty Cree woman who’s recovering from a past of sexual abuse and $20mental illness. Anakana Schofield’s Martin John is a darkly comic and uncomfortable novelthat goes inside the head of a sex offender. We read to be immersed in other lives, and to The 85-year-old billionaire philanthropist, George Soros, came tobetter understand life’s really tough situations. Join the conversation with three writers who public attention when he broke the Bank of England by short-sellingtackle the tough stuff for the good of us all. the pound. After that, Soros set out to influence the course of history based on the premise that by spending enough money and interveningThe Lighter Side 45 at the right moment, an individual can buy a better world. In Buying a Better World, former Canadian book publisher and the award-winningCharles Demers, Susan Juby, Bill Richardson author of four non-fiction books Anna Porter looks at the successModerator: Jen Sookfong Lee and failure of this hard-headed man she first encountered 20 years6–7:15 pm ago. Intrigued by Soros’ idea of private social activism, Porter talliesWATERFRONT THEATRE the cost of his one-man crusade at about $12 billion so far. Has he$20 achieved what he was seeking?Charles Demers, often featured on CBC Radio’s The Debaters, presents TheHorrors: An A to Z of Funny Thoughts on Awful Things. Demers won’t let tact orsensibility deter him from pushing humour to its hysterical limit. When SusanJuby published her Woefield books for adults, she was nominated for the LeacockMedal for Humour. In The Republic of Dirt, Juby returns to Woefield farm and itscollection of misfits and misadventures. Festival favourite Bill Richardson haswritten some dozen books and won the Leacock Medal for Humour. His latest isa collection of “poems of the late middle ages,” heralded as “illustrated retirementrhymes for the hoary-headed.” Tonight, we go off the script.This event is sponsored by the VWF volunteers.

THURS DAY, OCTO BER 22 31Simon Winchester in 47 Words for the 48Conversation with Gloria UndocumentedMacarenko Giuseppe Catozzella, Stella Harvey,8:00 pmSt. Andrew's-Wesley United Church Lawrence Hill, John Vaillant$26 Moderator: Timothy TaylorFestival favourite and author of more than 20 8:30 pmbooks, many of them non-fiction bestsellers, PERFORMANCE WORKSSimon Winchester has now turned his attention $20to the Pacific and its role in the modern world.Following Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Each of the world’s estimated 60 million An ExplorationDiscoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a undocumented refugees has a story—stories of of Books & IdeasMillion Stories, Winchester focuses his insatiable desperation, hope and, with luck, a better life.curiosity on the ocean that defines our tomorrow Italy’s Giuseppe Catozzella fictionalizes the life Mind-altering, metamorphic,as China and the West Coast of North America of a Somali Olympic athlete who drowns while twice-monthly. Free readings,forge the future. In Pacific, he takes us from trying to reach Italy. Stella Harvey places her interviews and discussions withthe Bering Strait to Cape Horn, the Yangtze novel in Greece, a country that is a common authors who will change howRiver to the Panama Canal. He observes the conduit for refugees seeking safety and stability.fall of a dictator in Manila, visits Aboriginals in Lawrence Hill, author of The Illegal, says, “In you see the world.Queensland and is jailed in Tierra del Fuego. Canada, the United States and around theAwarded the Order of the British Empire for his world, millions of people have to survive with a 7:30 pm every other Wednesdayservices to journalism and literature, Winchester’s huge question mark over their lives. Will they Alice MacKay Room • VPL Central Libraryexperience is vast and his storytelling is second be deported? Persecuted? Executed?” In Johnto none. Valliant’s The Jaguar’s Children, illegal Mexican The Festival doesn’t end in October. migrants crossing into the US find themselves in Join us for readings, discussions and interviews with your favourite authors, harrowing circumstances. January through May at VPL. This event is dedicated to the memory of writersfest.bc.ca/events/incite Yulanda Faris. \"Excellent presentation. Insightful, wise,Stories from Our Home and 49 An Intimate Evening 50 with a dose of humour. WorthwhileNative Land with Jim Shepard question period. Bravo!\" – Colin M.Samuel Archibald, Elizabeth Hay, In Conversation with John FreemanSigal Samuel, Leslie Vryenhoek 8:30 pm SPONSORED BY:Moderator: Merilyn Simonds STUDIO 13988:30 pm $26 Supported by the Vancouver Public LibraryWATERFRONT THEATRE and the R.J. Nelson Family Foundation$20 Jim Shepard is one of the best writers you’ve never heard of. Self-described as “semi-obscure,”From Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland come four he’s been a tenured professor at Williams Collegedistinct voices. Samuel Archibald places his short in the United States for 32 years. He’s also thestories, featuring wild beasts and haunted houses, author of six previous novels, four collectionsin his hometown of Arvida, a company town in of stories and a National Book Award finalist.Quebec’s North. Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning Says Richard Ford, “His writerly eye is acute.author Elizabeth Hay sets her new novel, His Whole His instinct around a sentence is virtuosic andLife, in the mid-1990s when Quebec is on the verge masterful.” Joshua Ferris says Shepard is “oneof leaving Canada. The Mile End area of Montreal, of the US’s finest writers, full of wit, humanitywhere ultra-orthodox Jews bump up against arty and fearless curiosity.” His new novel, The Bookyoung hipsters, is the setting for Sigal Samuel’s debut of Aron, is breathtaking, a fearless entry into thetale of a dysfunctional Montreal family. Character, Holocaust and the children whose lives werenot setting, is the driver for Newfoundland author caught up in it, reviewed by The Toronto Star as aLeslie Vryenhoek, whose debut novel, Ledger of the “stark masterpiece ... [that] ranks with the bestOpen Hand, is a sad, funny tale of friendship. Come literature.” After this evening’s event, you’ll wantand hear talented Canadian voices, without the to share your discovery.rustling of prairie grasses or the creaking of ice floes.

