Author Readings
Established and emerging authors will draw you into their worlds as they read aloud from their written works and share their experiences. Ask questions, converse with fellow readers and learn about the process behind the books you already love or have yet to discover
Incite Series
Explore books and ideas with an exciting author readings series every January to May. In partnership with the Vancouver Writers Fest. Click to search for upcoming events.
Writers Showcase: Share Your Writing at the Library
Local writers with a few minutes to grab your attention and bring you into their world. The authors will showcase their works, published and unpublished. Click to search for upcoming events. If you are interested in being a reader at a Writers Showcase session, send us an email at programs@vpl.ca.
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Upcoming Events
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Identity loss, anxiety, childhood shadows, inter-generational conflicts, how do these everyday family struggles shape modern poetry? How can timeless themes like separation and longing, childhood and homeland, love and pain, be expressed through contemporary poetic language? Focusing on the theme...
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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With only a few minutes to grab your attention, a talented line-up of established and emerging local writers showcase their works and bring you into their world.
Want to share your work at the next Writers Showcase?
Email programs@vpl.ca with...
6:30pm – 8:00pm
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This spring, Vancouver writer Eddy Boudel Tan, named a Rising Star by Writers’ Trust of Canada in 2021, is publishing his third novel: The Tiger and the Cosmonaut.
It is a suspenseful story about a Chinese-Canadian family living...
7:00pm – 8:00pm
Central Library