About this Event
Female musical artists took the 1990s by storm and their legacies continue to be strong. In the annual VersoFest Book Talk, held as part of VersoFest 2025, best-selling writer Andrea Warner will discuss their lasting impact and her new book, , with award-winning journalist and rock and roll memoirist Alisyn Camerota.
Warner is a writer, critic, broadcaster, and podcaster focusing on music, arts, pop culture, and feminism. She’s the author of the best-selling book (2018) as well as the acclaimed 2015 book, (Eternal Cavalier Press), the precursor to the , which was published in 2024.
The East Vancouver native also is an associate producer at CBC Music and co-hosts the weekly podcast,
Her radio work includes weekly music columns on CBC's Radio One's All Points West and Radio West, and she's also part of CBC Radio's Day 6 music panel. Warner serves on the jury for the Polaris Music Prize and freelanced for six years as a theatre critic for the Georgia Straight. Her writing has appeared in Pitchfork, Bitch, Exclaim!, the Literary Review of Canada, Maclean’s, and the Globe and Mail, among others. She is a co-programmer of the Vancouver Podcast Festival.
Some of her previous work lives include three years as the horoscopes columnist for Soap Opera Weekly, a year doing quality control for chat lines, teaching journalism and writing to youth who were victims and/or perpetrators of violence, call centre management, and a year as the music editor of an alternative weekly.
Previous books by Warner include (2018) and Rise Up & Sing! Power, Protest, and Activism in Music, a volume for middle-readers published in 2023. She’s currently working on her fourth book, a collection of essays about Dirty Dancing for ECW.
Camerota is an award-winning journalist and author. She spent 10 years anchoring various programs on CNN, everything from the network’s morning show, New Day, to primetime specials. Before CNN, Camerota was an anchor and correspondent at FOX, best known as part of the FOX+Friends franchise. In her three decades in journalism, Camerota covered major stories nationally and internationally, earning two Emmy Awards for her breaking news coverage of the aftermath of George Floyd’s M**der and the on-air arrest of Roger Stone. She also received the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for her breaking news coverage of Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico, and a DuPont-Columbia Award for coverage of Jamal Khashoggi’s M**der.
Camerota's debut novel, , was selected by National Public Radio as one of the best books of 2017, and by Oprah Magazine as “a must read.” Her recent memoir instantly became an Amazon best-seller. She is on the national advisory council of The News Literacy Project, which works to teach middle and high school students how to spot misinformation, as well as the importance of freedom of the press.
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VersoFest is four days of music, media, and creativity, running next year from April 3 to April 6 — a forum for media creators, artists, and fans to converge. VersoFest includes conversations where experts share their perspective and vision; intimate workshops provide creators the opportunity to deconstruct, improve, and hone their craft; performances entertain and inspire.
Past VersoFest guests include hip hop legend Chuck D, established hit-makers Spin Doctors and the Smithereens, up-and-coming bands Sunflower Bean and the Lemon Twigs, rockers Lez Zeppelin, famed producers Steve Lillywhite (U2, Dave Matthews Band) and Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T. Rex), Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler, the Doors drummer John Densmore, Cramps drummer Miriam Linna, Alice Cooper Group bassist Dennis Dunaway, hip hop originators Tony Crush and Grand Wizzard Theodore, Manic Panic’s Tish and Snooky, and a wide array of authors, photographers, artists, and thought leaders.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Westport Library, 20 Jesup Road, Westport, United States
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