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Upcoming Deadline: The Malahat Review’s “Queer Perspectives” Issue
The Malahat Review invites writers identifying as LGBTQ2S? to submit their work for consideration for an issue celebrating contemporary queer writing in Canada! Guest editors Ali Blythe, Trevor...

Chelene Knight Named Executive Director of Word Vancouver Festival
Chelene Knight, acclaimed poet and memoirist, has been appointed as the new executive director of the Word Vancouver festival, Western Canada's largest free festival of reading and writing. Knight...

VMI Alumna Jan Redford Publishes Memoir with Penguin Random House
Jan Redford, Vancouver Manuscript Intensive alumna, has published her memoir, End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood with Penguin Random House. Hearty congratulations to Jan! The...

Betsy Warland to Edit The Malahat Review’s “Queer Perspectives” issue
The Malahat Review invites writers identifying as LGBTQ2S? to submit their work for consideration for an issue celebrating contemporary queer writing in Canada! Guest editors Ali Blythe, Trevor...

Betsy Warland on Panels at Growing Room 2018
Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Festival returns from March 1-4, 2018 at various venues in Vancouver, BC. Betsy Warland will be at Growing Room on Saturday and Sunday, where she will be...

Making Your Writing Fly: A Self-editing Workshop with Betsy Warland
This summer, Betsy offers "Making Your Writing Fly," a self-editing workshop for prose and poetry, presented by Island Mountain Arts. Effectively self-editing your work before you send it out to an...

Experiments in Creative Non-Fiction with Betsy Warland
Canadian Authors presents "Experimenting with the Potentials of Creative Non-Fiction," a reading and talk by Betsy Warland, essayist, poet, and founder of The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser...

Spring Workshop: West Coast Writers Urban Retreat with Betsy Warland
West Coast Writers is pleased to announce our upcoming urban retreat: a day-long intensive with critically acclaimed poet and author, Betsy Warland. Navigating contradictions, the unknown, or the...
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