Strange Places

Northern and Vancouver Island Tour Update

Posted by Daniela Elza on Sep 02 2025

It was quite the feat to do 10 events in 13 days. I was on the road for fifteen days. Now back home, and getting the fall schedules together, getting ready for the Vancouver launches.

I left Vancouver on August 15, drove all day to Prince George. The tour began on Aug. 16th with a writing workshop during the day and a reading that evening. Next we, a group of four writers, stopped in Fort St. James, and then we went on to Smithers, where the library also hosted us royally.

We were joined in Terrace by one more poet. Then we were off to Prince Rupert, where we read in a distillery and young and old showed up for the event. Thank you all who came to support the readings and bought books.

Two of us took the inside passage ferry and we ended up on Quadra Island the next day for a most inspiring music and poetry event on the land, among the trees and among people who work hard to build community through growing food, sharing arts, and thinking of affordable housing.

We had to make it the next day to Tofino and after Tofino, we stopped for readings in Nanaimo and Victoria where I launched the memoir with Kate Braid who also has a new memoir with Caitlin Press.

It was intense and busy and a test to my stamina and resilience. Part of what made this such a survivable feat is the people who welcomed us and hosted us and fed us on the ground. I am sending each of them a thank you, but also wnated to say it here. This was a community effort and everyone did a bit and many just jumped in to make our stays more pleasant with feeding us delicious food and providing a bed to sleep on. Thank you.

What is next? Next post will be about the upcoming launches in Vancouver in the month of September.