Vancouver Writers Fest
Vancouver Writers Fest Logo | |
| Formation | 1988 |
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| Founder | Alma Lee |
| Type | Non-profit organization |
| Headquarters | 202 – 1398 Cartwright Street, Vancouver British Columbia |
| Co-chair: Daniel Getz Co-chair: Jillian Stirk | |
Key people | Artistic Director: Leslie Hurtig Managine Director: Jennifer Milley |
| Website | https://www.writersfest.bc.ca/ |
The Vancouver Writers Fest is a non-profit organization that produces a variety of literary events in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Its main event is the Vancouver Writers Fest, which is an annual week-long literary festival held on Granville Island, Vancouver in the third week of October. Writers from Canada and abroad attend the festival to perform readings, interviews and panel discussions. The organization also runs the Books & Ideas literary and social series on Granville Island, Incite reading series with VPL, and the Writers in the Classroom program year-round.
The Festival was introduced in 1988 by founding Artistic Director Alma Lee. In 2010, the Festival was named the "Best Large Literary Festival in Canada" by the Canadian Tourism Commission. The Vancouver Writers Fest adopted its current name in 2012.
Past authors have included Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Maeve Binchy, Peter Carey, Roddy Doyle, Timothy Findley, John Irving, P. D. James, Thomas Keneally, Andrea Levy, Frank McCourt, Rohinton Mistry, David Mitchell, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, J. K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie and Carol Shields.