The Hot Sheet #4 - Thursday, October 23

The Hot Sheet

Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!

Cancellation: Justin Trudeau in conversation with Stephen Quinn

Due to yesterday’s tragic events in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau’s appearance in Vancouver as part of the Vancouver Writers Fest has been cancelled.

We were informed this morning by his publisher, HarperCollinsCanada, that Trudeau will no longer be able to travel to Vancouver this week and that all efforts would be made to reschedule the event in future.

Trudeau was to talk with the CBC host Stephen Quinn at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church on Friday, October 24, about his new memoir, which was released Monday.

We have taken the event off sale and are notifying patrons about refunding their ticket purchases.

#Discovery Contest

Tweet or instagram your Festival discovery with hashtags #vwf2014 and #discovery for a chance to win tickets to our events with Bruce Cockburn (November 10) and Alan Doyle (November 13)! Click here for complete contest details, http://writersfest.bc.ca/prefaces/tavia/discovery-contest.

Thursday, October 23

Event 43: My Life in Middlemarch | Performance Works | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/43-my-life-middlemarch

The New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead first read Middlemarch at the age of 17 and, since then, has read it every five years or so. Join Mead as she explores “the way a book can insert itself into a reader’s own life story” and reflect on the impact of your favourite novel.

Event 45: Odd Jobs | Studio 1398 | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/58-familiar-haunts
Ian Hamilton | Lee Henderson | Anne Kennedy

Through fiction, we get a chance to meet characters who wouldn’t normally cross our paths. Ian Hamilton’s Ava Lee series stars a stylish, young forensic accountant, Lee Henderson’s protagonist is a cartoonist who lives in the brash optimism of the 1980s and Anne Kennedy’s novel features a seamstress who repairs torn garments, and becomes entangled in the truths and lies behind each rip.

Event 46: The Hook | Performance Works | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/46-hook
Aislinn Hunter | Eric McCormack | Sarah Waters | Ian Weir

Suspense, rollicking action and magic realism—hooking the reader is the focus of tonight’s discussion. Join Aislinn Hunter, who brings the past to life, Eric McCormack, “a spellbinder,” Sarah Waters, master of psychological tension, and Ian Weir, with his “uncanny ear for the earthy slang of Regency London.”

Event 47: Truth and Fiction | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/47-truth-and-fiction
Jacqueline Baker | Damon Galgut | Steven Galloway

The complexities of fictionalizing the lives of real people are up for discussion this evening. Steven Galloway’s The Confabulist is based on the life of Houdini. Damon Galgut based his novel on the life of E.M. Forster over the 12 years that he was writing A Passage to India. And Jacqueline Baker’s novel is a haunting portrait of America’s first horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft.

Friday, October 24

Event 51: Pure Poetry | Waterfront Theatre | 10:00 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/51-pure-poetry
Kris Demeanor | Eve Joseph | Anne Kennedy | Christopher Levenson | Sina Queyras | Katherena Vermette

Confessional, lyric, lavish and spare, the poets reading this morning are as varied as the tools of expression at their disposal. This is an occasion to sit back and savour every perfectly place word, as well as revel in its delivery.

Event 58: Familiar Haunts | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/58-familiar-haunts
Jacqueline Baker | Eric McCormack | Russell Wangersky

Ready for some hair-raising tales from three frightfully good Canadian writers? Jacqueline Baker, whose compelling, creepy novel features the frightening H.P. Lovecraft. Eric McCormack’s masterpiece of literary Gothicism stars a man haunted by his past. And Russell Wangersky’s dark psychological thriller spotlights a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave behind.

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