An informal space to share and discuss poems you love, poems that you are currently reading, or poems you have written! Poems can be from any publication or book, as well as from online resources. For teens and adults
This event happens on the first Tuesday of the month, 10:30-11:30am in the Community Room
to Feb 22nd. The 5th Annual Art & Words Festival hosted the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery (August 21-23) is looking for artists, artisans, photographers, writers, and songwriters. Come to the info meeting Sun., Jan. 25th, 2 pm. Davis Bay Hall.
If accepted, you’ll be paired in a draw with a visual artist if
you’re a writer, or a writer if you’re a visual artist to work collaboratively to create works of art and literature.
Also looking for workshop facilitators.
Questions or to apply email sunshinecoastwritersandeditors@gmail.com
Come learn about Coast Salish art, culture and storytelling on Saturday Dec. 20th, 2pm – 4pm. Andrea Fritz will read from her newest book Woolly Dog Warms His Family and talk about its relation to her serigraph Sqwiqwi, on display now in her Eve Smart exhibition Lyackson Place Names. This event is free and open to all!
Lyackson Place Names features hand produced silk screen prints in the traditional style of the Coast Salish People, exploring place names and different aspects of storytelling and culture. Each print in Andrea Fritz’s exhibition focuses on a place within Lyackson territory on the Salish Sea or on an aspect of Coast Salish storytelling, and is accompanied by the story relating to the piece. Lyackson Place Names will be closing on Saturday, December 20th at 4pm.
Want to enter a Writing Contest and Win but don’t know how to do so? Join Jan DeGrass, journalist and author, to learn the basics and be on your way to entering your first literary contest.
The fee is by donation to cover Jan’s time and the venue rental (suggested donation is $15).
Drop in to the Gibsons & District Public Library and take a literary and artistic mini-workshop on how to take a page from a discarded book and turn it into a new phrase or poem with tracing paper, markers and doodles. OR, bring your own work-in-progress and work on it in a quiet environment.
Materials will be supplied, but bring your own old book and markers if you wish.
Meet the Authors – Double Book Launch featuring Ken Blosser, The Loyal Order of Old School Chums & Sheila Anne Wray, Wildcraft Medicine: In the Presence of Wonder.
Call for submissions for “Snippets from a Small Town: Understanding Life on the Sunshine Coast,” sponsored by the Small Neighbourhood Grant program. Send your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography, and art to cathalynn@gmail.com by Monday, November 17th. Small honorariums available. Launch at Gibsons & District Public Library Wednesday, December 17th, 11 am. Cover art by Sheri Peters.
You’re invited to come Write On for some quiet writing time at the Library on the third Wednesday of the month. No instruction or critique, just quiet time and space to write. Work on any writing you wish, in the company of your fellow writers.
Facilitator: Cathalynn (Cindy) Labonte-Smith
Drop in, no registration required.
If you require accessibility accommodations, please email outreach@gibsonslibrary.ca.
More than a band, it’s been a vessel for heavy emotion, raw expression, and deep connection. Emerging from Vancouver’s vibrant post-hardcore scene in the late 90s. Joined by local heros, Modern Terror and Molten, not heard locally fornearly a decade.
The Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society is pleased to host local award-winning mystery writer Charlotte Morganti’s book launch of The Karma Murders.
The Karma Murders
A driver falling asleep at the wheel. A truck slipping out of gear. A sailboat boom striking a sailor’s skull.
Someone is delivering fatal justice in Cheakamus, B.C. He has anointed himself as Karma’s Helper, delivering justice where it’s long overdue.
Townspeople see these accidents as random acts of fate. But P.I. Gabe Gabrieli believes the truth is more sinister. He recognizes the pattern—a killer’s signature hidden in plain sight—and studies the threads connecting the victims, searching for a common link.
Brief AGM will be held prior to the launch. Goodies at the break. All welcome. Free.
Max 10 Registration required.
