🎁 Give the gift of literature! Gift certificates available.

🎧 Buy a regular price pass pass and get a free audiobook from @libro.fm

💛 Presented in partnership with BCIT School of Business + Media and @libro.fm, and with the generous support of Hotfusion Communications Inc.

We can’t wait to close out the year with the queen of CanLit herself. Margaret Atwood joins us in Vancouver on December 9 at the Orpheum. 🌟

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R. F. Kuang photos by Rick Lee
Chris Hadfield photos by Paola Tolentino

📣 Even better news: You’ll be able to watch the entire recording of Lyrics Night, along with 25 other outstanding events from the 2025 Festival, in the online Digital Festival this winter!

Details and passes for the Digital Festival will be released later this month.

Photo: The 2025 Writers' Trust Award winners from left to right: Kim Thúy, Maria Reva, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Roza Nozari, Bren Simmers, Sheree Fitch and Laurie Martella (representing Julie Flett). (Tom Pandi/Writers' Trust via CBC Books)

We’re also delighted for 2024 VWF Guest Curator Kim Thúy, who won the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award; and previous VWF guests Julie Flett (Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People), and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for non-fiction).

You can still find (and even listen to!) these stories for a while longer at select locations on the Island:

Upstart & Crow
Opus Art Supplies
Kasama Chocolate

In conversation with journalist and author André Picard.
Tickets include a copy of Final Orbit (a value of $39).

Presented in partnership with Book Warehouse, and with the support of Penguin Random House Canada and SFU.

📸 Photos:
Victoria San Martin - 1
Carlos M Bonmati via BCIT - 3
Paola Tolentino - 4