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Festival Magazine

Read commissioned pieces and listen to keynote speeches created exclusively for our festival!

poetry

I would like to say thank you

Joseph Dandurand

Joseph Dandurand delivered a reading of this piece during the Silence panel at the 2025 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

Sound-bound in Shared Chaos

Taryn Hubbard

Taryn delivered a reading of this piece during the Sound panel at the 2025 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

Night Mercy

Jen Sookfong Lee

Jen Sookfong Lee delivered a reading of this piece during the Silence panel at the 2025 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

If the heart could write, it would write poetry. If the soul could write, it would write poetry.

- Lorna Crozier

fiction

Written by Loghan Paylor

Training Shift

Loghan delivered a version of this micro interactive fiction piece during the Revise panel at the 2024 Fraser Writers Festival.

Written by Brandon Reid

A Life Accepted

Brandon delivered a reading of this piece during the Acceptance Panel at the 2023 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

"You will spend many nights wondering how to continue. Perhaps you won’t want to, your pain so great. Do you still accept to write, to practise your measly craft for no one? [...] What will you do, then?"

"Write."

- Brandon Reid

non-fiction

Christina Myers

Time in a Line, Time in a Circle

Christina delivered a reading of this piece during the Silence panel at the 2025 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

Frances Peck

What Was Her Name

Frances delivered a reading of this piece during the Decline panel at the 2023 Fraser Valley Writers Festival. It was later published in The Fiddlehead, issue 304, summer 2025.

Written by Adrienne Gruber

Etymology of Kind

Adrienne delivered a reading of this piece during the Abandon panel at the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers' Festival.

Creation is the opposite of abandonment. It is a process of becoming, a progressive impetus toward creative explorations.

- Marc Perez

keynote addresses

Rob Taylor

2021

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