Join the Federation of BC Writers and their 2024 Ambassador, Frances Peck, for a panel on finding balance between writerly solitude and community. Frances Peck worked as an editor, ghostwriter, and instructor of editing and writing for three decades. Then she returned to her childhood preoccupation, creative writing. Her debut novel, The Broken Places, about a major earthquake rocking Vancouver, was a Globe and Mail best book of 2022 and a finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Her second novel, Uncontrolled Flight, about the death of a BC firefighting pilot, made 2023 book-of-the-year lists at 49th Shelf and Consumed by Ink. Frances grew up in Cape Breton, lived in Ottawa, and in 2005 moved to North Vancouver. She is at work on a new novel.
Location: Sunroom/Gallery
Type: Interactive
Presented by: Word Vancouver · The Federation of BC Writers
Moderator: Frances Peck, Uncontrolled Flight (NeWest Editions)
Panelists: Kaile Shilling and Genevieve Wynand
About The Moderator
Frances Peck
Frances Peck worked as an editor, ghostwriter, and instructor before returning to her childhood preoccupation, creative writing. Her debut novel, The Broken Places, was a Globe and Mail best book of 2022 and a finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Her second novel, Uncontrolled Flight, a tragedy/mystery about the death of a BC firefighting pilot, made 2023 book-of-the-year lists at 49th Shelf and Consumed by Ink. Frances grew up in Cape Breton, moved to Ottawa, and now lives and writes in North Vancouver. Visit her at francespeck.com
About The Panelists
Kaile Shilling
K. L. Shilling (she/her). Kaile worked in Los Angeles at the intersection of arts and justice reform prior to relocating to Vancouver, and currently teaches creative writing at Mission Institute prison because she believes arts are healing and stories are more valuable than Taylor Swift tickets. She sits on the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee for the City of Vancouver, and is finishing her certificate program with The Writers Studio at SFU. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, The Journal of Religion and Film, and Pulp Literature among others.
She lives on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish people with her husband, two kids, a dog, and two chickens.
