Kingston WritersFest Program

September 22-25, 2011 Our Mission To promote awareness and appreciation of the literary arts in all their forms and to nurture literary expression within the Kingston community.

2011 Board of Directors Ashley-Elizabeth Best Helen Morgan Blogger Archivist Eric Friesen Chair Lyndsey Darling Deborah Windsor Database Manager, Researcher Merilyn Simonds Facebook/Twitter Vice-Chair Dave & Judi Wyatt Susan Olding Ticketmasters Jan Walter Website Content Editor Secretary Kirsteen MacLeod 2011 Festival Affiliates Mike Onesi Sarah Tsiang Treasurer Vincent Perez Sarah Withrow Art Director Karen Simpson Web Copy Writers Ian Walsh CarricDesign, Carol Tomalty Taryn Beukema Website Design & Maintenance Steven Heighton Writers Services Directors Don Curtis Margaret Dickson Marketing Advisor Distribution Manager 2011 Festival Committee Bernard Clark Jessica Itiaba Festival Photographer Merilyn Simonds Stage Management Supervisor Artistic Director Don Edwards Mirielle Keeling Jan Walter Festival Audio Programming Coordinator Shelley Tanaka Podcast Producer Members-at-Large Barbara Bell Leigh Ann Bellamy Festival Producer Barbara Linds Festival Videographer Author Hospitality Janice Rowe Mary Ann Higgs Assistant Event Producer Michele Casey Legal Counsel Volunteer Hospitality Glynis Bloy Karen Simpson Bookkeeper Kelly Loeper Janet Hazlewood Holly Tousignant Accountants Christina Decarie Queen’s Liaisons Marketing Coordinator, A Novel Idea Program Guide Editor Barb Love Oscar & Joanna Malan Library Liaison Festival Bookseller Greg Curtis Lindy Mechefske Angela Saxe Allan Graphics Ltd. Publicity Anne Powers Festival Printers Youth Coordinators Danika Lochhead Media Relations Trish Stokes Volunteers Coordinator Katherine Anne Stanford Olga Dolia Rita Jackson Promotions Assistant Volunteers Coordinator WELCOME Kingston— Canada’s City of Books riters and books have a long history in Kingston. St. Ursula’s Convent, Canada’s first novel, was published here in 1824, W and shortly after, the first cookbook,The Cook Not Mad, made its Canadian debut in this city. Grant Allen, an early innovator in science fiction and detective novels, was born on Wolfe Island.

Today, Kingston is home to scores of published writers, many with national and international reputations. More than a dozen of this year's WritersFest authors come from the region—award-winning writers such as Helen Humphreys, Diane Schoemperlen, and Wayne Grady, as well as the new voices of mystery writer Y.S. Lee, poet Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang, and memoirist Laurie Lewis.

Joining these local literary stars are writers from across the country, across the border, and across the seas–J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Disgrace; American novelist Paul Auster; Timothy Taylor and Lorna Crozier from Canada’s west coast; Kenneth J. Harvey from the east; sci-fi master Robert J. Sawyer; crime thriller writers Giles Blunt and Linwood Barclay; biographers Vincent Lam and Richard Gwyn; book-club favourites Elizabeth Hay, Frances Itani, Anita Rau Badami, Andrew Pyper, and many more.

A hundred volunteers worked to bring you this year’s festival, a team unrivalled anywhere. They’ve prepared more than 40 events, bringing together 60 great writers guaranteed to surprise, provoke, and delight.

A city of writers, a city of readers. Thank you for helping to make Kingston WritersFest 2011 a readers and writers festival to remember.

Merilyn Simonds, Artistic Director

Table of Contents Welcome...... 3 Tickets...... 20 Events...... 4 Profiles...... 22 Writers Studio...... 13 Visitors Guide...... 28 Youth and Family...... 14 Volunteers...... 32 Program at a Glance...... 16 Author Patrons...... 33 International Marquee...... 19 Sponsors...... 32, 34 Events OFFSITE EVENT FOOD EVENT FESTIVAL FIELD KIDS ON Readings, conversations, performances! TRIP EVENT SUNDAY EVENT Events for readers of every age and taste, designed for maximum audience participa- WRITERS STUDIO tion, with time for questions and a chance to engage with authors as they sign books.

Thursday, September 22 | 9:30-10:30am Thursday, September 22 | 10:45-11:45am 1 War and Peace 4 Technology and Wonder Noah Richler & Michael Riordon Wayne Grady & Robert J. Sawyer In Conversation | Islandview Room In Conversation | Bellevue South In What We Talk About When We Talk About War, In Sawyer’s Wonder, a 16-year-old-girl guides the Noah Richler explores Canada’s shifting identity. In evolution of the Web into consciousness. Sawyer Our Way to Fight, Michael Riordon tells stories of talks about artificial intelligence and the future of peace activists on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian ideas with Wayne Grady, author of Technology, a conflict. Jamie Swift moderates.General Admission. discourse on the human reliance on machines. General Admission. Thursday, September 22 | 9:30-10:30am 2 Words Out Loud Thursday, September 22 | 1:00-2:00pm Lara Bozabalian 5 Native Sons and Daughters Workshop | Bellevue South James Bartleman & Daniel David moses Spoken word poet and slam artist Lara Bozabalian Readings & Conversation | Islandview Room leads this dynamic hands-on writing workshop in new Bartleman, a Chippewa and former lieutenant-governor forms of poetic expression. Students learn through of Ontario, eloquently traces the impact of prejudice writing exercises, demonstrations, conversation, and racism through generations on and off First critique–and readings! Students & teachers only. Nations reserves with poet, playwright, and essayist Daniel David Moses. General Admission. Thursday, September 22 | 10:45-11:45am 3 Life Lessons Adwoa Badoe & Y.S. Lee Readings & Conversation | Islandview Room In new young-adult novels, African storyteller Adwoa Badoe and local YA mystery writer Y.S. Lee create teenage protagonists who are saved from desperate circumstances, then bend the rules to rise above their fates and fashion lives of their own. Susan Olding moderates. General Admission.

ADWOA BADOE EVENTS

Writing is no longer an Thursday, September 22 | 8:00-9:30pm 10 International Marquee act of free will for me, it’s J.M. Coetzee & Paul Auster Readings & Conversation a matter of survival. Grand Theatre, Regina Rosen Auditorium —PAUL AUSTER J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winner and two-time Thursday, September 22 | 1:00-2:30pm Booker winner, reads from recent work and engages 6 Writing Another’s Life in an onstage conversation with eminent American Merrily Weisbord writer Paul Auster, author of critically acclaimed Martello Room novels, screenplays, memoirs, and poetry collections. Join these two profound and compelling writers as Weisbord discusses the strategies for getting close they explore “the miraculous strangeness of being to a subject, the dilemma of conflicting loyalties alive.”Presentation of student writing awards. to the subject and the book, as well as the legal and moral challenges in choosing what—and what not—to make public about someone else’s life.

Thursday, September 22 | 2:30-4:00pm 7 Barclay & Blunt Linwood Barclay & Giles Blunt Readings & Conversation | Bellevue South In new novels by these crime thriller masters, mys- terious deaths at summer homes and in quiet sub- urbs lead into a twisted maze of secret lawlessness, corruption, and heart-stopping suspense, both domestic and political. Eric Friesen moderates. MERRILY WEISBORD

Thursday, September 22 | 2:30-4:00pm Friday, September 23 | 10:00-11:00am 8 Writing the Future 11 Daughters of Robert J. Sawyer the Revolution Martello Room Laurie Lewis & Merrily Weisbord World-renowned sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer leads In Conversation | Bellevue South this interactive master class on how to devise and Laurie Lewis, whose memoir tells the story of growing develop a high concept for your own science-fiction up in a devotedly left-wing, dysfunctional family, novel. For adults and youth aged 15 and older. talks memory, family, and politics with Merrily Weis- bord, also the daughter of fervent Communists. Thursday, September 22 | 6:30-7:30pm 9 Opening Night Reception Friday, September 23 | 10:00-11:30am Grand Theatre, Davies Lounge 12 What Do Publishers Want? Join Festival authors, sponsors, book lovers, and Sarah MacLachlan Martello Room publishing dignitaries for this gala kick-off to Kingston WritersFest, celebrated in a poem written for the What happens to your precious tome when it lands occasion by Kingston’s Poet Laureate, Eric Folsom. at a publisher’s office? Get the answers to all your Refreshments served. Cash bar. Tickets to Reception questions from Sarah MacLachlan, head of House of not sold separately. Purchase tickets to the Reception/ Anansi, one of Canada’s most respected publishers. International Marquee by September 15. KINGSTON WRITERSFEST 2011

Friday, September 23 | 1:30-2:30pm BRUCE PHILP 16 The New Consumer Republic Bruce Philp Illustrated Talk | St. Lawrence College, Davies Hall The marketer behind ING Direct’s Save Your Money! campaign shows how consumers can use branding to help them get what they want, make corporations behave, and maybe even save the world. Revolution- ary yet pragmatic, Philps’ eye-opening message is for innovative thinkers everywhere.

Friday, September 23 | 11:30am-1:00pm Friday, September 23 | 3:00-4:30pm 13 Book Lovers Lunch 17 In Praise of Older Women Ben McNally Lorna Crozier, Molly Peacock, Presentation | Islandview Room Merrily Weisbord Veteran bookseller Ben McNally offers Kingston Readings & Conversation | Islandview Room book lovers his famous “Preview Picks”–personal Lorna Crozier’s Small Mechanics explores the aging tips on the best new books of the season from pub- body; Molly Peacock’s The Paper Garden celebrates lishing houses, big and small. Ticket price includes a woman who began her life’s work at 72; Merrily lunch. Cash bar. Tickets must be purchased by Weisbord’s The Love Queen of Malabar traces a September 15. friendship through the later life of Indian poet Kamala Das. A discussion of women, aging, and the Friday, September 23 | 1:00-2:30pm creative impulse. Merilyn Simonds moderates. 14 Family Ties Peter Behrens & Frances Itani Friday, September 23 | 3:00-4:30pm Readings & Conversation | Bellevue South 18 Writing Collage Peter Behrens’ The O’Briens and Frances Itani’s Diane Schoemperlen Requiem are compelling family sagas that explore Martello Room how the past carries forward and how love, loss, Award-winning experimental fiction writer Diane and redemption shape ordinary lives. Join the Schoemperlen shares her inspiration and techniques conversation with these award-winning novelists. for combining text and image through collage, the Eric Friesen moderates. perfect art form for anyone who loves language and thinks they can’t draw a straight line. Friday, September 23 | 1:00-2:30pm 15 Writing Suspense Friday, September 23 | 5:00-6:30pm Andrew Pyper 19 With Brush and Pen Martello Room Anita Rau Badami, Lorna Goodison, Plotting is often spurned as tediously rudimentary, Diane Schoemperlen but the use of a graphic outline can not only save Readings & Conversation | Bellevue South writers from taking a wrong turn, it also represents Writers Lorna Goodison, Anita Rau Badami, and one of the most purely creative aspects of novel- Diane Schoemperlen all have a parallel practice as writing. Andrew Pyper shows through example how visual artists. Together they discuss how the visual outlines build stories that grab readers and refuse to imagination differs from the literary muse and how let them go. each draws power from the other. EVENTS

Friday, September 23 | 7:00-8:30pm Saturday, September 24 | 11:00am-12:30pm 20 Shame, Truth, 23 Literary Debuts and Reconciliation LAURIE LEWIS, Martha Schabas, RomÉo Dallaire & Antjie Krog Alexi Zentner In Conversation | Islandview Room Readings & Conversation | Bellevue South Roméo Dallaire speaks with South African poet/ Making their literary debuts at very different stages journalist Antjie Krog about racial genocide and of the writing life, these three accomplished writers reconciliation in the face of unthinkable human- read from their works and discuss what it means to rights violations. How can we work our way back be a new name on the CanLit scene. Barbara Bell to a society in which all are equally human? Noah moderates. Richler moderates.

TIMOTHY TAYLOR Friday, September 23 | 9:00-10:30pm 21 Nightcap: Big Ideas Kenneth J. Harvey, David Adams Richards, Robert J. Sawyer, Timothy Taylor Readings | Bellevue South Kenneth J. Harvey considers the “property” claims on an unborn embryo; David Adams Richards wrestles with racism; Robert J. Sawyer hypothesizes artificial intelligence; Timothy Taylor tackles the cult of celeb- rity. Join these novelists as they explore pressing, con- temporary ideas through unforgettable narrative. Lorna Crozier hosts. Saturday, September 24 | 11:00am-12:30pm 24 Creative Writing for Teens Saturday, September 24 | 9:30-10:30am Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang 22 Literary Gardens Martello Room Molly Peacock & Merilyn Simonds Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang covers creative writing essentials In Conversation | Islandview Room in both poetry and fiction for youth aged 15 and Poet and memoirist Molly Peacock, author of The older. She’ll help you learn to read like a writer, find Paper Garden, discusses culture and horticulture and mentors within your community, and she offers tips writers inspired by their gardens with novelist and on what to expect from a career in creative writing. essayist Merilyn Simonds, author of The Holding For youth aged 15 to 19. and A New Leaf. Saturday, September 24 | 1:00-2:00pm 25 Author! Author! A life’s work is always Anita Rau Badami & Bill Richardson unfinished... we need In Conversation | Bellevue South This fall, Badami releases Tell It to the Trees, a mys- our creativity till the terious, heart-rending story set in an Indian house- hold in a small town in northern BC. Winner of the day we die. Marian Engel Award, she joins CBC’s incomparable —MOLLY PEACOCK Bill Richardson for a wide-ranging conversation. KINGSTON WRITERSFEST 2011

Saturday, September 24 | 1:00-2:30pm Saturday, September 24 | 4:00-5:00pm 26 Writing History 29 Thrillers! Ken McGoogan Andrew Pyper & Timothy Taylor Martello Room In Conversation | Bellevue South Ken McGoogan offers advice on choosing a subject, In The Blue Light Project, Timothy Taylor follows a getting into archives, pursuing leads, researching four-day hostage-taking. Andrew Pyper’s The online, and organizing material. He’ll answer your Guardians tells a classic haunted-house story. Pyper questions and get you writing briefly, too, so bring and Taylor read and discuss the current appetite for the tools of your trade. a literary adrenalin rush.

Saturday, September 24 | 2:30-3:30pm Saturday, September 24 | 4:00-5:30pm 27 La Belle (Province) 30 How to Start and Whistles a Writing Group Trevor Ferguson & David Gossage Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Performance | Islandview Room Martello Room In his crime thriller River City, Trevor Ferguson Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang offers tips on how to start and (aka John Farrow) embraces 450 years of Montreal build a strong writing group, manage group dynamics, history with a masterful plot driven by the illusive develop a technical vocabulary to provide critical and bloody Jacques Cartier dagger. Don’t miss this feedback, and effectively apply the critiques you unique, dramatic reading in concert with flute and receive. whistle virtuoso David Gossage. