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Word on the Street Vancouver
by monique t
Events + News / September 27, 2006
Word on the Street is an annual Book and Magazine Fair held on the last Sunday in September in Vancouver, Calgary, Kitchener, Toronto and Halifax. If you missed the event or want to reminisce, have a look at the photos below. Or post the links to your WOTS photos in the comments, check out Flickr, or do whatever you like to do to share your photos.
Library Square, Vancouver
The crowd in front of the main stage.
The Word on the Street strong man.
Several Raincoast authors were also in attendance or speaking.
Sherri Magee spoke in the Authors Tent about her book with Kathy Scalzo, Picking Up the Pieces: Moving Forward After Surviving Cancer.
Most cancer survivors emerge from treatment disoriented and scarred, with side effects that include emotional and financial instability, changed relationships and spiritual questions. Picking Up the Pieces is a great resource for survivors and their friends and family. Listen to a podcast.
Author Nathan Sellyn (Indigenous Beasts: A short story collection) and author Adam Lewis Schroeder (Empress of Asia: A novel) both read in the Canada Writes tent.
Nathan's short story collection was published earlier this year and a podcast is available. Adam's novel Empress of Asia is hot of the presses and he will be touring and reading in upcoming months.
Dede Crane was also reading in the Canada Writes tent. She is the author of an adult novel Sympathy and a novel for teens The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines.
Comments
On August 18, 2008 at 05:36 AM, Edwin said:
Great stuff.. This will help inculcate the spirit of reading amongst youngsters immensely.!
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