Kingston’s Readers and Writers Festival Program

September 24–28, 2014 Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront kingstonwritersfest.ca OUR MANDATE Kingston WritersFest, a charitable cultural organization, brings the best Welcome of contemporary writers to Kingston to interact with audiences and other artists for mutual inspiration, education, and the exchange of ideas that his has been an exciting year in the life of the Festival, as well literature provokes. Tas in the book world. Such a feast of great books and talented OUR MISSION Through readings, performance, onstage discussion, and master writers—programming the Festival has been a treat! Our mission is to promote classes, Kingston WritersFest fosters intellectual and emotional growth We continue many Festival traditions: we are thrilled to welcome awareness and appreciation of the on a personal and community level and raises the profile of reading and bestselling American author Wally Lamb to the International Marquee literary arts in all their forms and literary expression in our community. stage and Wayson Choy to deliver the second Robertson Davies lecture; to nurture literary expression. Ben McNally is back for the Book Lovers’ Lunch; and the Saturday Night BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2014 Festival Coordinators SpeakEasy continues, in the larger Bellevue Ballroom. Chair | Jan Walter Archivist | Aara Macauley We’ve added new events to whet your appetite: the Kingston Vice-Chairs | Michael Robinson, Authors@School, TeensWrite! | Dinner Club with a specially designed menu; a beer-sampling Jeanie Sawyer Ann-Maureen Owens event; and with kids events moved offsite, more events for adults on Secretary | Michèle Langlois Box Office Services | Sunday. With 57 events in all, Kingston WritersFest 2014 is a feast Treasurer | Karen Simpson Aara Macauley, Amanda Di Vito for the mind. Directors | Lawrence Scanlan, Copywriting | Kirsteen MacLeod,

As always, you will have a chance to hear Canada’s best authors, g a rrett e ll io T t Mark Sinnett, Ian Walsh kat Evans, Kate Kristiansen, Barbara Bell many new to the Festival, who tackle the themes and subjects that are Festival Staff Donor Program Manager | at the forefront of the public consciousness. We present stellar fiction Stay in Touch with Us! Artistic Director | Barbara Bell kristina Fennell writers Steven Galloway, Eleanor Catton, Kim Thúy, and Miriam Toews; Our Office: Administrative Assistant | Festival Field Trips | Angela Saxe gifted poets Susan Musgrave, Jeramy Dodds, and George Elliott Clarke; 209 Wellington Street, Suite 202A Christina Bergeron Hospitality Sponsorship | and penetrating non-fiction writers Chris Turner, Michael MacMillan, Kingston, Ontario K7K 2Y6 Education Manager | Michele Casey Paula Todd, Stephen Brunt, Jennifer Cockrall-King, and Ted Barris. 613-767-0513 Ann-Maureen Owens Hospitality Managers | Michèle You will enjoy brilliant moderators such as the incisive Carol Off, vet- Funds Development Manager | Langlois, Jan MacDonald eran interviewer Michael Enright, and local musician and environmen- Merilyn Simonds Kids on Saturday | Kimberly tal activist Sarah Harmer. Member of Sustainable Kingston Marketing Manager | sutherland Mills, Janice Rowe In the Year of Reading Women, we join book lovers around the kate Kristiansen Library Liaison | Kimberly world to celebrate women in the literary arts, but as always the Festival Production Manager | Table of Contents sutherland Mills offers the fullest range of writers brought to you for their ability to stimu- Myriam Beaulne Tickets 4 Programming Advisors | late, entertain, and inform. Publicist | Kat Evans Myriam Beaulne, Kat Evans, Events: Readings, We’ve grouped events into themes: Planet Earth, The Digital World, Volunteer Manager | kate Kristiansen, Merilyn Conversations, Performances! 6 Canada Made Me, Canada: War, Peace, and Politics, and The Heroic Ashleigh Forsyth Simonds, Jan Walter Common Ground: Redefined, to help you plan your Festival days. And we are offering Writers Services Manager | Queen’s Liaison | Devon Jackson Event Themes for 2014 21 even more Writers Studio master classes—19 in all, for writers of all Christina Bergeron Social Media | Lyndsey Darling, TeensWrite! and kat Evans ages and stages of development. Authors@School 23 Oh, so many exciting things to share with you—and you can read Youth Events 24 Festival Affiliates about all of them here! Program at a Glance 26 Graphic Designer | Janice McLean Kingston WritersFest is a registered charity established to serve our International Marquee and 29 Webmaster | CarricDesign community. We rely on your support and offer numerous opportunities Robertson Davies Lecture for caring individuals, groups, and businesses to help us deliver superb Festival Bookseller | Novel Idea, Writers Studio 30 oscar and Joanna Malan literary and educational programming. Stitch & Stanza Exhibition 31 Festival Sound and Lights | We wish to thank everyone who makes this Festival possible— Profiles: Authors kingston SoundWorks corporate and individual sponsors, volunteers, staff, and you, our and Moderators 33 Festival Printer | Allan Graphics audience. We are profoundly grateful for your continuing enthusiasm Volunteers 48 Legal Counsel | Jennifer Foster and encouragement. Donors 49 Accountants | Karen Simpson, See you at the Festival! Author Patrons 50 Brent Wilson b y fe d eri c o uri e c o v er a rtwork Sponsors 51

Barbara Bell, Artistic Director kingston writersfest 2014 • 3 FREE Events Experience Downtown Kingston! Tickets Student Rush Seats Add either of these special passes to your Festival tickets purchase: Free rush seats to any onstage event, including Tickets can be purchased from the Grand Theatre Box Office (online, in person, or by phone) the International Marquee and the Robertson Kingston K-Pass Experience from Thursday, August 7, 2014, to Wednesday, September 24, 2014. Davies Lecture for post-secondary students with $73.00. Not sold onsite. Includes 48 hours unlim- During the Festival, tickets are available onsite from the Festival Box Office’s NEW LOCATION valid ID. Available from 15 minutes before curtain ited hop on/hop off Trolley Tour with nine at the Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront, in the Holidome, conveniently located on the main floor. to 10 minutes after curtain, at the discretion of stops, Kingston 1000 Islands Sightseeing staff. Writers Studio master classes, the Perfect cruise (1.5 or 3 hr), and one-day admission to All events are general seating, except the International Marquee. Brew, the SpeakEasy, and food events excluded. Fort Henry. Lunch and Dinner available. Visit 1000islandcruises.ca for more information. All prices include HST. Please be advised that the Grand Theatre Box Office will add a handling fee Writers Studio Master Class: of $3.10 (HST included) per ticket. Handling charges are reduced on bulk purchases. Grant Writing 101 Kingston Trolley Tour Friday, 11:30–1:30 pm, Sir John A. Room 48 hours | $34.00, 1 Day | $27.00 Not sold onsite Festival Onstage Events $13.50 | $17.00 onsite SPECIAL EVENTS, SPECIAL PRICES Event #21 Master class with Jack Illingworth Unlimited hop on/hop off Trolley Tour Includes events at the Holiday Inn and The Perfect Brew $25.00 | $30.00 onsite with nine stops. St. Lawrence College Book Launch Saturday, 7:00–8:00 pm. Studio 22 Event #14 Ticket price includes one craft beer. Event #45 Join Diane Schoemperlen as she Writers Studio Master Classes Cash bar after presentation. launches By the Book: Stories and Pictures. SPECIAL FESTIVAL $30.00 | $35.00 onsite Book Lovers’ Lunch Enrolment limited. See page 30. “Stitch & Stanza” Poetry/Fibre Arts EXPERIENCE $38.00 (taxes & 15% gratuity incl.) Exhibition Islandview Room TeensWrite! Master Classes Not sold onsite Event #20 Cash bar Tickets Open to the public when room is not in use; Buy early! Save handling fees! $10.00 | $14.00 onsite Students 14–19 years. for Events #20 Kingston Dinner Club and #28 must be check Program at a Glance or our website Limited number available! Enrolment limited. See page 25. purchased by for times. Meet-the-Artists Reception in the $45.00 (taxes & 15% gratuity incl.) September 19, International Marquee $35.00 Not sold onsite Event #28 Cash bar 2014. Islandview Room, 11:00 am–12:00 pm, Festival Pass $175 Sold at Grand Theatre Box Office ONLY. Saturday, September 27. See page 31. A value of $300 in individually purchased tickets. Saturday Night SpeakEasy Reserved seating. See pages 6 and 29. Sold through the Grand Theatre Box Office ONLY, $30.00 | $35.00 onsite Event #46 Cash bar Kids on Saturday New day! New location! in person, by phone, or online. Festival Field Trip Events Saturday, 1:00–4:00 pm, Kingston Frontenac Robertson Davies Lecture See up to 25 events with the KWF Festival Pass, General admission $13.50 | $17.00 onsite Public Library, Central Branch. See page 25. $25.00 | $30.00 onsite Event #57 including onstage readings, conversations, High school students and accompanying adults Reception with cash bar Chasing Shadows: Paper Theatre and panel discussions throughout the festival. $5.00 | $8.00 onsite with Ellie MacKay 1:00–1:45 pm Event #36 Some exclusions apply. High school students attending on their own Writer’s Retreat $125 Not sold onsite Exclusions: Separate tickets must be purchased should present their student ID at time of ticket Book Swap, Craft and Children’s Activities Sold through the Grand Theatre Box Office for all Writers Studio master classes, the International purchase. Class tickets for Festival Field Trip 1:45–3:00 pm ONLY, in person, by phone, or online. Purchase Marquee, The Perfect Brew, Book Lovers’ Lunch, events must be purchased through the Grand Kingston Dinner Club, Saturday Night SpeakEasy, any five adult Writers Studio master classes The Rules of Survival with Eric Walters Theatre Box OfficeBY PHONE OR IN PERSON ONLY. and The Robertson Davies Lecture. for $125. For details, see page 30. 3:00–4:00 pm Event #40 Buy 5 and Save $50 Not sold onsite. With every five tickets purchased Ticket On-Sale Date and Pickup Deadlines From September 25, 2014, through September 28, Kingston WritersFest Box Office Hours at one time, save the price of one ticket. Tickets are available through the Grand Theatre Box 2014, tickets are available only from the Festival Box The Festival Box Office, on the main floor of the Holiday No limit to number of Buy 5 and Save you can Office from Thursday, August 7, through Wednesday, Office onsite at the Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront, Inn Kingston Waterfront, is open Thursday through purchase. Choose from 25 regular onstage events. main floor.N ote: New Onsite Box Office location. September 24. Tickets purchased in advance may Sunday, September 25–28, from 8:30 am to 15 min- Sold through the Grand Theatre Box Office ONLY, be picked up at the Grand Theatre Box Office until utes after the beginning of the last event of each day. Grand Theatre Box Office Hours in person, by phone, or online. 5:30 pm, Wednesday, September 24. Tickets for food Buy your tickets at the Grand Theatre Box Office Please check your events must be purchased by September 19. Exchange and Refund Policy online (kingstongrand.ca/writersfest), in person tickets carefully. There will be no exchanges or refunds. Any tickets not picked up by this time, excepting at 218 Princess Street, Kingston, or by phone at For full details on our return policy in the case of an Photographs No flash photography, video recorders, International Marquee tickets, are available for pickup at 613-530-2050. For Grand Theatre Box Office event cancellation, please see our website. or tape recorders, please. the Festival Box Office in its NEW onsite location in the hours, please see their website. will be seated at the discretion of Holidome on the main floor of the Holiday Inn Kingston Latecomers Accessibility All of our events, except Event #45 Kingston WritersFest staff. Waterfront, from Thursday, September 25, 8:30 am. at Studio 22, are accessible.

