EVENTS

PAST EVENTS ARCHIVE

Off the Shelf Reading Series

Part 1

Featuring:
Brandi Bird
Wayde Compton

September 27, 2024
Doors: 6:30 pm
Event: 7 pm

SFU Belzberg Library
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 Hastings St.

Off the Shelf Reading Series

Part 2

Featuring:
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Chris Turnbull
Giorgio Magnanensi

October 25, 2024
Doors: 6:30 pm
Event: 7 pm

SFU Belzberg Library
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 Hastings St.

Off the Shelf Reading Series

Part 3

Featuring:
Catriona Strang
Phinder Dulai

November 29, 2024
Doors: 6:30 pm
Event: 7 pm

SFU Belzberg Library
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 Hastings St.

Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading

Featuring Liz Howard

With Special Guests:
Selina Boan
Sophie McCall
June Scudeler

Saturday April 13, 2024
Doors: 6:30 pm
Event: 7-9 pm

SFU Segal Building (RM G1300)
500 Granville St., Vancouver

Light Refreshments Served

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Announcing Our New Reading Series

Come to our inaugural reading with Mackenzie Ground and Fred Wah!

Mackenzie Ground is a nehiyawiskwew and a writer from Enoch maskekosihk Cree Nation and Edmonton amiskwacîwâskahikan, Alberta. She is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University. Her writing has appeared The Capilano Review, The Denver Quarterly, and C Magazine among others.

Fred Wah is a B.C. poet and who been writing and publishing since the early 1960’s. His early work is collected in Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962-1991. More recently is a collaboration with Rita Wong, beholden: a poem as long as the river and a series of improvisations, Music at the Heart of Thinking.

Time 7 pm
Date April 26
Location: SFU Belzberg Library
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St.

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FIRST ANNUAL Phyllis Webb MEMORIAL READING

Featuring CECILY NICHOLSON!

With special guests Junie Désil, Otoniya J Okot Bitek, and Stephen Collis

6 April 2023, 7-9PM
SFU Segal Building, room SG1300, 500 Granville Street, Vancouver

The Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading honours a Canadian poet with a cash award and a celebration of their work. This event will occur each April and will be organized and administered by the Poetry in Canada Society.

Mid-Summer Write-a-Thon

  • Tuesday, July 16, 2024

  • 9:30 AM 4:30 PM

We are excited to spend a day dedicated to writing and inspiration notes, especially mid-summer when we hopefully are well rested/relaxed/tanned, capped off with an open mic that celebrates the talent of writers among us.


SCHEDULE:

(9:30-2:30—PST— writing/inspiration) (3:30-4:30—PST—open mic) 

9:30-9:45        Welcome! Inspiration note with Kerry Gilbert and Renée Sarojini Saklikar
9:45-11:00      Writing Session #1 (1 hour writing session with 15-minute break)
11:00-11:15    Inspiration note with Stephen Collis
11:15-12:15    Writing Session #2 (1 hour writing session)

12:15-12:45    lunch (on your own)

12:45-1:00      Inspiration note with Juliane Okot Bitek
1:00-2:15        Writing Session #3 (1 hour writing session with 15-minute break)
2:15-2:30        Inspiration note with Theresa Rogers & Conclusion

2:30-3:30        Afternoon Tea/Dinner Break (on your own)

3:30-4:30        Open Mic hosted by Isabella Wang