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Festival Magazine

Read commissioned pieces and listen to keynote speeches created exclusively for our festival!

poetry

Trust Fall

Kate Black

Kate delivered a reading of this piece during the Abandon panel for the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

A cucumber

andrea bennett

andrea delivered a reading of this poem during the Decline panel at the 2023 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

Three Revisions

Anita Lahey

Anita delivered a reading of these three poems during the Revise panel at the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

Saturday Morning

Ali Blythe

Ali delivered a reading of this poem during the Accept panel at the 2023 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

Never Less Than Whole

Onjana Yawnghwe

Onjana delivered a reading of this piece during the Abandon panel at the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers' Festival.

If the heart could write, it would write poetry. If the soul could write, it would write poetry.

- Lorna Crozier

fiction

Written by Loghan Paylor

Training Shift

Loghan delivered a version of this micro interactive fiction piece during the Revise panel at the 2024 Fraser Writers Festival.

Written by Brandon Reid

A Life Accepted

Brandon delivered a reading of this piece during the Acceptance Panel at the 2023 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

"You will spend many nights wondering how to continue. Perhaps you won’t want to, your pain so great. Do you still accept to write, to practise your measly craft for no one? [...] What will you do, then?"

"Write."

- Brandon Reid

non-fiction

Written by Adrienne Gruber

Etymology of Kind

Adrienne delivered a reading of this piece during the Abandon panel at the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers' Festival.

Written by Richard Kemick

Revise

Richard delivered a reading of this piece during the Revise panel at the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers' Festival.

Written by Marc Perez

Some Notes on Abandonment

Marc delivered a reading of this piece during the Abandon panel at the 2024 Fraser Valley Writers Festival.

Creation is the opposite of abandonment. It is a process of becoming, a progressive impetus toward creative explorations.

- Marc Perez

keynote addresses

Billy-Ray Belcourt

2024

Angela Sterritt

2024

Darrel J. McLeod

2023

Rob Taylor

2021

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