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tour of how forward-thinking cities are re- localizing their food. With a global view of the Events urban agriculture movement, she presents slide Readings, conversations, performances! images and tells stories about her visits to com- Events for readers of every age and taste, designed for maximum munity gardens in Paris, urban commercial audience participation, with time for questions and a chance to engage organic farms in Havana, rooftop veggie gardens with authors as they sign books. in London and Seoul, food forests in Edmonton and Seattle, urban beekeepers in Toronto, SPIN farming in Kelowna, and the world’s first vertical Wednesday, September 24 THURSDAY, September 25 farm in Chicago. Planet Earth

#1 International Marquee #2 Dangerous Acts #6 Write Who You Are Wally Lamb with Michael Enright Maggie de Vries, Deborah Ellis, Maggie de Vries Maggie de Vries Reading & Conversation Nancy Lee TeensWrite! Master Class Presentation of student-writing-contest awards Moderated by Leanne Lieberman bubbles to the Great Bear Rainforest. He invites n Sir John A. Macdonald Room n Grand Theatre, Regina Rosen Auditorium Readings & Conversation n Islandview Room us to meet the challenges of a sustainable 11:00 am–12:15 pm 8:00–9:30 pm Reserved seating 9:30–10:30 am tomorrow—political, ecological, economic, and Maggie de Vries, author of the bestselling mem- cultural—and build hopeful global foundations American author Wally Lamb and veteran Every act has a consequence. Maggie de Vries’ oir Missing Sarah, which recounts her private for a sustainable future. Planet Earth broadcaster Michael Enright talk about the novel Rabbit Ears is based on her sister’s drug struggle with her sister’s disappearance and fictional truth—a hallmark of Wally’s work— use and descent into prostitution. In The Age, murder, offers advice on how to give voice to Status Updates OR What Should in four New York Times bestsellers, including Nancy Lee’s protagonist Gerry finds belonging #4 what is most personal to us. From trauma or I Do With My Life? She’s Come Undone, finalist for the Los Angeles with a group of misfits planning a violent pro- difficult times to moments of happiness and Guillaume Morissette, Times’ Best First Novel Award; I Know This test. In Moon at Nine, Deborah Ellis brings us clarity, Maggie shares her methods for translat- Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Much Is True, winner of Friends of the Library Farrin and Sadira, characters based on real girls ing your heart and memory into words. Whether Readings & Conversation n Islandview Room USA Readers’ Choice Award; The Hour I First whose romance in 1980’s Iran is punishable your goal is one day to publish or simply to 11:00 am–12:00 pm Believed; and We Are Water. With writerly com- by death. These teenaged characters choose express yourself through journaling, you will passion, Wally inhabits characters and gives courageous, foolhardy, and desperate acts, Guillaume Morissette’s 26-year-old videogame come away with habits, tools, and techniques to them voice, probes their emotional and physical provoked by their inner realities and the world designer in New Tab searches for meaning as create, to recount, to relive, or to exorcise. Bring wounds, and illuminates their family dynamics. in which they live. he chronicles his own boredom, self-destruc- your lunch. Limited enrolment Wally Lamb has said of his fiction, “Although my tion, Facebook chats, and social anxiety. Status characters’ lives don’t much resemble my own, #3 Sustainable Future Update, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang’s poetry collec- #7 Shooting the Photo Essay what we share is that we are imperfect people Chris Turner tion, uses actual FB posts that chronicle others’ Geoffrey James seeking to become better people.” Wally and Solo presentation n Bellevue Ballroom choices and their action/inaction as spring- TeensWrite! Master Class Michael discuss this, and much more. 9:30–10:30 am boards for her poetry. Guillaume and Sarah talk n Sir John A. Macdonald Room Chris Turner, bestselling author of Planet about the difficulties of growing up in the digital 12:30–1:45 pm age and how social media affect or direct our Simpson, is one of Canada’s leading writers and Governor General’s Award-winning photogra- choices or inspire us to action in our quest for speakers on culture, politics, and environmental pher Geoffrey James instructs camera users meaning and true experience. The Digital World issues. Author of the Governor General’s Award- how to choose the right camera and lens, how

nominated The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the to spot great images, and teaches sequencing The Future of Food: World We Need, Chris talks about How to Breathe #5 and juxtaposition to take the most compel- Urban Agriculture Underwater, his new collection of essays on ling pictures and match them with text in order Jennifer Cockrall-King subjects ranging from The Simpsons to the mul- to tell the best story. Geoffrey uses his book Solo Presentation n Bellevue Ballroom timedia super-corridor of Malaysia; from Pepsi’s Images of Kingston Penitentiary, a complex 11:00 am–12:00 pm failed breakfast beverages to climate crisis set of photos in which the text includes inmates’ Wally Lamb seen through scuba goggles; and from dotcom Join food writer and urban agriculture expert poems and graffiti, to demonstrate that photo- Jennifer Cockrall-King, author of Food and graphs show how things look, but words help the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food the images explain the world. offsite event writers studio food event kids on saturday event Revolution, as she takes us on a wide-angled Limited enrolment

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THURSDAY, September 25 COMMON GROUND Themes for 2014 #13 Memories of Kingston Pen Planet Earth: Events 3, 5, 12, 30 Geoffrey James with Stephen Reid #8 Extreme Mean: Cyberabuse The Digital World: Events 4, 8, 10, 22 Presentation & Conversation Paula Todd The Heroic Redefined: n Bellevue Ballroom Events 25, 44, 52, 55, 56 Solo Presentation n Islandview Room 6:30–7:30 pm Events 11, 13 1:00–2:00 pm Memories of Kingston Pen: Canada Made Me: Events 15, 33, 41 Award-winning photo-essayist Geoffrey Canada: War, Peace and In Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators James photographed the interior of Kingston Politics: Events 35, 43 Online, award-winning journalist and investiga- Penitentiary just before its closure. In Inside See page 21 tive writer Paula Todd takes us into the dark for details Kingston Penitentiary, he describes exchanges world of cyberbullying, stalking, Facebook with officers and inmates and compares his harassment, email trashing, and digital fraud. visceral reactions to the prison with writ- Paula explains how everyone is vulnerable: cleverly framed around the signs of the zodiac ten accounts of 19th-century visitors. Author young people and adults, females and males. and the Golden Mean. Sponsored by Caldwell Stephen Reid penned his first novel, Jackrabbit She explores the roots of online abuse, talks Wealth & Estate Advisory Ltd Parole, while incarcerated in Kingston Pen. about why people fall prey, exposes dangerous He rates KP, known for its strict discipline and loopholes in popular apps, and offers a new #10 Writing the Internet Novel cramped cells, among the top 10 harshest pris- way of understanding “what the hell is going on Kate Pullinger Susan Musgrave b ru c e stotes ury ons in North America. Geoffrey shares some online.” Paula offers tips on how we can edu- Writers Studio n Sir John A. Macdonald Room of his images, and he and Stephen compare tion for the incarcerated. Do books, reading, cate and protect ourselves against virtual attack. 2:30–4:30 pm notes about the experience of being inside KP. and writing help inmates re-enter society? Is the The Digital World Memories of Kingston Pen Experimental novelist Kate Pullinger’s project teacher’s role to bear witness as much as teach? Flight Paths: A Networked Novel (flightpaths. Moderated by Book Clubs for Inmates volunteer “Inside Kingston Penitentiary,” Geoffrey James’ net) attempts to create a novel on and through Eric Friesen. Memories of Kingston Pen exhibition of images of the spaces and routines the internet, where text is presented with music of life inside Canada’s most notorious prison, is and film. Kate shows how print and digital forms #12 Writing a on display at Agnes Etherington Art Centre from are complementary and how digital platforms More-Than-Human World August 30 to December 7. can allow for a great range of experimentation in Trevor Herriot new literary forms. She gives pointers on how to Writers Studio n Sir John A. Macdonald Room #14 The Perfect Brew write at the intersection of fiction and technol- 5:00–7:00 pm Ian Coutts ogy and how to find the right partners to design

tto Solo Presentation n Islandview Room Trevor Herriot (The Road Is How: A Prairie a project in this hybrid collaborative digital form. 8:30–10:30 pm, doors open at 8:15 Eleanor Catton The Digital World Pilgrimage Through Nature, Desire, and Soul ) ert C a R o b ert Limited enrolment teaches you how to make conscious choices Join local author Ian Coutts, author of The #9 Author! Author! #11 Caged Pens in the way you write about land, wildness, or Perfect Keg, as he shares details of his journey Eleanor Catton with Charles Foran Wally Lamb, Susan Musgrave, animals: “Whether nature is backdrop, inspira- toward the best ever keg of home-brewed beer. Reading & Conversation n Bellevue Ballroom Stephen Reid tion, or the primary subject in our narratives, the Without using a kit or any pre-produced ingre- 1:00–2:00 pm Moderated by Eric Friesen way we regard it and present it matters.” Using dients, Ian set out, like the Little Red Hen, to Onstage Conversation n Islandview Room examples of accomplished nature writing, Trevor grow his own barley and hops, make his own Eleanor Catton, at age 28 the youngest writer 3:00–4:30 pm reveals his own and others’ techniques: how to malt, find his own yeast, brew, and finally con- ever to be awarded the Booker Prize, and win- record and translate what you observe, use sci- sume the perfect, additive- and chemical-free ner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, Wally Lamb’s students at York Correctional ence, widen the inquiry to other ways of know- keg of suds. As Ian recounts his epic adventure, chats with Charles Foran about her writing pro- Institute are “invested in the writing process.” ing, and improve listening and awareness. sample a local natural-brew beer or cider. Ticket cess and her amazing early success. Her first Stephen Reid, author of the award-winning For writers of all genres interested in grounding price includes a bottled micro-brewery beer or novel, The Rehearsal, is a contemporary story of memoir A Crowbar In the Buddhist Garden, their writing in the land. Planet Earth cider. Cash bar after presentation. a teacher-student sex scandal in an all-girls high served time in over 20 prisons and, as he says, Limited enrolment Sponsored by Kingston 1000 Islands Cruises school. The wildly successful The Luminaries is “writing from an experience, not about it.” is only her second novel—an intricately struc- Author Susan Musgrave married Stephen while tured, 21st-century take on the Victorian novel, he was incarcerated. Together these writers offsite event writers studio food event kids on saturday event equal parts gripping mystery and love story, discuss the link between creativity and redemp-

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THURSDAY, September 25 perceive the past as more interesting and ing houses, big and small, and insider stories dramatic than the modern world. Roberta offers about the world of Canadian publishing. Bring a guided hallucination to using sensory details— #15 Canada Made Me your book club and choose the writers you most smell, touch, sound, texture—and the backdrop want to read this year. Ticket price includes Eleanor Catton, Nancy Lee, of political events, domestic detail, and religious lunch. Cash bar. Kate Pullinger Moderated by Jared Bland life to create a sense of unmistakable place, a Onstage conversation n Bellevue Ballroom perfect evocation of setting and era. FREE Grant Writing 101 8:00–9:30 pm #21 Limited enrolment Jack Illingworth Award-winning Canadian-born authors Eleanor Writers Studio Catton (The Luminaries), now living in New n Sir John A. Macdonald Room Zealand, Kate Pullinger (Landing Gear), who lives FRIDAY, September 26 11:30 am–1:30 pm in the UK, and British-born ex-pat Vancouverite Ontario Arts Council Literature Officer Jack Nancy Lee (The Age) talk about what Canada #17 Organized Corruption: Illingworth talks about funding opportunities for has—or hasn’t—meant to their lives as writers. The World of Ava Lee Ontario’s literary artists—what’s out there, what What impact has the “true north, strong and Ian Hamilton juries look for, best practices in grant writing, n Roberta Rich free” had on self-perception and creative voice? Solo presentation Bellevue Ballroom ni c o l e thu ll ner success stories. Jack talks about both the OAC’s What are the perks or disadvantages of keeping 9:00–10:00 am core literary programs and some of the lesser- a foot on home soil? An American ex-pat now Birthing the Past “Ian Hamilton’s gay sleuth Ava Lee proving #19 known programs for touring support and profes- living in Toronto, Globe and Mail Arts and Books Roberta Rich an unstoppable force” trumpets the Calgary sional development. This session is sure to be of Editor Jared Bland moderates. Canada Made Me Solo presentation n Bellevue Ballroom Herald. British magazine Stylist thinks Ava Lee interest to writers at all stages of development, Sponsored by Chris James Kingston 10:30–11:30 pm gives Lisbeth Salander “a run for her money” from pre-published through emerging to sea- as feistiest girl-sleuth in contemporary fiction. Writing Historical Fiction: In her bestselling debut novel The Midwife of soned veterans, and will include a general Q&A #16 Ian shares the astonishing trajectory of Ava and A Guided Hallucination Venice, author Roberta Rich described the as well as an opportunity to speak with Jack the books in which she is the central character, clash of Jewish tradition with Christian law in informally after the talk. Limited enrolment Roberta Rich from her surprise appearance as a name in his 16th-century Venice. Its sequel, The Harem Writers Studio head to his series of six wildly popular myster- Midwife, continues the riveting tale of Hannah, Posts on the Wall of Life n Sir John A. Macdonald Room #22 ies. Ian tells how he incorporates his experience the intrepid Jewish midwife, as she comes up Charles Foran, Kate Pullinger 7:30–9:30 pm of the exotic locales in which Ava’s adventures against the traditions of the opulent Ottoman Readings & Conversation Historical fiction, says Roberta Rich, author of occur and shares his thoughts about what Ava’s Empire. Roberta reads from the novel, shares n Bellevue Ballroom The Harem Midwife, is an invitation to enter the future holds. her secret method of writing as though watch- 1:00–2:00 pm past through the senses, into a lost world, often ing a movie, and tells us what she’s learned in Social media feature in Charles Foran’s Planet dangerously exotic, but paradoxically also com- #18 Writing Without Borders researching and bringing these vivid historical Lolita (a QR code readers can scan with fortable, simple, and safe. We experience nos- Susan Musgrave novels to birth. their mobile devices to learn more) and Kate talgia for a world we’ve never experienced and Writers Studio Pullinger’s Landing Gear (a digital collabora- n Sir John A. Macdonald Room Book Lovers’ Lunch #20 tion online). These award-winners read from 9:00–11:00 am Ben McNally their books and talk about the extent to which Solo Presentation–Food Event Creative writing leaps genre lines in its search contemporary technologies permeate our lives n Islandview Room for new sources of inspiration. Susan Musgrave, and shape our tastes and identities. They dis- 11:30 am–1:00 pm an award-winning poet and fiction writer, pres- cuss complementarity or antagonism between ents exercises that will improve your writing, no He’s back! Ben McNally, owner of Toronto’s digital and traditional fiction, how their decision matter the genre, to develop the skills that are famous Ben McNally Books and a bookseller for to incorporate digital material has molded their essential, whether your interest lies in poetry, more than 40 years, offers Kingston book lovers stories, and whether the internet has altered journal writing, plays, novels, or imaginative per- his famous “Preview Picks”—personal tips on what readers expect from novels. The Digital World sonal essays. Susan helps you explore what it the best new books of the season from publish- Sponsored by HarperCollins Canada means as a poet, a novelist, a writer of creative non-fiction, to bring imagination, experience, and even material, from one genre to another. Ian Hamilton offsite event writers studio food event kids on saturday event

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Macdonald Room to submit a piece for assessment to attend the 4:30–6:30 pm Chris Turner is one of Canada’s leading writ- class. Limited enrolment ers and speakers on sustainability and the Writing the book is only the first challenge. global green economy. He has covered such Adria Iwasutiak, Publicity Manager at Random Heroines: Women in Verse hot-button beats as the rise of digital technol- #25 House of Canada, will teach effective marketing Susan Musgrave, Sandy Pool ogy in Southeast Asia and the climate crisis strategies to help you promote your work, build Moderated by Phil Hall in the world’s oceans. In this talk, based on readership, and increase publicity opportunities. Readings & Conversation his latest collection of essays, How to Breathe Using anecdotal examples, she will map out the n Bellevue Ballroom Underwater: Field Reports from an Age of tools that will help you outshine the competition: 2:30–3:30 pm Radical Change, Chris shares his observa- building a strong online presence, designing Trevor Herriot tions on how business is responding to global Award-winning poet Susan Musgrave, author of powerful press kits, and generating buzz. changes in climate, politics, and the economy. Origami Dove, and Governor General’s Award If you are an emerging, newly published, or self- Kim Thúy (Mãn), a Governor General’s Award- Sponsored by St. Lawrence College and the nominee Sandy Pool, author of Undark: An published writer looking to participate actively winning author, has mastered the art of stimu- St. Lawrence College Student Association, Oratorio, give women their due as they read in the promotion of your work, this workshop is lating the reader’s senses of sight, smell, and Kingston Campus from their own work and talk with Governor essential. Limited enrolment taste, and delivering succulent and indelible General’s Award-winning poet Phil Hall about images of food, its raw ingredients, preparation, Writing the First Page woman as unsung hero, worker, sufferer, lover, Kingston Dinner Club #24 #28 presentation, and rituals. In this workshop, Kim Kim Moritsugu street walker, and prevailer over adversity. They Kim Moritsugu gives writers her top tips on how to write about Writers Studio talk about giving voice to the silent women of Solo Presentation–Food Event food in a way that appeals to all the senses and n Sir John A. Macdonald Room the past and the present, women either cel- n Islandview Room evokes an emotional response from the reader. 2:00–4:00 pm ebrated or anonymous, and how they redeem 5:30–7:00 pm Perfect for aspiring food bloggers and writer/ them through “the act of poetry.” The opening page of your story, novel, or cre- Kim Moritsugu reads from her novel The chefs. Limited enrolment The Heroic Redefined ative non-fiction work is the most important Oakdale Dinner Club, an “irreverent comedy page you write. Join novelist, creative writing of suburban manners about food, infidelity, The Wild Within and Without A Singular Occurrence: #30 instructor, and seasoned first-page assessor #26 and telepathy,” and dishes on the book, her Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Gothic Fiction blog, The Hungry Novelist, dinner clubs, and Trevor Herriot, James Raffan Eric McCormack with Alberto Manguel all things food. Moritsugu has collaborated with with SARAH HARMER Reading & Conversation our Festival chef to bring you an enticing menu, Readings & Conversation n Bellevue Ballroom perfect to serve at any dinner club and sure to n Bellevue Ballroom 4:00–5:00 pm be a conversation starter. Come with a friend or 7:30–9:00 pm A Governor General’s Award nominee, author two, or come alone and meet new people! Ticket Musician and environmental advocate Sarah Eric McCormack is a master of the macabre and price includes dinner. Cash bar. Harmer chats with James Raffan (Circling the a “cracking good teller of tales,” according to Midnight Sun), who reports on the impact The Globe and Mail. International man of letters Writing Culinary Delight #29 of climate change on polar communities; Alberto Manguel talks with Eric about his newest Kim Thúy Saskatchewan naturalist Trevor Herriot, whose novel, Cloud, a darkly imagined and atmospheric Writers Studio Sandy Pool book The Road Is How: A Prairie Pilgrimage story set in Scotland, about the nature of love in n Sir John A. Macdonald Room through Nature, Desire and Soul explores 7:00–9:00 pm the individual’s role in the degradation of offsite event writers studio food event kids on saturday event Food can be a medium for artistic expression, the natural landscape and the possibility for evoking memory, emotion, time, and place. redemption; and renegade scientist Diana

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Beresford-Kroeger, who reveals a path toward Vietnam, another, a nun who takes on her care, number of Canadians remember Canada at war, better stewardship of the natural world in The and her beloved Maman) adapts, survives, and yet our present and future are shaped by it, Sweetness of a Simple Life: Tips for Healthier, finds love.Canada Made Me indelibly marked by our nation’s armed conflicts Happier and Kinder Living Gleaned from the and the space/time in between. In this cente- Wisdom and Science of Nature. Planet Earth #34 Write Vivid Description nary year of WWI and 75th anniversary of WWII, Shani Mootoo the writers discuss war and peace from the Writers Studio perspective of the individual. Moderated by Jan SATURDAY, September 27 n Sir John A. Macdonald Room Walter. Canada: War, Peace, and Politics 11:30 am–1:30 pm Memoir: Families, Then and Now FREE Chasing Shadows: #31 Filmmaker, visual artist, and writer Shani #36 Plum Johnson, Lynn Thomson Paper Theatre Mootoo (Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab) Moderated by Iain Reid Elly MacKay deals in the visual. In this master class, she Readings & Conversation Solo Presentation—Kids on Saturday offers pointers on how to conjure up landscapes n Islandview Room n Wilson Room, Kingston Frontenac Kim Thúy al ma s l ow and images that are vivid, vibrant, and indelible. 9:00–10:00 am r a f Public Library, Central Whether describing a brilliant tropical landscape 1:00–1:45 pm Families, their quirks and foibles, permeate or a muted northern winterscape, prose that is Kim Thúy: en français memoir. Plum Johnson’s timely They Left Us #33 fluent, supple, and not afraid to take risks offers Artist and author Elly MacKay reads from her Kim Thúy Everything recounts the joys and frustrations the best chance of transporting the reader. book Shadow Chasers and shows how she Solo presentation n Bellevue Ballroom of having to deal first with her aged and eccen- Shani will show you how to bend and shape makes paper theatre scenes for a small-scale 10:30–11:30 am tric parents and then with the emotional and your prose and how to choose the fine details stage using layers of cut-out drawings on paper physical baggage they leave behind. Lynn Mãn, le roman tout en délicatesse de Kim Thúy, that create descriptions which come alive. and a light source, then photographs the scene Thomson’s memoir Birding with Yeats explores nous parle de transplantation, d’adaptation, Limited enrolment to make a page for one of her books. Kids will the delicate and precious parent-child relation- d’amour sous toutes ses formes, de change- create their own shadow puppets, and Elly will ship from both angles: that of mother to son ment, et de culture. Ce nouveau roman fait suite #35 From War to War do an interactive “making of a scene,” which Yeats, and as daughter to her own parents, à son premier livre, Ru, qui a été nominé pour Ted Barris, Frances Itani, the kids can watch as it is happening. Elly’s and addresses the challenges of the blended le prix Giller et a obtenu le prix du Gouverneur Leo Brent Robillard books inspire and amaze, nurturing the imagi- family and the almost empty nest. Moderated général. C’est un récit d’une beauté poétique Moderated by Jan Walter nations of child and parent alike. Activities and by local memoirist Iain Reid. et une réflexion émouvante sur les liens inextri- Readings & Conversation n Bellevue Ballroom crafts follow. Sponsored by CIBC Wood Gundy cables entre l’amour et la nourriture. Kim nous 12:00–1:30 pm and Simpatico Song & Script What an Agent Wants parle, en français, du roman et de comment #32 Historian Ted Barris (The Great Escape: A Samantha Haywood Mãn, une immigrante qui a trois mères (une qui The Things We Leave Behind Canadian Story; Juno; Victory at Vimy) talks #37 Writers Studio lui a donné naissance au Vietnam pendant la Aislinn Hunter with Merilyn Simonds about Canadians at war, and retells one of the n Sir John A. Macdonald Room guerre, une autre, une religieuse qui en prend Reading & Conversation most astonishing episodes in WWII through 9:00–11:00 am soin, et sa Maman bien-aimée) s’adapte, survit, n Islandview Room the eyes of those who experienced it. Novelists et trouve l’amour. Canada Made Me 1:30–2:30 pm Samantha Haywood has over 15 years’ experi- Frances Itani (Deafening, Tell), and Leo Brent ence as a literary agent, establishing careers Kim Thúy’s Mãn is a delicate novel about trans- Robillard (Drift) explore how the personal is Aislinn Hunter is an award-winning poet, novel- and breaking out great new voices, and repre- plantation, adaptation, love in all its forms, revealed in war and its aftermath. A dwindling ist, and lyric essayist—a curious mind obsessed sents writers like Shauna Singh Baldwin, Paula change, and culture. Following on her Giller with the “thingness” of the material world. In Todd, Dave Bidini, and Catherine Bush, among Prize-nominated and Governor General’s Award- Elly MacKay The World Before Us, she presents the haunt- others. Samantha talks frankly about what she winning first book Ru, it is a story of poetic ing story of teen Jane Standen, who loses the looks for in a manuscript and a writer and how a beauty and a moving meditation on how love child she was hired to mind. As an adult, Jane writer can improve his or her chances of repre- and food are inextricably entwined. Join Kim becomes a museum curator, obsessed with sentation. She also talks about the qualities of a as she speaks, en français, about the novel, missing persons, especially a woman who disap- good agent and how to determine if an agent is and about how Mãn, an immigrant with three peared from a Victorian asylum a century before. right for you. Limited enrolment mothers (one who gives birth to her in wartime Here, as in all her work, Aislinn explores the repercussions of small acts and the irrepress- ible vitality of everyday objects and events. Join offsite event writers studio food event kids on saturday event Aislinn in conversation with Merilyn Simonds.

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COMMON GROUND “How do we write short fiction?” they focus on Themes for 2014 how they open the window and describe the #43 The Big Idea: Planet Earth: Events 3, 5, 12, 30 light that window sheds on the world. The State of the Nation Events 4, 8, 10, 22 The Digital World: Michael MacMillan, Brent Rathgeber, The Heroic Redefined: Events 25, 44, 52, 55, 56 FREE #40 The Rules of Survival Chris Turner with Carol OFF Memories of Kingston Pen: Events 11, 13 Eric Walters Onstage Conversation Canada Made Me: Events 15, 33, 41 Solo Presentation—Kids on Saturday n Islandview Room Canada: War, Peace and n Wilson Room, Kingston Frontenac 7:00–8:30 pm Politics: Events 35, 43 Public Library, Central Carol Off leads a penetrating discussion See page 21 3:00–4:00 pm for details on the state of our nation with Chris Turner Bestselling author Eric Walters’ The Rule of (The War on Science: Muzzled Science and Three starts with a simple premise “What if one Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper’s Canada), day modern technology stopped working?” and Michael MacMillan, co-author of Tragedy in SATURDAY, September 27 becomes a gripping survival tale. Humans can the Commons: Former Members of Parliament last three minutes without air, three days without Cecil Foster Speak Out About Canada’s Failing Democracy, #38 Writing Living Memory water, three weeks without food. A community and Independent MP Brent Rathgeber Robert McGill begins to die in seconds. For 16-year-old Adam, from Barbados. Both award-winners now live in (Irresponsible Government: The Decline Writers Studio a typical electrical outage becomes a global Canada. With moderator Wayne Grady, they dis- of Parliamentary Democracy in Canada). n Sir John. A. Macdonald Room crash so catastrophic that human survival is in cuss how they keep alive the sights and sounds They will frame a report card on the health 2:00–4:00 pm question. Is apocalypse coming, and can we of warm beginnings when home is now a cold of Canada’s democracy, the effectiveness weather the fallout? Eric talks about his vision country; what to bring with you, what to cast of its leadership, and the performance of its Writing about events in the recent past, whether of a dystopian near-future and how communi- off, and how to replace it. Together, they explore citizens. Come and voice your opinion. public or personal, presents challenges along ties might survive. Sponsored by CIBC Wood the importance to the writer of the landscape of Canada: War, Peace, and Politics with opportunities. Robert McGill, novelist and Gundy and Simpatico Song & Script. their birth and reveal the techniques they use to Sponsored by The Walrus Magazine creative writing teacher at the University of evoke that landscape in their writing. Toronto, shows you how to write about events Identity: Either/Or/Neither Canada Made Me Writing to Change from living memory in ways that are provocative #41 #44 Cecil Foster, Shani Mootoo the World: The Power of Poetics yet responsible. How do you tell fresh stories Moderated by Wayne Grady How to Write Brad Cran about material that’s familiar to your audience? #42 Readings & Conversation a Killer Book Proposal Writers Studio What about the people who see themselves in n Islandview Room Merilyn Simonds n Sir John A. Macdonald Room your work? The class will include discussion 4:30–5:30 pm Writers Studio 7:00–9:00 pm and a “spark” writing exercise to help guide n Sir John A. Macdonald Room the conversation. Limited enrolment Shani Mootoo, (Moving Forward Sideways Brad Cran leads an exploration of the role of the 4:30–6:30 pm Like a Crab) was born in Ireland and raised writer in society and shows how that role can #39 Tiny Windows: in Trinidad. Cecil Foster (Independence) hails You’ve written a great book; now, how do you be leveraged to create positive social change. The View from the Short Story get that editor or agent to read it? This class He discusses the ethics of social justice writ- Frances Itani, Kathy Page, Adam Wilson takes you through the primary elements of a ing, how to use humour as a way to counter Readings & Conversation successful book submission: the covering let- ignorance and authority, and how to transcend n Bellevue Ballroom ter, the synopsis (and chapter outline, for non- a “writing career” by understanding your true 3:00–4:00 pm fiction), the author bio and marketing strategy, relationship to your writing life. Encouraging and the sample manuscript. By the end, you’ll discussion and interaction throughout, Brad, Neil Gaiman writes, “Short stories are tiny be able to pitch your book in 25 words or less. former Poet Laureate of Vancouver, will use his windows into other worlds and other minds You’ll also learn the inner workings of the pub- own political writings to illustrate what works, and other dreams. They are journeys you can lishing industry and how to find the perfect edi- what doesn’t, and why. The Heroic Redefined make to the far side of the universe and still be tor or agent for your work. Limited enrolment Limited enrolment back in time for dinner.” Award-winning writer Frances Itani leads a discussion with Kathy Page (Paradise & Elsewhere) and Adam Wilson (What’s Important Is Feeling) about the journey offsite event writers studio food event kids on saturday event Eric Walters and the view. Starting with the central question, sofi a kin ac ht c houk

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the questions: When does dialogue work best? The Helping Impulse SATURDAY, September 27 #49 How much is too much? How does dialogue dif- Brad Cran, Eric Walters fer from actual speech? She offers examples of Moderated by Lawrence Scanlan FREE By the Book: dynamic dialogue and rules of thumb for using #45 Readings & Conversation Stories and Pictures dialogue to move the story forward and reveal n Islandview Room Diane Schoemperlen character. In-class writing exercises help you 10:00–11:00 am Book Launch hosted by Biblioasis learn to write convincing dialogue with effective n Studio 22, 320 King Street East, Altruism, both global and local, thrives in the momentum. Limited enrolment on the Market Square writing community. YA writer Eric Walters is 7:00–8:00 pm passionate about the work of Creation of Hope #52 Heroic Poetry (creationofhope.com), an organization he George Elliott Clarke, Wayne Clifford, Join Governor General’s Award-winning author founded that provides care for orphans in Jeramy Dodds Moderated by Brad Cran Diane Schoemperlen as she reads from her Kenya. Poet and social entrepreneur Brad Readings & Conversation n Islandview Room newest work By the Book: Stories and Pictures, Cran collaborated on a project to collect 1:00–2:00 pm a book of stories illustrated with Diane’s eclectic and publish the personal stories associ- collages. The reading will be followed by a book Steven Galloway Nothing is more heroic or dramatic than the ated with photographs taken by residents signing and refreshments. poetic legacy of ancient mythology, with its sto- lives on the family ostrich farm; Kingston author of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Brad ries of gods, heroes, violence, and love. Bringing Melanie Dugan’s novel Bee Summers is about and Eric talk about the impulse to help with Saturday Night SpeakEasy alive voices long gone and old stories almost #46 Melissa, only 11 when her mom disappears. Lawrence Scanlan, author of A Year of Living nine voices, with jazz forgotten are Wayne Clifford in Theseus, his Both of these sensitive novels are character- Generously: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Hosted by Julie Brown inspired collaboration with late poet bpNichol, driven and feature children as protagonists. Philanthropy. Performance n Bellevue Ballroom based on the Greek myth; Jeramy Dodds, with his With award-winning novelist Heather O’Neill 9:00–11:00 pm muscular translation of the ancient Norse saga, (Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Smoke and Mirrors #50 The Poetic Edda; and Toronto’s poet laureate Join us for a night of stories and poems set Was Saturday Night), the writers talk about the Steven Galloway George Elliott Clarke, with his epic autobio- within the original musical landscape of our return to memories and experiences of child- with Brett Christopher graphical long poem, Traverse. Moderated by house band, jazz combo Trio Without Words, led hood that feed the story, how they access and Reading & Conversation n Bellevue Ballroom Brad Cran, former Poet Laureate of Vancouver. by local saxophone virtuoso Jonathan Stewart give voice to their inner child in the writing of 11:30 am–12:30 pm The Heroic Redefined and backed by bassist Michael Perlin and fiction and put the wisdom of maturity into the Award-winning author Steven Galloway (The drummer Mike Cassells. Lively literary perfor- mouths of babes. Cellist of Sarajevo) pulls a rabbit out of his hat Core Sample: Installation mances by Martha Baillie, George Elliott Clarke, #53 with his new novel The Confabulist, a fictional Art and the Written Word Wayne Clifford, Jeramy Dodds, Steven Galloway, Oration: How To Perform #48 tale about master illusionist and escape art- Martha Baillie Aislinn Hunter, Robert McGill, Kim Thúy, and Your Poems in Public ist Harry Houdini and the man who killed him. Writers Studio/TeensWrite! for adults and teens Miriam Toews. Hosted by local TV personal- Jeramy Dodds The book, hailed as a tour-de-force, keeps the n Sir John A. Macdonald Room ity, CKWS anchor Julie Brown. Cash bar. Doors Writers Studio/TeensWrite! for adults and reader wondering what’s real and what’s illusion. 2:00–3:30 pm open at 8:15 pm. teens n Sir John A. Macdonald Room Steven chats with Brett Christopher, artistic pro- 9:00–11:00 am For author and visual artist Martha Baillie (The ducer of Theatre Kingston, about performance Search for Heinrich Schlögel), books are physi- Public oration is a necessary skill and a revital- art, what made Houdini one of the greatest SUNDAY, September 28 cal entities, writing a process unfolding in time. ized art. Poet and dynamic presenter Jeramy celebrities of his time, and how to make great Thinking spatially allows us to play with time Dodds teaches “Giving Dynamic Readings fiction out of the real life of a famous man. The Voice of the Child more freely in our writing. Students respond #47 101.” He will coach you in choosing the right Melanie Dugan, Tamai Kobayashi in writing to physical objects, thinking spatially piece to read for the event and how to be an Writing Dynamic Dialogue Moderated by Heather O’Neill #51 about tension, movement, balance, and how engaging reader and bring your audience along Kathy Page Readings & Conversation n Bellevue Ballroom these translate into story, provide insight into with you. Pacing, tone, pitch, and volume, plus Writers Studio n Sir John A. Macdonald Room 9:00–10:00 am structure, and show time unfolding in non-linear body language. Perfect for performance poets, 11:30 am–1:30 pm ways. If a hand-held egg beater were your story, Tamai Kobayashi’s debut novel Prairie Ostrich new writers of any genre, or those who feel less Dialogue may seem simple to write, but it is what makes the two central characters spin? features eight-year-old Egg Murakami, who than skilled as presenters. Limited enrolment frequently the weakest part of a manuscript. A conflict? An event? Whose hand turns the Kathy Page, award-winning writer, creative crank? Martha shows how to listen to your mate- offsite event writers studio food event kids on saturday event writing instructor, and freelance editor answers rials and take risks. Limited enrolment

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ing crowds but also the demons of despair. Travelling far from Rankin Inlet and the culture that shaped him, Tootoo, the first player of Inuk Common Ground descent in the NHL, faced unique pressures Event themes for 2014 in the competitive world of pro hockey. Brunt Kingston’s Readers and Writers Festival is delighted to offer a talks with local writer and hockey buff Steven wide variety of programming this year, with something for everyone. Heighton about the sport, how Brunt came to write this important hockey biography, and his Themed events help you customize your own unique Festival experience. Choose the following events to ensure you do not miss experience of learning about Jordin’s life: the these areas of interest. highs, the lows, and the ultimate triumph of this survivor. The Heroic Redefined Planet Earth #52 Heroic Poetry with Wilderness, nature, and George Elliott Clarke, Wayne #56 Writing the Female Hero sustainability Clifford, and Jeramy Dodds Lesley Livingston Sponsored by the Community #55 Inuk on Ice: Jordan Tootoo Foundation for Kingston & Area Writers Studio/TeensWrite! for adults and teens with Stephen Brunt and Steven Heighton n Sir John A. Macdonald Room #3 Sustainable Future Jordin Tootoo and Stephen Brunt with Chris Turner 4:00–5:30 pm #56 Writing the Female Hero #5 The Future of Food: with Lesley Livingston SUNDAY, September 28 Lesley Livingston is the author of Wondrous Urban Agriculture Strange and Darklight, the Once Every Never with Jennifer Cockrall-King Memories of trilogy and the Starling trilogy, and is a self- Sisters and Brothers #12 Writing a Kingston Pen #54 professed Celtic mythology geek. In this More-Than-Human World Writing in and out of prison Heather O’Neill, Miriam Toews workshop, Lesley shows writers how to create with Trevor Herriot #11 Caged Pens with Readings & Conversation a strong female protagonist, using tools like #30 The Wild Within and Wally Lamb, Susan Musgrave, n Bellevue Ballroom and Stephen Reid mythology, folklore, past civilizations, stories Without with Diana Beresford- 2:30–3:30 pm of the Otherworld, faeries, and literature from Kroeger, Trevor Herriot, and #13 Memories of Kingston Pen James Raffan with Geoffrey James Miriam Toews’ newest book, All My Puny Shakespeare to tales of King Arthur. With Lesley and Stephen Reid Sorrows, is a semi-autobiographical novel about guiding you, this is a chance to channel your The Digital World the relationship between sisters who are very own inner heroine and craft a magical story in The perils and pleasures Canada Made Me different from one another. Heather O’Neill is which she can display her awesome powers. of connectedness Canadian authors living author of The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, The Heroic RedefinedLimited enrolment #4 Status Updates or what abroad; foreign writers who about twins—a brother and sister—and their Should I Do With My Life? choose Canada as home very public fall from grace. Two of Canada’s hot- #57 Robertson Davies Lecture with Guillaume Morissette #15 Canada made me test fiction writers read from their novels and Wayson Choy and Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang with Eleanor Catton, Nancy Lee, talk about siblings—what binds them together Solo Presentation n Bellevue Ballroom #8 Extreme Mean: Cyberabuse and Kate Pullinger and what tears them apart—and how both 7:00–8:00 pm with Paula Todd #33 Kim Thúy: en français writers use humour to leaven their charac- # Writing the internet (French-language event) Wayson Choy presents the second Robertson 10 ters’ anguish in trying to solve family problems, novel with Kate Pullinger # Identity: Either/Or/ Davies Lecture, created in 2013 in celebra- 41 fix what’s broken, or save loved ones from # Posts On The Wall Neither with Cecil Foster tion of Kingston WritersFest’s fifth birthday and 22 themselves. of Life with Charles Foran and Shani Mootoo to honour the 100th anniversary of the birth and Kate Pullinger of Robertson Davies, who spent his youth in Inuk on Ice: Jordin Tootoo Canada: War, #55 Kingston and published his first work here. Stephen Brunt The Heroic Peace, and Politics Wayson, a “believer in signs,” is the author of Moderated by Steven Heighton Redefined #35 From War to War the beloved novel The Jade Peony, a teacher at with Ted Barris, Frances Itani, Onstage Conversation n Islandview Room #25 Heroines: Women in Verse Humber School for Writers, and a member of with Susan Musgrave and Leo Brent Robillard 4:00–5:00 pm the Order of Canada. He will speak about life, and Sandy Pool #43 THe Big Idea: In Stephen Brunt’s compelling biography All the death, and ghosts in response to the statement: #44 Writing To Change the The State of the Nation Way, hockey great Jordin Tootoo tells his story, “Everything matters,” a quotation from Davies’ World: The Power of Poetics with Michael MacMillan, Brent Rathgeber, Chris Turner, as someone who has known glory and cheer- The Rebel Angels. Reception follows. with Brad Cran and Carol Off

