The VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award was announced at the Blending Genres Event at the Vancouver Writers Fest a few days ago. VMI director Elee Kraljii Gardiner hosted a panel with Helen Cova (Autosarcophagy), Jason Guriel (The Full Moon Whaling Chronicles) and Denison Avenue author Christina Wong and illustrator Daniel Innes.
Congratulations to our longtime mentor Aren X. Tulchinsky!
Vancouver Public Library is pleased to announce its 2023 writer in residence is Vancouver author Aren X. Tulchinsky, the writer formerly known as Karen X.
Join VMI for our Second Annual Beach Social!
Saturday, August 12, 2023
4pm-6pm
Jericho Beach Vancouver
In front of the concession stand out on the beach
https://goo.gl/maps/U67n9kbYNRMzieQd8
Bring a blanket, towel and swimsuit (if you want to swim) and any snacks or drinks for yourself, to this low-key hangout with friends, mentors, and alumni of Vancouver Manuscript Intensive.
We invite you to our End of Year Celebration Reading on Zoom!
Our Six-Month Intensive authors have been working on their manuscripts and we look forward to hearing them read on Sat June 24 at 11am PDT.
VMI will be at AWP, the Association of Writers &Writing Programs Conference,in Seattle.
Join us at our offsite reading!
Friday March 10, 2023 at 7pm-8:30pm at the Vermillion Art Bar at 1508 11th Ave.
Our fall was stacked with events and announcements, including the winner of the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award. Remnants by Celine Huyghebaert, translated from the French by Aleshia Jensen for Book*hug Press was selected by judge Susan Olding.
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is delighted to announce the recipient of the 2023 Yosef Wosk VMI Fellowship. Shantell Powell will be working with VMI Mentor Gurjinder Basran on her fiction project during the January-to-June Six Month Intensive.
Fall Features
Hello everyone! We have exciting news for the fall…
VMI Q&A
Sunday, Oct 16 at 12pm PST
Are you curious about how VMI’s mentoring options can support your work-in-progress?
We had a wonderful 2022 season with the Six-Month Intensive cohort and now turn towards summer plans. As always, we welcome your SOLO and VMI Pro applications throughout the year and your Intensive and Fellowship applications for the 2023 cohort by November 9, 2022.
We welcome you to the year-end celebration reading of the 2022 cohort including our two VMI Fellows and VMI Pro author! Join us for a Zoom event on Sat June 18, 4pm PST-5:15pm PST by RSVPing for a link to info AT vancouvermanuscriptintensive.com
This is a chance to hear the works-in-progress of our fantastic Six-Month Intensive cohort as introduced by their mentors:
VMI Fellow Brandon Wint is a poet, spoken word artist and multi-disciplinary collaborator based in western Canada.
Here’s our latest newsletter, full of accomplishments, new books, awards, exciting events and collaborations! Please share and support our VMI community in whatever ways suit you—reposting on social media, buying books, sending the authors a note, or attending an event.
VMI invites our alumni to a special reading event with two exceptional guest authors this spring, translator and author Jennifer Croft and novelist and poet Farzana Doctor. These separate evenings of craft conversation, discussion, and Q&A are a unique opportunity for the VMI community to learn firsthand about the work of two creative writers.
