Anita Lahey will be busy, busy, busy at this year’s Fraser Valley Writers Festival! She’s teaching a workshop. She’s part of a panel. She’s on a podcast! All the delightful details are below!
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Multi-Genre Workshop
Date: Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Venue: D building, room 139
Author: Anita Lahey
“Urgent News of the Day: The Creative Exploration of Current Events” (10 AM, D 139): In this multi-genre workshop, poet, essayist and journalist Anita Lahey will guide participants through a variety of approaches to writing about both current and historic events that can prove more creative, critical and – often – more illuminating than traditional journalism.
Tickets: eventbrite-multi-genre-workshop
REVISE – WRITER’S PANEL
Date: Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Venue: Evered Hall, Student Union Building
Tickets: eventbrite-panel-revise
We invite you to be immersed in new writing and conversations with Carleigh Baker, author of Last Woman, Richard Kelly Kemick, author of Hello, Horse, Anita Lahey, author of Fire Monster, and Abbotsford’s own, Loghan Paylor, author of The Cure for Drowning.
Chaired by award-winning writer Adrienne Gruber, the author of five chapbooks, three books of poetry, and the creative nonfiction collection, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood.
Podcast
“Page Fright Podcast Live!” (1:15 PM, D 134): Saturday, November 2 · 1:15pm PDT
The Fraser Valley Writers Festival is thrilled to host its first podcast this year!
– Join Page Fright Podcast host Andrew French as they interview acclaimed poet, memoirist, critic and editor Anita Lahey on all things writing.
Tickets: eventbrite-pagefright-podcast
Andrew French is a queer poet from North Vancouver who has authored 3 chapbooks of poetry, most recently Buoyhood (forthcoming with Alfred Gustav Press, 2025). Their work has appeared in EVENT, PRISM International, long con, and a number of other journals across North America and the UK. In addition to their writing, Andrew talks poetry with their favourite poets on Page Fright: A Poetry Podcast. They are on Instagram @andrewwfrench