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Kingston writers Stephen Naish, Iain Reid, and KFPL Writer in Residence Patricia Robertson chose a short-list and British Columbia author Nancy Lee acted as final judge. Prizes—a Kindle Paperwhite and cash—are awarded during the International Marquee at the Grand Theatre on September 24. Read all four finalists’ work on our website www.kingstonwritersfest.ca/ kids&teens. te kristi a nsen; s c u lp ture: fe d eri o uri b e Congratulations to our 2014 finalists, below, from left to right: Taylor Harvey,

p hotos: k a Zackary Milligan, Michaela Moritz, and Virginia Weese.

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Amazon, the Amazon logo and Kindle are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Authors@School Kingston WritersFest brings some of Canada’s best children’s writers to Kingston and area elementary schools to share stories with students and demonstrate the power of words to inspire and delight.

This year, Christine Baldacchino, Deborah Ellis, Y.S. Lee, Elly MacKay, and Eric Walters visit 10 schools on Wednesday, September 24, and Monday, September 29. For more information Sponsored by Empire Life visit http://kingstonwritersfest.ca/authors-at-school.php and The McLean Foundation.

22 • kingston writersfest 2014 kingstonwritersfest.ca kingstonwritersfest.ca kingston writersfest 2014 • 23 youth TICKETS TICKETS $5.00 | $8.00 onsite TeensWrite! Master Classes $10.00 | $14.00 onsite High school students Students 14–19 years Youth Events Where teens get tips from the pros— and accompanying Enrolment limited adults and meet new friends who love writing too! Festival Field Trips KingstonWritersFest opens the world to students through a day of events THURSDAY, September 25 SUNDAY, September 28 designed to bring to life ideas discussed in the classroom. The lineup includes nationally and internationally renowned authors chosen for their compelling #6 Write Who You Are #48 Oration: How To Perform subjects and their ability to connect with teenagers as well as adults. with Maggie de Vries Your Poems in Public 11:00 am–12:15 pm with Jeramy Dodds For details, see Events in this program, or visit https://www.kingstonwritersfest.ca/kids-and-teens.php 9:00–11:00 am #7 Shooting the Photo Essay THURSDAY, September 25 with Geoffrey James #53 Core Sample: Installation #5 The Future of Food: 12:30–1:45 pm Art and the Written Word Urban Agriculture 11:00 am–12:00 pm Dangerous Acts 9:30–10:30 am with Martha Baillie #2 with Jennifer Cockrall-King. with Maggie de Vries, Deborah Ellis, and Nancy Lee. 2:00–3:30 pm A global review of the urban agriculture Three novelists talk about actions and TEENSWRITE! MASTER CLASSES Sponsored by movement. consequences. #56 Writing the Female Hero with Lesley Livingston Extreme Mean: Cyberabuse Sustainable Future 9:30–10:30 am #8 4:00–5:30 pm #3 1:00–2:00 pm with Chris Turner. with Paula Todd. Meeting the challenges of sustainability with How to protect yourself from cyberbullying. innovation. Kids on Saturday FREE Author! Author! 1:00–2:00 pm Status Updates OR What Should #9 Festival fun for kids! Join us at for everyone! #4 with Eleanor Catton, youngest winner of the I Do With My Life? 11:00 am–12:00 pm Kingston Frontenac Public Library, Booker Prize, in conversation with Charles NEW LOCATION! with Guillaume Morissette and Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang. 130 Johnson Street, for brilliant bookish Foran about her two novels. NEW DAY! The difficulty of finding your way in the 21st activities and meet our featured authors. century. Free tickets for children, parents, and friends are Sponsored by TD Canada Trust, with support from the Limestone District School Board and available at the library an hour before the event. the Algonquin & Lakeshore Catholic District School Board Children must be accompanied by an adult. more for teens SATURDAY, September 27 New this year: Student prices for selected events on Sunday! #36 Chasing Shadows: Paper Theatre 1:00–1:45 pm Elly MacKay presents her new book, Shadow SUNDAY, September 28 #52 Heroic Poetry 1:00–2:00 pm Chasers, and shows her unique storytelling style. Ages 4–8. Readings & Conversation with George Elliott #49 The Helping Impulse Clarke, Wayne Clifford and Jeramy Dodds. activities and book SWAP 10:00–11:00 am 1:45 pm, right after Elly McKay. Readings & Conversation #54 Sisters and Brothers Bookish activities and crafts; with Brad Cran and Eric Walters. 2:30–3:30 pm Readings & Conversation bring a book to swap! with Heather O’Neill and Miriam Toews. #50 Smoke and Mirrors #40 The Rules of Survival 11:30 am–12:30 pm Inuk on Ice: Jordin Tootoo 3:00–4:00 pm Eric Walter reads from and Sponsored by CIBC Wood Gundy #55 and Simpatico Song & Script. Reading & Conversation 4:00–5:00 pm Onstage Conversation talks about his new book, The Rule of Three. Presented in partnership with with Steven Galloway. with Stephen Brunt and Steven Heighton. There will be time for questions and Kingston Frontenac Public Library and The Friends of KFPL. answers too. Ages 8+

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014 #1 International Marquee Festival kicks off with International Marquee at 8 pm Wally Lamb with Michael Enright Grand Theatre, Regina Rosen Auditorium • Student Writing Awards Presentation

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thursday, September 25, 2014 #2 Dangerous Acts #4 Status Updates #7 Shooting the Photo #10 Writing the Internet Novel #12 Writing a More-than-Human World #14 The Perfect Brew Maggie de Vries, Deborah Guillaume Morissette, Essay Geoffrey James TeensWrite! Kate Pullinger Trevor Herriot Ian Coutts Ellis, Nancy Lee Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang master class, Limited enrolment Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment Cash bar—Doors open at 8:15 pm Find #3 Sustainable #5 The Future of Food: #8 Extreme Mean: #11 Caged Pens #13 Memories of #15 Canada Made Me Future Urban Agriculture Cyberabuse Wally Lamb, Susan Musgrave, Stephen Reid Kingston Pen Geoffrey Eleanor Catton, Nancy Lee, Kate Pullinger Common Ground Customize your Chris Turner Jennifer Cockrall-King Paula Todd with Eric Friesen James with Stephen Reid with Jared Bland Festival experience! See page 21 for a list of events #6 Write Who You Are #9 Author! Author! #16 Writing Historical Fiction: A Guided that share common themes, Maggie de Vries TeensWrite! Eleanor Catton Hallucination Roberta Rich and to make sure you master class, Limited enrolment with Charles Foran Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment catch your areas of interest. 9-9:30 am 9:30-10 am 10-10:30 am 10:30-11 am 11-11:30 am 11:30-12 pm 12-12:30 pm 12:30-1 pm 1-1:30 pm 1:30-2 pm 2-2:30 pm 2:30-3 pm 3-3:30 pm 3:30-4 pm 4-4:30 pm 4:30-5 pm 5-5:30 pm 5:30-6 pm 6-6:30 pm 6:30-7 pm 7-7:30 pm 7:30-8 pm 8-8:30 pm 8:30-9 pm 9-9:30 pm 9:30-10 pm 10-10:30 pm 10:30-11 pm FRiday, September 26, 2014 #17 Organized #19 #20 Book Lovers’ Lunch #22 Posts on #24 Writing the First Page #26 A Singular #28 Kingston Dinner Club #29 Writing Culinary Delight Corruption: The World Birthing the Past Ben McNally the Wall of Life Kim Moritsugu Occurrence: Gothic Kim Moritsugu Kim Thúy Ficton Eric McCormack of Ava Lee Ian Hamilton Roberta Rich Cash bar Charles Foran, Kate Pullinger Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment Cash bar Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment with Alberto Manguel #18 Writing Without Borders #21 Grant Writing 101 #23 Business in an #25 Heroines: Women #27 Book Marketing Strategies #30 The Wild Within and Without Susan Musgrave Jack Illingworth Age of Radical Change in Verse Susan Musgrave, Adria Iwasutiak Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Trevor Herriot, Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment—FREE Event Chris Turner Sandy Pool with Phil Hall Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment James Raffan with Sarah Harmer 9-9:30 am 9:30-10 am 10-10:30 am 10:30-11 am 11-11:30 am 11:30-12 pm 12-12:30 pm 12:30-1 pm 1-1:30 pm 1:30-2 pm 2-2:30 pm 2:30-3 pm 3-3:30 pm 3:30-4 pm 4-4:30 pm 4:30-5 pm 5-5:30 pm 5:30-6 pm 6-6:30 pm 6:30-7 pm 7-7:30 pm 7:30-8 pm 8-8:30 pm 8:30-9 pm 9-9:30 pm 9:30-10 pm 10-10:30 pm 10:30-11 pm saturday, September 27, 2014

al ; #31 Memoir: #33 Kim Thúy: #34 Write Vivid Description #37 The Things We #39 Tiny Windows: #41 Identity: Either/ #43 The Big Idea: The State #46 Saturday Night Speakeasy Families, Then and Now en français Shani Mootoo Leave behind Aislinn The View from the Or/Neither Cecil Foster, of the Nation Michael MacMillan, Nine Voices, with Jazz Hosted by Julie Brown Plum Johnson, Short Story Frances Itani, Kim Thúy Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment Hunter with Merilyn Simonds Shani Mootoo with Wayne Grady Brent Rathgeber, Chris Turner with Carol Off Cash Bar—Doors open at 8:15 pm Lynn Thomson with Iain Reid Kathy Page, Adam Wilson #32 What an Agent Wants #35 From War to War #38 Writing Living Memory #42 How to Write a Killer Book Proposal #44 Writing to Change the World: yson C h oi: M.J. Morris

Samantha Haywood Ted Barris, Frances Itani, Robert McGill Merilyn Simonds The Power of Poetics Brad Cran ma s l ow r a f tto; K i m Th úy:

Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment Leo Brent Robillard with Jan Walter Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment Writers Studio master studio, Limited enrolment a rd; Wa

yw #36 Chasing #40 The Rules #45 By the Book:

Shadows of Survival Stories and Pictures C a tton: R o b ert Elly MacKay Eric Walters Diane Schoemperlen ter h ouse-H a FREE Event FREE Event Book Launch—FREE Event

9-9:30 am 9:30-10 am 10-10:30 am 10:30-11 am 11-11:30 am 11:30-12 pm 12-12:30 pm 12:30-1 pm 1-1:30 pm 1:30-2 pm 2-2:30 pm 2:30-3 pm 3-3:30 pm 3:30-4 pm 4-4:30 pm 4:30-5 pm 5-5:30 pm 5:30-6 pm 6-6:30 pm 6:30-7 pm 7-7:30 pm 7:30-8 pm 8-8:30 pm 8:30-9 pm 9-9:30 pm 9:30-10 pm 10-10:30 pm 10:30-11 pm sunday, September 28, 2014 #47 The Voice of #49 The Helping #50 Smoke and #52 Heroic Poetry #53 Core Sample: Installation #55 Inuk on Ice: #57 Robertson Davies Lecture alb e; Br a d Cr n: A l ex Wa the Child Melanie Dugan, Impulse Mirrors Steven Galloway George Elliott Clarke, Art and the Written Word Jordin Tootoo Wayson Choy e l a nor C university; t h Spa Tamai Kobayashi Brad Cran, Eric Walters Wayne Clifford, Jeramy Dodds Martha Baillie Writers Studio/TeensWrite! Stephen Brunt with Brett Christopher 7:00-8:00 pm, Reception follows with Heather O’Neill with Lawrence Scanlan with Brad Cran master class, Limited enrolment with Steven Heighton #48 Oration: How To Perform Your Poems #51 Writing Dynamic Dialogue #54 Sisters and #56 Writing the Female Hero in Public Jeramy Dodds Kathy Page Brothers Heather O’Neill, Lesley Livingston te Pu ll inger: B a Writers Studio/TeensWrite! master class, Writers Studio/TeensWrite! master class, Limited enrolment Writers Studio master class, Limited enrolment Miriam Toews offsite event writers studio food event kids on saturday event Limited enrolment P h otos: Ka rtin Sch w Sha ni Mootoo: M a rtin LOCATIONS: n ISLANDVIEW room, Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront n Bellevue Ballroom, Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront n Sir John A. Room, Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront n Grand Theatre, Regina Rosen Auditorium n Special Locations: See Events descriptions for more information

