Are you a BIPOC artist or writer with burning questions about:

• the writing process

• the publishing process

• grant-writing

• CV-writing

• social media / self-promotion

• organization / self-motivation

• touring

• performing

Ask Vivek! She’ll be happy to answer all your art / writing questions at

Queen Books – 914 Queen St. E (Toronto)

March 21, 2024 – 1-5pm

If you’re interested, please make an appointment on our eventbrite page here

(There are 8 appointment offerings and each appointment is 30 mins)

Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, TV, film, and fashion. A Canadian Screen Award winner, Vivek is the creator and writer of the new CBC Gem Original Series How to Fail as a Popstar. She has collaborated with musical icons Jann Arden, Peaches, and Jully Black, and was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel,” and she is the founder of the award-winning publishing imprint VS. Books, (featured on CBC‘s Canada Reads) which supports emerging BIPOC writers. Vivek has been a brand ambassador for MAC Cosmetics and Pantene, and she is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation.