Hot Sheet #6 - Saturday, October 25

The Hot Sheet

Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!

#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.

Saturday, October 25

Event 73: Rules of Engagement | Performance Works | 5:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/73-rules-engagement
Dionne Brand | Thomas King | Lee Maracle | Christos Tsiolkas

At what point does engagement with contemporary concerns enter your work and how does it affect the art that you’re producing? Dionne Brand, Thomas King, Lee Maracle and Christos Tsiolkas discuss their decision to address social and political issues in their work.

Event 76: The Poetry Bash | Performance Works | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/76-poetry-bash
Ken Babstock | George Elliott Clarke | Billeh Nickerson | Sina Queyras | Katherena Vermette | Patricia Young

This year’s Bash features poets from coast to coast, some launching careers and some who’ve been earning accolades for decades. Tonight is your cross-country checkup, proof that all is thriving in the world of Canadian poetics.

Event 77: Who I Really Am | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/77-who-i-really-am
Dinaw Mengestu | Shani Mootoo | Tom Rachman | Kim Thúy

The search for identity is a complicated and quintessentially human experience. Dinaw Mengestu uses love and war to powerfully explore a third, equally dramatic theme: identity. Shani Mootoo has written a brilliant metaphor for how we reexamine and reshape stories about ourselves. Tom Rachman’s novel explores how we must choose to make our own place in the world. And Kim Thúy’s novel features a young Vietnamese woman thrown into a new world.

Sunday, October 26

Event 79: A Conversation with Dinaw Mengestu | Studio 1398 | 10:00 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/79-conversation-dinaw-mengestu

With a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant under his belt and a spot on The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 list, Dinaw Mengestu is making a big splash in the literary world. Mengestu is a thoughtful and hard-hitting chronicler of the African diaspora, who explores “the puzzles of identity, place and human connection.”

Event 80: The Life and Times | Waterfront Theatre | 10:30 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/80-life-and-times
Emma Donoghue | David Homel | Jane Smiley

History comes to life with three authors whose rich narratives transform dusty dates into riveting stories. Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music brings to steamy life the unsolved 1876 murder of a pistol-packing crossdresser. David Homel’s The Fledglings careens between past and present to tell the story of three generations of family. And Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley’s Some Luck tells a multi-generational saga over three transformative decades in America.

Event 86: The Fitting Finale | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/86-fitting-finale
Colm Tóibín | Jane Smiley

Two titans on the literary landscape come together in a fitting finale to this year’s Festival. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award-winner Colm Tóibín comes to the Writers Fest with his new book Nora Webster, “a masterful portrait of a grieving woman finding herself.” He’ll appear alongside Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley whose new novel Some Luck has been named one of the best books of the fall.

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