Many thanks to the wonderful sponsors who helped make these events happen: Caldwell Wealth & Estate Advisory Ltd., sponsor of Author! Author! | Chris James Kingston, sponsor of Canada Made Me | CIBC Wood Gundy, sponsor of Kids on Saturday | HarperCollins Canada, sponsor of Posts on the Wall of Life King’s Crossing Fashion Centre, sponsor of The Wild Within and Without | Kingston 1000 Islands Cruises, sponsor of The Perfect Brew | Simpatico Song & Script, sponsor of Kids on Saturday 26 • kingston writersfest 2014 St. Lawrence College and the St. Lawrence College Student Association, Kingston Campus, sponsor of Business in an Age of Radical Change | The Walrus Magazine, sponsor of The Big Idea: The State of the Nation International Marquee Wally Lamb Wednesday, September 24, 8:00–9:30 pm

Reading & Conversation Grand Theatre, Regina Rosen Auditorium

Join acclaimed bestselling author Wally Lamb as we kick off the festival!

We Are Water is Wally Lamb’s tor of Couldn’t Keep It to Myself limitations of my own experiences fifth novel and the latest to and I’ll Fly Away, two contro- and better understand the lives enthrall readers around the versial volumes of essays from of others,” Wally says of his writ- world. She’s Come Undone, students in his writing workshop ing and his teaching. Join Wally I Know This Much Is True, at York Correctional Institution, a and veteran broadcaster Michael The Hour I First Believed, and women’s prison in Connecticut, Enright for what promises to be a Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Christmas where he has been a volunteer lively conversation about the writ- Story are among some of the facilitator for 14 years. ing life and real life. best-loved books of the last two “I write fiction so that I can Supported by the Embassy decades. Wally is also the edi- move beyond the boundaries and of the United States of America

Robertson Davies Lecture Wayson Choy Sunday, September 28, 7:00–8:00 pm

Solo Presentation Bellevue Ballroom, Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront rtin tosol a m a rtin

Wayson Choy presents the 2nd Annual Robertson Davies Lecture

Wayson, raised in Vancouver’s Mail bestseller list for six months Order of Canada, a finalist for Chinatown by both his adop- and won the City of Vancouver the Scotiabank Giller Prize, tive parents and his extended Book Award and the Trillium and winner of the 2004 Trillium community, often illuminates Book Award, which he shared Book Award for his third book, the first-generation immigrant with Margaret Atwood. It was a All That Matters. experience in his work. He Canada Reads selection in 2010 This event is followed by the came to national renown with and appears on high school cur- Festival’s closing reception. his first novel, The Jade Peony, ricula across the country. Supported by the George Taylor which was on The Globe and Wayson is a member of the Richardson Memorial Fund kingstonwritersfest.ca kingston writersfest 2014 • 29 Bring your computer or a notebook Writers Studio and your favourite Stitch & Stanza Writers Studio master classes are specially designed writing implement— for writers of all ages and stages of development. and your Inspiration Across Media questions! This collaborative project links members of Kingston Join some of Canada’s most successful writers for inspiring lectures, discussions, Fibre Artists with Canadian poets in an exhibition of and writing exercises that explore particular points of craft—how to write vivid description, related writing and fibre art. how to write dynamic dialogue, how to write about the natural world, and how to write about food. Participating poets and artists were paired at Whether you are a new writer or an established wordsmith, you’ll find tips here to invigorate your prose. random: each received either a picture (poets) or Writers Studio master classes take place in the Sir John A. Macdonald Room on the main floor of the a poem (fibre artists) from one of the participants. Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront. Adult classes are two hours; teen classes are 90 minutes. Enrolment Each produced a piece of work in their own is limited, so book early. medium in response to the piece they were sent. All pieces will be displayed in an exhibition in the THURSDAY, September 25 #29 Writing Culinary #53 Core Sample: Islandview Room, Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront, Delight with Kim Thúy Installation Art and the as part of Kingston WritersFest. The exhibition will #10 Writing the Internet 7:00–9:00 pm Written Word be open daily Thursday, September 25, to Sunday, Novel with Kate Pullinger with Martha Baillie September 28, from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm (when no 2:30–4:30 pm SATURDAY, September 27 2:00–3:30 pm event is scheduled in the room). tt #12 Writing a More- #32 What an Agent Wants #56 Writing the Female Meet-the-Artists Reception: a Than-Human World with Samantha Haywood Hero with Lesley Livingston Saturday, September 27, 11:00 am-12:00 pm. with Trevor Herriot 9:00–11:00 am 4:00–5:30 pm ry e v wy ma ry 5:00–7:00 pm #34 Write Vivid Description #16 Writing Historical with Shani Mootoo Writer’s Retreat Fiction: A Guided 11:30 am–1:30 pm Hallucination Package with Roberta Rich #38 Writing Living Memory Once again we offer 7:30–9:30 pm with Robert McGill a special-value package 2:00–4:00 pm for writers who want to turn FRIDAY, September 26 the Festival into their own personal writing retreat. #42 How to Write #18 Writing a Killer Book Proposal Choose any five Writers Studio Without Borders with Merilyn Simonds master classes and pay only with Susan Musgrave 4:30–6:30 pm $125 plus handling fees. 9:00–11:00 am That’s a saving of $25. Writing to Change the #44 And if you are coming Grant Writing 101 World: The Power of Poetics #21 from out of town, go to with Jack Illingworth with Brad Cran visitKingston.ca to choose 11:30 am–1:30 pm 7:00–9:00 pm a Kingston hotel or historic free event inn where you can write, SUNDAY, September 28 away from your usual #24 Writing the First Page routines. with Kim Moritsugu #48 Oration: How To 2:00–4:00 pm Perform Your Poems in Writer’s Retreat Package is available in advance from Public with Jeramy Dodds the Grand Theatre Box #27 Book Marketing 9:00–11:00 am Strategies Office only, by phone, in person, or online. Not sold with Adria Iwasutiak Writing Dynamic #51 onsite during the Festival. 4:30–6:30 pm Dialogue with Kathy Page 11:30 am–1:30 pm

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Stephen Brunt presents All the Way, a biogra- phy cowritten with hockey great Jordin Tootoo. An award-winning journalist, Stephen is also author of Gretzky’s Tears, Facing Ali, and the #1 national bestselling Searching for Bobby Orr. Event 55

Eleanor Catton won the Booker Prize and Governor General’s award for her second book, Martha Baillie The Luminaries, an intricate pseudo-Victorian novel that is at the same time a page-turner. Martha Baillie, author of The Search for Heinrich Eleanor was born in London, Ontario, and raised Schlögel, is a visual artist, an actor, and a best- in New Zealand. Events 9, 15 selling writer of fiction and non-fiction who is Author Patron: Frontenac Club Inn interested in the physical and temporal reality of books as a place for exploration and expansion. Wayson Choy was raised in Vancouver’s Chinatown Events 46, 53 and charms with his personal and personable Author Patron: Betty-Anne Howard writing style. He came to national renown with his first novel, The Jade Peony, a Globe and Mail Christine Baldacchino is a graphic artist and web bestseller for six months and winner of the City designer with a background in early childhood of Vancouver Book Award and the Trillium Book education whose first children’s book, Morris Award. Event 57 Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, received Author Patron: Patricia MacKay a Quill & Quire starred review. Charmingly and sensitively told, it is about an imaginative little George Elliott Clarke Toronto’s fourth poet laure- boy who learns not to be afraid to be different. ate is also a teacher, an acclaimed playwright, Authors@School and a novelist. His many honours include the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Dr. TEd Barris is the author of The Great Escape: A Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award, and Canadian Story, winner of the 2014 Libris Best the Trudeau Fellow Prize. He brings us Traverse, Non-Fiction Book Award. A well-known author his autobiographical epic poem. Events 46, 52 and journalist, Ted writes the Barris Beat and Author Patron: Queen’s University Department has authored 16 non-fiction books, including of English Juno: Canadians at D-Day. He also teaches journalism at Centennial College. Event 35 Author Patron: Brian Osborne

Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a self-described “ren- egade scientist” who uses ethnobotany, horti- culture, spirituality, and alternative medicine to reveal a path toward better stewardship of the natural world, presents her new collection of essays, The Sweetness of a Simple Life: Tips for Healthier, Happier and Kinder Living Gleaned a from the Wisdom and Science of Nature. George Elliott Clarke

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Wayne Clifford is the author of more than Downtown Eastside (with Gillian Jerome) won Loss, based on the true story of the disappear- Deborah Ellis is the author of the international a dozen poetry books and chapbooks. His the City of Vancouver Book Award and raised ance of the author’s sister, Sarah. Her new novel bestsellerThe Breadwinner. Her book Looks Like groundbreaking sonnet sequence, The Exile’s more than $60,000 for marginalized people. Rabbit Ears is a brave and unflinching explora- Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids, interviews Papers, is currently three volumes. He col- His newest poetry collection is Ink on Paper. tion of the life of a lost and vulnerable young with Aboriginal and Native American youth, won laborated with the late bpNichol on his current Events 44, 49, 52 woman. Events, 2, 6 the 2013 Aesop Prize. Now, Deborah brings us poetry collection, Theseus. Also an amateur Author Patron: Joanne Page Moon at Nine, set in 1980s Iran, and The Cat at Jeramy Dodds brings us one of this year’s most musician and artist, Wayne taught writing and the Wall, about a girl and a cat on Israel’s West Ian Coutts He writes, he brews, he writes about anticipated poetry works—The Poetic Edda—a fine arts in Kingston for 35 years. Events 46, 52 Bank. Event 2 Authors@School brewing. Ian is Kingston author of The Perfect translation of an anonymously written Icelandic Jennifer Cockrall-King is a food-culture writer and Keg: Sowing, Scything, Malting and Brewing epic from Old Norse to English. Jeramy is Charles Foran, author of 11 books, alternates urban-agriculture expert. She is the author of My Way to the Best-Ever Pint of Beer, about his known for the technical agility and restless between fiction and non-fiction, including an Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and The adventures and misadventures in creating the inventiveness of his original poetry. award-winning biography of Mordecai Richler. New Food Revolution. She is also the founder perfect beer from absolute scratch. Previous Events 46, 48, 52 But his first love? Fiction, which “summons that and organizer of the Okanagan Food & Wine books include the illustrated Brew North: How slightly more mysterious and deeper thing, the Melanie Dugan’s latest book, Bee Summers, is Writers’ Workshop in Kelowna. She writes, Canadians Made Beer and Beer Made Canada. creative side.” Planet Lolita, his new novel, is “a coming-of-age novel that buzzes with intel- “Yes, it’s as much fun as it sounds.” Event 5 Event 14 a riveting novel of desires and consequences. ligence and a deep understanding of human Author Patron: Waterfall Tea Room Events 9, 22 Brad Cran, social entrepreneur, activist, and nature,” according to Merilyn Simonds. It’s the poet, served for two years as Poet Laureate for Maggie de Vries is author of 10 award-winning story of 11-year-old Melissa Singer, who strug- Cecil Foster’s Independence is the moving story the City of Vancouver. His Hope in Shadows: books, including picture books, juvenile novels, gles to unlock the secret of her mother’s disap- of the coming of age of a country—and a boy— Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s teen novels, and Missing Sarah: A Memoir of pearance and cope with her loss. Event 47 at the time of Barbados’ split from Britain. Cecil We are pleased to sponsor the Kids on Saturday program

CIBC Children’s Foundation

CIBC Wood Gundy is a division of CIBC World Markets Inc., a subsidiary of CIBC and a Member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada. profiles

Pilgrimage Through Nature, Desire, and Soul. Events 12, 30 Author Patron: Quarry Medical Pharmacy

Aislinn Hunter is the acclaimed author of six books. Stay, her debut novel, was short-listed for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and made into a feature film starring Taylor Schilling and Aidan Quinn. Her new novel is The World Before Us. Events 37, 46 Author Patron: Moe Johnson, The Johnson, Aislinn Hunter Johnston and Macrae Investment Group Gl enn H unter Jack Illingworth is Literary Officer for the Ontario has been a reporter, magazine writer, and radio Arts Council. He previously served as Executive and television journalist, and has published Director of the Literary Press Group of Canada, non-fiction and fiction.Event 41 and began his career at the Porcupine’s Quill, a Author Patron: Curry Original Restaurant literary press. Jack says, “I joined the publishing Steven Galloway’s bestselling The Cellist of world, and then the funding world, as a fan…I go Sarajevo propelled him to international atten- to work to help foster a world where everyone tion. This year, Steven presents The Confabulist, has access to art that spins their head around.” a beautiful, suspense-filled novel devoted to the Event 21 life and sudden death of Harry Houdini. Steven Frances Itani has published 16 critically acclaimed is Associate Professor and Acting Chair of and bestselling books, including Remembering UBC’s Creative Writing Program. Events 46, 50 the Bones and Requiem. Her first novel, Author Patron: Blurred Words Book Club Deafening, has been optioned for film, trans- Ian Hamilton’s first book to feature Ava Lee, lated in 17 countries, and won a Commonwealth The Water Rat of Wanchai, won the Arthur Award. Now, she brings us Tell, the eagerly Ellis Award for best first novel and was one of awaited sequel to Deafening. Events 35, 39 Amazon.ca’s Top 100 Books of the Year. The Author Patron: Helène Pratt and Katie Carmichael sixth book in the series, The Two Sisters of Adria Iwasutiak has been a literary publicist for Borneo, became an instant Globe and Mail more than a decade. After interning at McClelland bestseller upon its release in February. Event 17 & Stewart, she is now at Random House of Samantha Haywood is a literary agent with over Canada. Adria works with a diverse list of 15 years’ experience selling primarily Canadian Canadian and international authors that includes authors at home and abroad for volume pub- Diana Gabaldon, Joy Fielding, Annabel Lyon, lication and film and TV representation. Her Roberta Rich, and Gretchen Rubin. Event 27 client roster of 80 includes authors such as Catherine Bush, Miranda Hill, Shauna Singh Baldwin, and Festival authors Plum Johnson, Iain Reid, and Paula Todd. Event 32

Trevor Herriot is a prairie naturalist who lives on the northern edge of the Great Plains. He has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction and short-listed for

both the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for a keu c hi Nonfiction and the William Saroyan International Frances Itani

Prize. He presents The Road Is How: A Prairie nor ma n t

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Geoffrey James, with a background in journalism internationally bestselling author of She’s Come Elly MacKay Robert McGill’s second novel, Once We Had a and arts administration, has an eye for detail as Undone and I Know This Much Is True. Country, a “note-perfect narrative with challeng- precise as it is nuanced. A respected Canadian Events 1, 11 Author Patron: Justin Connidis ing themes and sure-handed characterization” photographer, he is a winner of the Governor and Julia McArthur (National Post), tells the story of American draft General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts and dodgers making a life in Canada. Robert is a Nancy Lee’s highly anticipated first novel is The a Guggenheim fellow. Inside Kingston Pen was graduate of Queen’s University and a Rhodes Age, an ambitious and prophetic meditation on photographed when the prison was still open. scholar, and now teaches Creative Writing and the collapse of family, the price of friendship, Events 7, 13 Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. and the human struggle to find purpose in the Author Patron: Jo-Anne Lachapelle-Beyak Events 38, 46 Author Patron: Beth Robinson face of mortality. Nancy’s debut short story col- Plum Johnson’s memoir They Left Us Everything is lection, Dead Girls, was named Book of the Year Ben McNally owns Toronto’s revered Ben McNally the sometimes funny, sometimes heart-wrench- by NOW Magazine. Events 2 , 15 Michael is now CEO of Canadian-based com- Books on Bay Street and hosts the wildly suc- ing tale of her disciplined father, exuberant Author Patron: Virginia Gordon and Lynne Kenny pany Blue Ant Media. Event 43 cessful Books and Brunch series that he runs in mother, the 23-room house where they raised Author Patron: Ed Smith, Windmills Café partnership with The Globe and Mail at the King Y.S. Lee uses her academic background in five kids and lived for 50 years, and the story of Edward Hotel. He is official bookseller for the Victorian literature and culture to create the Eric McCormack presents his first novel in more what the parents left behind, both tangible and International Festival of Authors in Toronto and backdrop for her lively, scrappy young heroine than a decade. Cloud teems with atmosphere intangible. Plum is also a journalist, an illustra- president of Project Bookmark Canada. Event 20 of the Agency mystery series, Mary Quinn— and menace, in the tradition of the best classic tor, and an accomplished portrait painter. Author Patron: Jan Walter and Steve Iscoe orphan, thief, and undercover agent. The popu- literary gothic fiction. Eric has been nominated Event 31 Author Patron: Laurie Lewis lar YA books have been translated into seven for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Shani Mootoo’s latest novel, Moving Forward Tamai Kobayashi’s debut novel, Prairie Ostrich, languages and shortlisted for the Agatha Award. Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the People’s Sideways Like a Crab, is a powerful portrait focuses on two main characters: a bookish child Authors@School Prize for Fiction, and lauded by The New York of gender, identity, and friendship. Mootoo called Egg Murakami and her big sister, who live Times Book Review as “a master stylist.” Event 26 explores the urge to leave one’s native country Lesley Livingston says, “I love the stories I get to on their family’s ostrich farm. It is the story of Author Patron: Mark Sinnett, Royal LePage to find a sense of belonging and permission to tell.” In Now and for Never, the final book in coming out and coming of age in a sleepy rural the award-winning Never trilogy of time-travel town. Originally from Japan, Tamai is the author romance-adventures, the main characters find of two story collections, Exile and the Heart and themselves temporal stowaways on a Roman Quixotic Erotic. Event 47 warship full of looted Celtic gold. This actor/ Wally Lamb’s fifth novel, We Are Water, is every- writer knows how to create strong and contem- thing we’ve come to expect from his fiction: porary female characters that still fit perfectly complex, filled with slowly revealed secrets into their historical setting. Event 56 and the damage they cause, and told through Elly MacKay, author-illustrator of the children’s characters so real that it is impossible to believe picture book Shadow Chasers, uses an unusual they are not about to walk through the door method of making images: the exquisite plays and interrupt your reading. Wally is also the of light on painted Yupo paper photographed Lesley Livingston as a scene draw the reader into the story. Elly has a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an undeniable gift for creating magi- cal worlds in pictures. Event 36 Authors@School Author Patron: Make Way For Me! Occupational Therapy for Children

Michael MacMillan, CEO, author, philanthropist, activist, and entrepreneur is most recently co- author of Tragedy in the Commons: Former Members of Parliament Speak Out About Canada’s Failing Democracy, with Alison Loat. Co-founder of Atlantis Films, which grew into media giant Alliance Atlantis Communications,

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book, by declaring that ordinary stones were gold.” Winner of Canada Reads and the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Orange Prize, and named by Chatelaine as one of the most influential women in Canada, Heather presents The Girl Who Was Saturday Night. Events 47, 54 Author Patron: Judith Irwin and Richard Henriksen

Kathy Page, author of seven novels, presents her second collection of short stories, Paradise and Kim Moritsugu Elsewhere, about which The Winnipeg Review writes, “Page holds the story in her hand and is be oneself. Her novels have been nominated able to turn it, like a diamond, so we can see all for the Giller Prize, the Man Booker Prize, of the sides…beautiful intelligent writing that is the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award, and the sharp, raw and to the point.” Events 39, 51 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Events 34, 41 Author Patron: Untitled Book Club Author Patron: Queen’s University Department of Gender Studies Sandy Pool, a classically trained theatre artist, is author of Undark: An Oratorio, a luminous Guillaume Morissette likes books that come from poetry collection nominated for the Trillium Book a very “internal place.” His first novel, New Tab, Award. Written in seven distinct voices, the book is a semi-autobiographical reflection on the dis- explores the lives of “radium women,” workers engagement and isolation of his generation and who painted glow-in-the-dark numbers on watch their reliance for self-definition and meaning on dials in the early 1900s. “It is also about time the image they create for themselves on social and history,” Sandy notes, “and specifically, media. Event 4 a history which erases women.” Event 25 Kim Moritsugu’s light-hearted seventh novel, Kate Pullinger is a gifted novelist but also a The Oakdale Dinner Club, revolves around master of digital fiction. Her digital projects— food and infidelity. When an affluent suburban Inanimate Alice and Flight Paths: A Networked mom’s husband cheats on her, she decides Novel—have garnered her international atten- to have her own extramarital affair, using a tion and awards for innovation and collabora- neighbourhood dinner club as a cover. Kim also tion. Her novel Landing Gear draws on accounts writes a blog about food, The Hungry Novelist, of airplane stowaways to examine the elasticity and teaches creative writing at Humber of modern interpersonal connections. College’s School for Writers. Events 24, 28 Events 10, 15, 22 Author Patron: Chez Piggy Restaurant & Bar Author Patron: Chris James Kingston Susan Musgrave has published nearly 30 books, including poetry, novels, children’s books, and essays. She has been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award four times, most recently for her poetry collection Origami Dove. “Gutsy and dexterous, trading off the emotionally raw for the comedic in lyrical snap- shots,” writes The Globe and Mail. Events 11, 18, 25 Author Patron: Wayne Grady

Heather O’Neill says of writing Lullabies for Little Criminals, “I cheated fate by writing this Kathy Page

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James Raffan is a prolific writer, speaker, and geographer who is currently Executive Director of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario. He is the author of numerous books, including the bestselling Emperor of the North, a history of the Hudson’s Bay Company. His new book, Circling the Midnight Sun, chronicles his circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle. Event 30 Author Patron: Paul Gervan

Brent Rathgeber is Member of Parliament for Lynn Thomson Edmonton-St. Albert. Elected as a Conservative in 2008 and 2011, he resigned in 2013 to sit as Leo Brent Robillard writes longhand in fat note- an Independent. Irresponsible Government: The books. He prefers to write where the creature Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in Canada comforts befitting a novelist—warmth, quiet, is a searching examination of the foundational coffee—are readily available. His third novel, but eroding principles of our parliamentary sys- Drift, is set during the Second Boer War and tem. Event 43 brings to life a piece of often forgotten Canadian history. Brent lives in Athens, Ontario. Event 35 Stephen Reid’s A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden Author Patron: Queen’s University Archives is “sharply observed” and “imaginatively specu- lative.” A collection of harrowing essays that Diane Schoemperlen is famous for her original chronicle the author’s experiences as an addict, experiments with form. Man of My Dreams a criminal, an author, and a prisoner, it won was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award the City of Victoria’s Butler Book Prize. Stephen for Fiction; Forms of Devotion was a win- wrote his first novel, Jackrabbit Parole, during a ner. Diane’s latest book, By the Book: Stories 21-year sentence for bank robbery. Events 11, 13 and Pictures—a book of stories illustrated Author Patron: Carol Finlay with collages—will be launching at Kingston WritersFest. Event 45 Roberta Rich, a former divorce lawyer, is author of the #1 bestselling The Midwife of Venice, Merilyn Simonds has been living the writing life which received acclaim in Canada, the US, the for 35 years. Internationally renowned for her UK, Germany, Spain, and Brazil. The sequel, genre-busting creative nonfiction, she has The Harem Midwife, is as riveting and sus- published 16 works of long and short fiction, Local. Literary. penseful as the first and proves that her career memoir, travel, history, kidlit, and essays with UpStart Press is the proud publisher change was the right move. some two dozen publishers worldwide. Her of Melanie Dugan’s Bee Summers. Events 16, 19 Author Patron: Karen Charlton most recent book is The Paradise Project, a Available at Novel Idea, etsy.com, and Mike Scrannage, Royal LePage hand-typeset, hand-printed collection of flash and as an ebook. fiction and poetry. Events 37, 42 Author Patron: Altair Electronics

Lynn Thomson’s Birding with Yeats is a touching memoir about a mother, her son, and the won- upstartadalone.indd 1 2014-05-15 2:34 PM der of the natural world. After a long career as a bookseller at Ben McNally Books in downtown Toronto (Ben is Lynn’s husband), Lynn is mak- ing her first outing as a published author. Event 31 Author Patron: Peter and Jane Good Publish with Cowdy House! Kim Thúy was born in Vietnam but has made Stephen Reid Montreal her home since she was a young girl. Real passion. Real books. cowdyhouse.com

