Psychiatrist and UBC professor Dr. Joanna Cheek joins us to offer a survival guide of personal and collective mental health tools for our disordered world, in conversation with world renowned physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté. Feb 25 on Granville Island: 🎟️ writersfest.bc.ca/event/joanna...

Incite—our free event series presented in partnership with VPL—returns on February 10, 2026 with @maggiehelwig.bsky.social, author of the 2025 Toronto Book Award winner, Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community. writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite...

I'm giving away a pair of tickets to this @writersfest.bc.ca event on January 21st with pulmyears.bsky.social Paul Myers, author of John Candy: A Life in Comedy #vancouver

Books & Ideas returns to Granville Island in the new year with headliner cultural icons. Paul Myers join us with John Candy: A Life in Comedy, in conversation with Charlie Demers. Jan 21 at the Revue Stage on Granville Island. writersfest.bc.ca/event/paul-m...

The Digital Festival is live NOW! For a limited time, watch highlights from #VWF2025 online. Featuring 26 full-length events, the Digital Festival offers hours of entertainment and inspiration. 🎟️ Sliding scale pricing. Get your pass at writersfest.bc.ca

A remarkable and memorable @writersfest.bc.ca evening, featuring @margaretatwood.bsky.social in a lively conversation with @caroloff.bsky.social - it's an evening that I'll remember forever. I can't wait to read her book and learn more about her life 📚

Fits perfectly in a stocking or can be sent anywhere in the world with the click of a button—Our Digital Festival is on sale now! It’s binge-watching for book lovers! Give the gift of books, ideas and dialogue this holiday.

Presenting the VWF Digital Festival lineup—including many events that were sold out at #VWF2025! 📚 From December 16, 2025 to February 2, 2026, watch 26 full-length events online, from anywhere in the world. View the full details and get your pass: writersfest.bc.ca/event/digita...

🖥️ Passes are on sale now for the Digital Festival! Get front-row, online access to the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest. 📚✨ Sliding scale pricing; visit our website to view all the details and get your pass. Watch on your own schedule from anywhere, Dec 16 – Feb 2. writersfest.bc.ca/event/digita...

Sometimes there is crying in baseball. #bluejays❤️

There are tickets remaining for plenty of events at this year’s Festival, but don’t delay! Visit writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva... to save your seat at the literary event of the year.

There are 2 days to go until the start of #VWF2025, and 20 events at the Festival are now sold out! Thank you to our engaged and curious attendees; year after year, you show us how much books and meaningful dialogue matter in our city. 💛

This year’s Vancouver Writers Fest features an electrifying slate of 130 authors from Canada and around the world, including bestselling novelists, poets, memoirists and thought leaders. #TyeePresents #Sponsored thetyee.ca/Presents/202...

We’re thrilled to share that Festival friend and author Elamin Abdelmahmoud is the winner of this year’s Max Wyman Award in Critical Writing, which will be presented to him on October 24 at #VWF2025 event 51. Elbows Up. writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...

VIFF @viffest.bsky.social begins tomorrow! Spanning 172 features • 97 shorts • 128+ premieres (26 world) #VIFF2025 connects audiences with bold stories and visionary creators from around the world, Oct 2–12. Learn more and explore the full lineup: viff.org/festival #VIFF2025

On Oct 23, The Poetry Bash is an iconic event for poetry connoisseurs and newcomers to the genre alike. Presented in partnership with Vancouver Poetry House and hosted by VPH Artistic Director Johnny Trinh. writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...

🎟️ Tickets are on sale NOW for all events at the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest! 🎟️ writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva... #VWF2025 takes place from October 20–26, featuring over 130 authors in 87 events to spark empathy, action, and transformation. Join us on Granville Island and beyond.

One of the world's bravest writers, Arundhati Roy, is in town to speak with Naomi Klein tonight at the Vancouver Playhouse. It's a @writersfest.bc.ca event. Learn more about her and her new memoir in this @pancouver.bsky.social article: pancouver.ca/arundhati-ro...

Reminded today of a little game I’d play with my (single) mom as a child. She’d leave a grocery list on the counter that we’d contribute to over the week. I’d always add “Robert Redford” for her, and “golden retriever” for me. She never did come home with Robert but one day I came home to a doggo ❤️

Tickets are on sale now for #VWF2025, which kicks off with the Alma Lee Opening Night event on Oct 20, presented with @createastir.ca. Notable Canadian authors illuminate who we are—and who we could be, if we commit to protecting this country and making it better. writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...

Tickets for our flagship Festival go on sale tomorrow at 10am! 📣 Thousands of tickets have already been snapped up during the Member pre-sale. We recommend exploring the program and building your schedule now, to avoid missing out on your top pick events!  writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...

🔥 HOT TICKET ALERT🔥 Vancouver @writersfest.bc.ca tickets go on Member-sale tomorrow, including tickets to hear this remarkable icon of Canadian letters, @margaretatwood.bsky.social on December 9, in conversation with @caroloff.bsky.social 📕”Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts” #McClelland&Stewart

Our amazing volunteers have been dropping off #VWF2025 Program Guides at friendly stores and venues all across Metro Vancouver. Here’s where you can find one! Don’t forget, our website has the latest event updates: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...

Looking for an antidote to the piling-on of dreadful news? Join us for a festival of insightful dialogue with a world of exceptional writers. It’s a balm and a blast. 🩷📚💥 Tickets on sale next week!

Before I began working at the Festival, I volunteered—Hands down my favourite week of the year! Join us! 😀💫📚

Mel died 9 years ago today. He’d be apoplectic with frustration if he were here to witness the unraveling of…everything. His books are more relevant today than ever. ❤️🇨🇦 thetyee.ca/Books/2008/0...

I’m giddy with anticipation for our 38th annual October Festival! Just look at these authors and books! 🤩📚 Full program announced at the end of August and tickets on sale in September!

Watch this to the end.

Naomi Klein, Madeleine Thien, Deborah Cowen and Kyo Maclear call out the Canadian government's "special" program to help evacuate Palestinians in Gaza as a "cruel taunt." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

It’s a good time to remind @mark-carney.bsky.social & @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social about the importance of investing in arts & culture which accounts for 3.2% of all jobs in 🇨🇦, and 63.2B in GDP. Moreover, if ever there was time to protect the arts in Canada, it’s now. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Hey Alberta! We need to encourage our children to read a multitude of books that are relevant to them, and the complex issues they encounter as they grow- Bcs most of the $hit they get online is a hell of a lot more damaging than books your local librarian is curating! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time,” proclaims Naomi Klein. Hear both of these revolutionary authors and activists in a rare conversation on Sept 17, presented with @ccj-ubc.bsky.social and Indian Summer Festival. Get your tickets:

“we are ignoring the collapse of the international system that has defined our lives for generations at our own collective peril.” ‼️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

More of this!

This year marks the 40th anniversary of The Canadian Encyclopedia 🇨🇦 www.thestar.com/opinion/elam...

We’re excited to share this list of exceptional books and authors (with more still to come) and to announce our 2025 Guest Curator, Canisia Lubrin! 📚 Join us this fall for Special Events and our flagship Festival, October 20-26.

We closed out the inaugural season of Books & Ideas last night with a brilliant conversation featuring Robert Macfarlane. With nine Books & Ideas events wrapped up, we’re moving full steam ahead, with much enthusiasm and exhilaration, towards the 2025 Festival!

We can respond to Trump’s threats and build a strong and resilient economy without undermining our democratic values, environmental protections, and Indigenous rights.

Beginning to see some of the back-room-talk results from the *rump/Carney meeting. With G7 and NATO meetings on the horizon are Canadians ready for the deals that lead to a more militarized Canada, including reducing rights for asylum seekers, and privacy of Cdns in the name of “safer borders”?

“I’m interested in something else: that moment when the shock fades and the (figurative) show goes on.” We can’t let the shock fade. Stay shocked! There is seemingly no end to the issues we should be feeling rocked by. Don’t let yourself begin to think they’re normal.

This Thursday in Vancouver, May 22 2025, 7:30 p.m. Join us to celebrate short stories! @writersfest.bc.ca

Hurrah for this masterpiece of a novel! Congratulations #MichaelCrummey!

It seems like an important time to remind Canadians about this book: quillandquire.com/review/rushi...

It’s been an unforgettable inaugural season of Books & Ideas, and we’re honoured to close the 2025 series in the company of bestselling author and naturalist Robert Macfarlane, joining us with his new book, Is a River Alive? on June 18. 🎟️ Click here to grab your tickets: buff.ly/8z0fcMm

Just announced: Scott Turow, #1 bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, joins us with his highly anticipated new court drama, Presumed Guilty — June 3 in conversation with @susinnielsen.bsky.social at the Granville Island Stage. Tickets: writersfest.bc.ca/event/scott-...

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

he should have done the hip flip

You can donate to support the BC Filipino community here: filipinobc.com/donate

Happy Independent Booksellers Day! There are a lot of fun events happening across the country today—Go buy some books and meet some authors! Photo of my mom and dad (at Hurtig Books in Edmonton, circa 1957).

How to turn an esteemed Canadian poetry prize into something irrelevant to Canadians.