Program Guide in pdf - Vancouver International Writers Festival

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Writing courses to help you
get your story out.
� Beginning Your Novel
� Writing for the Screen
� Food and Travel Writing
� Writing Creative Non-Fiction
� Children’s Book Workshop
� Writing Your Life’s Story
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POLYPHONY
ELEANOR CATTON, GENNI GUNN, MICHAEL HELM, KATHY PAGE,
ADAM LEWIS SCHROEDER, MAURICIO SEGURA, MARISA SILVER
HOST: PAUL GRANT
8:00 PM
WATERFRONT THEATRE
$19
Settle back this evening to hear seven fi ne writers read from their new
works. There’s more than enough in store tonight to get you fi red up on some
riveting fi ction by authors whose books may not have made it into your hands
yet. Let these voices transport you to Italy and Vietnam. Get swept up in an
extraordinary adventure to a remote area of British Columbia and thrown into
the fray of two street gangs divided by race. Be turned around by the chaos of a
high-school sex scandal and fl ung deep into the turmoil caused by an attack on
a dark street. In other words, go places you’ve never been, feel things you’ve
never felt, and come out changed.
AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH DAVID MITCHELL
8:00 PM
PTC STUDIO
$25
David Mitchell has been called many things, all of them enviable. According to
Dave Eggers, Mitchell is “one of the more fearless and fascinating writers alive.”
Charles Foran declares him “the most gifted of his generation of novelists.”
Of his fi ve novels, two have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is
perhaps best known for his mind-altering modern classic Cloud Atlas, which
was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has sold in the neighbourhood of a
million copies worldwide. Mitchell joins us this evening with a new masterpiece,
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, which follows a Dutch accountant’s
adventures in feudal Japan. In the hands of this formidably talented writer, this is
no ordinary tale, and this will be no ordinary evening.
This event is sponsored by Random House of Canada.
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