Winter/Spring 2025

Valley Voices Okanagan is proud to present readings in Vernon, Kelowna and Summerland from February to May 2025.

jaz papadopoulos
and
Hannah calder

Vernon: "Gender, Rebellion and Rising"

Wednesday, February 5, 7 PM

Caetani Centre, 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon

Come celebrate a book launch and reading with poet jaza papadopolos and novelist Hannah Calder

Erin Steele

and

Fiona Lehn

Kelowna: "Non-Fiction Nourishment"

Saturday, February 22, 1 PM, downtown Branch, Kelowna Public Library, 1380 Ellis St, Kelowna

Read some local non-fiction and three lucky writers will get feedback on their writing with Fiona Lehn.

Click here for instructions on how to enter this lottery!

Erin Steele

Summerland

Saturday, March 29, 1 PM, Summerland Branch

Okanagan Regional Library, 9533 Main Street, Summerland,

Vernon

Thursday, April 10, 6:30

Bean Scene, 2923 30 Ave, Vernon

Book Launch and Reading

Natalie Appleton

Come celebrate with Vernon writer Natalie Appleton and her new novel I Want to Die in My Boots.

VALLEY VOICES POETRY FESTIVAL

Kelowna

Friday April 11 - Saturday April 12, 2025

Join us for Valley Voice’s second Kelowna Poetry Festival! Following on the heels of the wildly popular Poetry Fest of 2023, this spring to celebrate National Poetry Month, we'll be featured an exciting series of readings and workshops. It begins on Friday, April 11 at the Alternator Gallery in Kelowna with a kickoff reading feature Brianna Ferguson with cameo appearances by a selection of emerging poets in the MFA program at UBC. On Saturday, April 12, the Okanagan Regional Library will be hosting all-day events at the downtown Kelowna branch.

Poets include Brianna Ferguson, Norah Bowman, jaz papadopoulos, Sharon Thesen and Klara du Plessis.

Generously supported by the League of Canadian Poets.

Check out the program here.