32 Fest i va l at a G l anCeTuesday 20 Wednesday 21 Thursday 22EVENT #1 EVENT #9 EVENT #16 EVENT #25 EVENT #34 EVENT #4310-11:30 am 6-7:15 pm 10-11:30 am 6-7:15 pm 10-11:30 am 1-2:15 pmGranville Island Stage Waterfront Theatre Granville Island Stage Performance Works Granville Island Stage Improv CentreFinding Freedom Making Sense of Real Word! (1) Whose Story Is It? On the Case On craque pour Mélanie Horror Watt!Michel Chikwanine Jillian Christmas, TJ Dawe, John Colapinto, Åsne Seierstad Kenneth Oppel, Åsne Seierstad Lucia Misch Jordan Stratford EVENT #44EVENT #2 EVENT #26 6-7:15 pm10-11:30 am EVENT #10 EVENT #17 6-7:15 pm EVENT #35 Performance WorksWaterfront Theatre 6-7:15 pm 10-11:30 am Waterfront Theatre 10-11:15 am Studio 1398 Performance Works Performance Works Trigger WarningModern Family Strange Bedfellows George Bowering in The Haunting of Sunshine Girl High Wattage John Colapinto,Darren Groth, Conversation with Steve Toltz, Leslie Vryenhoek, Tracey Lindberg,Susin Nielsen Colin Browne Paige McKenzie Sarah Winman Mélanie Watt Anakana SchofieldEVENT #3 EVENT #11 EVENT #18 EVENT #27 EVENT #36 EVENT #4510-11:15 am 6-7:15 pm 10-11:15 am 6-7:15 pm 10-11:30 am 6-7:15 pmStudio 1398 Improv Centre Waterfront Theatre Studio 1398 Waterfront Theatre Waterfront TheatreTalking Garbage Labels and Fables DNA Detective Shock and Awful Drawn to the Story The Lighter SideMichelle Mulder Craig Davidson, Tanya Lloyd Kyi Samuel Archibald, Craig Davidson, Patti LaBoucane-Benson, Charles Demers, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Gene Luen Yang Susan Juby,EVENT #4 Kelly Link, EVENT #19 Bill Richardson10-11:00 am Jeff VanderMeer EVENT #28 EVENT #37Improv Centre 10-11:15 am 6-7:15 pm 10 -11:15 am EVENT #46 EVENT #12 Studio 1398 Improv Centre Studio 1398 6-7:15 pmWind, Wandering and 8:00 pm Studio 1398Wonderment Performance Works From Ordinary to Extraordinary The Wild in You (1) L’heure est à la bande dessinée Buying a Better WorldRobert Heidbreder, Grand Openings Cybèle Young Lorna Crozier, Ian McAllisterJonArno Lawson, Paul Roux Anna PorterBarbara Nickel Giuseppe Catozzella, EVENT #20 EVENT #29 David Constantine, 10 -11:00 AM 8:00 pm EVENT #38 EVENT #47EVENT #5 Denise Mina, Steve Toltz, Improv Centre The Vancouver Playhouse 10-11:30 am 8:00 pm1-2:30 pm Damien Wilkins, Improv Centre St. Andrew's-WesleyGranville Island Stage Sarah Winman Deux auteures hors pair Between the Pages: An Evening United Church with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Animals at LargeOutspoken in Unison EVENT #13 Édith Bourget, Mélanie Watt Finalists Simon Winchester in 8:30 pm Kallie George, Bill Slavin Conversation withJillian Christmas, Waterfront Theatre EVENT #21 EVENT #30 Gloria MacarenkoDia Davina, Erin Kirsh, 1-2:30 pm 8:30 pm EVENT #39Sonya Littlejohn, An Intimate Evening with Performance Works Performance Works 1-2:30 pm EVENT #48Lucia Misch, Lawrence Hill Granville Island Stage 8:30 pmAlessandra Naccarato, Against All Odds Weird Fiction Performance WorksRC Weslowski Word! (2) Michel Chikwanine, Kelly Link, Neil Smith, Words for theEVENT #6 EVENT #14 Tanya Lloyd Kyi Jeff VanderMeer, Jillian Christmas, Undocumented1-2:30 pm 8:30 pm Robert J. Wiersema TJ Dawe, Lucia MischWaterfront Theatre Studio 1398 EVENT #22 Giuseppe Catozzella, 1-2:30 pm EVENT #31 EVENT #40 Stella Harvey, LawrenceIllustrate and Imagine Icelandic Incantations Waterfront Theatre 8:30 pm 1-2:30 pm Hill, John Vaillant Waterfront Theatre Performance WorksBill Slavin, Cybèle Young Hannah Kent, Zeros and Ones EVENT #49 Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Sisters in Crime The Wild in You (2) 8:30 pmEVENT #7 Jordan Stratford, Gene Luen Yang Waterfront Theatre1-2:30 pm EVENT #15 Sara Blaedel, Denise Mina, Lorna Crozier,Studio 1398 8:30 pm EVENT #23 Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Ian McAllister Stories from Our Home Improv Centre 1-2:15 pm and Native LandDes albums illustrés à la Studio 1398 EVENT #32 EVENT #41bande dessinée Thriller Night 8:30 pm 1-2:15 pm Samuel Archibald, L’angoisse servie sur la planche Studio 1398 Waterfront Theatre Elizabeth Hay,Édith Bourget, Sara Blaedel, à dessin Sigal Samuel,Paul Roux Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Intoxicated with the Past The Nest Leslie Vryenhoek Owen Sheers, Catherine LepageEVENT #8 Robert J. Wiersema Sarah Dunant, June Hutton, Kenneth Oppel EVENT #501-2:30 pm EVENT #24 Ronald Wright 8:30 pmImprov Centre 1-2:00 pm EVENT #42 Studio 1398 Improv Centre EVENT #33 1-2:15 pmHigh School Jinks 8:30 pm Studio 1398 An Intimate Evening Seasoned Storytellers Improv Centre with Jim ShepardSusan Juby, Fairy Tale FeastsSusin Nielsen JonArno Lawson, Barbara Nickel, This Really Happened Mélanie Watt Paul Yee Trevor Cole, TJ Dawe, Susan Juby, Rachel Wyatt and more

T i c kets : 6 04 .6 2 9.8 8 4 9 o r Vanco uvertix .co m 33Friday 23 Saturday 24 Sunday 25EVENT #51 EVENT #59 EVENT #67 EVENT #75 EVENT #8210-11:30 am 1-2:30 pm 10:30 am 2:00 pm 10:30 amGranville Island Stage Improv Centre Granville Island Stage Improv Centre Waterfront TheatreThe Big Idea Frontier Freedom of Expression Platforms It’s ComplicatedViet Thanh Nguyen, June Hutton, Sara Tilley, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Elaine Lui, Paige McKenzie Carellin Brooks, Trevor Cole,Beth Powning, Jim Shepard, Paul Yee Roxane Gay, Lawrence Hill, Farzana Doctor, Sabrina RamnananRonald Wright Nino Ricci EVENT #76 EVENT #60 5:00 pm EVENT #83EVENT #52 6-7:15 pm EVENT #68 Performance Works 10:30 am10-11:30 am Waterfront Theatre 10:30 am Studio 1398Performance Works Performance Works Women in Peril Poetry: What’s It Good For? Getting Under Their SkinsTrue to Form Paula Hawkins in Conversation Elisabeth de Mariaffi, David Constantine, with Elaine Lui Roxane Gay, Paula Hawkins, Sarah DunantDavid Constantine, Tony Hoagland, Karen Solie Susan PhilpottSteven Hayward, EVENT #69 EVENT #84Greg Hollingshead, EVENT #61 10:30 am EVENT #77 10:30 amIrina Kovalyova 6-7:15 pm Waterfront Theatre 5:00 pm Improv Centre Studio 1398 Waterfront TheatreEVENT #53 The Way Forward Laid Bare10-11:30 am Mind Games Freeman’sWaterfront Theatre Marilyn Dumont, Wab Kinew, Camilla Gibb, Elaine Lui, Nino Ricci, Anakana Schofield, Tracey Lindberg John Freeman, Daniel Galera, Michael V. SmithPure Poetry John Vaillant Laura van den Berg EVENT #70 EVENT #85Jordan Abel, Nicole Brossard, EVENT #62 10:30 am EVENT #78 11:00 amMarilyn Dumont, 8:00 pm Studio 1398 5:00 pm Performance WorksUlrikka S. Gernes, Owen Sheers, Performance Works Studio 1398Sheryda Warrener Up With the Birds The Sunday Brunch The Literary Cabaret It’s Treacherous TerritoryEVENT #54 Brian Brett, Steve Burrows, Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Lauren Groff,10-11:30 am Daniel Galera, Lorna Crozier Farzana Doctor, Lauren Groff, Steven Hayward, Nino Ricci,Studio 1398 Elizabeth Hay, Marlon James, Greg Hollingshead Sigal Samuel, Neil Smith Sabrina Ramnanan, Rich Terfry, EVENT #71Hope Springs John Vaillant 10:30 am EVENT #79 EVENT #86 Improv Centre 8:00 pm 1:30 pmDavid R. Boyd, Alejandro Frid EVENT #63 Performance Works Waterfront Theatre 8:00 pm Dwelling (on) PlaceEVENT #55 St. Andrew's-Wesley The Poetry Bash The Dhahan Prize10-11:30 am United Church Patrick deWitt, Bradley Somer,Improv Centre Damien Wilkins Nicole Brossard, EVENT #87 1,000 Lashes Marilyn Dumont, 1:30 pmTaking the Message to a EVENT #72 Ulrikka S. Gernes, Studio 1398New Medium Ensaf Haidar 2:00 pm Tony Hoagland, Karen Solie, Performance Works Russell Thornton The InterviewsPatti LaBoucane-Benson, EVENT #64Tracey Lindberg 8:00 pm An Unlikely Path EVENT #80 Brian Brett, John Colapinto, The Beaumont 8:00 pm Irina KovalyovaEVENT #56 Steve Burrows, Waterfront Theatre1-2:30 pm Inspired By: A Multimedia Paula Hawkins, Susan Philpott, EVENT #88Granville Island Stage Performance Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Stories Behind the Personalities 1:30 pm Improv CentreBelonging Sara Tilley EVENT #73 Wab Kinew, Rich Terfry 2:00 pm The Raw MaterialBrian Brett, Charles Demers, EVENT #65 Waterfront Theatre EVENT #81Camilla Gibb, Michael V. Smith 8:30 pm 8:00 pm Hannah Kent, Beth Powning, Sara Tilley Waterfront Theatre Elena Ferrante: A Literary Studio 1398EVENT #57 Mystery EVENT #891-2:30 pm Writing Country An Intimate Evening with 3:30 pmWaterfront Theatre John Freeman, Lauren Groff, Jeff VanderMeer Performance Works Roxane Gay, Elizabeth HayPage and Stage Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Afternoon Tea Marlon James, EVENT #74Marina Endicott, Owen Sheers, Viet Thanh Nguyen 2:00 pm Trevor Cole, Marina Endicott,Damien Wilkins, Rachel Wyatt Studio 1398 Hannah Kent, Bill Richardson, EVENT #66 Bradley Somer, Laura van den BergEVENT #58 8:30 pm Let Justice Be Done1-2:30 pm Studio 1398Studio 1398 Joan McEwen, Lori Shenher An Intimate Evening withAlliterAsian: Celebrating 20 Patrick deWittYears of Ricepaper MagazineAnn Marie Fleming, EvelynLau, Yasuko Thanh, Fred Wah,Rita Wong

