Program Guide in pdf - Vancouver International Writers Festival

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IRENE N. WATTS
BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENT 14
Irene N. Watts is a writer and playwright who has worked
throughout Canada and Europe. Her previous book, A Telling
Time, was awarded a White Raven in Bologna 2006, by the
Internationale Jugend Bibliothek, Munich. Irene’s books
have been translated into Italian, French and Dutch and
have been awarded numerous honours, including the Geoffrey Bilson Award
for Historical Fiction, BC’s Chocolate Lily Award, and UNESCO’s Playwriting
Award for Young Adults. Her new book is No Pets Allowed.
RC WESLOWSKI
BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 10, 27
RC Weslowski is a clown mouth full of x-ray visions
attempting to get at the heart of things. RC is the 2009
Vancouver Poetry Slam-Grand Slam Champion and he was
also the Poet of Honour at the 2008 Canadian Festival of
Spoken Word, and 2007 runner up at the World Cup of
Poetry in Bobigny, France, 2006. He has toured the UK, Europe, Canada and
the US with performances at many different festivals.
ROBERT J. WIERSEMA
BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 20, 30
Robert J. Wiersema channeled his childhood propensity
for lying (even though he always got caught) into the craft
of fi ction, which he studied at the University of Victoria. He
worked for many years as a bookseller in Victoria and wrote
book reviews for Quill & Quire, The Vancouver Sun, the
Globe and Mail, and the Ottawa Citizen, before writing his fi rst novel, Before I
Wake. His new novel is Bedtime Story.
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KATHLEEN WINTER
QUÉBEC, EVENTS 20, 62
Kathleen Winter has written dramatic and documentary
scripts for Sesame Street and CBC Television. Her fi rst
collection of short stories, boYs, was the winner of both the
Winterset Award and the 2006 Metcalfe-Rooke Award. A
long-time resident of St. John’s, Newfoundland, she now
lives in Montreal. Annabel is her fi rst novel.