Fraser Valley Literary Festival

Date(s): Friday, November 4
Time: 12:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: : Student Union Building (SUB)

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Please joins us for a two-day Fraser Valley Literary Festival which runs from November 3-4, 2022. This event will include inspiring and award-winning authors on writing, craft, and the writing life in contemporary Canada!

Thursday, November 3, 2022.

Doors open at 3:30 pm. Event starts at 4 pm with light reception to follow.

Keynote Speakers:

• Jordan Abel – Award winning Nisga’a writer, including Un/inhabited, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. https://www.jordanabel.ca
• Marsha Lederman – Author of Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust Once Removed, and the Globe and Mail’s Western Arts correspondent. https://www.marshalederman.ca
• Harrison Mooney – An award winning writer and journalist, and the author of the memoir Invisible Boy. @HarrisonMooney

Friday, November 4, 2022

Doors open at 11:45 am. Event starts at 12pm-3:15 pm with light refreshments served in between panels.

Panels:

Panel 1: Lie to Me: Truth and Fiction in Writing (Moderator: Harrison Mooney) 12-1:30 pm

• Gurjinder Basran – Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her debut novel Everything Was Good-bye. https://www.gurjinderbasran.ca/
• Carlie Blume – Author of Gigglepuss, and a graduate from Simon Fraser University’s The Writers Studio @carliejblume
• Alicia Elliott – Winner of the National Magazine Awards for A Mind Spread Out On The Ground and RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Awards.
• Shawn Hitchins – A Toronto-based comedian, actor, and a prolific author. https://shawnhitchins.com/

Panel 2: The Fantastic & the Mundane: Symbolism in the Everyday Panel (Moderator: Marsha Lederman) 1:45pm-3:15 pm

• Tawahum Bige – A Łutselkʼe Dene, Plains Cree poet and spoken word artist https://tawahum.com
• Curtis LeBlanc – Author of Good for Nothing and Little Wild. https://cwleblanc.com/
• Annick MacAskill – Author of three poetry collections and finalist for various literary honours including the CBC Poetry Prize. https://annickmacaskill.com/
• Isabella Wang – Author of the chapbook on Forgetting a Language and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted for the New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest.

For more info on each panelist, please visit our social media sites:

Facebook: Fraser Valley Literary Festival
Twitter: @FVLitFest
Instagram: fvlitfest

Event Location : Student Union Building (SUB)

Fraser Valley Literary Festival

Date(s): Friday, November 4
Time: 12:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Event Categories

• *_UFV Events
• College of Arts
• Donors and friends
• English and Creative Writing
• Library
• Orientation
• Student Services
• UFV LIbrary
• Writer in Residence

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