Teens at the 2013 Festival At the Festival Bookstore Teens take in Word! at the 2014 Festival Photos by Chris Cameron

He ade r l eft 35 Margaret Atwood and Emily SchulTz at the 2012 Festival\" Always inspirational and always a way to connect on a deeper level to the books. — 2014 audience member A young girl asks a question during the 2013 Festival

36 FRIDAY, OC TOB E R 23The Big Idea 51 True to Form 52 Pure Poetry 53Viet Thanh Nguyen, Beth Powning, David Constantine, Steven Hayward, Jordan Abel, Nicole Brossard,Jim Shepard, Ronald Wright Greg Hollingshead, Irina Kovalyova Marilyn Dumont, Ulrikka S. Gernes,Moderator: Merilyn Simonds Moderator: John Freeman Owen Sheers, Sheryda Warrener10–11:30 am 10–11:30 am Host: Chris GilpinGRANVILLE ISLAND STAGE PERFORMANCE WORKS 10–11:30 am$17 $17 WATERFRONT THEATRE $17Tackling the huge moments in history takesguts. Four novelists who have chosen to focus This morning we celebrate the short story. The Poetry is everywhere, if you just listen hardon a time and place when the world was in flux United Kingdom’s David Constantine’s writing ca- enough. Nisga’a poet Jordan Abel uses a processgather to discuss the challenges, and rewards, of reer spans 30 years but he has never—until now— called erasure to create his conceptual writing.wrestling with big ideas. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s been published in North America. Says A.S. Byatt, Governor General’s Literary Award winnermeditation on war and loyalty features a double “What is startling is the quality of his writing. Ev- Nicole Brossard favours modernism and theagent during the fall of Saigon in The Sympathizer. ery sentence is both unpredictable and exactly what avant-garde. Métis poet Marilyn Dumont usesBeth Powning’s reflection on religious intolerance it should be.” The long-awaited collection from free verse and metre to recreate Riel’s Red Riverin A Measure of Light focuses on a 17th-century Steven Hayward “… shows the surprising ways he Resistance period. Denmark’s Ulrikka S. GernesPuritan who martyred herself for the fledgling can do funny strange and funny ha-ha within the finds effect by zooming in and out of places andQuaker movement. Jim Shepard’s novel The Book space of a few pages.” Greg Hollingshead makes a states of mind. Wales’ Owen Sheers calls himselfof Aron, set during the Holocaust, looks straight masterful return to the short story 20 years after he an instinctive writer. “I do a lot of it on the ear.”into the face of the unspeakable. In The Gold published Roaring Girl¸ for which he received the Vancouver’s Sheryda Warrener often uses fineEaters, Ronald Wright sets his young hero in the Governor General’s Literary Award. And a debut art and photographs as ways into poetry. Treatmiddle of 16th-century Peru, where the acts of collection from Irina Kovalyova is hailed as “… yourself to words from these fine poets, so variedgold-plundering Spanish explorers reverberate immediate, bold and original. No wasted words. in style and voice, and leave more receptive to theto this day. These are capacious books from big Zero flab.” High praise for a writer who has a PhD poetry all around you.thinkers that help us to better understand our own in microbiology and immunology and has a “dayworld. job” teaching molecular biology at Simon Fraser University!Hope Springs 54 Taking the Message to a 55 Belonging 56David R. Boyd, Alejandro Frid New Medium Brian Brett, Charles Demers,Moderator: Charlie Smith Camilla Gibb, Michael V. Smith10–11:30 am Patti LaBoucane-Benson, Tracey Lindberg Moderator: Andreas SchroederSTUDIO 1398 Moderator: Paul Grant 1–2:30 pm$17 10 – 11:30am GRANVILLE ISLAND STAGE IMPROV CENTRE $17Is a greener future possible? Environmental $17lawyer and co-chair of Vancouver’s Greenest City2020 Action Plan team, Dr. David R. Boyd is Tracey Lindberg is professor of law at the “All sorrows can be borne if you put them into aoptimistic about our environmental challenges. University of Ottawa and Athabasca University. story or tell a story about them,” said Isak Dinesen.He chronicles the successes: bald eagles and She’s also the author of Birdie, about a smart, Canadian poet and novelist Brian Brett describesgray whales pulled back from the precipice of funny, sardonic Cree woman recovering from his painful experience of being “othered” as a boyextinction, new parks, salvation of the ozone past wounds. Although glowingly reviewed, whose body did not naturally produce sex hormones.layer and increased use of renewable energy. Birdie has another purpose. “It’s really difficult He was assaulted because of his delicate features,Meanwhile, although ecologist Dr. Alejandro to dismiss or dehumanize indigenous peoples and wandered lost and sexless through adolescenceFrid is haunted by the irrevocable changes that if it’s a person,” Lindberg says. She wants her before finally being treated with testosterone.humans are forcing on the earth—loss of ancient readers to put faces to what might otherwise be Charles Demers presents his story of belongingforests, demise of large predators and shifts in categories or topics. Patti LaBoucane-Benson, with a comedic touch. In This Is Happy, Camillacirculation patterns of the atmosphere—his search who works in native counselling, has also chosen Gibb lays bare the grief that besieged her as thefor optimism began with the birth of his daughter, approachable fiction to put a face to a topic. Her happiness of a longed-for family shattered. Michaelwhom he does not want to inherit a doomed graphic novel, The Outside Circle, spotlights two V. Smith, whose drag persona is Miss Cookieworld. Is their optimism warranted? Aboriginal brothers surrounded by poverty, drugs LaWhore, writes about his dangerous childhood, and gangs making positive changes in their challenging gender norms and definitions of lives. Join these two accomplished experts on masculinity. From these now successful authors and Aboriginal issues as they discuss the reasons for performers come four memoirs about overcoming turning to fiction as a way to take their message obstacles and finding your place when you feel you to a wider audience. don’t belong.

F RIDAY, OCTO BER 23 37Page and Stage 57 AlliterAsian: Celebrating 20 58 Years of Ricepaper MagazineMarina Endicott, Owen Sheers,Damien Wilkins, Rachel Wyatt Ann Marie Fleming, Evelyn Lau, Yasuko Thanh,Moderator: Jerry Wasserman Fred Wah, Rita Wong1–2:30 pm Host: Margaret GallagherWATERFRONT THEATRE 1–2:30 pm$17 STUDIO 1398 $17Marina Endicott was formerly a dramaturge at theSaskatchewan Playwright’s Centre and The Banff Centre. Many of today’s acclaimed Asian-Canadian writers firstThat theatrical background shows through much of her appeared in the pages of Ricepaper magazine, whichwork, including her latest, Close to Hugh, described as a celebrates 20 years of publication this year. In a climate“four-door farce,” itself a theatrical term. Owen Sheers that sees many literary magazines foundering, it’s a happycalls himself a “poet who writes in other forms,” including occasion to pay homage to one that has nurtured so manyscripts, screenplays, plays and a verse drama which won important voices over the years and continues to thrive.the Wales Book of the Year. Damien Wilkins, who’s To mark this occasion, Arsenal Pulp Press has releasedwritten both plays and for television, started to write AlliterAsian, a celebratory anthology filled with exclusivehis historical novel Max Gate as a play, morphing it over interviews, writing and excerpts of works-in-progress.three years into a novel. Rachel Wyatt, award-winning Join established and emerging contributors Ann Marieauthor of novels, short fiction, stage and radio plays, has Fleming, Evelyn Lau, Yasuko Thanh, Fred Wah and Ritahad more than a hundred radio plays produced. How does Wong for readings and a lively discussion about Ricepaper’stheatrical writing—character, scene staging, dialogue— place, what it’s meant for their careers and what it meanshelp or hinder novel writing? What’s the interplay for the next generation of Asian-Canadian writers.between stage and page?Frontier 59 Poetry: What’s It Good For? 60 Literary agents Non-fiction bookJune Hutton, Sara Tilley, Paul Yee David Constantine, Tony Hoagland, Karen Solie publishing expertsModerator: Jen Sookfong Lee Moderator: Aislinn Hunter Self-publishing1–2:30 PM 6–7:15 pm consultantsIMPROV CENTRE WATERFRONT THEATRE Passionate Writers$17 $20 Fest supportersThe birth of the Canadian West is the stuff of legends— American poet Tony Hoagland bemoans that “thegold panners, railroad builders, fortunes won and lost. teaching of poetry languishes.” His collection, TwentyIn Two Gun & Sun, June Hutton blends fiction with Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays, pressesfact based on Morris Cohen, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and a for a serious conversation about the role of poetry.lone woman determined to resurrect a newspaper in a “Poetry is our common treasure-house, and we need itsfilthy frontier mining town in 1922. Writer and theatre vitality, its respect for the subconscious .... We need theartist Sara Tilley moves the clock backward to 1906 emotional training sessions poetry conducts us through.”with Duke, a fictionalized memoir channeling the voice British poet and short story writer David Constantineof her great-grandfather, sent to Alaska at the end of has a similar argument. “Fiction and poetry continuallythe Klondike Gold Rush. Paul Yee’s A Superior Man, his remind us that we do not (are not permitted to, don’t tryfirst work of fiction for adults, dives into a time when hard enough to) live as connectedly, wholly, humanely asChinese labourers built the railway. It’s also a time full of we might.” Joining in this conversation is Griffin Poetrygambling, contraband and the bawdy world of Chinese Prize-winner Karen Solie, a Canadian poet with an“bachelors” living without restraint. international reputation who has influenced a generation of young poets. Does poetry matter? You bet it does! strategic publishing www.pagetwostrategies.com

