Join Us

Become a member of the Vancouver International Writers Festival and receive great benefits year round. You’ve probably heard about the BC government's cuts to the creative sector. Join the VIWF and send a message that writing and literacy is important to you and British Columbians. An annual membership is just $35.

Joining is easy—there are three options:

1. Join online here.
2. By phone: 604.681.6330, extension 109.
3. By mail: Please send your cheque to: VIWF, 202 -1398 Cartwright Street, Vancouver BC, V6H 3P8.

As a member you'll be able to buy earlybird tickets for Festival events.

You also get other great benefits including:

• the Festival program guide mailed to your home;
• a discount on Festival tickets;
• an invitation to a members' reception;
• a subscription to INK, our bi-annual member e-newsletter

For complete membership details, go here.

Bonus! Members receive a $2 discount to our special event with Ian McEwan.

Become a member today and share with us a year of great literary events!

Every other week until May 31, we will hold incentive draws for new members.

For the draw on March 5 we had two prizes: a pair of tickets to Vancouver Opera's world premiere of Nixon in China and two tickets to Margaret MacMillan and Alexandre Trudeau in conversation with Hal Wake. Congratulations to Gail who won the tickets to Nixon in China and to Alana who won the two tickets to Margaret MacMillan and Alexandre Trudeau in conversation with Hal Wake.

The prize for March 19: Ian McEwan's new book Solar, published by Knopf Canada.

Here are the writers who have joined to date:

Caroline Adderson
Janey Bennett
Terri Brandmueller
John Burns
Deborah Campbell
Claudia Casper
David Chariandy
Kevin Chong
Brad Cran
Charles Demers
K.C. Dyer
Jenn Farrell
Cynthia Flood
Dennis Foon
Gayle Friesen
Anne Giardini
Zsuzsi Gartner
Charlotte Gill
Genni Gunn
Heather Haley
C.C. Humphreys
Aislinn Hunter
Glen Huser
June Hutton
Anosh Irani
Shaena Lambert
Jen Sookfong Lee
Nancy Lee
Bernice Lever
Annabel Lyon
Ashok Mathur
George McWhirter
Barbara Nickel
Billeh Nickerson
Susin Nielsen
Mary Novik
Susan Olding
Kathleen Oliver
Marion Quednau
Matt Rader
Nathan Sellyn
Kathryn Shoemaker
Sandy Shreve
Timothy Taylor
Michael Turner
John Vaillant
John Vigna
Betsy Warland
Ian Weir
Gudrun Will
Cathleen With
Max Wyman

To read about funding cuts affecting the Writers Festival and other organizations, please click here.

2010 Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival: October 19-24.

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