Real Vancouver Writers' Series

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Joyelle McSweeney Reads Death Styles, November 20th, 2024 an evening of poetry and companionship at Green College in Vancouver and via Livestream

Wed Nov 20--poetry genius Joyelle McSweeney reads the amazing book DEATH STYLES from start to finish at the Whole Cloth series at UBC Green College. Come be with us live... or by livestream if you are bomb-cyclone by weather! wholecloth.substack.com/p/joyelle-mc...

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Anyway, check out our website, follow us on Insta, do the usual rounds. Were there somewhere.

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We’re here for the books, the jokes, and the good times.

Our events have been curated, promoted, and hosted by Dina Del Bucchia and Sean Cranbury since forever with heavy doses of Carleigh Baker, Jen Sookfong Lee, Daniel Zomparelli, Sam Wiebe, Cole Nowicki, and so many over the years. 6

And apparently we’re on Bluesky now talking about ourselves in the third person for some reason. 5

We’ve curated and hosted countless events over the years, adapted and persevered during The Pandemic, promoted more than 300 writers, sold so many books, made so many friends, that it would be uncharacteristic to put the brakes on now. 4

Like several other local literary arts organizations - Massy Arts Society, Word Vancouver, to name two - we have fallen beneath the wheels of recent arts council funding austerity and will be adapting to new programming in the coming months (years). 3

We have been doing this since 2010 and will celebrate our 15th anniversary at the end of February. We officially registered as a non-profit society in 2013 and are served by a volunteer Board of Directors. 2

As far as introductions go we are an independently run, volunteer-powered literary arts organization that does four live readings per year featuring six authors per event. Our events usually happen at Iron Dog Books (indigenously owned and operated, located in east Vancouver). 1