38 FRIDAY, OC TOB E R 23Mind Games 61 The Literary Cabaret 62 1,000 Lashes 63Nino Ricci, Anakana Schofield, John Vaillant Daniel Galera, Elizabeth Hay, Ensaf Haidar in Conversation with Stephen Quinn Marlon James, Sabrina Ramnanan,Moderator: Denise Ryan Rich Terfry, John Vaillant 8:00 pm6–7:15 pm Host: Sal Ferreras St. Andrew's-Wesley United ChurchSTUDIO 1398 8:00 pm $20$20 PERFORMANCE WORKS $35 Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was arrested inVisual art can suggest a mental state; music can Even if you’re a “Lit Cab” regular, you might 2012 and sentenced to 10 years in prison, a USswirl with emotion. But only literature can lay not know that Sal Ferreras and his chameleonic $250,000 fine and 1,000 lashes for “insultingbare the inner workings of the mind. In Nino band Poetic License has only half an hour on the Islam through electronic channels.” With theRicci’s novel Sleep, a man’s brain has begun to Friday afternoon of the cabaret to rehearse with full support of his wife, Ensaf Haidar, somemisfire; his sense of reality is slipping out of reach. each of the authors. What happens during those of his writings are now published for the firstIn Martin John, Anakana Schofield illuminates 30 minutes can only be described as alchemy. time in English. 1000 Lashes: Because I Say Whatthe dark recesses in the mind of a sexual predator Later that evening, those same six authors take I Think proclaims the equality of all religionspreoccupied with words that start with ‘P.’ John the spotlight to “perform” alongside the band, with and warns against religious extremism. BadawiVaillant’s novel The Jaguar’s Children gets inside music that fits each reading like a warm glove received the first 50 lashes in January of thisthe head of an undocumented Mexican immigrant over a guiding hand. Audiences are guaranteed year, which jeopardized his health and outragedexperiencing extreme pressure and stress. Join these a sensory spectacle they won’t soon forget. Don’t people around the world. In June, Saudi Arabia’screative and skillful authors as they talk about miss out on the fun—get your tickets early Supreme Court upheld the sentence, leaving nomapping the sometimes strange and striking ways because they will go quickly. further avenues for appeal except intervention bythe mind makes sense of the world. Saudi King Salman. Join Haidar this evening as she talks about her husband’s fight for freedom of expression.This event is sponsored by The Vancouver Sun.Inspired By: A Multimedia 64 Writing Country 65 An Intimate Evening with 66Performance Roxane Gay, Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Patrick deWittSara TilleyHost: Shazia Hafiz Ramji Marlon James, Viet Thanh Nguyen 8:30 pm8:00 pm STUDIO 1398The Beaumont Studios Artist Society Moderator: Jared Bland $26$12 8:30 pm WATERFRONT THEATRE $20Sara Tilley’s novel, Duke, had its genesis when Four authors whose fiction is firmly fixed in place After the resounding success of The Sistersshe discovered a trove of family journals, logbooks, and culture talk about depicting the soul of a Brothers, for which he was recognized with aletters and ledgers dating back to 1880s. Even country while also exploring universal concerns. slew of awards, Patrick deWitt is back withmore remarkable than her discovery was what Though none of their stories could take place Undermajordomo Minor. It’s as far from the Wildshe did with this raw material. Using a mask in any other country, these portraits of Haiti, West and the assassins Eli and Charlie Sisterstechnique she learned while studying to be a Vietnam, India and Jamaica are no travelogues. as you can get, but with the familiar deWittianclown, she made a papier mâche mask of her Rooted in the personal and encompassing the flare for dark comedy. Undermajordomo Minor wasgreat-grandfather, whose story she was turning political, they take you into the backstreets, the inspired by the European fables deWitt had beeninto fiction, and wore the mask to find his voice. slums, the rural Indian countryside and the storm reading to his son when he started work on theTilley describes her unique approach to writing of shellfire. Roxane Gay describes Haiti as “a new book. “They’re appealing to me,” says deWitt,and reads from Duke, while surrounded by works country of startling contrasts—so much beauty, “because a lot of them are really perverse, negativeof art produced by the Open Book Art Collective. so much brutality.” Marlon James says, “I wanted and harsh, but they often have an upliftingThe artists in the Vancouver-based collective have a picture of Jamaica that isn’t in books.” Travel message as well.” Prepare to be won over again bycreated paintings and sculptures inspired the world tonight in the company of authors who deWitt, whose new tale is an ink-black comedyby reading her novel. Clowns? Music? Expect skillfully lead the way. starring a compulsive liar, the loveless and aimlessthe unexpected! Lucien Minor.



40 SAT URDAY, OC TOB E R 24Freedom of Expression 67 Paula Hawkins in 68 The Way Forward 69 ConversationShauna Singh Baldwin, Roxane Gay, with Elaine Lui Marilyn Dumont, Wab Kinew,Lawrence Hill, Nino Ricci Tracey LindbergModerator TBA 10:30 AM 10:30 AM10:30 AM PERFORMANCE WORKS WATERFRONT THEATREGRANVILLE ISLAND STAGE $26 $20$20The 2015 murder of 12 employees of France’s Paula Hawkins, author of the runaway bestseller How can we make amends, heal our past withCharlie Hebdo magazine shocked the world. In The Girl on the Train, was once on the verge of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples and see a pathMay, a masked gang hacked a blogger to death failure. Before finding success with her addictive forward that is hopeful? One way is by continuingin Bangladesh. In Saudi Arabia, Raif Badawi thriller, Hawkins, working under a pseudonym, to listen to some of the thoughtful, eloquentwas sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 produced four commissioned books of romantic voices who can articulate the experiences oflashes for writing he posted on his blog. The fiction that never felt like her real voice. Hawkins Aboriginal generations past and present. Marilyncurrent threat to freedom of expression is not says: “The books kept getting darker and more Dumont, Métis author of The Pemmican Eaters,without controversy. Discussion over what is miserable …. I realized I do tragedy better than is an award-winning poet as well as a facultypermissible speech in a free society is vigorous and comedy.” Hawkins talks this morning with member at Athabasca University and thecontentious. Should all speech be defended in a celebrity gossip blogger and author Elaine Lui University of Alberta. Dr. Tracey Lindberg,free and democratic society? Are there reasonable about being spurred to get The Girl on the Train author of Birdie, is a Harvard grad, professor oflimits to freedom of expression? What defines right or find a new career. And about how she law and citizen of Kelly Lake Cree Nation inhate speech? How can we protect those who face feels now, with upwards of two million copies sold Alberta. Wab Kinew, host of CBC’s Canadaassassination or physical injury for expressing worldwide, to write under her own name and be Reads, is also the associate vice-president at thetheir opinions? These are tough questions for one of the best in a new generation of “domestic University of Winnipeg, author of The Reasonthis morning’s panel of thoughtful, respected noir” novelists. You Walk and the son of an Anishinaabe chief.international writers. This event is sponsored by Penguin Random House. This event is sponsored by Vancity.Up with the Birds 70 Dwelling (on) Place 71 An Unlikely Path 72Brian Brett, Steve Burrows, Lorna Crozier Patrick deWitt, Bradley Somer, Steve Burrows, Paula Hawkins,Moderator: Wayne Grady Damien Wilkins Susan Philpott, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir10:30 AM Moderator: Annabel Lyon Moderator: Lonnie PropasSTUDIO 1398 10:30 AM 2:00 pm$20 IMPROV CENTRE PERFORMANCE WORKS $20 $20Relationships between humans and birds are Tending to his new post as undermajordomo Meet four authors whose paths to becomingcenturies old, and run the gamut from fear (think at Castle Von Aux, the protagonist of Patrick successful crime writers are as full of twists asHitchcock) to imitation (think Icarus). Brian deWitt’s novel discovers the place harbours dark their novels. Steve Burrows was a travel writerBrett had a relationship with the irreverent Tuco secrets. “There was something about the ballroom,” and editor of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Societyfor more than 40 years. His African Grey parrot says one of his characters, “that had always Magazine before he took up writing “birderlived in his writing room and was “an endless bothered her.” Bradley Somer sets his novel, murder mysteries.” Paula Hawkins had beensource of inspiration,” he says, happy to ask Fishbowl, in an unremarkable apartment building a financial journalist and written four romance“Whaddya know?” and announce “Party time!” where, in the span of 30 minutes, a goldfish novels before she threw herself into writingAccomplished international birder Steve Burrows tumbling from a balcony on the 27th floor is privy the #1 New York Times bestseller of 2015, Thehas written two “birder murder” mysteries starring to stories of love, new life, death and ugly truths Girl on the Train. Susan Philpott was a socialDomenic Jejeune, an expert Canadian birder about the residents on the other side of the walls. worker assisting people living with serious mentalwho happens to be Chief Inspector with a small Max Gate, the house that novelist Thomas Hardy illnesses before she created her thriller Blown Red.English constabulary. Lorna Crozier is the author built, is also the title of Damien Wilkins’ novel. Yrsa Sigurðardóttir works as a civil engineer andof 15 books, including the poetry collections “The house was really about secrets and disguises writes children’s fiction. She’s also an internationalCrow’s Black Joy, Inventing the Hawk and Bones in and that provided a rich, emotional world,” says bestselling author whose crime novels have beenTheir Wings. Get set for a morning of—dare we Wilkins. If only these walls could talk! translated into more than 30 languages.say it?—fowl play! This event is sponsored by Tangerine Bank.

