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August 4–7, 2011
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Meet the Writers: Robert J. Wiersema

Saturday August 6 10:30 am

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Robert J. Wiersema

The best writers read. One of the best places to spend your working day if you want to read is a bookstore. Robert Wiersema has been hanging out in bookstores for the past 20 years and he is, without question, one of our most creative young writers. And you have to love a guy who writes longhand with a fountain pen.

His first novel, Before I Wake, appeared in 2006 and was a national bestseller and a Globe & Mail Best Book. He followed up in 2009 with the novella, The World More Full of Weeping, a finalist for the Aurora Prize, an award given by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. His latest is Bedtime Story, a book about a book—a fantasy novel—with a classic Twilight Zone-type plot.

Robert Wiersema is currently the events coordinator at Victoria’s Bolen Books and a regular critic and book reviewer for the Vancouver Sun, the Globe & Mail, the National Post and numerous other publications.

Photo: Don Denton

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