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• AGM 2024: Annual General Meeting

  • When
    21 May 2024
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    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  It is that time of year again - AGM.

  To register, sign into your federation of BC Writers account. The Meeting Package and zoom link will be e-mailed prior to the meeting.

  Per our bylaws, anyone who is keen to join our board may self-nominate by contacting our nomination committee led by board co-chair, Katherine(KT) Wagner at president@bcwriters.ca Please e-mail KT by May 12th at 11:59pm (PST)

  To learn more about the board of directors, please review the Call for Interest letter found here. All nominations will be subject to a vetting process.

  The AGM will feature door prizes!

  All registrants must be in good standing by the AGM start to be able to attend and vote.

  
  

  
  

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• 2024 FBCW Writers Summit

  • Start
    27 May 2024
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    11:00 AM
  • End
    2 Jun 2024
  •  
    8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join us for 7 days of digital learning from May 27th to June 2, 2024.

  Visit the summit information page for full details.

  Summit Info Page

  Full Schedule

  Presenters

  The theme this year is “for the love of genre.” We want to celebrate our love for all genres and to glean the best learnings from each to strengthen our works regardless of what realm our writing inhabits. Whether you consider yourself a genre writer or not, there will be something for everyone. We look forward to welcoming you all digitally to the summit in May.

  Presenters:

  • Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • Bill Arnott
  • Tara Avery
  • Tanya Boteju
  • AJ Devlin
  • Joseph Dandurand
  • Ruth DyckFehderau
    
  • Grace Fong
  • Kyle Hawke
    
  • Cornelia Hoogland
  • Jen Landels
  • Shelley A. Leedahl
  • Tara McGuire
  • Premee Mohamad
  • Jenn Sommersby
  • Lydia Kwa
  • Shelley Wood
  • Isaac Yuen
  • And more!

  Topics/Genres

  • Memoir
  • Romance
  • YA audiences
  • Mystery/Thriller
  • Poetry
  • Travel/Adventure Writing
  • Magic Realism
  • Historical Fiction
  • Horror
  • Sci-Fi
  • Storytelling
  • and more!

  We are continuing our much loved format of multiple events spaced out over each day.  No sessions will be running concurrently.  We have 27 sessions scheduled including our keynote, workshops, gala, and writing sprints. Back by popular demand are also our blue Pencil sessions from the Darling Axe.

  
  

  KEYNOTE:

  Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, British Fantasy, and Crawford awards. Currently, she is the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence and an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod. She is the author of the 'Beneath the Rising' series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com
  

  Premee will be presenting a keynote on May 27th at 11am and a Workshop over the course of the Summit.

  SESSION TIMES:

  May 27th: 11am, 2pm, and 7pm

  May 28th-June 2nd: 9am (Writing Sprints), 11am , 2pm, and 7pm (Session)

  
  

  
  

  
  

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