Leslie Hurtig
@lesliehurtig.bsky.social
Artistic Director Vancouver Writers Fest; New Yorker cartoon aficionado; fast walker. Views are my own but you could consider adopting them. Canadian made.
This is….NOT GOOD 🚫‼️
Why does Canada let these things happen?
Why does Canada let these things happen?
December 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is….NOT GOOD 🚫‼️
Why does Canada let these things happen?
Why does Canada let these things happen?
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A remarkable and memorable @writersfest.bc.ca evening, featuring @margaretatwood.bsky.social in a lively conversation with @caroloff.bsky.social - it's an evening that I'll remember forever. I can't wait to read her book and learn more about her life 📚
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
A remarkable and memorable @writersfest.bc.ca evening, featuring @margaretatwood.bsky.social in a lively conversation with @caroloff.bsky.social - it's an evening that I'll remember forever. I can't wait to read her book and learn more about her life 📚
Fits perfectly in a stocking or can be sent anywhere in the world with the click of a button—Our Digital Festival is on sale now!
It’s binge-watching for book lovers!
Give the gift of books, ideas and dialogue this holiday.
It’s binge-watching for book lovers!
Give the gift of books, ideas and dialogue this holiday.
🎟️ Sliding scale pricing for this all-access pass.
🎁 Give the gift of literature! Gift certificates available.
💛 Presented in partnership with BCIT School of Business + Media and Libro.fm, and with the generous support of Hotfusion Communications Inc.
🎁 Give the gift of literature! Gift certificates available.
💛 Presented in partnership with BCIT School of Business + Media and Libro.fm, and with the generous support of Hotfusion Communications Inc.
2025 Digital Festival | Vancouver Writers Fest
Presented in partnership with BCIT School of Business + Media and Libro.fm, and with the generous support of Hotfusion Communications Inc. Binge-watching worthy of book lovers — get front-row,…
writersfest.bc.ca
December 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Fits perfectly in a stocking or can be sent anywhere in the world with the click of a button—Our Digital Festival is on sale now!
It’s binge-watching for book lovers!
Give the gift of books, ideas and dialogue this holiday.
It’s binge-watching for book lovers!
Give the gift of books, ideas and dialogue this holiday.
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Presenting the VWF Digital Festival lineup—including many events that were sold out at #VWF2025! 📚 From December 16, 2025 to February 2, 2026, watch 26 full-length events online, from anywhere in the world.
View the full details and get your pass:
writersfest.bc.ca/event/digita...
View the full details and get your pass:
writersfest.bc.ca/event/digita...
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Presenting the VWF Digital Festival lineup—including many events that were sold out at #VWF2025! 📚 From December 16, 2025 to February 2, 2026, watch 26 full-length events online, from anywhere in the world.
View the full details and get your pass:
writersfest.bc.ca/event/digita...
View the full details and get your pass:
writersfest.bc.ca/event/digita...
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🖥️ Passes are on sale now for the Digital Festival! Get front-row, online access to the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest. 📚✨ Sliding scale pricing; visit our website to view all the details and get your pass.
Watch on your own schedule from anywhere, Dec 16 – Feb 2.
writersfest.bc.ca/event/digita...
Watch on your own schedule from anywhere, Dec 16 – Feb 2.
writersfest.bc.ca/event/digita...
2025 Digital Festival | Vancouver Writers Fest
Presented in partnership with BCIT School of Business + Media and Libro.fm, and with the generous support of Hotfusion Communications Inc. Sliding scale pricing — purchase your pass here starting…
writersfest.bc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🖥️ Passes are on sale now for the Digital Festival! Get front-row, online access to the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest. 📚✨ Sliding scale pricing; visit our website to view all the details and get your pass.
Watch on your own schedule from anywhere, Dec 16 – Feb 2.
writersfest.bc.ca/event/digita...
Watch on your own schedule from anywhere, Dec 16 – Feb 2.
writersfest.bc.ca/event/digita...
Sometimes there is crying in baseball.
#bluejays❤️
#bluejays❤️
November 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Sometimes there is crying in baseball.
#bluejays❤️
#bluejays❤️
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There are tickets remaining for plenty of events at this year’s Festival, but don’t delay! Visit writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva... to save your seat at the literary event of the year.
2025 Festival Events | Vancouver Writers Fest
Welcome to the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest! This page lists all our events from October 20–26, along with a few fall/winter Special Events taking place outside of Festival Week. Click on the title…
writersfest.bc.ca
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
There are tickets remaining for plenty of events at this year’s Festival, but don’t delay! Visit writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva... to save your seat at the literary event of the year.
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There are 2 days to go until the start of #VWF2025, and 20 events at the Festival are now sold out! Thank you to our engaged and curious attendees; year after year, you show us how much books and meaningful dialogue matter in our city. 💛
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
There are 2 days to go until the start of #VWF2025, and 20 events at the Festival are now sold out! Thank you to our engaged and curious attendees; year after year, you show us how much books and meaningful dialogue matter in our city. 💛
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This year’s Vancouver Writers Fest features an electrifying slate of 130 authors from Canada and around the world, including bestselling novelists, poets, memoirists and thought leaders. #TyeePresents #Sponsored
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CONTEST: Win Tickets to the Vancouver Writers Fest | The Tyee
Three lucky Tyee readers will get to enjoy a can’t-miss literary event of their choosing.
thetyee.ca
October 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This year’s Vancouver Writers Fest features an electrifying slate of 130 authors from Canada and around the world, including bestselling novelists, poets, memoirists and thought leaders. #TyeePresents #Sponsored
thetyee.ca/Presents/202...
thetyee.ca/Presents/202...
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We’re thrilled to share that Festival friend and author Elamin Abdelmahmoud is the winner of this year’s Max Wyman Award in Critical Writing, which will be presented to him on October 24 at #VWF2025 event 51. Elbows Up.
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October 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We’re thrilled to share that Festival friend and author Elamin Abdelmahmoud is the winner of this year’s Max Wyman Award in Critical Writing, which will be presented to him on October 24 at #VWF2025 event 51. Elbows Up.
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
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VIFF @viffest.bsky.social begins tomorrow!
Spanning 172 features • 97 shorts • 128+ premieres (26 world) #VIFF2025 connects audiences with bold stories and visionary
creators from around the world, Oct 2–12.
Learn more and explore the full lineup: viff.org/festival
#VIFF2025
Spanning 172 features • 97 shorts • 128+ premieres (26 world) #VIFF2025 connects audiences with bold stories and visionary
creators from around the world, Oct 2–12.
Learn more and explore the full lineup: viff.org/festival
#VIFF2025
VIFF 2025 | Vancouver International Film Festival
VIFF 2025 runs Oct 2-12, showcasing the best cinema from around the globe, talks, conferences, live performances and other unique events that celebrate film and film culture.
viff.org
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
VIFF @viffest.bsky.social begins tomorrow!
Spanning 172 features • 97 shorts • 128+ premieres (26 world) #VIFF2025 connects audiences with bold stories and visionary
creators from around the world, Oct 2–12.
Learn more and explore the full lineup: viff.org/festival
#VIFF2025
Spanning 172 features • 97 shorts • 128+ premieres (26 world) #VIFF2025 connects audiences with bold stories and visionary
creators from around the world, Oct 2–12.
Learn more and explore the full lineup: viff.org/festival
#VIFF2025
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On Oct 23, The Poetry Bash is an iconic event for poetry connoisseurs and newcomers to the genre alike. Presented in partnership with Vancouver Poetry House and hosted by VPH Artistic Director Johnny Trinh.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
On Oct 23, The Poetry Bash is an iconic event for poetry connoisseurs and newcomers to the genre alike. Presented in partnership with Vancouver Poetry House and hosted by VPH Artistic Director Johnny Trinh.
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
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🎟️ Tickets are on sale NOW for all events at the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest! 🎟️
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
#VWF2025 takes place from October 20–26, featuring over 130 authors in 87 events to spark empathy, action, and transformation. Join us on Granville Island and beyond.
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
#VWF2025 takes place from October 20–26, featuring over 130 authors in 87 events to spark empathy, action, and transformation. Join us on Granville Island and beyond.
September 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🎟️ Tickets are on sale NOW for all events at the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest! 🎟️
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
#VWF2025 takes place from October 20–26, featuring over 130 authors in 87 events to spark empathy, action, and transformation. Join us on Granville Island and beyond.
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
#VWF2025 takes place from October 20–26, featuring over 130 authors in 87 events to spark empathy, action, and transformation. Join us on Granville Island and beyond.