SAT URDAY, OCTO BER 24 41Elena Ferrante: a literary 73 Let Justice Be Done 74 Platforms 75mystery Joan McEwen, Lori Shenher Paige McKenzie, Elaine Lui Moderator: Sandy Garossino Moderator: Angie AbdouJohn Freeman, Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Hay 2:00 pm 2:00 pmModerator: Michael Reynolds STUDIO 1398 IMPROV CENTRE2:00 pm $20 $20WATERFRONT THEATRE$20 Ivan Henry spent 27 years behind bars for rape, declaring his innocence and fighting to haveEarly in her career, the Italian novelist writing as his case reviewed before he was granted an Elaine Lui’s blog, LaineyGossip.com, has grown“Elena Ferrante” said in a letter to her editor: “I acquittal. In her non-fiction account lawyer Joan into an empire; she appears on two daily nationalbelieve that books, once they’re written, have no need McEwen lays out how the case against Henry was television shows; a million readers a month clickof their authors. If they have something to say, they prejudiced, showing in chilling detail how this on her site; and she recently wrote her first book,will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won’t.” can happen, even in Canada. Lori Shenher was a debut memoir about her mother, who oftenFerrante has found those readers despite eschewing the first detective assigned to Vancouver’s Missing features in her blog. Paige McKenzie uploaded athe kinds of promotion associated with books and and Murdered Women Investigation. Her new 68-second video to YouTube in 2010, when shewriters; she doesn’t make public appearances and, book argues there was a “massive police failure” was 16. That video turned into a phenomenal webuntil this year, declined in-person and telephone that left women “vulnerable to a serial killer nearly series, The Haunting of Sunshine Girl, which hasinterviews. Regardless, she’s been called the most three years after [Shenher] first received a tip that more than 150,000,000 views. Now McKenzie’simportant Italian writer of her generation. Seven Pickton could be responsible.” We like to think penned the first of a three-book series of the sameof her novels are now available in English. Join justice is fair and functioning at the highest level, title. In the changing literary world, publishing isFerrante’s North American publisher Michael but get set for in-depth analyses and insights into just one of so many new ways to get the word out.Reynolds, critic John Freeman and Ferrante the frailties of systems we’re meant to trust.devotees Elizabeth Hay and Lauren Groff indiscussion and appreciation of her work, and giveyourself over to #ferrantefever.Photo by Chris Cameron

42 SAT URDAY, OCTOB E R 24Women in Peril 76 Freeman’s 77 78It’s Treacherous TerritoryElisabeth de Mariaffi, Roxane Gay, John Freeman, Daniel Galera, Laura van den Berg Farzana Doctor, Lauren Groff, Greg HollingsheadPaula Hawkins, Susan Philpott Moderator: Jared Bland Moderator: Sirish RaoModerator: Angie Abdou 5:00 PM 5:00 pm5:00 PM WATERFRONT THEATRE STUDIO 1398PERFORMANCE WORKS $20 $20$20 Critic, author, editor and Festival favourite John Writing about sex can be treacherous. DescribeFour novelists tackle the issue of violence against Freeman lives and breathes books and writers. too much and you’re up there on the “Erotica”women: kidnapping, rape, fear and abuse— The former president of the National Book shelf. Describe too little and you’re labelledand find ways to reveal women’s strength and Critics Circle, editor of the UK-based Granta repressed. Describe it badly and you’re open toresilience within these stories. Elisabeth de and author of How to Read a Novelist has a new ridicule—and possibly the dubious fame of earn-Mariaffi set her novel in the late 1980s, when project. Freeman’s is a biannual magazine of ing the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award.Paul Bernardo terrorized women in Ontario. “It unpublished fiction, non-fiction and poetry built Farzana Doctor’s character works at a Mexicanwas important to me that the book also do the around a theme. The inaugural issue showcases all-inclusive resort where her pastime of choice iswork of elegy,” says de Mariaffi, speaking about “The Best New Writing on Arrival,” and Freeman, the swingers’ scene. Lauren Groff’s Fate and Furiesthe real victims of rape and murder. Roxane Gay along with two of the authors featured, Daniel is a portrait of a modern marriage that begins withtackles kidnapping and gang rape, and the long Galera and Laura van den Berg, will launch it in two lovers on their knees in the sand “reducedjourney back to wholeness. Paula Hawkins’ The Vancouver tonight. Freeman says the magazine’s to mouths and hands.” Greg Hollingshead’sGirl on the Train includes threats and judgments ideal readers are “people who are curious, crazed collection of short stories includes strippers andmade on women as well as domestic violence. for fiction, morally engaged, disturbed by the wild nights of adultery. Three brave authors whoAnd in Susan Philpott’s thriller, two women status quo, and who want a reliable guide for the have waded into these hazardous waters converse,run from a dangerous, relentless man. There is no best writers alive.” Sounds like you, right? tongue in cheek, about writing sex.simple solution to the problem of violence againstwomen, but these novelists use fiction to put theissue on the table.The Poetry Bash 79 Stories Behind the 80 An Intimate Evening with 81 Jeff VanderMeerNicole Brossard, Marilyn Dumont, Personalities 8:00 pmUlrikka S. Gernes, Tony Hoagland, Wab Kinew, Rich Terfry STUDIO 1398 Moderator: Jerry Wasserman $26Karen Solie, Russell Thornton 8:00 pm WATERFRONT THEATRE For more than a decade Jeff VanderMeer has beenHost: Brad Cran $20 a favourite among aficionados of Weird Fiction,8:00 pm but with his Southern Reach trilogy, his workPERFORMANCE WORKS has found its way into the mainstream and onto$26 bestseller lists. The books, broadly categorized as “eco-sci-fi,” chronicle the 30-year effort by aThe Poetry Bash is an occasion to revel in the Until now, CBC personalities Wab Kinew and secret agency known as the Southern Reach tothoughtfully arranged words of some of the finest Rich Terfry have been known mostly for their explore a “mysterious, deadly, and unaccountablepoets writing today. Author of more than 30 books, activism, their music and for coaxing stories from wilderness called Area X.” While the landscape—Quebec’s Nicole Brossard reads from her latest, others. But both men have lived unusual lives and lush and teeming with life—of Area X is basedArdour. Métis poet Marilyn Dumont’s The Pemmican tonight they reveal the experiences and people on VanderMeer’s experience hiking the coastEaters revisits “the shadow side of Canada’s story.” that inspired them to write their memoirs. After of northern Florida, the idea that triggered theDenmark’s Ulrikka S. Gernes made her first his father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, trilogy grew out of a nightmare. Upon waking,appearance at the Festival in 2001; she’s back with Kinew wrote The Reason You Walk, in part a he wrote 10 single-spaced pages that became theFrayed Opus for String & Wind Instruments. One of reconciliation with the “accomplished but distant opening to his first book. Tonight, enter into AreaAmerica’s most provocative poets, Tony Hoagland Aboriginal man who’d raised him.” Terfry’s Wicked X if you dare.brings us Application for Release from the Dream. and Weird revisits his roots growing up poor inGriffin Poetry Prize winner Karen Solie reads from Nova Scotia and follows his path out of povertyher fifth collection. And Russell Thornton transports with a “killer pitching arm” and a passion forus to the Mediterranean with The Hundred Lives. music. Terfry’s alter ego is hip hop artist Buck 65.Comic, inventive, erudite and energetic, tonight’s Kinew and Terfry talk about writing the personallineup will satisfy your poetic cravings. and sharing it with the world.The Poetry Bash is supported by a generous donation This event is sponsored by Simon Fraser Universityfrom Maureen and Larry Lunn. Library Services.

