ABOUT RAZIEL REID:

Raziel Reid’s debut novel When Everything Feels like the Movies won the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Children Literature and was runner-up on CBC Canada Reads defended by Elaine Lui of LaineyGossip.com. 

He currently teaches Creative Writing for Young Adults at UBC.

Find out more about Raziel: https://twitter.com/razielreid

ABOUT REAL VANCOUVER WRITERS' SERIES:

Real Vancouver an independent, inclusive, curated grassroots non-profit society specializing in live literary event production that celebrates great writing and writers from Vancouver and beyond.

The REAL in our name refers to the city of Vancouver. To the streets and neighbourhoods that are home and inspiration to some of the best writers in the country and the world. We believe in local writers and we love our city and we want to break people out of their assumptions about both things.

Find out more at realvancouver.org.

Follow us on Instagram (@realvancouver) or Twitter (@realvancouver_) and Facebook (fb.com/realvancouver)

Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies, Real Vancouver Literary Showcase 2015

ABOUT FROG HOLLOW PRESS 

THE CITY SERIES: NUMBER ONE – VANCOUVER

Michael Prior, Guest Editor
Cover photograph by Amanda Siebert
The Poets:
Emily Chou – Emily Davidson – Ruth Daniell - Sugar le Fae – Megan Jones – Darius Kinney - Allesandra Naccarato – Shazia Hafiz Ramji - Laura Ritland – Shaun Robinson

Wunderkind Michael Prior assembles together ten Vancouver poets who are all unpublished in book or chapbook form. He has sought out talented people whose verse somehow represents his city's poetic and introduced that poetic in personal prose. The poets in The City Series: Vancouver constitute a cross-section of poetry that is diverse, brainy, and emotional, upending stereotypes about Vancouver as a poetry-town.

ABOUT REAL VANCOUVER WRITERS' SERIES:

Real Vancouver an independent, inclusive, curated grassroots non-profit society specializing in live literary event production that celebrates great writing and writers from Vancouver and beyond.

The REAL in our name refers to the city of Vancouver. To the streets and neighbourhoods that are home and inspiration to some of the best writers in the country and the world. We believe in local writers and we love our city and we want to break people out of their assumptions about both things.

Find out more at realvancouver.org.

Follow us on Instagram (@realvancouver) or Twitter (@realvancouver_) and Facebook (fb.com/realvancouver)

Emily Davidson reads at Frog Hollow City Series Vancouver, Real Vancouver Writers' Series presents

Live recording from the Real Vancouver Writers' Series event at the Russian Hall in east Vancouver on Thursday October 4th, 2018.

MOLLY CROSS BLANCHARD

Molly Cross-Blanchard is a Metis writer from the prairies currently living as a guest on unceded Musqueam territory. 

She has an English BA from The University of Winnipeg and is now a Creative Writing MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia. 

Her work has appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, The Malahat Review, and In/Words. She is currently Circulation Editor at PRISM international.

Introduction by Dina Del Bucchia.

REAL VANCOUVER WRITERS' SERIES

Real Vancouver is a non-profit society focused on producing inclusive, accessible literary events featuring great writers from Vancouver and beyond.

Find out more at realvancouver.org

RVWS

Molly Cross Blanchard reads at Real Vancouver Writers' Series October 2018

Live recording from the Real Vancouver Writers' Series event at the Russian Hall in east Vancouver on Thursday October 4th, 2018.

SARA GRAEFE

Sara Graefe is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has appeared on CBC-TV and on stages as far afield as Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, Yukon’s Nakai Theatre, Australia’s Sydney Opera House and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

She is editor of the groundbreaking new creative nonfiction collection Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories, which “came out” last Friday from Dagger Editions at Caitlin Press. 

She lives on unceded traditional Coast Salish territories in East Van, and is on faculty at the Creative Writing Program at UBC

Introduction by Sean Cranbury

REAL VANCOUVER WRITERS' SERIES

Real Vancouver is a non-profit society focused on producing inclusive, accessible literary events featuring great writers from Vancouver and beyond.

Find out more at realvancouver.org

October 2018

Sara Graefe reads at Real Vancouver Writers' Series October 2018

Live recording from the Real Vancouver Writers' Series event at the Russian Hall in east Vancouver on Thursday October 4th, 2018.

MEGHAN BELL

Meghan Bell is the publisher of Room magazine and one of the co-founders of the Growing Room literary festival. Her writing has appeared in over a dozen Canadian literary journals, including Grain, Prairie Fire, Joyland, The Puritan, The New Quarterly, and the speculative fiction anthology, Tesseracts 21. She lives in Vancouver, where she is currently working on a novel.

Introduction by Dina Del Bucchia.

REAL VANCOUVER WRITERS' SERIES

Real Vancouver is a non-profit society focused on producing inclusive, accessible literary events featuring great writers from Vancouver and beyond.

Find out more at realvancouver.org

Meghan Bell reads at Real Vancouver Writers' Series October 2018

Live recording from the Real Vancouver Writers' Series event at the Russian Hall in east Vancouver on Thursday October 4th, 2018.

ISABELLA WANG

Isabella Wang is a young, emerging Chinese-Canadian writer from Vancouver, B.C. 

Her poetry is published in Room Magazine, Train Journal, and Looseleaf, and she has essays forthcoming in carte blanche, Invisible Blog, and The New Quarterly. 

At 18, she is a two-time finalist and the youngest writer shortlisted for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. 

She is studying English at SFU, co-organizing for Dead Poet Reading series, and serving as the youth advocate for the Federation of BC Writers, while working with Books on the Radio and interning at Room.

REAL VANCOUVER WRITERS' SERIES

Real Vancouver is a non-profit society focused on producing inclusive, accessible literary events featuring great writers from Vancouver and beyond.

Find out more at realvancouver.org

Isabella Wang reads at Real Vancouver Writers' Series October 2018

Live recording from the Real Vancouver Writers' Series event at the Russian Hall in east Vancouver on Thursday October 4th, 2018.

LINDSAY WONG

Lindsay Wong holds a BFA in Creative Writing from The University of British Columbia and a MFA in Literary Nonfiction from Columbia University in New York City. 

Wong has been awarded fellowships and residencies at The Kimmel-Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City, Caldera Arts in Oregon, and The Studios of Key West, among others. Currently, she is writer-in-residence at The John Howard Society and The Community Arts Council of Vancouver. 

The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, And My Crazy Chinese Family is her debut memoir from Arsenal Pulp Press.

Introduction by Dina Del Bucchia.

REAL VANCOUVER WRITERS' SERIES

Real Vancouver is a non-profit society focused on producing inclusive, accessible literary events featuring great writers from Vancouver and beyond.

Find out more at realvancouver.org

Lindsay Wong reads at Real Vancouver Writers' Series October 2018

Live recording from the Real Vancouver Writers' Series event at the Russian Hall in east Vancouver on Thursday October 4th, 2018.

CHELENE KNIGHT

Chelene Knight lives and writes in Vancouver. In addition to being a workshop facilitator, she is also a literary event organizer, host, and seasoned panelist. 

She has been published in various Canadian and American literary magazines, and her work is widely anthologized. Chelene is currently the managing editor at Room magazine, and the 2018 Programming Director for the Growing Room Festival.  

Chelene has been a judge for many writing contests and literary prizes such as the BC Book Prizes. Braided Skin, her first book (Mother Tongue Publishing, March 2015), has given birth to numerous writing projects including her second book, memoir, Dear Current Occupant (BookThug, 2018). Chelene is currently working on a novel set in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley. 

Junie is forthcoming with BookThug in 2020.

REAL VANCOUVER WRITERS' SERIES

Real Vancouver is a non-profit society focused on producing inclusive, accessible literary events featuring great writers from Vancouver and beyond.

Find out more at realvancouver.org

Chelene Knight reads at Real Vancouver Writers' Series October 2018

Daniel Heath Justice's keynote speech at Surrey International Writers' Conference 2018.

"Stand in Your Own Fabulousness" is attributed to E. Patrick Johnson,  chair of African American Studies, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Find out more at http://epatrickjohnson.com.

DANIEL HEATH JUSTICE

Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation/ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ) is Professor of First Nations and Indigenous Studies and English at the University of British Columbia, where he also holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture. 

He is the author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History (2006), Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (2018), and numerous essays in the field of Indigenous literary studies, as well as co-editor of a number of award-winning critical and creative anthologies and journals, including The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature (with James H. Cox) Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (with Qwo-Li Driskill, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti), and the Indigenous Conversations on Biography special issue of Biography (2017). 

A creative as well as scholarly writer, he is also author of the Indigenous epic fantasy, The Way of Thorn and Thunder, numerous short wonderworks, and the animal cultural histories Badger and the forthcoming Raccoon in the Animal series from Reaktion Books (UK). His current projects include This Hummingbird Heart (a collection of critical and essays on Indigenous writing, wonder, and desire), an anthology on Indigenous responses to settler land privatization policies (co-edited with Jean M. O’Brien), and a new Indigenous steampunk trilogy.

SURREY INTERNATIONAL WRITERS' CONFERENCE

A weekend writers' conference held in Surrey, British Columbia that brings together agents, editors, and experienced authors to facilitate growth and achievement in emerging and published authors alike.

Find out more at siwc.ca

SiWC18

Stand in Your Own Fabulousness: Daniel Heath Justice Keynote at #SiWC18

Books on the Radio returns after a three year hiatus to feature an interview with Eve Lazarus about her fantastic new true crime book, Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer. 

Carleigh Baker and Sean Cranbury talk to Eve about her work.

Recorded live at the inaugural Vancouver Podcast Festival on Friday, November 9th at Vancouver Public Library.

ABOUT EVE LAZARUS

Eve Lazarus is a Vancouver writer with an Aussie accent and a passion for true crime stories, cold cases, and non-traditional history. 

She is the author of three Arsenal titles: Cold Case Vancouver: The City's Most Baffling Unsolved Murders (2015), a BC bestseller and 2016 finalist for the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award at the BC Book Prizes; Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver's First Forensic Investigator (2017); and Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer. 

Find out more at evelazarus.com

Interview with Eve Lazarus, author of Murder by Milkshake: Vancouver Podcast Festival 2018

Vancouver writer Emmet Matheson reads from a work in progress, a detective novel set in Vancouver's legendary downtown east side.

BOOKS ON THE RADIO

Emmet Matheson reads from his work in progress: a detective novel set in Vancouver's DTES

Books on the Radio is a radio show broadcast on independent Canadian airwaves and a podcast transmitted by the magic of the internet. 

BOTR is hosted by Carleigh Baker and Sean Cranbury. Isabella Wang is the fearless and paid Communications Intern.

Our home station is Simon Fraser University's CJSF 90.1FM. We'll announce more stations as they join.

Thanks for reading and listening.

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