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One of the world's bravest writers, Arundhati Roy, is in town to speak with Naomi Klein tonight at the Vancouver Playhouse. It's a @writersfest.bc.ca event. Learn more about her and her new memoir in this @pancouver.bsky.social article: pancouver.ca/arundhati-ro...
Arundhati Roy will join Naomi Klein in conversation at Vancouver Playhouse - Pancouver
In India, Roy constantly endures criticism for challenging the national orthodoxy about Kashmir and for condemning Hindutva extremism.
pancouver.ca
September 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
One of the world's bravest writers, Arundhati Roy, is in town to speak with Naomi Klein tonight at the Vancouver Playhouse. It's a @writersfest.bc.ca event. Learn more about her and her new memoir in this @pancouver.bsky.social article: pancouver.ca/arundhati-ro...
Reminded today of a little game I’d play with my (single) mom as a child. She’d leave a grocery list on the counter that we’d contribute to over the week. I’d always add “Robert Redford” for her, and “golden retriever” for me. She never did come home with Robert but one day I came home to a doggo ❤️
September 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Reminded today of a little game I’d play with my (single) mom as a child. She’d leave a grocery list on the counter that we’d contribute to over the week. I’d always add “Robert Redford” for her, and “golden retriever” for me. She never did come home with Robert but one day I came home to a doggo ❤️
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Tickets are on sale now for #VWF2025, which kicks off with the Alma Lee Opening Night event on Oct 20, presented with @createastir.ca. Notable Canadian authors illuminate who we are—and who we could be, if we commit to protecting this country and making it better.
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
September 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Tickets are on sale now for #VWF2025, which kicks off with the Alma Lee Opening Night event on Oct 20, presented with @createastir.ca. Notable Canadian authors illuminate who we are—and who we could be, if we commit to protecting this country and making it better.
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
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Tickets for our flagship Festival go on sale tomorrow at 10am! 📣
Thousands of tickets have already been snapped up during the Member pre-sale. We recommend exploring the program and building your schedule now, to avoid missing out on your top pick events!
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
Thousands of tickets have already been snapped up during the Member pre-sale. We recommend exploring the program and building your schedule now, to avoid missing out on your top pick events!
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
2025 Festival Events | Vancouver Writers Fest
Welcome to the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest! This page lists all our events from October 20–26, along with a few fall/winter Special Events taking place outside of Festival Week. Click on the title o...
writersfest.bc.ca
September 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Tickets for our flagship Festival go on sale tomorrow at 10am! 📣
Thousands of tickets have already been snapped up during the Member pre-sale. We recommend exploring the program and building your schedule now, to avoid missing out on your top pick events!
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
Thousands of tickets have already been snapped up during the Member pre-sale. We recommend exploring the program and building your schedule now, to avoid missing out on your top pick events!
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
🔥 HOT TICKET ALERT🔥
Vancouver @writersfest.bc.ca tickets go on Member-sale tomorrow, including tickets to hear this remarkable icon of Canadian letters, @margaretatwood.bsky.social on December 9, in conversation with @caroloff.bsky.social
📕”Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts” #McClelland&Stewart
Vancouver @writersfest.bc.ca tickets go on Member-sale tomorrow, including tickets to hear this remarkable icon of Canadian letters, @margaretatwood.bsky.social on December 9, in conversation with @caroloff.bsky.social
📕”Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts” #McClelland&Stewart
September 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
🔥 HOT TICKET ALERT🔥
Vancouver @writersfest.bc.ca tickets go on Member-sale tomorrow, including tickets to hear this remarkable icon of Canadian letters, @margaretatwood.bsky.social on December 9, in conversation with @caroloff.bsky.social
📕”Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts” #McClelland&Stewart
Vancouver @writersfest.bc.ca tickets go on Member-sale tomorrow, including tickets to hear this remarkable icon of Canadian letters, @margaretatwood.bsky.social on December 9, in conversation with @caroloff.bsky.social
📕”Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts” #McClelland&Stewart
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Our amazing volunteers have been dropping off #VWF2025 Program Guides at friendly stores and venues all across Metro Vancouver. Here’s where you can find one!
Don’t forget, our website has the latest event updates: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
Don’t forget, our website has the latest event updates: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
September 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Our amazing volunteers have been dropping off #VWF2025 Program Guides at friendly stores and venues all across Metro Vancouver. Here’s where you can find one!
Don’t forget, our website has the latest event updates: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
Don’t forget, our website has the latest event updates: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
Looking for an antidote to the piling-on of dreadful news?
Join us for a festival of insightful dialogue with a world of exceptional writers.
It’s a balm and a blast. 🩷📚💥
Tickets on sale next week!
Join us for a festival of insightful dialogue with a world of exceptional writers.
It’s a balm and a blast. 🩷📚💥
Tickets on sale next week!
The #VWF2025 Festival Program Guide is here! 📖✨
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festival
Our 38th annual Festival takes place from October 20–26 on Granville Island (and beyond), featuring 130+ local and international authors in 87 events.
🎟️ Tickets go on sale September 16! 🎟️
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festival
Our 38th annual Festival takes place from October 20–26 on Granville Island (and beyond), featuring 130+ local and international authors in 87 events.
🎟️ Tickets go on sale September 16! 🎟️
September 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Looking for an antidote to the piling-on of dreadful news?
Join us for a festival of insightful dialogue with a world of exceptional writers.
It’s a balm and a blast. 🩷📚💥
Tickets on sale next week!
Join us for a festival of insightful dialogue with a world of exceptional writers.
It’s a balm and a blast. 🩷📚💥
Tickets on sale next week!
Before I began working at the Festival, I volunteered—Hands down my favourite week of the year!
Join us! 😀💫📚
Join us! 😀💫📚
Volunteer applications are OPEN for #VWF2025! Join us during Festival Week on Granville Island from October 20–26, or help out pre-Festival with program guide distribution and more!
Volunteer Information | Vancouver Writers Fest
Volunteering with the Fest Fill out an Application to Volunteer! The Vancouver Writers Fest is a charitable cultural organization that relies heavily on volunteers as part of our operations.…
writersfest.bc.ca
August 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Before I began working at the Festival, I volunteered—Hands down my favourite week of the year!
Join us! 😀💫📚
Join us! 😀💫📚
Mel died 9 years ago today.
He’d be apoplectic with frustration if he were here to witness the unraveling of…everything.
His books are more relevant today than ever. ❤️🇨🇦
thetyee.ca/Books/2008/0...
He’d be apoplectic with frustration if he were here to witness the unraveling of…everything.
His books are more relevant today than ever. ❤️🇨🇦
thetyee.ca/Books/2008/0...
Mel Hurtig, Tough Love Patriot | The Tyee
thetyee.ca
August 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Mel died 9 years ago today.
He’d be apoplectic with frustration if he were here to witness the unraveling of…everything.
His books are more relevant today than ever. ❤️🇨🇦
thetyee.ca/Books/2008/0...
He’d be apoplectic with frustration if he were here to witness the unraveling of…everything.
His books are more relevant today than ever. ❤️🇨🇦
thetyee.ca/Books/2008/0...
I’m giddy with anticipation for our 38th annual October Festival!
Just look at these authors and books! 🤩📚
Full program announced at the end of August and tickets on sale in September!
Just look at these authors and books! 🤩📚
Full program announced at the end of August and tickets on sale in September!
The 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest Reading List is here! Browse 120+ books that will be featured at #VWF2025.
We can’t wait to hear from all these authors. From October 20–26, Granville Island transforms into Vancouver’s biggest book club. Start building your TBR pile:
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-books
We can’t wait to hear from all these authors. From October 20–26, Granville Island transforms into Vancouver’s biggest book club. Start building your TBR pile:
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-books
July 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I’m giddy with anticipation for our 38th annual October Festival!
Just look at these authors and books! 🤩📚
Full program announced at the end of August and tickets on sale in September!
Just look at these authors and books! 🤩📚
Full program announced at the end of August and tickets on sale in September!
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Watch this to the end.
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
July 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Watch this to the end.
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Naomi Klein, Madeleine Thien, Deborah Cowen and Kyo Maclear call out the Canadian government's "special" program to help evacuate Palestinians in Gaza as a "cruel taunt."
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
July 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Naomi Klein, Madeleine Thien, Deborah Cowen and Kyo Maclear call out the Canadian government's "special" program to help evacuate Palestinians in Gaza as a "cruel taunt."
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...