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Word Vancouver

Join us for our fundraiser!

Share food and festivities with us, and meet authors featured in this year’s LiterASIAN Festival!

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A collaborative, multi-faceted book by two extraordinary Black artists about finding beauty in the chaos. A dialogue between two artists across various mediums, Curious Sounds uses Mooking's most recent album, SoundBites, as scaffolding for the artists' conversations on creativity, Blackness, family, grief, and more. Composed of ekwuyasi's essays reflecting on artmaking, storytelling, and creative expression and Mooking's multimedia visual art, micro stories, music, and lyrics, this book is a collage of ideas about making meaning through life's rhythms. Join us for an exciting chance to hear the authors talk about what inspired them to bring this together.

Word’s first 50/50 draw!

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in our first ever 50/50 draw — Look out for another 50/50 later this year!

Our prize pot winner was Akemi Eddy, and received a prize pot amount of $740!

Our early bird prize winner was Laura Yazedjian, and received a book bundle of 5 titles from our 2023 festival!

Word Vancouver
Reading & Writing Festival

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A fundraiser to support those impacted by the wildfires devastating BC.

 
 

A Message from Our
Executive Director

Every year brings new books, authors, and readers to Word Vancouver, along with those who return to share their work, long-time patrons who bring new friends and volunteers who have dedicated their time because they love the festival. It is exciting to be behind the scenes and see how it all comes together with a whole lot of teamwork. I want to take a moment to thank this dedicated team of individuals who work so hard to not only make this happen but who care about the quality of the work we bring to you. Without Taj, Alison, Becca, Yan, Nathan, Chris, Tim, Drew and Barb this would only be a dream swirling around in my head. To the Board who supports us all year long with their ideas, feedback and hard work, I want to extend a warm thank you. Ultimately, we all hope you enjoy what we have put together and that you will join us in celebrating the written word between September 8th and 23rd. 


Bonnie Nish
Executive Director

 
 
 

Guest Curators 2023 Festival

C. E. Gatchalian

Guest 2SLGBTQIA+

Curator Born and raised on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (“Vancouver”), currently dividing his time between “Vancouver” and Tkaronto (“Toronto”), C.E. Gatchalian is a Filipinx queer neurodivergent author, editor and playwright. The author of six books and co-editor of two anthologies, he was the 2013 recipient of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize and a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist. His memoir, Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty and the Making of a Brown Queer Man, was published in 2019 by Arsenal Pulp Press. He is a recipient of the one-time only British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Arts & Music Awards for his contributions to the arts in BC. 

Nathan Adler

Guest Indigenous Curator

Nathan Adler is the author of Wrist, and Ghost Lake (Kegedonce Press), and co-editor of Bawaajigan ~ Stories of Power(Exile Editions), he has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, is recipient of an Indigenous Voices Award for Published English Prose, and a Hnatyshyn Reveal award for literature. He is Jewish and Ojibwe, and a member of Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation.

 
 
 

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For $10, become a member of the Vancouver Book & Magazine Fair Society, producers of Word Vancouver. You can become a member anytime throughout the year through the link below.

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We are hoping to build our Word community and we want you to be a part of it.

What comes with joining our membership?

1. Access to our newsletters and updates on events.

2. Access to exclusive programming and perks, as well as entry into our book draws. View this year’s programming and perks below.

With this small $10 yearly membership you can help keep the festival free!

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