We are delighted to welcome Kinjal Sethia to VMI as the 2026 Yosef Wosk VMI Fellow!
Kinjal Sethia is a writer based in Pune. Her work has been published in nether Quarterly, Gulmohar Quarterly, In Parentheses, Bangalore Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Marrow Magazine, Singapore Unbound, Out of Print among other places.
NEWS!
Introducing VMI’s Connected Studio
For a few years we have been running monthly drop-in Zoom sessions for the writers enrolled in the Six-Month Intensive only.
Earlier this summer, we hosted a beautiful VMI Celebration Reading, featuring readings by our writers, graduates, and mentors in a virtual space. We’re excited to continue celebrating our community here, with you.
VMI Applications are now open!
The 2025 Six-Month cohort invites you to an online reading! Join mentees, mentors, and past VMI participants for this short and sweet celebration of their hard work! RSVP to our email for the link.
We’ll hear from Yosef Wosk VMI fellow Diary Marif, Chris Smart, Andréa Isaak, Yosef Wosk VMI fellow Petra Chambers, Betsy Warland, Aren X Tulchinsky, Gary Barwin and Mark Winston.
Spring is in the air and as it arrives, we’re excited to announce a few changes to the Warland Award, previously known as the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award.
The Warland Award now has a new home and website of its own: WarlandAward.ca
Named after innovative author and VMI founder, Betsy Warland, this yearly prize recognizes hybrid genre books published in Canada.
Register now for the Prepping Your Pitch workshop!
We have a spot for you in this one of a kind workshop led by VMI mentor Mark Winston. Mark has developed a structure for helping you craft your book proposal with feedback from a mentor, peer to peer mentoring, and expert advice from Cooke McDermid literary agent Rachel Letofsky and Book*Hug Press publisher Jay MillAr.
Hello friends and writers,
We’re wishing you an inspiring and productive autumn!
VMI has been busy this fall, transforming and planning. As many of you know, Rachel Rose, who co-directed VMI with Elee Kraljii Gardiner through Covid and helped bring us online to an international writing community, is no longer with the program in that role.
Hello writers,
This is a reminder to register for Creating A Social Media Foundation for a Career as a Writer taking place this Saturday Oct 12, 12pm-1:30pm PST. Built with the VMI community in mind, this 90 minute workshop will help you figure out the best ways to represent yourself and your work online.
With the new season comes new notebooks, projects, and plans. We’re happy to share an update with you.
Workshops
We’ve heard you ask for extra instruction and support on several topics around the production of a manuscript.
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive’s 3rd Annual Social
Come chat with VMI writers, say hi, reconnect, learn about our programs, and purchase tasty Jamaican food and drinks at the wonderful Rise Up café market in East Vancouver.
We warmly invite you to hear the writers in the 2024 Six-Month Intensive present their works-in-progress.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
2pm PST/5pm EST
Zoom: RSVP to info AT vancouvermanuscriptintensive.com to attend
Readings by Heidi Castle, Anna Cavouras, Jess Dunkin, Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Gillian Harper, Adrienne King, Pam North, Erin Soros, and Yosef Wosk VMI Fellow Petra Chambers.
Happy Spring!
We’re revving up for the first submission period April 8-April 12, 2024 for the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award!
The award is for a book published in Canada that is a hybrid genre, or straddles two or more genres.
