The Whistler Writers Festival has announced details for its spring reading event.
Travel, Place, Identity: Unpacking the Idea of Home is set to take place on May 17 at 7 p.m. at the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre. It will feature four authors, including Pat Ardley, who wrote the book Grizzlies, Gales and Giant Salmon: Life at a Rivers Inlet Fishing Lodge; Amy Fung, author of Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being; Becky Livingston, whose first book is called Travels with a Daughter's Ashes; and Geoff Powter, whose latest book is Inner Ranges: An Anthology of Mountain Thoughts and Mountain People.
Local writer, editor, biologist and Pique columnist Leslie Anthony is set to moderate. "Anyone who has travelled or lived in lands that were not their place of origin will have thought about what home means, and how much we identify with our sense of place," says Stella Harvey, artistic director of the Whistler Writers Festival, in a release. "Our four guest authors are all asking questions about how we identify with place in different ways, whether it's through great loss, living a life of adventure on the West Coast, risk-taking in the mountains, or an examination of Canada's mythologies of multiculturalism and settler colonialism."
As part of the event, organizers are also launching a writing contest open to everyone in the Sea to Sky corridor (Lions Bay to Lillooet, in this case). Writers of all levels are welcome to put pen to paper and come up with 250 words or less to answer the questions, "How is our sense of self influenced by where we live or travel? What does home mean?"
The winner will receive a $100 cash prize, tickets to the event, and the opportunity to read their submission alongside the authors.
For more, visit whistlerwritersfest.com.
Tickets for the event, meanwhile, are $22 available now at whistlerwritersfest.com.
