Opening Night and Keynotes

Join us to celebrate the launch of the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers Festival! This event will feature keynote addresses from acclaimed authors Billy-Ray Belcourt and Angela Sterritt. At this event, we will also be introducing UFV's 2025 Writer-in-Residence!

Date: Friday, November 1st, 2024

Time: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Venue: Evered Hall, Student Union Building, UFV Abbotsford (33844 King Rd)

Tickets: eventbrite-keynotes

About Billy-Ray Belcourt

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of five books: This Wound is a World, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, A History of My Brief Body, A Minor Chorus, and Coexistence.

His books have won, or been a finalist for, a number of awards, including the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

About Angela Sterritt

Angela Sterritt is an award-winning investigative journalist, TV, radio, and podcast host, and national bestselling author. She is from the Wilp Wiik’aax (we-GAK) of the Gitanmaax (GIT-in-max) community within the Gitxsan (GICK-san) Nation on her dad’s side and from Bell Island, Newfoundland on her maternal side. Sterritt worked as a television, radio, and digital journalist at CBC for more than a decade. She also hosted the award-winning CBC original podcast Land Back.

Her debut book of memoir and journalism, Unbroken, has been named a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the Hilary Weston Prize for Non-Fiction and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes.