Whistler Readers and Writers Festival

This annual event, held in venues throughout Whistler, includes both performances and workshops. Click here for guide and schedule.

We’re excited to host the 2009 Governor General Award winning author for fiction, Kate Pullinger (The Mistress of Nothing), two-time Governor General nominee, Patricia Young (An Autoerotic History of Swings), the 2009 winner of the Writers Trust of Canada Non-Fiction prize and the BC Booksellers’ Choice Award, Brian Brett (Trauma Farm), award winning author, Russell Wangersky (The Glass Harmonica), City of Victoria Butler Book Prize winning author, Terence Young, (The End of the Ice Age), short-story author Jenn Farrell (The Devil You Know), writing couple and former Whistler writers in residence, Merilyn Simonds and Wayne Grady (Breakfast at the Exit Café: travels through America), Kathy Page (The Find), and two-time Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winning author Caroline Adderson (The Sky is Falling). Local writer, Stephen Vogler will MC the event and make sure all is groovy.

Our very own local writer, Leslie Anthony follows his study of snake-lovers with an expose on another obsessive subculture, ski-bums, with White Planet. A Mad Dash through Modern Global Ski Culture. If skiers’ innate irreverence didn’t preclude them from having a holy book, then this would be it. He will launch his book at the festival on Thursday October 14th at the Whistler Public Library.

And don’t forget the workshops and discussions happening all day Saturday. Are you interested in stream 1: Where traditional and digital media collide or are you more of a stream 2 kind of guy or gal: Crafting a great story? Whatever your choice, there’s something here for everyone.