Author reading with Joanna Cockerline and Kevin Heslop

Joanna is a CBC Literary Awards prizewinner, Pushcart Prize nominee, and author of Still (Porcupine’s Quill, 2025), a novel set in Kelowna’s street community that explores sex work, the opioid crisis, friendship, and the search for home. Kevin is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose latest book, The Writing on the Wind’s Wall, presents a series of in-depth dialogues on Medical Assistance in Dying, offering a collective portrait of how a community thinks and feels about death, dying, and what it means to live together now.

You may also like the following events from Ryga Arts Festival:

• Next Thursday, 4th September, 05:00 pm, Outspoken! in Summerland
• Next month, 18th September, 10:00 am, Songwriting Sharing Circle: Melodies and Words, Wonderful Words! in Summerland
• Next month, 18th September, 02:00 pm, A chat with Danielle Krysa in Summerland

Also check out other Arts events in Summerland, Literary Art events in Summerland.