The Vancouver Writers Fest includes more than 90 events at Granville Island from October 18 to 25.

Tickets on sale to the public September 17 at 10 AM (For VWF Members: September 10 at 10 AM) From New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell comes his most urgent book yet: a provocative inves...

Tickets go on sale here on August 6, 2026 at 10 AM. Thank you to HarperCollins Canada for supporting Barbara Kingsolver’s appearance in Vancouver, and our Community Partner: Vancouver Academy of…

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We are thrilled to welcome Colson Whitehead back to Vancouver on Wednesday, September 16! Tickets and further information will be available here on July 8 at 10am. Make sure to subscribe to our…

With her bestselling book Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard advanced a revelatory—and now broadly accepted—new paradigm for the profound intelligence of trees and their relationships with each o...

Tickets for this event are sold through the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Click here to buy tickets. Standard tickets: $45 Youth under 25 or Students: $25 We do our best to make our events low-...

Yann Martel’s 2001 philosophical adventure, Life of Pi, was a runaway global phenomenon—it won the Booker Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads, spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list, an...

I have made the leap from literary fiction to fantasy – for those who think it’s mere wish-fulfilment, here’s why we need that thing with the dragons

As our world clashes and collapses around us, it’s no surprise we’re feeling an acute effect on our mental health. Psychiatrist, UBC Faculty of Medicine professor, and mental health speaker Dr. Joanna...

Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library. The housing crisis plaguing major urban centres across Canada has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022, some of them found th...

The Vancouver Writers Fest presents Paul Myers, author of book John Candy: A Life in Comedy on January 21st and you can enter to win tickets.

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