The Sidney and Peninsula Literary Society celebrates the written word. We showcase established and emerging authors and provide regular opportunities for readers and writers to connect. We organize readings throughout the year and sponsor a biennial literary festival. Anyone who enjoys the written word is invited to become a member of the Society.
Please join us for our first event of 2026!
Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 2:00pm.
Tracey Lindberg and Tilar J. Mazzeo will present their newest books at the SHOAL Centre, 10030 Resthaven Drive, Sidney, BC.
Tickets are $15.00 and are available from Tanners Books in Sidney and at eventbrite.ca
About Tracey Lindberg
Tracey Lindberg hails from the As’in’î’wa’chî Ni’yaw (Kelly Lake Cree Nation) and grew up in small cities and towns in Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. She studied law at the University of Saskatchewan, Harvard Law School (LLM) and the University of Ottawa (PhD). She has co-authored books on law [Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies (Oxford, 2010) ] with authors Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, and Robert Miller and a book on Indigenous literature icon Daniel David Moses (Guernica, 2015) with David Brundage.
Her best-selling novel Birdie is widely read and used to teach courses worldwide. Birdie was a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award and the 2016 edition of CBC’s Canada Reads and is currently in its fourteenth reprint. The novel was also long-listed for the 2017 Dublin International Literary Prize, the OLA Evergreen Award and was a nominee for the 2016 Alberta Literary Awards. Dr. Lindberg was a juror for the 2017 Rogers Trust Fiction prize. Her most recent novel, The Cree Word for Love: Sakihitowin (2025) is writing about embodied self-determination.
About Tilar J. Mazzeo
Tilar J. Mazzeo is the author of more than a half-dozen award-winning biographies and works of cultural history, including the New York Times bestselling The Widow Clicquot, now a major motion picture.
She began her career as a tenured professor, holding positions at universities in the United States and Canada for more than twenty years. Dr. Mazzeo left the academy in 2021 to pursue full-time writing.
She lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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Our festival is supported by granting agencies, local businesses, other arts organizations and individual donors. A special thanks to Tanner’s Books, for their continued support and generous sponsorship. Thanks also to our dedicated team of volunteers without whom we couldn’t hold the festival.
We respectfully acknowledge that the Sidney LitFest and our other events are held on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territories of the SET,TINES – WSÁNEĆ people.