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Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang’s latest collection, Status Thousand Islands Playhouse. Brett debuted at Moderators Update—poems inspired by Facebook—is cur- Stratford as co-director of the Festival’s critically rently a nominee for the Pat Lowther Award. Her Jared Bland, Arts and Books Editor at The Globe acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night’s last poetry collection, Sweet Devilry, won the and Mail, is an ex-pat American who has served Dream. Event 50 Gerald Lampert Award. Sarah is also the edi- as poetry editor at House of Anansi, as well as Michael Enright, a veteran broadcaster and con- tor of the 2012 anthology Desperately Seeking managing editor at The Walrus. Jared is an summate interviewer, has been with CBC Radio Susans and is a former member of Kingston adept and informed moderator, finding the com- since 1974, hosting shows such as This Country WritersFest’s board of Directors. Event 4 mon thread among writers in onstage conversa- in the Morning, As It Happens, and The Sunday Author Patron: Reading Between the Wines tion. Event 15 Edition. He has interviewed writers Michael Book Club Author Patron: Ryder-Burbidge Hurley Fasano Crummey, Carl Honoré, Graeme Gibson, Claire Chris Turner is an award-winning writer and Julie Brown is one of the most recognizable faces Messud, and Pulitzer Prize-winning American public speaker whose latest book, The War in the city. As veteran host of CKWS First@5:30 writer Michael Chabon, among many others. Chris Turner on Science: Muzzling Scientists and Wilful and co-host of Newswatch@6, Julie has covered Event 1 Author Patron: Eric Friesen Blindness in Stephen Harper’s Canada, argues many great stories and has interviewed some of Her debut novel, Ru, was inspired by her own Eric Friesen A long-time radio personality who has that a vicious assault is being waged by the Kingston’s and Canada’s biggest newsmakers. life and won the Governor General’s Award for been called one of the most gifted broadcast- Canadian government on the fundamental prin- Event 46 French-language Fiction. Now, with her second ers in the industry, Eric has hosted many CBC ciples of the Enlightenment. His essay collection novel, Mãn, Kim explores, as La Presse puts it, Brett Christopher is Artistic Producer of Theatre flagship programs, including All in a Day, Radio How to Breathe Underwater calls for us all to meet “the stories of others: their exiles, their families, Kingston and is celebrated as both an actor Noon, The Eric Friesen Show, In Performance, the challenges of sustainability. Events 3, 23, 43 their passions, their sacrifices.” Events 29, 33, 46 and a director. He has worked with a variety and Studio Sparks. Eric helped launch Author Patron: Tango Nuevo Tapas & Wine Author Patron: MacDougall, MacDougall & of theatre companies, including the Stratford Winnipeg’s Classic 107 radio station and is past MacTier Inc. Eric Walters began writing as a grade five Festival, the Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage, and Chair of Kingston WritersFest’s board. Event 11 teacher to encourage the reluctant readers in Paula Todd is an investigative writer, journalist, the room. In the two decades since, he has digital media professor, lawyer, and bestselling published 92 novels and picture books. His author. With Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies, and most recent book is the dystopian YA novel Predators Online, Paula takes us to the dark The Rule of Three. Events 40, 49, Authors@School side of the internet to explore the real stories Author Patron: Shelley King behind “cyberbullying” suicides and the hidden Heather’s Picks 100% Guaranteed Read toll on public figures who are mocked and tar- Adam Wilson’s short stories have appeared in 1 Love it or your 100% Guaranteed Reads – Love it or your money back. money back* geted. Event 8 Author Patron: Yvonne Pelley many literary magazines, and his work in The Paris Review won him the Terry Southern Prize Miriam Toews’ latest novel, All My Puny Sorrows, for Humor. The title story from his latest collec- combines a masterful fusion of humour and tion, What’s Important Is Feeling, also appears heartbreak with a story deeply grounded in in The Best American Short Stories. Adam was Miriam’s own family’s history—the suicide of her recently named one of the 50 Funniest People beloved sister. She has won both the Governor in Brooklyn by Brooklyn Magazine. Event 39 General’s Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Events 46, 54 Miriam Toews Author Patron: Willow Family Physicians

Trio Without Words—the Kingston WritersFest “house band” comprises saxophonist Jonathan Stewart, bassist Michael Perlin, and drummer Mike Cassells—provides the musical cata- lyst for the Saturday Night SpeakEasy, creat- #ASKINDIGO – for a great book recommendation ing lightly composed pieces and improvised “soundscapes” that give new voice to literary readings. Event 46 Author Patron: Paul Fisher,

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producer for Peter Gzowski’s Morningside. In A Year of Living Generously: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Philanthropy, Larry turns his journalist’s eye on himself and his place in the world. Larry lives in Kingston. Event 49

Leanne Lieberman is known for her “edgy, pro- vocative Jewish-themed novels” (Kirkus Reviews), which are written for a YA audience. Isn’t it time to reach your potential? Her most recent book, Lauren Yanofsky Hates Sarah Harmer the Holocaust, is the story of a disaffected teen- Our accounting, tax and advisory professionals age girl whose family takes summer vacations at make your business our focus. Wayne Grady is a prolific writer with an arsenal of Holocaust memorials. Event 2 hats: translator, journalist, editor, creative writing Alberto Manguel’s writing often revolves around instructor at the University of British Columbia. 201-1473 John Counter Blvd. books and reading. His latest non-fiction book is Wayne has also translated 15 books and won The Traveller, the Tower and the Worm: The Kingston, ON K7M 8Z6 a Governor General’s Award for translation. Reader as Metaphor. His most recent novel, His first novel, Emancipation Day, based on All Men Are Liars, is “a novel that is itself, in t: 613.544.2903 f: 613.544.6151 his father’s life, won the Amazon.ca First Novel part, about reading and about how memories of Award. Event 41 events in literature can be as vivid as those in Phil Hall’s poetry collection Killdeer—which real life.” Alberto lives in Paris, France. Event 26

won the Trillium Book Award and the Governor Carol Off’s passion for storytelling fills the air- General’s Award—is a collection of essay-poems waves every weekday on CBC Radio’s As It about writing, reading, and the lifelong process Happens. As a television and radio journalist, of learning how to get better at doing both. Phil Carol has been at the heart of breaking stories is the author of 12 volumes of poetry, six chap- Oolichan Books likes on the national and international stage. She cov- books, and a recording of labour songs. Event 25 ered the fallout from 9/11, the post-war recon- Kingston WritersFest 2014 Sarah Harmer, in addition to being a Juno award- struction of the Balkans, and the war crimes

winning musician, is an activist and a co- tribunal for Yugoslavia. Fernie, BC • www.oolichan.com Event 43 Status Update founder of PERL (Protecting Escarpment Rural Author Patron: Mary Ann Higgs Land). She also wrote the foreword for The Last by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Iain Reid is a Kingston memoirist and man- Stand: A Journey Through the Ancient Cliff- A collision between one of today’s about-town. In his second memoir, The Truth Face Forest of the Niagara Escarpment and has most popular social networking sites About Luck, Iain entertains his grandmother, produced four highly regarded albums. who arrives for a five-day “staycation” in his and the seemingly rigid conventions Event 30 Author Patron: Peter Milliken basement apartment. Iain’s work—peppered of poetry, Status Update explores the Steven Heighton began his career as a poet and with astute observations about everyday life— intimate, perverse, and endlessly has published in half a dozen genres, includ- has appeared on NPR, CBC Radio, and in The compelling world of text that is sent ing novels, essay collections, and short fic- Globe and Mail. Event 31 out daily to strangers and friends tion. His most recent offering, The Dead Are alike. Jan Walter has worked as an editor and in execu- More Visible, contains two National Magazine tive positions with several Canadian publish- Award-winning stories. His poetry collection ing companies, including Macmillan and The Ecstasy of Skeptics was nominated for Nominated for the McClelland & Stewart. In 1988, with Gary Ross the Governor General’s Award. Steve lives in 2014 Pat Lowther and John Macfarlane, she started Macfarlane, Kingston and plays pickup hockey. Event 55 Walter & Ross, which became Canada’s premier Memorial Award Lawrence Scanlan is the author of more than a publisher of quality non-fiction. Jan is a found- dozen books, an award-winning magazine and ing member of Kingston WritersFest and cur- newspaper journalist, and a former CBC literary rently serves as Chair of the Board. Event 20

46 • kingston writersfest 2014 kingstonwritersfest.ca Volunteers A festival volunteer story Donors We gratefully acknowledge his will be my sixth year as a volunteer! I signed up Our heartfelt appreciation to the many individuals and businesses the generous support of Tbecause, like all the other volunteers, I love to read, that support Kingston Writers Fest with their donations. and I love talking about books. I wanted to be a part of a our volunteers, especially festival dedicated to celebrating writers and writing. those who have been with And yes, I was excited about meeting some of my favou- BOOKLOVER DONORS CORPORATE DONORS us for five years and more; rite authors! Haiku $50+ Novel $250+ Bestseller $500+ your help directly affects For me, the best part of volunteering is the feeling of Philip Casey (2013), Jan Allen Bergeron Clifford the success of the festival. being a part of a community. I am proud to put on my in honour of Michele Casey Catherine R. Harland Personal Injury Lawyers Thank you! pumpkin-coloured pashmina and greet our guests, wrangle and all KWF volunteers authors, set up spaces, give directions, and smile a lot! It Carmen Emery Opus $500+ Blockbuster $1000+ Visit kingstonwritersfest.ca feels so good to contribute by being a small part of some- Daniel and Julie Woolf Michele Casey A Novel Idea Bookstore thing big. Michael and Penny Robinson Penguin Random House to see a complete list Belles Lettres $100+ I treasure the conversations I have had with Shelagh L. Jeanie Sawyer of Canada of our 2014 volunteers. Doriana Bisegna Rogers about her time as a rambunctious Queen’s student; Kristine Arnet Connidis (2013), Epic $1000+ with Will Schwalbe about reading with his dying mother; in honour of G.M. Grimstad James Brown and Joan Lee with Ami MacKay about midwifery in Nova Scotia; and Arnet with Will Ferguson about the Giller Prize paying for his kid’s Anju and Chander Datta, James Neil Docherty Cancoil Thermal braces. Yes, this is the best volunteer job ever! and Lyse Hebert Corporation Katherine and Paul Manley Walter Fenlon ­—Elspeth Christie Bette Solomon Susan Thorne Eva Toth Cherrilyn Yalin Anonymous (2)

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50 • kingston writersfest 2014 kingstonwritersfest.ca kingstonwritersfest.ca kingston writersfest 2014 • 51 Sponsors EVENT SPONSORS Caldwell Wealth & Estate Advisory Ltd. | sponsor of Author! Author! Event #9 Chris James Kingston | sponsor of Canada Made Me Event #15 CIBC Wood Gundy | sponsor of Kids on Saturday Events #36, #40 HarperCollins Canada | sponsor of Posts on the Wall of Life Event #22 King’s Crossing Fashion Centre | sponsor of The Wild Within and Without Event #30 Kingston 1000 Island Cruises | sponsor of The Perfect Brew Event #14 Simpatico Song & Script | sponsor of Kids on Saturday Events #36, #40 Student Association, St. Lawrence College, Kingston Campus | sponsor of Business in an Age of Radical Change Event #23 The Walrus Magazine | sponsor of The Big Idea: The State of the Nation Event #43 publisher partners Greystone Books ‎ Penguin Random House Groundwood Books ‎ Canada Biblioasis Groupe Librex Prometheus Books Black Dog Publishing HarperCollins Canada Running Press Book Thug House of Anansi Press Thistledown Press Candlewick Press Knopf Canada Tundra Books Coach House Books McClelland & Stewart Turnstone Press Doubleday Canada Nightwood Editions University of Dundurn Oolichan Books Pennsylvannia Press ECW Press Pajama Press UpStart Press Exile Editions Pedlar Press Véhicule Press Goose Lane Editions gifts-in-kind sponsors DOX Restaurant & Lounge Keystone Property Downtown Kingston! Business Management Inc. Allan Graphics Association Kindle/Amazon.ca Ambassador Hotel Earth to Spirit Kingston Horticultural Society & Conference Centre Garrett Elliott Photography Kingston Sound Works Hugh Barclay, thee Hellbox Press Jennifer Foster, K-Rock Centre ryder-Burbidge Hurley Bernard Clark Photography Janice McLean Fasano Camera Kingston Kirsteen McLeod Frontenac Club Inn Chapters Kingston A Novel Idea The Great Waterway Collins Barrow SEO The Scoop Historic Inns Kingston LLP Chartered Accountants Tierney Simpson and Prytula Hotel Belvedere Curry Original Restaurant Professional Corporation James Reid Furniture

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