Granville Island Stage

Bestselling author Mirima Towes (A Complicated Kindness and Summer of My Amazing Luck) will read from her new book, The Flying Troutmans.
Joan Barfoot, author of the Giller shortlisted Luck, will read from her new novel Exit Lines.

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

A hugely popular Festival event returns with three
fresh voices. Local spoken word virtuoso, Shane
Koyczan, has brought audiences to their feet in
New York, London, Edinburgh, Sydney, Auckland,
and Los Angeles. Miles Merrill’s ... (more)voice is heard
throughout his native Australia, flinging words in an
onslaught of versification. Kinnie Starr is a musician
who has taken her band and words on the road
internationally. Together, their energy will rock the
stage as they explore everything from harsh social
issues to broken hearts.
(This event is repeated on
Thursday afternoon, Event 28)
$14 + $2 facilit y surcharge / $7 for student groups

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

When we read, we can be given the gift of dwelling
in historical or fantasy worlds for a short while,
worlds of “far away” or “long ago” that only
readers can travel to. In Elizabeth Knox’s far-away
world, dreamhunters ... (more)traffic in dreams, harvesting
dreams from the unsuspecting and performing
them for eager audiences, until a nightmare is
performed with dire consequences. In the long-ago
world of Possession, a battle, quite literally for all
time, concludes Chris Humphreys’ historical trilogy,
the Runestone Saga. Take a trip this morning to
worlds where anything can happen,
or might have happened, and the
impossible becomes more possible
with the turn of each page.
Suitable for grades 8 to12
$14 + $2 facility surcharge / $7 for student groups

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

A hugely popular Festival event returns with three
fresh voices. Local spoken word virtuoso, Shane
Koyczan, has brought audiences to their feet in
New York, London, Edinburgh, Sydney, Auckland,
and Los Angeles. Miles Merrill’s ... (more)voice is heard
throughout his native Australia, flinging words in an
onslaught of versification. Kinnie Starr is a musician
who has taken her band and words on the road
internationally. Together, their energy will rock the
stage as they explore everything from harsh social
issues to broken hearts.
(This event is repeated on
Wednesday morning, Event 10)
This event is generously supported
by the Hamber Foundation
Suitable for grades 10 to 12 and adults
$14 + $2 facility surcharge / $7 for student groups

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

Crime fiction is an equal-opportunity genre.
It’s all-inclusive—from hard-boiled mysteries
featuring gun-toting molls, to comedic capers,
to gritty realistic tales that take on hard-edged
social issues. Crime fiction also ... (more)makes room
for all kinds of brilliant writers. Led by Festival
favourite Mark Billingham, the gang will
talk about whose fictional footprints they are
following and how they sleuthed out their
literary voices.
$14+ $2 facility surcharge / $7 for student groups

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

One of the best ways to make sense of your
life is to pin it to paper, to write about it till
patterns emerge. Memoir, the literary essay
or, in Andreas Schroeder’s case, adding a
light veneer of fiction, are the ways in ... (more)which
these four authors have chosen to explore the
significant events of their lives. But writing
your life leads not only to insights, but also to
questions of self-exposure, how much care
you must take in writing about others, and the
central concern about what is true and what can
be imaginatively recreated. Join
these fine writers as they expose
how they transform their “stuff
of life” into literature.
$14 + $2 facility surcharge / $7 student groups