In this fun, interactive, hands-on workshop, you will write a short play in response to the climate crisis, by identifying issues that are essential to write about now, as well as exploring and expanding your sense of the possible. Playwriting has much to offer writers in other genres, such as developing your skills with dialogue, structure, story, vivid details and experimentation. Playwriting gives theatre artists unparalleled agency and an opportunity to identify the core of what they want to make work about.
We will explore a variety of approaches to making plays that have relevance for communities and connection to the natural world. You will learn what a theatre action is, how to workshop your short play, and explore where to go next. If you ar
We’re thrilled to welcome Bob McDonald—acclaimed author, CBC broadcaster, and longtime host of Quirks & Quarks—to the Raven’s Cry Theatre for a very special fundraising event.
With over 800,000 weekly listeners across Canada, Bob is one of the country’s most trusted voices in science communication. He’s just released his memoir “Just Say Yes” and has generously offered his time to support this cause.
This event will benefit the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, now in its 43rd year. The Festival continues to enrich our community through storytelling, author events, and literacy initiatives—like the much-loved Literacy Week in local elementary schools.
Click on the link below for ticket options.
https://writersfestival.ca/2025/an-afternoon-with-bob-mcdonald/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMsMj
On Wednesday, Sept. 17th, 1-3 pm there’s a drop in writing/art session at the Gibsons Public Library Manili Room. The goal is to create a Sunshine Coast themed anthology by SC writers, artists and photographers, that will be launched at the Gibsons Public Library mid-November. ALL are welcome to contribute.
Production and launch costs will be covered by a Small Neighbourhood Grant, including an honorarium for the cover art.
Young writers will explore imaginary worlds, characters and conflicts via illustration and writing. This is a great class for students looking to have fun building stories and participate in a wide-range of activities that nurture creativity, including writing perplexing riddles, developing dastardly villains, and more! Each one-hour session includes inspiration, writing time, and sharing with peers. Taught by local author and storyteller, Kallie George.
Engaging and honest, Ryan McMahon’s music is written from the heart and sung from the soul, following the lead of his peers Jason Isbell, Nathaniel Rateliff and Warren Zevon. With six releases under his name and two with his side project, the acclaimed trio Lion Bear Fox, McMahon has established himself as one of western Canada’s most prolific singer-songwriters, leading to multiple Vancouver Island Music Awards and supporting slots for Burton Cummings, Tom Cochrane, Mother Mother, Lee Harvey Osmond and others. On his latest album, Live Now, Ryan’s storytelling remains deeply personal, drawing on real-life stories. While firmly rooted in folk and roots, the album also explores hints of rock and Americana, creating a dynamic range to his music that makes each song an individual journey.
Aug 14 – 17th. Join Canada’s longest running summer gathering of Canadian writers and readers. Featuring over twenty-five visiting authors including Nita Prose, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “The Maid”; acclaimed canlit star Guy Vanderhaeghe, who will be speaking about his non-fiction work, “Because Somebody Asked Me To”; David A. Robertson, a two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and author of “All the Little Monsters”; and Vancouver’s Gurjinder Basran, hailed by the CBC as one of the “ten Canadian women writers you need to read.” Plus opportunities for writers and readers to mingle amidst Rockwood’s heritage gardens.
Complete schedule here.
Aug 15-16. Meet Sunshine Coast Authors and Artists at St. Hilda’s Hall just steps away from the Rockwood Centre.
It is with great pleasure, excitement and anticipation
that Ed Lands and Anne Moul announce the release of a limited edition (250) of
Gumboot Nation. The book can be purchased at the Roberts Creek Library – open Tuesday thru Friday from 2-6pm and Saturdays from 10am-2pm. Gumboot Nation is also available at the Gumboot Restaurant, Eco-Feako in the heart of the Creek and at Talewind Books in Sechelt All profits from the $25.00 price go to the Roberts Creek Community Association (RCCA). It is an ideal keepsake & gift for visitors and family.
