The Afternoon Tea

The Afternoon Tea
Host: Bill Richardson

One of the Festival’s signature events year after year, The Afternoon Tea returns in digital format! Bring your favourite scones and tea and sidle up for an afternoon steeped in words, including readings from celebrated international and Canadian authors making this year’s Must Read lists: Caroline Adderson (A Russian Sister); Francesca Ekwuyasi (Butter Honey Pig Bread); Will Ferguson (The Finder); Michelle Good (Five Little Indians) Kevin Spenst (Hearts Amok); and Jack Wang (We Two Alone). Relaxing, jovial and always an instant sell-out and book club favourite, this year’s Afternoon Tea remains an intimate, delectable affair.

Generously supported by the Faris family in memory of Yulanda Faris.

 With live captions

 

 

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OPTIONAL ADD-ON: THE AFTERNOON TEA PACKAGE

Bring home the ambience of the Afternoon Tea  by ordering a custom-made gourmet food and tea package from Granville Island Foodie Delivery.

The Afternoon Tea package includes treats from your favourite Granville Island vendors: tea, macaron, lemon square, finger sandwiches, scone, and more!

$35 + shipping (Vancouver, BC). Sold separately through Granville Island Foodie Delivery. Place your order at bit.ly/vwftea

 

 

FEATURED IN THIS EVENT

CAROLINE ADDERSON is the author of five novels including A History of Forgetting and The Sky Is Falling and two collections of short stories, as well as many books for young readers. Published in 11 countries, her work has received numerous award nominations including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
(BRITISH COLUMBIA)

FRANCESCA EKWUYASI is a writer, artist, and filmmaker born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her writing has been published in Winter Tangerine Review, Brittle Paper, Transition Magazine, The Malahat Review, Visual Art News, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and GUTS magazine. Her story “Orun is Heaven” was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize. Butter Honey Pig Bread is her first novel.
(NOVA SCOTIA) 
Presented thanks to the support of RBC.

WILL FERGUSON is the author of four novels, including 419, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, he has been nominated for both a Commonwealth Prize and an IMPAC Dublin Award. The Finder is his most recent novel.
(ALBERTA)

MICHELLE GOOD is is a writer of Cree ancestry and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. She obtained her law degree after three decades of working with Indigenous communities and organizations. Her poems, short stories and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada.
(BRITISH COLUMBIA)
Presented thanks to the support of RBC.

KEVIN SPENST, a Pushcart Prize nominee, is the author of Ignite, Jabbering with Bing Bong, and over a dozen chapbooks including Pray Goodbye and Ward Notes. His work has won the Lush Triumphant Award for Poetry, been nominated for both the Alfred G. Bailey Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and has appeared in dozens of publications including Prairie Fire, CV2, BafterC, Lemon Hound, Poetry is Dead, and the anthology Best Canadian Poetry 2014.
(BRITISH COLUMBIA)

JACK WANG is an associate professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. Stories in his debut collection, We Two Alone, have been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and longlisted for the Journey Prize, and have appeared in PRISM International, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review and Joyland.
(UNITED STATES/BRITISH COLUMBIA) 

When BILL RICHARDSON isn’t writing for children or adults, he works in restaurant dish pits and stocks (not stalks) grocery shelves. Forthcoming are Hare B&B, with illustrations by Bill Pechet, from Running the Goat Books and Broadsides; and, from Groundwood, Last Week. He lives in Vancouver.

 

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