Please note: The list of donors and supporters is updated annually in August.
How you can contribute
There are many ways in which you can be a part of the Festival. Contact the Festival office for more details.
Government Support
We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Arts Presentation Fund and the Endowment Incentives Component of the Canada Cultural Investment Fund) and Service Canada (Canada Summer Jobs).
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Supported by the Province of British Columbia
The Province of British Columbia supports the Festival through the BC Arts Council and the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport.
The District of Sechelt generously provides the Festival with a home in Rockwood Centre and support through a multi-year Community Investment Program grant.
Foundations
Presenting Partner Sponsors
In Kind Support
Event Sponsorships 2024
- Event 1 — University of British Columbia, School of Creative Writing
- Event 2 — Fresh
- Event 3 — The Narwhal
- Event 4 — Sunshine Coast Literary Coalition
- Event 5 — UBC Press
- Event 6 — Crowe MacKay
- Event 7 — Strait Coffee
- Event 8 — Bruinwood Estate Distillery
- Event 9 — Federation of BC Writers
- Event 10 — Thormanby Transportation
- Event 11 — Blue Magnolia Clothing
- Event 12 — SFU Continuing Studies – The Writers Studio
- Event 13 — Talewind Books
- Event 14 — Julie Beckett, Sotheby’s International Realty Canada
- Event 15 — Spani Developments
- Event 16 — Douglas & McIntyre
- Event 17 — Friesens
- Event 18 — Lynn Pakulak Endowment Fund
- Event 19 — The Marie Steel Memorial Endowment
- Event 20 — Greystone Books
- Event 21 — Claytons Heritage Market
Publishers (Book Donations)
- Anvil Press
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Caitlin Press
- Cormorant Books
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Goose Lane Editions
- Greystone Books
- Harbour Publishing
- HarperCollins Canada
- Heritage House
- House of Anansi
- Nightwood Editions
- Penguin Random House Canada
- University of Alberta Press
We thank our 2024 Festival Donors
Donations received July 15, 2023 – July 1, 2024
Roll of Honour
- Anonymous
- Debbie Mealia & Jim Budd
- Paddy Wales
Readers Circle
- Kit Artus
- Janie Chang
- Milner Family Fund, facilitated by the Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation
- Susan Ogul & Lonnie Propas
- John and Gail Watson
Book Club
- Marisa Alps
- Jane Davidson
- Helen Ible
- Bonnie and Michael Klein
- Jan Kotaska
- Dani Lacusta
- Rosella Leslie
- Susan Sutherland
- Gale Tyler
Book Mark
- Anonymous
- John Adams
- Ellen Adelberg
- Frederick N Allnutt
- Susan Biddle
- Betty Bronson
- Shauna Butterwick
- Mark Cameron
- Virginia Cathcart
- Unni S. Claridge
- Sharon Clayton
- Cynde Downs
- Christine Giancarlo
- Laura E Houle
- Katherine Johnston
- Elizabeth Kellough
- Lise Kreps
- Pamela Lockhart
- Carolyn Main
- Tia McLennan
- Dixie Meagher
- Micha Menczer
- Rae-ann Miller
- Margo Murphy
- Shelley Page
- Bronwen Payerle
- Susan Phillips
- Barbara Seed
- Helen Smith
- Nyrie Stockton
- Kate Walker
Legacy of Literacy
Donations (between July 15, 2023 – July 1, 2024) were made to the following endowments: Gwen Bennett Endowment Fund, Legacy of Literacy Endowment, Moyna Krusell Memorial Endowment Fund, and Lynn Pakulak Endowment Fund.
- Anonymous
- Rosemary Bates Terry
- Jean Bennett
- Richard Bennett
- Norma Brow
- George Davis
- Sara Gerring
- Wendy Hunt & Chris Staples – In memory of Bev Shaw
- Helen Ible – In memory of Bev Shaw
- Sandra Jefferies
- Paul Johanson
- Connie T. Johnston
- Darlene Kry
- John & Laura Maddalozzo
- Edith McEwen
- Mavis McEwen Norman
- Lucie McKiernan – In memory of Bev Shaw
- Kathy Mulder
- Len Pakulak
- Kathy Reeves
- Doug Robinson
- Vicki Skye-May
- Kristen Spies
- Jane Welton
We thank the following publishers for their donations of books
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Caitlin Press
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Goose Lane Editions
- Greystone Books
- Harbour Publishing
- HarperCollins Canada
- Heritage House
- House of Anansi
- Nightwood Editions
- Penguin Random House Canada
- Simon & Schuster
- Touchwood Editions UBC Press
Special Thanks 2024
- Sharon Brown and Andreas Schroeder
- Michelle Chapman
- Dylan Chow
- Lucy Clark
- Maria Danysh
- Jane Davidson
- Nancy Essex
- Tekla Fulton
- Michael Gurney
- Dana Jantzen
- Rik Jespersen
- Courtney Lamb and the staff at Talewind Books
- Sherryl Latimer
- Teresa Nightingale, Attention! Web & Graphic Design
- Boyd Norman, Office Alternatives
- Parks Department, District of Sechelt
- Rotary Club of Sechelt (Ch’atlich)
- St. Hilda’s Anglican Church and our neighbours
- Mike Starr, Prose-Star Communications
- Sunshine Coast ElderCollege Festival Preview participants
- Karen Weissenborn Design
- ZG Stories
We send special thanks and gratitude to John Lussier, who served on the Festival’s Board of Directors for nine years. John’s contributions to the Board and his work with CABC and Coastal Voices has been invaluable. Thank you, John!