FESTIVAL MAGAZINE

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

poetry

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Trust Fall

Kate Black

Kate delivered a reading of this piece during the Abandon panel for the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

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A cucumber

andrea bennett

andrea delivered a reading of this poem during the Decline panel at the 2023 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

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Three Revisions

Anita Lahey

Anita delivered a reading of these three poems during the Revise panel at the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

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Saturday Morning

Ali Blythe

Ali delivered a reading of this poem during the Accept panel at the 2023 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

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Never Less Than Whole

Onjana Yawnghwe

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

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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

- W. H. Auden

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.

non-fiction

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Written by Adrienne Gruber

Etymology of Kind

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

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Written by Richard Kemick

Revise

Richard delivered this piece during the Revise panel at the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers' Festival.

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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

- Candace Millard

Keynote Addresses

Billy-Ray Belcourt

2024

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Angela Sterritt

2024

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Lorna Crozier

2023

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Darrel J. McLeod

2023

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Rob Taylor

2021