43Rockwood Centre | Sechelt August 11 -14 2016 www.writersfestival.ca The Early Edition With Rick Cluff Weekdays 5 to 8:30am @CBCEarlyEdition

44 S u n day, OC TOB E R 2 5It’s Complicated 82 Getting Under Their Skins 83 Laid Bare 84Carellin Brooks, Trevor Cole, Sarah Dunant Camilla Gibb, Elaine Lui, Michael V. SmithFarzana Doctor, Sabrina Ramnanan 10:30 AM 10:30 AMModerator: Angie Abdou STUDIO 1398 IMPROV10:30 AM $20 $20WATERFRONT THEATRE$20 In this sumptuously illustrated lecture, Sarah As Isak Dinesen said, “To be a person is to have Dunant, international bestselling author of a story to tell.” Yet that story is not always easy toIn the words of Bob Marley: \"Truth is, everybody historical fiction about the Italian renaissance, tell. “Writing about oneself requires brutal honestyis going to hurt you; you just got to find the ones shares the secrets of her trade. To recreate the past and self-assessment,” says Camilla Gibb. Herworth suffering for.\" Relationships are never easy as a living, breathing place Dunant has visited memoir, This Is Happy, reveals her intense griefor without complications, perhaps that’s why churches, archives, museums and art galleries as well as tangled moments of sadness and joy,they make for great fiction. Mourning her recent all over Italy. Today she shares the story of her alienation and belonging. In Elaine Lui's Listendisastrous breakup, the narrator of Carellin Brooks’ discoveries; how the decoding of old paintings to the Squawking Chicken: a Memoir (Sort of ),One Hundred Days of Rain is rebuilding her life alongside the work of the most modern historians she contemplates her mother's unique parentingfrom the bottom up over an endless Vancouver helped her to penetrate hidden worlds inside style in all its awesomeness and imperfection,winter. Winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour the Renaissance, finding wonder and drama in and how it has affected the person Lui is today.Trevor Cole takes an innovative comic approach to ordinary lives and exploring the complexities And Michael V. Smith writes with intimacy andthe brain-versus-heart debate, creating a character of politics and religion along with emotion, the vulnerability in his memoir, My Body Is Yours,trying to revive his marriage. Farzana Doctor has senses and the heady appetites of body and soul. about his struggle to create his own definition ofcreated a character whose pastime is the swingers’ masculinity. Three brave stories from threescene; an attempt to avoid relationships altogether. brave authors.The debut novel by Sabrina Ramnanan, NothingLike Love, is an exuberant romp through the pitfallsof the misaligned and lovelorn.The Sunday Brunch 85 The Dhahan Prize 86 The Interviews 87Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Lauren Groff, Hosts: Ajmer Rode and Andreas Schroeder Brian Brett, John Colapinto, Irina KovalyovaSteven Hayward, Nino Ricci, Sigal Samuel, 2015 Prize finalists HOST: Marsha LedermanNeil Smith 1:30 pm 1:30 pmHost: Bill Richardson WATERFRONT THEATRE STUDIO 139811:00 AM Free $20Doors open at 10:30 AMPERFORMANCE WORKS The Dhahan Prize was founded in 2013 to call The Globe and Mail’s Marsha Lederman gets at the$35 greater attention to the wealth of literary works stories behind the books this afternoon. Novelist produced in Punjabi around the world. This and poet Brian Brett talks of his decades-longThe Sunday Brunch is a hallmark of the Festival, afternoon we present readings in Punjabi and relationship with Tuco, an irreverent African Greyone of the first events to sell out, and for very English by the writers shortlisted for the 2015 parrot, as well as his painful experience as a younggood reason: mimosas, croissants and coffee, not edition of this prestigious prize. Written in a androgyne. John Colapinto, novelist and staffto mention readings by six fine authors whose language that is as diverse and changing as its writer at The New Yorker, shares the backstory ofwork you may or may not have encountered, but culture, Punjabi literature describes the social, Undone, his novel rejected as too controversialwho will leave you wanting more. Come with a cultural and political lives of Punjabi speakers, by 41 publishers in the United States and everyfriend, or make a new one, and raise a glass of not only in South Asia but around the world, publisher in Europe before finding a home inbubbly to the exceptional lineup of literati set to and expresses the unique cultural ethos of this Canada. Short-story writer Irina Kovalyova, alsotake the stage. global community. Join us in celebrating the a molecular biologist and biochemist at Simon wealth of Punjabi storytelling and literature, and Fraser University, reveals the chemistry between theUnfortunately, we are unable to accommodate hear from the contenders for the 2015 Dhahan scientific and storytelling sides of her brain. Joinspecific dietary restrictions. Prize. Lederman as she skillfully guides the conversation, asking all of your questions as well as ones you Call 604-374-3274 or didn’t know you had. email [email protected] to reserve your seat.

Sun day, OCTO BER 25 45 Wherever you’re writing from...Eleven Genres Of Study | On-Campus or Online | Flexible, Comprehensive, ChallengingWrite and learn in Vancouver. Or participate in a vibrant Faculty Sara Graefe Andreas Schroederonline community from wherever you live. UBC offers Alison Acheson Wayne Grady Linda Svendsenworld-class creative writing programs at the non-credit, Deborah Campbell Nancy Lee Timothy TaylorBFA and MFA level, both at our Vancouver campus and by Kevin Chong Annabel Lyon Peggy ThompsonDistance Education from anywhere in the world. Maggie de Vries Keith Maillard Rhea TregebovJoin us. Charles Demers Maureen Medved John Vigna Steven Galloway Susan Musgrave Bryan Wadewww.creativewriting.ubc.caThe Raw Material 88 The Afternoon Tea 89Hannah Kent, Beth Powning, Sara Tilley Trevor Cole, Marina Endicott, Hannah Kent,MODERATOR: Roberta Rich Bill Richardson, Bradley Somer,1:30 pm Laura van den BergIMPROV CENTRE Host: Paul Grant$20 3:30 pm Doors open at 3:00 PMWhen writing her novel set in 1829 Iceland, PERFORMANCE WORKSHannah Kent spent six weeks holed up in $35Iceland’s national archives, museums and libraries,and visited the sites of the murder and execution Raise your pinkies for our final event of thethat are the subject of Burial Rites. Beth Powning Festival this year—an Afternoon Tea replete withtransported herself back to 17th-century England scones and Devonshire cream. And, of course,and America. “I visualize a scene in its entirety. stories! Stories funny and sad, poems from theI imagine myself, in a visceral way, to be there; I irrepressible Bill Richardson, a story that pits thesee, smell, hear.” Sara Tilley discovered a mass brain against the heart from Trevor Cole, fromof family documents—letters, logbooks, journals, a goldfish’s perspective by Bradley Somer, fromledgers—which became raw material for Duke. Iceland in 1830 by Australian Hannah Kent, aWhile research is great fun, and absolutely critical post-apocalyptic story from Laura van den Bergin getting the history “right,” the three authors and a story about self-discovery from Marinatalk about the balance between history and Endicott. Finish the 2015 Vancouver Writersimagination in the historical novel. Says Powning, Fest in grand style, in the company of enthusiastic“Too much research can kill the novel.” readers and eloquent writers. What a perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate specific dietary restrictions.

