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The Vancouver International Writers and Readers
Festival runs from October 16-21 at various venues
on Granville Island. Last week’s speakers list
included anti-capitalist activist and author Naomi
Klein (see page 9). Here are some highlights of the
coming weeks:

Gawk

8pm October 18 at Performance works

$15 + $.50 Facility Surcharge

Join Billeh Nickerson, past editor of Event, eight
irreverent writers and the festival’s infamous go-go
dancers for an evening guaranteed to rock the gawker
within. Print Futures grad Jenn Farrell participates
with Catherine Kidd, Jen Sookfong Lee, Brendan
McLeod, Maureen Medved, Steven Price, Nick
Thran and Andrew Wedderburn.

The Literary Cabaret

8pm October 19 at Performance Works

$20 + $1 Facility Surcharge

The fabulous multi-faceted Sal Ferreras and the
Festival house band Poetic License bring their talents
to the festival once again to provide a rich sound

bed for festival writers to lay their words in. This
popular event of alchemy mixes literature with music
and creates pure gold. Sure to transport audiences to
new levels of enjoyment, the evening is astounding,
extraordinary and always fun.

Cash bar

The Poetry Bash

8pm October 20 at Performance Works

$20 + $1 Facility Surcharge

Ryan Knighton introduces a panoply of poets,
including Marilyn Bowering, Dennis Lee and Tom
Wayman, in an evening of readings that will delight
your ears and demonstrate once again why poetry
matters.

Emerge

4-5:30pm October 21 at The Waterfront Theatre
$5 +$.50 Facility Surcharge

The launch of emerge, the annual anthology from
Simon Fraser University Writer’s Studio, will
provide a tantalizing taste from the work of 20 new
writers, who span four generations and write in the
genres of non-fiction, poetry, fiction and lyric prose.

For more information on the festival and to download
the program, visit http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/