A Toast to Spring: Kamal Parmar Reads at the Gabriola Island Library
Kamal Parmar, Poet Laureate of the City of Nanaimo (CAA–BC branch) will be reading along with other local poets at the Gabriola Island Library.
Canadian Authors Association – BC Branch: Author Talk – Women Talking About Women on Women’s Day, with Mary-Anne Neal
On March 8th, celebrated worldwide as International Women’s Day, CAA-BC Branch will welcome Mary-Anne Neal, an author and educator who has worked closely as a volunteer with Indigenous women in the remote Sahtu region of the Northwest Territories, to improve literacy and increase pride in their Dene heritage. Mary-Anne’s memoir, Under the Midnight Sun, recounts her…
Canadian Authors Association – BC: Author Talk – Graphic Memoir with Myriam Steinberg
Graphic novels (and memoirs) push the boundaries of storytelling by using imagery to bring fantastical worlds to life. They can make historical moments accessible and display human emotions that easily get lost in translation in prose. That’s to say it’s not all superheroes and monsters: There’s a whole wide world of literary graphic novels and…