Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 25!
Check out what special celebrations (author visits! games and giveaways! exclusive merch!) a few of our partners and other bookstores in Vancouver are planning for the day, or visit indiebookstores.ca to find a list of stores near you!
Don’t miss the Books & Ideas 2026 season finale on May 21, featuring renowned ecologist Suzanne Simard with her new book, When the Forest Breathes. She will be in conversation with Robert Moor, author of On Trails and the new book In Trees.
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There are limited tickets remaining for Ibram X. Kendi in Vancouver, April 13 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
Reserve your seat now:
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📣 The Vancouver Writers Fest online auction is open for bidding!
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Until April 27th, you can bid on more than 60 lots and 120 items that have so generously been contributed to this fundraiser, in support of the VWF. 💛 Thank you to all of our incredible donors!
One of the top prizes is this Dublin dream tour, with items generously donated by Dublin Book Festival + Guinness Storehouse + author Liz Nugent. 💛
Further details available online starting April 10. Get ready to bid!
Save the date! The VWF online auction will be our standalone fundraiser for Spring 2026, so get ready to show your support and nab some incredible packages.
The auction is open for bidding from 12 PM on Friday, April 10 to April 27!
The VWF 2026 online auction opens for bidding in 6 days! Get ready to place your bids starting Friday, April 10 at noon, all in support of our 2026 flagship Festival and year-round programming. 💚
One of the top prizes is this Ann Patchett Book Club package, perfect for you and seven other fans.
We’re thrilled to welcome Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social, author of the international bestseller How to Be an Antiracist, to a Vancouver Writers Fest Special Event with his latest work, Chain of Ideas.
April 13, in conversation with @profterrig.bsky.social
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We can’t wait to hear from all of these authors at the Vancouver Writers Fest next month. Who are you most excited to meet?
Tickets are available for Ibram X. Kendi on April 13, and Yann Martel on April 15 (Melissa’s event is sold out!)
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📣 Tickets on sale now! Don’t miss Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi and Son of Nobody, in Vancouver. One night only, April 15 at the Lindsay Family Stage on Granville Island.
Tickets on sale now:
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Freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Even in Canada, a free country by world standards, books and magazines are banned.
From February 22–28, Freedom to Read Week asks all Canadians to think about and reaffirm our commitment to intellectual freedom.
Learn more at www.freedomtoread.ca
Only 10 days left for teachers to apply for our free Writers in the Classroom program! Inspire your students with a personal visit from an author.
2 authors—Sarah Mughal Rana and Robin Stevenson—are offering virtual visits, to schools anywhere in BC:
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OH MY GOD YOU GUYS HE SAID CANADA.
Tell the teachers in your life about Writers in the Classroom! This popular Vancouver Writers Fest program will provide 13 FREE author visits (in-person and online) to schools in BC between April and June 2026.
Apply by Friday, February 27:
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Psychiatrist and UBC professor Dr. Joanna Cheek joins us to offer a survival guide of personal and collective mental health tools for our disordered world, in conversation with world renowned physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté.
Feb 25 on Granville Island:
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Incite—our free event series presented in partnership with VPL—returns on February 10, 2026 with @maggiehelwig.bsky.social, author of the 2025 Toronto Book Award winner, Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community.
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I'm giving away a pair of tickets to this @writersfest.bc.ca event on January 21st with pulmyears.bsky.social Paul Myers, author of John Candy: A Life in Comedy
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Books & Ideas returns to Granville Island in the new year with headliner cultural icons. Paul Myers join us with John Candy: A Life in Comedy, in conversation with Charlie Demers.
Jan 21 at the Revue Stage on Granville Island.
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The Digital Festival is live NOW! For a limited time, watch highlights from #VWF2025 online.
Featuring 26 full-length events, the Digital Festival offers hours of entertainment and inspiration.
🎟️ Sliding scale pricing. Get your pass at writersfest.bc.ca
A remarkable and memorable @writersfest.bc.ca evening, featuring @margaretatwood.bsky.social in a lively conversation with @caroloff.bsky.social - it's an evening that I'll remember forever. I can't wait to read her book and learn more about her life 📚
Fits perfectly in a stocking or can be sent anywhere in the world with the click of a button—Our Digital Festival is on sale now!
It’s binge-watching for book lovers!
Give the gift of books, ideas and dialogue this holiday.
Presenting the VWF Digital Festival lineup—including many events that were sold out at #VWF2025! 📚 From December 16, 2025 to February 2, 2026, watch 26 full-length events online, from anywhere in the world.
View the full details and get your pass:
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🖥️ Passes are on sale now for the Digital Festival! Get front-row, online access to the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest. 📚✨ Sliding scale pricing; visit our website to view all the details and get your pass.
Watch on your own schedule from anywhere, Dec 16 – Feb 2.
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Sometimes there is crying in baseball.
#bluejays❤️
There are tickets remaining for plenty of events at this year’s Festival, but don’t delay! Visit writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva... to save your seat at the literary event of the year.
There are 2 days to go until the start of #VWF2025, and 20 events at the Festival are now sold out! Thank you to our engaged and curious attendees; year after year, you show us how much books and meaningful dialogue matter in our city. 💛
This year’s Vancouver Writers Fest features an electrifying slate of 130 authors from Canada and around the world, including bestselling novelists, poets, memoirists and thought leaders. #TyeePresents #Sponsored
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We’re thrilled to share that Festival friend and author Elamin Abdelmahmoud is the winner of this year’s Max Wyman Award in Critical Writing, which will be presented to him on October 24 at #VWF2025 event 51. Elbows Up.
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