Free professional development sessions on a variety of literary topics and the Pandora’s Collective Literary Awards Gala!
Date/Time: Sep 24 2016, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Vancouver, HiVE VancouverCost: Free
The HiVE
210 – 128 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
11:00 am Get It Out: A Writer’s Guide to the Submissions of Literary Works for Publication with Jami Macarty (sign up here)
2:30 pm Exoticizing the Domestic with Carmen Ostrander
Carnegie Community Centre
401 Main Street, Vancouver
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Type Up!
Presented by Carnegie Community Centre.
CBC Studio 700
700 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
7:30 pm Pandora’s Collective Literary Awards Gala
Presented by Pandora’s Collective. Hosted by Sean Cranbury.
Join us during the last week of September for our 22nd annual festival! This is Word Vancouver, Western Canada’s largest celebration of literacy and reading. Held during the last week of September at various venues throughout the city, our festival promotes books and authors with free exhibits, performances, and hands-on activities for a wide range of ages and interests.
The main festival day you know and love will return to Library Square on Sunday, September 25. There will be tons of author readings, exhibits, performances, workshops, and activities for the whole family!
There will also be other fabulous events taking place throughout Vancouver leading up to the main day from Wednesday, September 21 to Saturday, September 24!
SUNDAY
Library Square (11:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Pick up your program guide at a library, community centre, or coffee shop near you in the Lower Mainland, or go to www.wordvancouver.ca for more information.
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