46 AU T H OR B IO GRAPHIES Jordan Abel GEORGE BOWERING BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENT 53 BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENT 10 Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer who lives in Vancouver. He holds George Bowering is a distinguished Canadian novelist, poet, a BA from the University of Alberta and an MFA from the editor, professor, historian and tireless supporter of fellow writers. University of British Columbia. His debut poetry collection, The Bowering has authored more than a hundred books and chapbooks, Place of Scraps, was awarded the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Abel including works of poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography is an editor for Poetry Is Dead magazine and the former poetry and fiction for young readers. His novel Burning Water woneditor for PRISM international. His new poetry collection is Un/inhabited. @jordoisdead, the Governor General’s Award, and his memoir, Pinboy, was shortlisted for thejordanabel.ca BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. His latest titles are 10 Women, a collection of short fiction; Writing the Okanagan, a collection of his writings about the SAMUEL ARCHIBALD Okanagan Valley; and the poetry collection The World, I Guess. @Bowering QUEBEC. EVENTS 27, 49 DAVID R. BOYD Samuel Archibald is an author and academic. His first short story BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENT 54 collection, Arvida, was a bestseller in Quebec and recently translated into English. Arvida is an unforgettable portrait of Archibald’s Dr. David R. Boyd is an environmental lawyer, professor and hometown in Quebec and is filled with stories of wild beasts and advocate for the recognition of the right to live in a healthy young girls, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses environment. Boyd is the award-winning author of seven booksand road trips heading nowhere. Archibald teaches courses on contemporary popular and more than one hundred articles. His new book, The Optimisticculture at the University of Quebec in Montreal. @ArvidaMan Environmentalist, “provides an antidote to environmental despair” by highlighting the successes of the environmental movement. He co-chairs SHAUNA SINGH BALDWIN Vancouver’s Greenest City initiative with Mayor Gregor Robertson. UNITED STATES, EVENT 67 @EnvirOptimist, davidrichardboyd.com Shauna Singh Baldwin is the author of English Lessons and Other BRIAN BRETT Stories, which was translated into 11 languages, and awarded the BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 56, 70, 87 2000 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best Book, Canada/ Caribbean region, and the novels What The Body Remembers, The Brian Brett is the former chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada Tiger Claw—which was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a journalist for four decades, but is best known as a novelist,and has been optioned for a film—and The Selector of Souls. Her short fiction, poetry, poet and memoirist. His works include Trauma Farm: A Rebeland essays have been published in literary magazines in the U.S.A., Canada, and History of Rural Life (winner of the Writers’ Trust Annual Award forIndia. ShaunaSinghBaldwin.com, @SSinghBaldwin Best Canadian Non-Fiction Book) and Uproar’s Your Only Music, which Ronald Wright called, “The most exciting Canadian book I’ve read all year.” Sara Blaedel Brett’s new memoir is Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and a Scattershot World. DENMARK, EVENTS 15, 31 CARELLIN BROOKS Dubbed the “Queen of Crime” in Denmark, Sara Blaedel is one of BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENT 82 that country’s most successful crime writers and the author of seven bestselling novels featuring police detective Louise Rick. Her novels Carellin Brooks is a Rhodes Scholar and the author of fresh are published in 17 countries and appear in 15 languages, and the hell: motherhood in pieces, Every Inch a Woman and Wreck Beach. rights for the Louise Rick series have been optioned for film. Her Her new novel is One Hundred Days of Rain. Brooks co-editednew novel is The Forgotten Girls. She lives north of Copenhagen with her family. the anthologies Carnal Nation and Bad Jobs. She is the winner@sarablaedel, sarablaedel.hbgusa.com of the Books in Canada Student Writing Award for poetry, the Cassell/Pink Paper Lesbian Writing Award for non-fiction and the Institute for ÉDITH BOURGET Contemporary Arts New Blood Award for prose. @carellinb, carellinbrooks.com NEW BRUNSWICK, EVENTS 7, 20 NOUVEAU-BRUNSWICK, ÉVÉNEMENTS 7 ET 20 NICOLE BROSSARD QUEBEC, EVENTS 53, 79 Artiste effervescente, Édith Bourget écrit, peint, voyage. Elle rêve de paix et souhaite que ses mots et ses tableaux contribuent à alléger des Nicole Brossard is a poet, novelist and essayist who has published cœurs. Depuis plusieurs années, Mme Bourget se consacre à l’écriture, more than 30 books, including These Our Mothers, Lovhers, Mauve et à la création d’expositions multidisciplinaires amalgamant tableaux, Desert and Baroque at Dawn. Her new poetry collection is Ardour.poèmes, performance et installation. Elle voyage beaucoup et participe de façon She co-founded La Barre du Jour and La Nouvelle Barre du Jour,régulière à des festivals et des tournées, autant au Canada qu’à l’étranger. two important literary journals in Quebec. Brossard has won two Governor General’s Literary Awards for Poetry, as well as le Prix Athanase-DavidÉdith Bourget writes, paints and travels. She dreams of peace and hope that and the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize. @NicBrossardher words and her paintings will help to lighten the hearts. Bourget travels alot and regularly participates in festivals and tours, both in Canada and abroad.She constantly challenges herself and loves to discover new places which allows her tobetter understand the world she lives in.

AU T HOR BIOG RAP H IES 47 STEVE BURROWS Ap e Ri g T ONTARIO, EVENTS 70, 72 Th s y A ’S w : Steve Burrows has pursued his birdwatching hobby on five continents Mi h Ll Ul e and is the author of A Siege of Bitterns and A Pitying of Doves, which follow the adventures of Domenic Jejeune, a detective whose extensive Author of Trash Talk knowledge of birds comes in handy when investigating the murder of an ecological activist and the theft of a pair of turtle doves. Burrows is Da r N r Ha former editor of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society Magazine and a contributing fieldeditor for Asian Geographic. @birddetective Author of Are You Seeing Me? GIUSEPPE CATOZZELLA ITALY, EVENTS 12, 48 Giuseppe Catozzella has published four plays; two collections of short stories, The Life Cycle of Fish and Fuego; and the novels Explants and Hive. His new novel, Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid, addresses the plight of refugees in the Mediterranean through the eyes of Samia Yusuf Omar, a young Somalian athlete who embarks on a perilous journey to Italy inorder to escape the violence in Somalia and train for the 2012 Olympics. giuseppecatozzella.it,@gcatozzellaGiuseppe Catozzella's appearance is made possible by the Consulate General of Italy in Vancouverand Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto. MICHEL CHIKWANINE ONTARIO, EVENTS 1, 21 Michel Chikwanine, a former child soldier, was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and grew up amid the terror of the Great War of Africa. He is now an accomplished motivational speaker, addressing audiences across North America. He leaves people with a new perspective on life, a sense of hope through social responsibility, and adesire for change. His book is Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War.@michelchikwan JILLIAN CHRISTMAS BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 5, 16, 39 Jillian Christmas is the Artistic Director of the Verses Festival of Words. She is an enthusiastic organizer and activist in the Canadian arts community and strives to encourage the use of anti-oppression initiatives in spoken word. She has participated in, developed, and executed programs in partnership with Toronto Poetry Project, Wordplay, BrendanMcLeod’s Travelling Slam and the Cultch, and facilitated spoken word workshops foryouth and adults across the country. @Haiklue JOHN COLAPINTO UNITED STATES, EVENTS 25, 44, 87 John Colapinto is an award-winning journalist who has written for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Esquire, Mademoiselle and Us Weekly. During his time as a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, he wrote the landmark National Magazine Award–winning article that was the basis for his book As Nature Made Him. He is also the author of the novels About theAuthor and Undone, his newest work. He lives in New York City. @JohnColapinto

48 AU T H OR B IO GRAPHIES TREVOR COLE ELISABETH DE MARIAFFI ONTARIO, EVENTS 33, 82, 89 NEWFOUNDLAND & Labrador, EVENTS 11, 15, 76 Trevor Cole burst onto the literary scene in 2004 with Norman Elisabeth de Mariaffi is the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated Bray in the Performance of His Life which was lauded by a number author of one book of short stories, How To Get Along With Women, of Canadian and international awards committees. Since then, Cole and a novel, The Devil You Know, which has received rave reviews has written Practical Jean, The Fearsome Particles and, his latest novel, and been optioned for TV by New Metric Media. De Mariaffi Hope Makes Love, which tells the tale of Zep Baker, a major league now makes her home in St. John’s with poet George Murray, theirbaseball player, and his unexpected partnership with Hope, a neuroscientist who combined four children and a border collie. @ElisabethdeM, elisabethdemariaffi.comoffers to help Zep revive his marriage. @trevor_cole, trevorcole.com CHARLES DEMERS DAVID CONSTANTINE BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 45, 56 UNITED KINGDOM, EVENTS 12, 52, 60 Charles Demers is an author, stand-up comedian and adjunct David Constantine is an award-winning short story writer, professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia. poet and translator. His collections of poetry include The Pelt of His collection of essays, Vancouver Special, was shortlisted for the Wasps, Something for the Ghosts (shortlisted for the Whitbread Hubert Evans BC Book Prize for Non-Fiction. He is also the Poetry Prize), Nine Fathom Deep and The Elder. He is the author author of a novel, The Prescription Errors. His new book is The of one novel, Davies, and has published four collections of short Horrors: An A to Z of Funny Thoughts on Awful Things. He has performed for nationalstories, including Tea at the Midland and Other Stories, the winner of the 2013 Frank television and radio audiences and at the Just For Laughs Festival. He is one of theO’Connor International Short Story Award. In Another Country: Selected Stories spans most frequently returning stars of CBC Radio’s smash-hit comedy show The Debaters.Constantine’s 30-year career and marks the first publication of his work in North Demers lives in Vancouver. @charliedemersAmerica. PATRICK DEWITT LORNA CROZIER UNITED STATES/CANADA, EVENTS 66, 71 BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 28, 40, 70 Patrick deWitt is an internationally-acclaimed novelist and Lorna Crozier has received numerous awards—including the screenwriter. His first novel, Ablutions, was named a New York Governor General’s Literary Award—for her 15 books of poetry Times Editors’ Choice. Only two years later, his sophomore novel, which include The Blue Hour of the Day, What the Living Won’t Let The Sisters Brothers, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, a Go, Everything Arrives at the Light and Inventing the Hawk. She is Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Leacock also the author of the memoir Small Beneath the Sky and the editor Medal for Humour. His highly-anticipated new novel, Undermajordomo Minor isof several anthologies. Her new books are a poetry collection, The Wrong Cat, and slated for simultaneous publication in Canada, the United Kingdom and the Uniteda collaborative work with nature photographer and conservationist Ian McAllister States.titled The Wild in You. lornacrozier.ca FARZANA DOCTOR CRAIG DAVIDSON ONTARIO, EVENTS 78, 82 ONTARIO, EVENTS 11, 27 Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based author of two novels, Stealing Craig Davidson is the author of the short story collection Rust Nasreen and Six Metres of Pavement, which won a Lambda Literary and Bone and the novels The Fighter and Cataract City, which Award and was shortlisted for a Toronto Book Award. She was was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Davidson is also named one of CBC Books’ “Ten Canadian Women Writers You the mind behind Nick Cutter, a pseudonym under which he has Need to Read Now” and was the recipient of the Writers’ Trust of published three bone-chilling works of horror fiction, The Troop, The Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Grant. She curates the Brockton Writers Series. Her thirdDeep, and The Acolyte, his latest book. @TheNickCutter, craigdavidson.net novel is All Inclusive. @farzanadoctor, farzanadoctor.com TJ DAWE MARILYN DUMONT BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 16, 33, 39 ALBERTA, EVENTS 53, 69, 79 TJ Dawe is a multi-talented writer and performer who has been Marilyn Dumont has won provincial and national awards for her lighting up Canadian stages ever since he first toured the Canadian poetry, including the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award presented Fringe circuit as a university student. His plays have been performed by the League of Canadian Poets and the Stephan G. Stephansson and published across North America and he is well known for his Award from the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. She has been the writer- solo shows, including Tired Cliches, Totem Figures and Medicine. In in-residence at five Canadian universities and the Edmonton Public2010, the Canadian Theatre Review called Dawe, “Canada’s most prolific writer of Library, as well as an advisor in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program at theautobiographical monologues.” @TJ_Dawe, tjdawe.ca Banff Centre. Her latest collection is The Pemmican Eaters, which explores the Riel Resistance period. @DumontMarilynd

AU T HOR BIOG RAP H IES 49 SARAH DUNANT UNITED KINGDOM. EVENTS 32, 83 Sarah Dunant is the author of the international bestseller The Birth of Venus, which has received major worldwide acclaim, In the Company of the Courtesan, Sacred Hearts and the Hannah Wolfe crime series. In Dunant’s latest work, Blood and Beauty, she turns her attention to the infamous Borgia family. Dunant teaches renaissance studies at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, and lectures on creative writing for The Faber Academy andOxford Brooks University. sarahdunant.com, @sarahdunant MARINA ENDICOTT ALBERTA/ONTARIO, EVENTS 57, 89 Marina Endicott began her career as an actor and director before publishing her first novel, Open Arms, which was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Her second novel, Good to a Fault, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a CBC Radio’s Canada Reads book, and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. The LittleShadows, longlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize, was shortlisted for the Governor General’sLiterary Award for Fiction. Her new novel is Close to Hugh. @marinaendicott, marinaendicott.com SAL FERRERAS BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENT 62 Sal Ferreras is a percussionist, producer and event organizer who works in many facets of the Canadian music scene. He is a member of the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame and has had his very own star on Granville Street entertainment district since 2002. He was awarded the City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award in Music in 2010. He has a Ph.D. inEthnomusicology from UBC and is Provost and Vice President Academic of KwantlenPolytechnic University. Sal has directed the Literary Cabaret since 1989, and he and hisall-star band, Poetic License, consider it one of the highlights of their musical year. JOHN FREEMAN UNITED STATES, EVENTS 73, 77 John Freeman is an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications including The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of The Tyranny of E-mail, How to Read a Novelist and the editor of Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s NewYork. His latest project is Freeman’s, an anthology-style publication born of a partnershipbetween Grove/Atlantic and the New School. @FreemanReads ALEJANDRO FRID BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENT 54 Dr. Alejandro Frid is an ecologist and activist whose research ranges from conflicts between industrial development and terrestrial wildlife to the plight of endangered species and the effects of overfishing on marine predators. Through his work with Indigenous communities along BC’s coast, Frid has explored the intersections of science, modern Indigenouscultures and climate activism. His first book, A World for My Daughter, combines thevoices of a scientist and a concerned parent to lead readers to imagine their own role inpreserving our planet. alejandrofridecology.weebly.com

5 0 AU T H OR B IO GRAPHIES 50theSFU library is DANIEL GALERA turning BRAZIL, EVENTS 62, 77 At the heart of the University, the SFU Library is dedicated to Daniel Galera is a Brazilian writer and translator who has published providing acess to collections, four novels, Until the Day the Dog Died, Horse Hands, Mountain Range services and facilities of the and Blood-Drenched Beard, to great acclaim. The latter was awarded the highest possible quality in 2013 São Paulo Literature Prize. He has translated the work of Zadie support of the learning, Smith, John Cheever and David Mitchell into Portuguese. In 2013, research and communityGranta named Galera one of the best young Brazilian novelists. @ranchocarne engagement goals of Simon Fraser University. ROXANE GAY UNITED STATES, EVENTS 65, 67, 76 8888 University Dr Roxane Gay is a Haitian-American writer, professor, editor, blogger Burnaby, BC and commentator whose writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Stories 2012, The New York Help us shape Times Book Review, Time, and many others. She is the co-editor of PANK the next 50 years and the author of Ayiti, a short story collection, and Bad Feminist, anessay collection. Her first novel, An Untamed State, delves into the issues of sexual violence, By donating to SFU library, you can helprace and privilege through the eyes of a Haitian-American woman who is kidnapped by a shape the next 50 years of SFU’s success,group of men. @rgay, roxanegay.com and make a powerful difference to young people and our communities. KALLIE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENT 38 www.lib.sfu.ca/advancement Kallie George is an author, editor, speaker and instructor of creative writing workshops. She has a master’s degree in children’s literature from the University of British Columbia. George’s first book Clover’s Luck— the opener of the enchanting Magical Adoption Agency series—features Clover, an unlucky girl who discovers a magical cottage in the woodswhich is home to fairy horses, unicorns and a fiery dragon. kalliegeorge.com ULRIKKA S. GERNES DENMARK, EVENTS 53, 79 Ulrikka S. Gernes’ first poetry collection, Natsværmer (Moth), was published when she was 18 years old. Since then, she has published an additional 10 collections. She is also the author of two books for children, many short stories and songs, and various contributions to literary anthologies, art catalogues, magazines, newspapers and Danish nationalradio. A Sudden Sky: Selected Poems, translated into English by Per Brask and PatrickFriesen, was published by Brick Books. Frayed Opus for String & Wind Instruments is thesecond translation of Gernes’ work published by Brick Books.Ulkrikka S. Gernes' appearance is made possible by the Danish Arts Foundation. CAMILLA GIBB ONTARIO, EVENTS 56, 84 Camilla Gibb’s first novel, Mouthing the Words, won the City of Toronto Book Award. Her second novel, The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life, was selected by The Globe and Mail as one of the best books of the year. Gibb’s third bestselling novel, Sweetness in the Belly, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Gibb lives in Toronto, where she serves as vice-president of PEN Canada and writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto. Her newbook is a memoir called This Is Happy. @camilla_gibb, camillagibb.ca