Wild Prose

A prose-based reading series in Victoria, BC

Wild Prose is currently on hiatus

If you have an inquiry, please send me an email via my contact page.

Past Events

  • June 11th, 2026: Witches Brew with Anne Fleming and Annabel Youens

  • June 11th, 2026: Anne Fleming

  • June 11th, 2026: Annabel Youens

  • April 9th, 2026: Complicated Mothers with Danielle Geller and Meg Todd

  • April 9th, 2026: Danielle Geller

  • April 9th, 2026: Meg Todd

  • February 12th, 2026: Alternate Realities with Rebecca Campbell and Myriam Lacroix

  • February 12th, 2026: Rebecca Campbell

  • February 12th, 2026: Myriam Lacroix

  • February 12th, 2026: Our audience

  • February 12th, 2026 montage

  • 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 7 p.m. All readings take place at Books & Shenanigans, 347 Cook Street (next door to Moka House) in Victoria.

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