Alice MacKay Room at Vancouver Public Library, Central Library, Vancouver
Incite: Patrick Lennox in Conversation with Max Cameron Wednesday, September 9 at VPL and online Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library. On October 19th, Albertans will vote on whether their province should remain part of Canada, or commence the legal process to hold a binding refere
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, Vancouver · $25–$45
Colson Whitehead in Conversation Wednesday, September 16 at Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema Thank you to Penguin Random House Canada for supporting Colson Whitehead's appearance in Vancouver. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead kicks off the Vancouver Writers Fest’s fall 2026 Special Event lin
Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver · $25–$80
Emily St. John Mandel in Conversation September 21st at 7:30 PM at the Vancouver Playhouse Thank you to HarperCollins Canada for supporting Emily St. John Mandel's appearance in Vancouver. The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking nove
St Andrew's Wesley United Church, Vancouver · $45–$70
Rachel Reid: Heated Rivalry Monday, October 5th at St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church Presented by the Vancouver Writers Fest in partnership with Langara College, and with the support of HarperCollins Canada and Book Express. Join us for a special evening with bestselling author Rachel Reid as we ce
Orpheum, Vancouver · $25–$90
Barbara Kingsolver in Conversation Sunday, October 18th at 7:30pm at the Orpheum Thank you to our Community Partner: Vancouver Academy of Music, and to HarperCollins Canada for supporting Barbara Kingsolver’s appearance in Vancouver. Barbara Kingsolver’s bestselling works of fiction—including The Po
Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver · $45
01. Grand Openings: Read, Resist, Repair, Rejoice Our 2026 Festival embraces themes that are a rallying call to all concerned citizens: READ, RESIST, REPAIR, REJOICE. On this monumental evening, literary greats will transmit an indomitable light through the darkness, illuminating new and ongoing for
Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver · Free–$12
03. Masterclass with Gregor Craigie: How to Fight Misinformation This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our
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05. Coming of Age - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festival Box Office
Performance Works, Vancouver · Free–$12
02. Word! 1 This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Our Spoken Word event series, curated and
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03. Masterclass with Gregor Craigie: How to Fight Misinformation - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website
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02. Word! 1 - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festival Box Office infor
The Revue Stage, Vancouver · Free–$12
05. Coming of Age This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Becoming yourself isn’t easy, no mat
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04. Storytime with Willie Poll - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festiv
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08. Graphic Novel Masterclass with Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website.
The Nest, Vancouver · Free–$12
08. Graphic Novel Masterclass with Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our we
Improv Theatre, Vancouver · Free–$12
06. Middle Grade Heroes This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Three beloved, award-winning m
The Revue Stage, Vancouver · $15–$28
09. Mark Medley on Pursuing Impossible Goals In Live to See the Day, journalist Mark Medley sets out to find people who have devoted their lives to dreams they know have little chance of coming true. Interviewing more than 250 people, Medley immersed himself in a question many have reckoned with: ho
Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver · $15–$28
07. Jesse Wente: Tough Lies With his national bestseller Unreconciled, Anishinaabe author and broadcaster Jesse Wente cracked wide open the lies that Canada tells itself about reconciliation, offering a new path forward for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. In Tough Lies, he continues to face d
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06. Middle Grade Heroes - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festival Box
The Nest, Vancouver · $15–$28
11. Up Next: Debuts to Watch We take great joy in spotlighting debut authors at the Festival; they get to introduce their remarkable work to an enthusiastic and well-read audience, and you get the opportunity to meet them in a more intimate venue, before their inevitable rise to fame. These three au
The Revue Stage, Vancouver · $15–$28
12. Ayad Akhtar: The Radiance Ayad Akhtar’s previous book, Homeland Elegies, was one of Barack Obama’s favourite books of the year, and included in best of lists from The New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. This daring new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer continues hi
Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver · $15–$28
10. Patrick deWitt in Conversation Famed for his dark wit and eccentric, rollicking storylines, Patrick deWitt is a favourite of the Festival. The bestselling author of The Librarianist and The Sisters Brothers joins us with one of his most raucous novels yet. Dodge City follows a young man on an am
Performance Works, Vancouver · $15–$28
14. Tayari Jones: Kin Tayari Jones’s unforgettable stories are celebrated by critics and readers alike. Her books have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist; been praised by Oprah and Barack Obama; and appeared on Goodreads’ Most Popular list. She is one of TIME’s 100
Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver · $15–$28
15. Iain Reid and Ellie Foumbi: Horror in Hollywood Bestselling author Iain Reid is no stranger to the film industry. His uncanny, page-turning thrillers have attracted major film adaptations, with such names attached to them as Charlie Kaufman and Saoirse Ronan. Even so, A New Kind of Clean represe
The Revue Stage, Vancouver · $15–$28
17. Canary in a Coal Mine There are 3 billion fewer birds in North America than a half century ago. Worldwide, almost 50% of bird species are in decline. The ones who remain are still trying to warn us of impending danger—we would be wise to listen before it’s too late, as these three authors detail
The Nest, Vancouver · $15–$28
16. Arizona O'Neill: Opioids and Organs It’s 2015, and Montreal author-illustrator Arizona O’Neill grieves at the hospital bed of her father, a man she hardly knew, brain dead after a fentanyl overdose. Doctors encourage her to act quickly to recast him as a hero by way of organ donations. Distraugh
The Revue Stage, Vancouver · Free–$12
21. Us Against the World This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. These gorgeously written new
Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver · Free–$12
19. Earth is Ours This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Earth is ours—to enjoy, to explore,
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Us Against the World - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festival Box Off
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18. Word! 2 - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festival Box Office infor
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19. Earth is Ours - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festival Box Office
The Nest, Vancouver · Free–$12
20. Storytime with Friends This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Little ones will delight in
Performance Works, Vancouver · Free–$12
18. Word! 2 This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Our Spoken Word event series, curated and
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20. Storytime with Friends - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festival B
Performance Works, Vancouver · Free–$12
22. Of Magic and Monsters This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. The worlds of these YA fanta
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23. Standing Up for Ourselves - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festiva
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25. We Are Connected - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festival Box Off
The Revue Stage, Vancouver · Free–$12
25. We Are Connected This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. What makes you feel connected? Wh
Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver · Free–$12
23. Standing Up for Ourselves This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Middle school isn’t easy
The Nest, Vancouver · $15–$28
24. Jackie Morris: The Art of The Book of Birds Jackie Morris’s gorgeous, nature-inspired artwork has captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages, and is held by multiple public art collections. She is also a great lover of birds, and this love is palpable on every page of Th
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22. Of Magic and Monsters - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festival Bo
Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver · $15–$28
27. Ruth Ozeki in Conversation Multi-award-winning author Ruth Ozeki returns with a spellbinding story collection that will delight longtime fans—along with those who have yet to discover her philosophically witty, deeply compassionate work, including novels such as The Book of Form and Emptiness an
Performance Works, Vancouver · $15–$28
26. Andrew Sean Greer: Villa Coco An aspiring archivist takes up residence in the Italian countryside, becoming the assistant to the defiantly youthful, 92-year-old Baronessa, owner of a wondrous villa filled with art and antiques. Their utterly charming adventures unfold under the Tuscan sun in Pu
The Nest, Vancouver · $15–$28
32. UBC Night Class This returning event is a perennial favourite of writers aspiring, emerging, and established! Night Class is an interactive workshop offering writing tips and prompts across various genres, from instructors at UBC’s renowned School of Creative Writing. Learn key writing skills in
The Revue Stage, Vancouver · $15–$28
29. Housing Inc. with Leilani Farha In Vancouver, in Canada, and across the globe, housing has become a crisis of humanity—one engineered by dictators, presidents, and prime ministers, and perfected by the financial firms that turn homes into sites of extraction. This year’s Massey Lectures will be
The Nest, Vancouver · $15–$28
28. Chantel Acevedo: Spotlight on Cuba Chantel Acevedo has “written the impossible: an Odyssey for the Cuban 20th century” (Junot Diaz). Born in Miami to Cuban parents, Acevedo is the award-winning author of multiple books; Cages is her most personal and heartfelt yet. Over a thirty-year arc, Cages
The Revue Stage, Vancouver · $15–$28
33. The World We Long For with Vivek Shraya and Kai Cheng Thom Join two of Canada’s most beloved trans authors as they celebrate the release of two works of fiction exploring dystopian and utopian worlds that are frightening, fantastical, and not so far away from the world we live in today: Vivek Sh
Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver · $15–$28
31. Valeria Luiselli in Conversation Your favourite author likely reads Valeria Luiselli. The Chicago Review of Books called her “a bard for our modern times.” The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and International Dublin Literary Award, her awards and accolades are countless. In her latest a
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35. Adventure Awaits! - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festival Box Of
The Nest, Vancouver · Free–$12
36. Turi King: The Secrets of our DNA This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Professor Turi K
Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver · Free–$12
35. Adventure Awaits! This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Pack your bags, take a deep brea
The Revue Stage, Vancouver · Free–$12
37. Masterclass with Faith Erin Hicks This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Writer and artis
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36. Turi King: The Secrets of our DNA - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete
Performance Works, Vancouver · Free–$12
34. Of Love and Lies This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Why does love so often seem to be
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37. Masterclass with Faith Erin Hicks - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete
Performance Works, Vancouver · Free–$12
38. Word! 3 This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Our Spoken Word event series, curated and
The Nest, Vancouver · Free–$12
40. Masterclass with Monique Gray Smith This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. When Charlie’s
The Revue Stage, Vancouver · $15–$28
41. So the Story Goes Short stories are one of our favourite forms of storytelling at the Festival, and the authors of these three exceptional collections have gifted us with a bounty of astonishing worlds, multifaceted characters, and profound insights to fill our hearts and our shelves. The clever
Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver · Free–$12
39. Meet My Family This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Meet different families and culture
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38. Word! 3 - LIVESTREAM This is a FREE digital livestream Youth Event on YouTube. For full information about school group bookings, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the in-person version of this event, please visit our website. BOX OFFICE INFO Complete Festival Box Office infor