VMI is delighted to welcome Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang. Sarah, who is based in Toronto, will be available for mentoring in poetry, children’s literature, and graphic novel. Her experience and enthusiasm for connecting with authors makes her a great addition to the VMI community.
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.
We are delighted to welcome two Fellows for the 2022 season to work with director Elee Kraljii Gardiner. Congratulations to Brandon Wint and Olajide Salawu!
VMI is pleased to offer these two Fellowships in the second year of this developing and important program.
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We are delighted to announce the finalists for the Inaugural Betsy Warland Between Genres Award. Given to an exceptional title of Canadian literature published in 2021 that celebrates the hybrid and unclassifiable through innovation in genre, the winner will be announced at a ceremony at Vancouver Writers Fest on Sunday, October 24, 2021, 2pm-4pm PST, and presented $500 by judge Wayde Compton with special guest of honour Betsy Warland in attendance.
Please join us on Saturday, Oct 30, 2021 at 4pm PST on ZOOM for a reading by six mentors: Betsy Warland, Rachel Rose, Gary Barwin, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Jónína Kirton and Susan Olding.
Come check out what these award-winning authors have been writing recently!
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.
Join us for a celebration reading by the 2021 VMI cohort on Zoom!
We are delighted to showcase the accomplishments of this unique group on completion of the six-month program and invite you to gather with us across time zones to listen.
Welcome to the VMI newsletter highlighting the accomplishments, publications, and writing-related news from the VMI community.
Susan Olding has a new book, Big Reader, Essays from Freehand Books.
We are delighted to welcome Pervin Saket to VMI’s Fellowship for the 2021 season to work on her poetry manuscript with VMI director Elee Kraljii Gardiner.
PERVIN SAKET is the author of the novel ‘Urmila’ and of a collection of poetry ‘A Tinge of Turmeric’.
The November 9 application deadline is approaching for the VMI six month program beginning in January 2021.
The inaugural VMI Fellowship is also open for applications until November 9. Read more about the VMI Fellowship here.
For a writer of exceptional promise with a manuscript in progress, who has faced significant barriers to fulfilling that promise, including but not limited to racism, poverty or class barriers, geographic dislocation or refugee status, single parenthood, disability or serious illness.
2007-2020 Farewell
Betsy Warland, Founding Director and Mentor Emerita
When I offered Vancouver Manuscript for the first time in 2007, I had two motivations. I loved mentoring writers working on their manuscripts and I wanted to do more of this work.
