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.
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
Corporate Donors
Event Sponsorships 2023
- Event 1 — IG Private Wealth Management, Hobson & Associates
- Event 2 — Federation of BC Writers
- Event 3 — Thormanby Transportation
- Event 4 — Strait Coffee
- Event 5 — Goose Lane Editions
- Event 6 — Fresh from the Coast
- Event 7 — Greystone Books
- Event 8 — Lynn Pakulak Endowment Fund
- Event 9 — Howe Sound Pulp & Paper
- Event 10 — Talewind Books
- Event 11 — SFU Continuing Studies – The Writers Studio
- Event 12 — University of British Columbia, School of Creative Writing
- Event 13 — Blue Magnolia Clothing
- Event 14 — Julie Beckett, Sotheby’s International Realty Canada
- Event 15 — Shipton Duric & Associates
- Event 16 — Harbour Publishing
- Event 17 — Capilano University, kálax-ay the Sunshine Coast Campus
- Event 18 — The Marie Steel Memorial Endowment
- Event 19 — The Loon Foundation and the Pender Harbour Ocean Discovery Station
- Event 20 — Crowe MacKay
- Event 21 — Claytons Heritage Market
In Kind Support
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 2023 Festival Donors
Donations received July 20, 2022 – June 30, 2023
Roll of Honour
- Mary & Cecil Gordon Family Fund, held at Vancouver Foundation
Readers Circle
- Kit Artus
- Janie Chang
- Jane Darling
- Lubin Family Fund, held at Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation
- Linda and Keith Maxwell
- Milner Family Fund, facilitated by the Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation
- Nicholas Simons
- John and Gail Watson
Book Club
- Silvia Bergersen
- Mary Jane Davidson
- Judy Finch
- Richard Harrison
- Leslie Hurtig
- Bonnie and Michael Klein
- Susan Ogul and Lonnie Propas
- Susan Sutherland
- Nancy Webber
Legacy of Literacy
- Anonymous
- Rosemary Bates Terry
- Rick Bennett and Moyna Krusell
- Laura Benson
- Sahra Hailey
- Wendy Hunt and Chris Staples
- Connie Johnston, in loving memory of her mother Lucy
- Darlene Kry
- Laura and John Maddalozzo
- Kathy Mulder
- Len Pakulak
Special Thanks
- Coyote Terry Aleck and Christine Turenne
- Sharon Brown and Andreas Schroeder
- Janie Chang
- Dylan Chow
- Lucy Clark
- Jane Davidson
- Michael Gurney
- Dana Jantzen
- Rik Jespersen
- Teresa Nightingale, Attention Web & Graphic Design
- Boyd Norman, Office Alternatives
- Parks Department, District of Sechelt
- St. Hilda’s Anglican Church and our neighbours
- Bev Shaw and the staff at Talewind Books
- Siobhán Smith
- Mike Starr, Prose-Star Communications
- Sunshine Coast ElderCollege Festival Preview Course participants
- Marje Umezuki
- Karen Weissenborn Design ZG Stories