Wild Prose

A prose-based reading series in Victoria, BC

February 12th, 2026

Please join us on Thursday, February 12th for Alternate Realities with Rebecca Campbell and Myriam Lacroix, reading from their fantastical books. Rebecca Campbell will read from her sci-fi/post-apocalyptic short story collection, The Other Shore, and Myriam Lacroix will read from her story collection about the many absurdist iterations of one couple, How It Works Out. We’ll finish with a Q&A with the authors.

We will begin the night with an open mic! Bring a page or two (DOUBLE SPACED) of prose or a poem to share!

PLEASE respect the audience and the other readers by reading for 5 or fewer minutes.

Doors: 6:30 p.m. Open mic: 7:00 p.m. Featured readers: 7:30 p.m.

AT OUR NEW LOCATION!!!

at Books & Shenanigans, 347 Cook Street (beside Moka House)

$5 CASH admission

Authors’ books will be for sale at the event

Please bring CASH for admission

Our new location has limited seating. There are 22 seats that can be reserved for each reading. If you’d like to reserve a seat for the February 12th reading, please send me an email. I’ll ask you to pay your $5 admission ahead of time, either via e-transfer or by arrangement.

(All admission money goes directly to the participating authors. No refunds if you don’t end up coming.)

Reserve a Seat

Rebecca Campbell writes weird stories about climate change and ghosts, mostly, though aliens and parasites sometimes show up, too, and will always love archives and libraries. She’s published short stories, a novel, novellas, and has a collection of short fiction.

Myriam Lacroix is the author of How It Works Out. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA from Syracuse University, where she was editor in chief of Salt Hill and received the New York Public Humanities Fellowship for creating Out-Front, an LGBTQ+ writing group whose goal was to expand the possibilities of queer writing. She currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Some steps toward reconciliation

We hold this reading series on the unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən people, also known as the Xwsepsum and Songhees First Nations. Here is some more information about these nations and how to support local Indigenous peoples and artists:

Past Events

  • October 9th, 2025: You are What You Eat with andrea bennett and Monica Meneghetti

  • October 9th, 2025: Open mic readers

  • October 9th, 2025: The crowd

  • October 9th, 2025: andrea bennett

  • October 9th, 2025: Monica Meneghetti

  • August 14th, 2025: Open Mic night with Chelsea Wakelyn and Katłià

  • August 14th, 2025: The crowd at our new location: Books & Shenanigans

  • August 14th, 2025: The open mic readers

  • August 14th, 2025: Open Mic Night with Chelsea Wakelyn and Katłià

  • May 29th, 2025: Death Becomes Her with Erica McKeen, Umar Turaki, and Alli Vail

  • May 29th, 2025: Tracy Wai de Boer kicks off the open mic

  • May 29th, 2025: Erica McKeen reads from Cicada Summer

  • May 29th, 2025: Umar Turaki reads from Every Drop of Blood is Red

  • May 29th, 2025: Alli Vail reads from Brooklyn Thomas Isn't Here

  • March 13th, 2025: Launch for Soundin' Canaan: Black Canadian Poetry, Music, and Citizenship--Paul db Watkins in conversation with Wayde Compton

  • March 13th, 2025: Aziza Moqia Sealey-Qaylow kicks off the open mic

  • March 13th, 2025: Surprise special guest Sonnet L'Abbé plays the Wank Widow Blues

  • March 13th, 2025: Wayde Compton

  • March 13th, 2025: Paul db Watkins

  • January 30th, 2025: Cult Lit

  • January 30th 2025: Holly Loveday kicked off the open mic

  • January 30th, 2025: Carly Butler

  • January 30th, 2025: Sonja Larsen

  • January 30th, 2025: Kyeren Regehr

  • November 6th, 2024: Raising Daughters, Raising Mothers, Raising Voices

  • November 6th, 2024: Kyeren Regehr opens the open mic

  • November 6th, 2024: Minelle Mahtani

  • November 6th, 2024: Arleen Paré

  • November 6th, 2024: Ayelet Tsabari

  • November 6th, 2024: Raising Daughters, Raising Mothers, Raising Voices

  • October 10th, 2024 Alice in Monsterland: A roundtable discussion about Alice Munro and other "art monsters." Moderated by Justina Elias, with Kathryn Mockler, Suzanne Methot, and Julie Paul

  • October 10th, 2024 Open Mic opener Eva Haas

  • July 25th, 2024 Short Story Summer

  • July 25th, 2024 Short Story Summer

  • July 25th, 2024 Open Mic opener Eli Mushumanski

  • July 25th, 2024 Danila Botha

  • July 25th, 2024 Corinna Chong

  • July 25th, 2024 Jen Currin

  • June 27th, 2024 Innocence Lost

  • June 27th, 2024 Open Mic opener Meghan Reyda-Molnar

  • June 27th, 2024 Lily Grace

  • June 27th, 2024 Amy Mattes

  • June 27th, 2024 Karen Lee White

  • June 27th, 2024 Innocence Lost

  • May 30th, 2024 BACK to the Future!

  • May 30th 2024 Open Mic opener Aldyn Chwelos

  • May 30th, 2024 Astrid Blodgett

  • May 30th, 2024 Kevin Chong

  • May 30th, 2024 Lori Hahnel

  • May 30th, 2024 BACK to the Future!

  • January 25th, 2024 The Subversives

  • January 25th, 2024 Open Mic Opener Justina Elias

  • January 25th, 2024 JD Derbyshire

  • January 25th, 2024 Kathryn Mockler

  • January 25th, 2024 Emi Sasagawa

  • January 25th, 2024

  • September 25, 2023 Family Grief and Grievances

  • September 25, 2023 Open Mic Opener Catherine St. Denis

  • September 25, 2023 Ali Bryan reads from Coq

  • September 25, 2023 Stephanie Harrington reads from "The Fighter"

  • September 25, 2023 Chelsea Wakelyn reads from What Remains of Elsie Jane

  • September 25, 2023 Family Grief and Grievances

  • September 25, 2023 Family Grief and Grievances

  • August 24, 2023 Troubled Towns and Waters

  • August 24, 2023 Troubled Towns and Waters

  • August 24, 2023 Open mic opener Sandy Ibrahim

  • August 24, 2023 Open mic opener Rachael Moorthy

  • August 24, 2023 Troubled Towns and Waters

  • August 24, 2023 Curtis LeBlanc

  • August 24, 2023 Michael Melgaard

  • August 24, 2023 Mike Sadava

  • May 25, 2023: Earth-Shattering Prose

  • May 25, 2023: Earth-Shattering Prose

  • May 25, 2023: Earth-Shattering Prose

  • May 25, 2023 Catherine St. Denis at the open mic

  • May 25, 2023 Kayla Czaga at the open mic

  • May 25, 2023 Gregor Craigie

  • May 25, 2023 Jen Neale

  • May 25, 2023 Frances Peck

  • May 25, 2023 Eliza Robertson

  • March 30, 2023: West-Coast Lit

  • March 30, 2023 Cedar Bowers

  • March 30, 2023 Margot Fedoruk

  • March 30, 2023 Andrea Routley

  • January 26, 2023

  • January 26, 2023 Pauline Holdstock

  • January 26, 2023 Rachel Lachmansingh

  • January 26, 2023 Erica McKeen

Since January, 2023, Wild Prose is a reading series in Victoria primarily for prose authors that mixes touring authors with locals, and emerging authors with established authors.

We meet every other month, at 6:30 p.m. All readings take place at Books & Shenanigans, 347 Cook Street (next door to Moka House) in Victoria.

2026 Schedule:

February 12th, April 9th, June 11th,

August 13th, October 8th

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