InkWellTold is a quarterly interactive conversation series hosted by the Delta Literary Arts Society, where local authors share their work and engage in live discussion. In this special Word Vancouver Edition, authors Rahat Kurd and Daniela Elza will explore the topic of how material reality intersects with personal and political imagination in their writing.

The FBCW will be hosting a writing room with sprints and prompts to help you get writing

Need advice on your writing or a nudge in the right direction? The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University is offering a free 25-minute in-person consult on up to five pages of your poetry or prose.

Come and explore the merge of analog and digital poetry-crafting with Natasha Boskic. Watch her latest video poem, “I see you”, created with a dancer and choreographer, Lorraine White-Wilkinson and a media producer, Eduardo Rebagliati (3min). Discover how poetry can be part of fabric art turned into a home decoration. 

Many people attend Word Vancouver looking to find a community to enrich their writing and reading lives.

Are you (almost) ready to publish your book but wonder which way to go? Come and hear members of the BC Chapter of the Canadian Authors Association share with you their experiences.

Experience a moving celebration of truth, imperfection, and emotional bravery as Tanya Boteju and Léa Taranto read their bold, boundary-pushing YA fiction. Boteju chronicles queer self-discovery in a Catholic high school with humour and heart.