Bruce Cockburn isn’t the only musician turned memoirist appearing here in the coming days. The Vancouver Writers Fest keeps the spotlight on acclaimed Canadian songwriters by bringing Great Big Sea frontman Alan Doyle to the Waterfront Theatre next Thursday night (November 13), to talk about Where I Belong.

The rollicking new book is Doyle’s portrait of his youth in the Newfoundland fishing village of Petty Harbour. Forget your early days as a Starbucks barista: his first job was cutting out cod tongues down on the wharf, just one of the places where he soaked up the culture and music that would later shape his hit band.

See Vancouver Writers Fest website for event details.