True Stories: In-Person Creative Nonfiction Night

I’m glad to share an upcoming evening dedicated to creative nonfiction in Vancouver. On Thursday, May 28 at 7:00 pm, the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society is hosting a reading at Notional Space (1523 E Pender St). Doors open at 6:30 pm, and refreshments will...

Mental Health Awareness Month Reading — May 6

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I’m glad to be part of an upcoming evening of readings at Book Warehouse on Main Street. On May 6, contributors to Off the Map: Vancouver Writers With Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues will share work across...

Tapping the Stream: Summer Writing Retreat – July 4–10, 2026

I’m pleased to be co-facilitating Tapping the Stream, a six-day summer writing retreat with Shaena Lambert at Hollyhock. This immersive retreat is designed to give you uninterrupted time to focus on a work in progress while engaging deeply with craft and community....

New Review of Off the Map in The BC Review

I’m grateful to The BC Review for this generous and thoughtful review by Lee Reid of OFF THE MAP: Vancouver Writers with Lived Experiences of Mental Health Issues, which I co-edited with Seema Shah and Kate Bird. The review engages deeply with the collection’s scope,...

Incite: Maggie Helwig on Encampment

Incite—our free event series presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library—returns on February 10, 2026 with Maggie Helwig, author of the 2025 Toronto Book Award winner, Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community. The housing crisis plaguing...

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