1 Welcome to th e 6th annual Galiano Literary Festival! Once again we are thrilled to welcome both returning and first-time participants to the Galiano Literary Festival. We hope you will agree that this year’s lineup of authors is our best yet. Many of our authors this year explore environmental issues but that’s just a part of the wide array of works our authors will be sharing with all of you. From swashbuckling action to historical novels to science fiction to poetry, non-fiction and biography with lots of stops along the way, this year’s writers cover all the bases in book topics. They also represent a wide range of backgrounds and experience from first-time authors to those with dozens of books to their credit.

The readings and panels will, we believe, prove stimulating and enjoyable. However, the best parts of the Festival are those times when authors and readers meet together over a glass of wine or delicious meal in the homey and intimate environment of the Galiano Oceanfront Inn. It is our hope that you will leave the Festival having found some new books and authors to read and having connected and reconnected with other readers and writers who share your passion for books.

We also hope that you will take the time to enjoy Galiano Island itself by sampling some of our fine eateries, visiting the many art and crafts galleries or, simply, taking a tranquil stroll along the beach or through the woods.

Thank you for joining us. We look forward to meeting each of you and hope that you find your visit to the Festival a fulfilling and enjoyable experience.

Lee and Jim – and th e staff at Galiano Island Books

Jim Schmidt and Lee Trentadue opened Galiano Island Books in 1997. Jim currently spends much of his time practicing neuropsychology as well as many weekends at the store. Lee manages the bookstore and sits on the Board as Past President of the BC Booksellers Association. She is the originator and organizer of the annual Galiano Literary Festival. Both are passionate about books and the importance of independent bookstores. They believe the physical book will continue to hold value for many readers – young and old – for many years to come.

2 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20th 1:00–5:00 pm Workshop: Audrey Thomas (fiction) 1:00–2:00 pm Workshop: Bill Gaston (fiction) 2:00–3:00 pm Workshop: Kate Braid (poetry) 3:00–4:00 pm Workshop: Sandra Djwa (biography) 4:00–5:00 pm Workshop: Marilyn Biderman (the business of publishing) 7:00 pm WELCOME RECEPTION

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21st

10–10:45 am Panel Discussion: Writers on the Environment Arno Kopecky, Chris Czajkowski, Elizabeth May Moderator: Jim Schmidt

11–11:45 am Panel Discussion: Shore to Shore Suzanne Fournier, Consul Maria João Boavida, Chief Ian Campbell, Rosemary Georgeson, Luke Marston

11:45–12:45 pm LUNCH

12:45–1:45 pm Reading: John Vaillant Reading: Elizabeth May

2:00–3:00 pm Illustrated Reading: Ian McAllister Reading: George Bowering

3:15–4:15 pm Reading: Arleen Pare reading together Reading: Christine Smart} Reading: Spider Robinson

4:15–4:30 pm BREAK

4:30–5:30 pm Reading: Michael Christie reading together Reading: Bill Gaston } Reading: Gillian Wigmore reading together Reading: Jane Woods } 7:00 pm DINNER and PRESENTATION by CC HUMPHREYS 3 SUNDAY FEBRUARY 22nd

9:30–10:30 am lllustrated Reading: Chris Czajkowski Reading: Lee Henderson reading together Reading: Avi Sirlin }

10:45–11:45 am Reading: Kate Braid and Sandra Djwa } reading together Reading: Graeme Truelove

11:45–12:45 pm LUNCH

12:45–1:45 pm Reading: Arno Kopecky reading together Reading: Andrew Nikiforuk } Reading: Théodora Armstrong reading together Reading: Cea Sunrise Person }

2:00–3:00 pm Reading: Aaron Chapman

3:00 pm CLOSING REMARKS AND AUTHOR ROUND-UP

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Théodora Armstrong is a fiction writer, poet, and photographer. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines across the country such as Event, Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, Descant, The New Quarterly, and Contemporary Verse 2. In 2008, she won a Western Magazine Award for fiction, and her stories have been included in both the Journey Prize Stories 20 and Coming Attractions 10. Her début short story collection, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility (House of Anansi Press), is a depiction of families, friendship, and human frailty set against the landscape of . Théodora lives in , British Columbia, with her husband and daughter. She is at work on her first novel.

Marilyn Biderman. Before founding her own literary agency in September 2010, Marilyn Biderman worked at McClelland & Stewart Ltd. for twelve years, most recently as Vice President, Director, Rights and Contracts. At M&S, she handled the international rights of many renowned Canadian authors. She has guest-lectured at the publishing programs at Ryerson University, , Humber College, and taught a course during the fall of 2013 in the publishing program at Centennial College. She has also mentored many publishers under the auspices of the Association of Canadian Publishers and the Canada Council, and has acted as a juror in literary competitions. Marilyn is also a lawyer, the author of several papers on copyright law, a passionate balletomane, and a besotted dog owner.

Consul Maria João Boavida / Shore to Shore Panel More than 162 years ago the Coast Salish people accepted into their lives a young Portuguese whaler, “Portuguese Joe” Silvey, with whom they shared their powerful culture based on respect for the rich harvests yielded by the land and sea. “Portuguese Joe” Silvey and his first and second Coast Salish wives are honoured in a monumental bronze sculpture entitled Shore to Shore carved by master carver Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston. This panel celebrates the shared First Nations and Portuguese perspectives on that early collaboration between these two resource-based cultures on Galiano Island and the lower mainland. Shore to Shore: The Art of Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston by Galiano author Suzanne Fournier, master carver Luke Marston, Squamish hereditary Chief Ian Campbell, Rosemary Georgeson, a descendent of Portuguese Joe Silvey, and Portuguese Consul Maria João Boavida. 5 George Bowering, Canada’s first Poet Laureate, was born in the Okanagan Valley. He has taught literature at the University of , the University of Western Ontario and Simon Fraser University, and he continues to act as a Canadian literary ambassador at international conferences and readings. A distinguished novelist, poet, editor, professor, historian and tireless supporter of fellow writers, Bowering has authored more than eighty books including works of poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography and youth fiction. His writing has also been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese and Romanian. In 2002, Bowering was recognized by the Vancouver Sun as one of the most influential people in BC. His newest book of poetry is Teeth from Mansfield Press, 2013.

Kate Braid has written poetry and non-fiction about subjects from Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Carr and Glenn Gould to mine workers and fishers. In addition to co-editing with Sandy Shreve, In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poems, she has published five books of poetry, most recently A Well- Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems (Caitlin, 2008) and Turning Left to the Ladies (Palimpsest, 2009). Her memoir of 15 years as a carpenter, Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World, was published in 2012. Her work has won and been short-listed for a number of awards and is widely anthologized.

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6 Chief Ian Campbell / Shore to Shore Panel More than 162 years ago the Coast Salish people accepted into their lives a young Portuguese whaler, “Portuguese Joe” Silvey, with whom they shared their powerful culture based on respect for the rich harvests yielded by the land and sea. “Portuguese Joe” Silvey and his first and second Coast Salish wives are honoured in a monumental bronze sculpture entitled Shore to Shore carved by master carver Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston. This panel celebrates the shared First Nations and Portuguese perspectives on that early collaboration between these two resource-based cultures on Galiano Island and the lower mainland. Shore to Shore: The Art of Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston by Galiano author Suzanne Fournier, master carver Luke Marston, Squamish hereditary Chief Ian Campbell, Rosemary Georgeson, a descendent of Portuguese Joe Silvey, and Portuguese Consul Maria João Boavida.

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7 Aaron Chapman is a writer, historian, and musician. He has been a contributor to the Vancouver Courier, the Georgia Straight, The Tyee and CBC Radio. In 2013, his first book Liquor, Lust, and The Law: The Story of Vancouver’s Legendary Penthouse Nightclub was shortlisted for a BC Book Prize. In 2014, he added two more bestsellers, as a co-author of Vancouver Confidential and most recently Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver’s Historic Commodore Ballroom. As a speaker, he has presented at Pecha Kucha Night at the Vogue Theatre, the Museum of Vancouver, and the Vancouver Police Museum. Aaron has also toured as a musician throughout Canada, the US, and Europe.

Michael Christie‘s debut collection of short stories, The Beggar’s Garden, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Prize for Fiction, and won the Vancouver Book Award. He holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Prior to his MFA, he was a sponsored skateboarder and travelled throughout the world skateboarding and writing for skateboard magazines. Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, he now lives on Galiano Island with his wife and two sons. If I Fall, If I Die is his first novel.

Welcome to our “Island Retreat” The Galiano Island Chamber of Commerce is pleased to support the Galiano Literary Festival as the highlight of our Winter calendar. Galiano is the perfect place for your next retreat. We will greet your guests with warmth, show them the beauty of the wild West Coast, introduce them to new experiences, wow them with art and books and wine and yoga and music and fun and food and great, great people.....all in the natural setting E COMMUN of our island home. AT IT IV Y LT U With so many options for places to stay, dine, play C and learn, you will find your ideal island retreat.... Y SHOP GALIANOM O S N UP O on Galiano Island. P EC ORT LOCAL galianoisland.com [email protected] (250) 539-9993 8 Chris Czajkowski is an accomplished writer and spokes- person for wilderness living. She is the author of ten books including Lonesome: Memoirs of a Wilderness Dog (Heritage House Publishing), Snowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness Dweller (Harbour Publishing), A Mountain Year: Nature Diary of a Wilderness Dweller (Harbour Publishing), A Wilderness Dweller’s Cookbook: The Best Bread in the World and Other Recipes (Harbour Publishing), and Ginty’s Ghost: A Wilderness Dweller’s Dream (Harbour Publishing). Her new book, And the River Still Sings, was published in 2014 from Caitlin Press.

Sandra Djwa is a biographer, cultural critic and editor who taught Literature in Canada at Simon Fraser U. Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (2012) won the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction in 2013 and the Canada Prize for the Humanities in 2014. Past biographies include The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F.R. Scott (1987), shortlisted for a B.C. Book Prize in 1987 and Professing English: A Life of (2002), awarded the Royal Society Lorne Pierce Medal for Literature in Canada.

Suzanne Fournier / Shore to Shore Panel More than 162 years ago the Coast Salish people accepted into their lives a young Portuguese whaler, “Portuguese Joe” Silvey, with whom they shared their powerful culture based on respect for the rich harvests yielded by the land and sea. “Portuguese Joe” Silvey and his first and second Coast Salish wives are honoured in a monumental bronze sculpture entitled Shore to Shore carved by master carver Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston. This panel celebrates the shared First Nations and Portuguese perspectives on that early collaboration between these two resource-based cultures on Galiano Island and the lower mainland. Shore to Shore: The Art of Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston by Galiano author Suzanne Fournier, master carver Luke Marston, Squamish hereditary Chief Ian Campbell, Rosemary Georgeson, a descendent of Portuguese Joe Silvey, and Portuguese Consul Maria João Boavida.

9 Bill Gaston is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His short-story collection Gargoyles was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and won the ReLit Award and the City of Victoria Butler Prize. In 2002, Gaston was a finalist for the Giller Prize with Mount Appetite, and the inaugural recipient of the Timothy Findley Prize, awarded by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. He teaches at the University of Victoria.

Rosemary Georgeson / Shore to Shore Panel More than 162 years ago the Coast Salish people accepted into their lives a young Portuguese whaler, “Portuguese Joe” Silvey, with whom they shared their powerful culture based on respect for the rich harvests yielded by the land and sea. “Portuguese Joe” Silvey and his first and second Coast Salish wives are honoured in a monumental bronze sculpture entitled Shore to Shore carved by master carver Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston. This panel celebrates the shared First Nations and Portuguese perspectives on that early collaboration between these two resource-based cultures on Galiano Island and the lower mainland. Shore to Shore: The Art of Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston by Galiano author Suzanne Fournier, master carver Luke Marston, Squamish hereditary Chief Ian Campbell, Rosemary Georgeson, a descendent of Portuguese Joe Silvey, and Portuguese Consul Maria João Boavida.

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firstchoicebooks.ca 1-800-957-0561 Unit 2–460 Tennyson Place Victoria, BC V8Z 6S8 10 Lee Henderson is the award-winning author of The Broken Record Technique and The Man Game. His writing appears in the PEN Canada anthology Finding the Words and the speculative fiction anthologyDarwin’s Bastards. For a decade he has written about contemporary Canadian artists for Border Crossings magazine. He has exhibited artwork in Vancouver, Toronto, and elsewhere, and curated shows of contemporary art and experimental music, including the inaugural selection for Hamish Hamilton Canada’s online gallery, The Looking Glass. He has led workshops for UBC and the Summer Literary Seminar and mentored at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and he currently teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria. His new novel, The Road Narrows As You Go, was published by Hamish Hamilton in September 2014.

C.C. (Chris) Humphreys is an actor, playwright and novelist. He has written 9 adult historical novels including his most recent Plague and four fantasy horror novels for teens. He has written four plays, the latest being Shakespeare’s Rebel adapted from his novel of the same title and premiering at Bard on the Beach in 2015.

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11 Arno Kopecky is a Squamish-based environmental journalist and travel writer whose dispatches have appeared in The Walrus, Foreign Policy, Reader’s Digest, the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, and other publications. His reportage has covered five continents, ranging from Iceland’s attempt at becoming the first oil-free country in the world to the exploits of Canadian mining companies in the Amazon basin. In recent years he has focused closer to home, writing extensively on ’s oil sands, climate change, and First Nations. He is the author of two books: The Devil’s Curve and The Oil Man And The Sea.

Ian McAllister is a co-founder of the wildlife conservation organization Pacific Wild. He is an award-winning photographer and author of The Last Wild Wolves and The Great Bear Rainforest, and his images have appeared in publications around the world. He has been honoured by the Globe & Mail as one of 133 highly accomplished Canadians, and he and his wife, Karen McAllister, were named by Time Magazine one of the Leaders of the 21st Century for their efforts to protect British Columbia’s endangered rainforest. He is a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers and has won the North America Nature Photography Association’s Vision Award and the Rainforest Action Network’s Rainforest Hero Award. He lives with his family on an island in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest.

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12 Luke Marston / Shore to Shore Panel More than 162 years ago the Coast Salish people accepted into their lives a young Portuguese whaler, “Portuguese Joe” Silvey, with whom they shared their powerful culture based on respect for the rich harvests yielded by the land and sea. “Portuguese Joe” Silvey and his first and second Coast Salish wives are honoured in a monumental bronze sculpture entitled Shore to Shore carved by master carver Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston. This panel celebrates the shared First Nations and Portuguese perspectives on that early collaboration between these two resource-based cultures on Galiano Island and the lower mainland. Shore to Shore: The Art of Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston by Galiano author Suzanne Fournier, master carver Luke Marston, Squamish hereditary Chief Ian Campbell, Rosemary Georgeson, a descendent of Portuguese Joe Silvey, and Portuguese Consul Maria João Boavida.

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Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning Canadian journalist who has been writing about the oil and gas industry for more than two decades. He was one of the first journalists in North America to document the impacts of hydraulic fracturing on rural communities. His books include Saboteurs, which won the 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and was released in an updated edition in 2014; Empire of the Beetle, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction; Tar Sands, which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and became a national bestseller; and The Energy of Slaves. In 2013, he received The Writers’ Trust of Canada Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life.

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14 Arleen Pare is a poet and novelist, author of two previous books. Originally from Montreal, she lived for years in Vancouver where she worked as a social worker and administrator to provide community housing for people with mental illness. She now lives in Victoria with her partner, Chris Fox. Lake of the Mountains is her first full poetry collection and her third book.

Cea Sunrise Person Born into an eccentric hippie family, Cea spent the first decade of her life living in and out of tipis in the Canadian wilderness. From the age of thirteen, she worked successfully as a model in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Munich, Hamburg, Zurich and Milan. She now lives in Vancouver with her husband and three young children. She is the author of the bestselling memoir North of Normal: a Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Counterculture Family, and How I Survived Both.

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15 Spider Robinson has won 3 Hugos, a Nebula, and numerous other international awards. His 35 books are available in 10 languages. His short work has appeared in countless magazines and anthologies. His most recent novel is Very Hard Choices. In 2006 he was chosen by the estate of Robert A. Heinlein to write the novel Variable Star based on an outline by Mr. Heinlein. That year he was invited to the National Book Festival in Washington, where he dined with the President and First Lady and read from Variable Star on the National Mall. Spider was married for 35 years to Jeanne Robinson, a Boston- born Buddhist priest, choreographer, dancer, writer, and co-producer of a film about zero-G dance based on Spider’s and her award-winning collaborative novella Stardance, for which she was separately invited to the National Book Festival the same year as Spider. She died of cancer in 2010. This year Spider and Jeanne were inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Avi Sirlin grew up in Toronto, Canada. After graduating university with a degree in Biology, he worked in a variety of occupations including pastry baker, forklift operator, and landscaper. He’d already enjoyed fulfilling stints as house painter, taxi driver, hotdog vendor, laboratory technician, grain handler, parking lot attendant, and telephone solicitor (for which he deeply apologizes, no matter how desperately he needed his tuition money). When Avi next graduated, he had a law degree. Avi founded his own law practice in downtown Toronto, eventually focusing upon immigration and criminal law. Although he still does some legal consulting work, for the past several years he has focused on writing. He has written two screenplays and his novel The Evolutionist was published in September 2014. He is currently at work on his next novel and lives in Victoria, BC.

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June 4 – September 26, 2015 Vanier Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada (604) 739-0559 or 1-877-739-0559 www.bardonthebeach.org 16 Christine Smart is from Salt Spring Island, BC. The White Crow is her latest collection of poetry published in 2013 by Hedgerow Press. Her first book, Decked and Dancing, won the Acorn-Plantos People’s Poet Award in 2007. See website http://christinesmart.ca/

Audrey Thomas has published 18 novels and short story collections. Her novels Intertidal Life and Coming Down from Wa were nominated for Governor General’s Literary Awards and won B.C.’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In 2003 she won the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. Audrey lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia.

...... NOTES ...... 17 Graeme Truelove, who grew up in Delta, BC, has worked for the House of Commons and the Library of Parliament in a variety of professional capacities since 2001, and was an intern in Svend Robinson’s Ottawa office from 2002 to 2004. Truelove has also worked for Frontier College as a literacy teacher and volunteered for the Ontario Public Interest Research Group among other activist groups. Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics is his first book. He lives in Ottawa.

John Vaillant’s first book, The Golden Spruce, was a #1 national bestseller, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the Pearson Writer’s Trust Non-Fiction Award and the Roderick Haig Brown Regional Prize. The Tiger was a #1 national bestseller, a Canada Reads selection, a Globe and Mail Best Book, and won the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Prix Bouvier, the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, the CBA Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year and the CBC Bookie Award for Best Overall Book.

Gillian Wigmore is the author of two books of poems: Soft geography (Caitlin Press, 2007), winner of the 2008 ReLit Award, and Dirt of Ages (Nightwood, 2012), and a novella, Grayling (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2014). Her work has been published in magazines, short listed for prizes, and anthologized. A book of poems with Brick Books is forthcoming in 2014. She lives in Prince George, BC.

Jane Woods is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and spent a decade working in Canadian regional theatre. She also earned a BFA in Integrative Music Studies from Concordia University. Subsequently she built a career as a voice actor based in Montreal. Later, she began translating and adapting French-language films and television series to be dubbed into English, most notable among them the highly acclaimed series Blanche and Omertà. She now lives in Toronto where she wrote the recently published The Walking Tanteek.

18 Graeme Truelove reads from Svend Robinson A Life in Politics Sunday, Feb. 22 10:45 am

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...... NOTES ...... 19 Thank You! The Galiano Literary Festival is the product of the hard work and contributions of many people, and we want to take this opportunity to recognize and thank those who have contributed so much this year. • All our talented authors for taking the time to join us and share their work. • Mary Trentadue for stepping up at short notice to coordinate and bring together all the loose ends from working on the website and brochure to lining up housing and transport for our authors and, of course, making countless useful suggestions to “tweak” the event into a first-rate experience for everyone. • Nick Ferrar and Gillian Murschell, from the bookstore, and the LitFest staff and volunteers who supported the Festival through their time and efforts – taking reservations, recommending our authors’ books to our customers, and running a million little errands that allow everything to come off smoothly. • Donna Moreau of DoMo Communications for pulling together the brochure. • Debbie Holmes of the Trincomali Arts Council for again preparing a wonderful display on the ferries. • Seonaid Renwick for again helping with the advertising and promotion. • Kris Krug, our Festival photographer, for his creative eye as well as his help with social media promotions. • Keith Holmes for allowing us to use his wonderful painting on our poster and David Middleton for designing the poster. • Conny Nordin and Mel Gibb, owners of the Galiano Oceanfront Inn, for again providing the most beautiful and welcoming venue a festival could ask for. Hats off to all the Inn’s staff with special mention to Jodie Bard, manager, for all her legwork regarding coordinating with us and Dean Hillier, chef extraordinaire, for all the superb food! • The many islanders who promoted the Festival, and especially those who opened their homes and cottages to furnish our authors with places to stay. • All our Facebook/Twitter friends who follow us and offer kind words of support. • The Canada Arts Council, Bard on the Beach and our other off-island sponsors for their support. • The island businesses who supported the Festival as sponsors or advertisers. • Most of all, all the attendees who supported us this year and over the years and made the whole thing very much worth the effort.

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