Please join us for a two-day Fraser Valley Literary Festival, which runs November 3-4, 2022. This event will include inspiring and award-winning authors on writing, craft, and the writing life in contemporary Canada!
About this event
Thurs, Nov 3 (4 pm)
Fri, Nov 4 (12 pm).
Student Union Building, Evered Hall Middle (S1116), Abbotsford Campus.
Panelist program
Thurs, Nov 3
Doors open at 3:30 pm. The event starts at 4 pm with a light reception to follow.
Keynote Speakers:
Jordan Abel — Award-winning Nisga’a writer, including Un/inhabited, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. https://www.jordanabel.ca
Marsha Lederman — Author of Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust Once Removed, and the Globe and Mail’s Western Arts correspondent. https://www.marshalederman.ca
Harrison Mooney — An award-winning writer and journalist and UFV alumnus, and the author of the memoir Invisible Boy, about growing up adopted and Black in a white Christian family in the Fraser Valley.
@HarrisonMooney
Fri, Nov 4
Doors open at 11:45 am. Event starts at 12 pm and runs to 3:15 pm with light refreshments served in between panels.
Panels:
Panel 1: Lie to Me: Truth and Fiction in Writing (Moderator: Harrison Mooney) 12-1:30 pm
Gurjinder Basran — Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her debut novel Everything Was Goodbye. https://www.gurjinderbasran.ca/
Carlie Blume — Author of Gigglepuss, and a graduate of Simon Fraser University’s The Writers Studio @carliejblume
Alicia Elliott — Winner of the National Magazine Awards for A Mind Spread Out On The Ground and RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Awards.
Shawn Hitchins — A Toronto-based comedian, actor, and prolific author.
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Panel 2: The Fantastic & the Mundane: Symbolism in the Everyday Panel (Moderator: Marsha Lederman) 1:45-3:15 pm
Tawahum Bige — A Łutselkʼe Dene, Plains Cree poet and spoken word artist.
https://tawahum.com
Curtis LeBlanc — Author of Good for Nothing and Little Wild.
https://cwleblanc.com/
Annick MacAskill — Author of three poetry collections and finalist for various literary honours including the CBC Poetry Prize. https://annickmacaskill.com/
Isabella Wang — Author of the chapbook On Forgetting a Language and the youngest writer to be shortlisted for the New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest.
For more info on each panelist, please visit our social media sites:
Facebook: Fraser Valley Literary Festival
Twitter: @FVLitFest
Instagram: fvlitfest
Thurs, Nov 3 (4 pm) and Fri, Nov 4 (12-3:15 pm)
Student Union Building, UFV Abbotsford Campus
For more information, contact Hardeep Kaur at hardeep.kaur@ufv.ca
11/04/2022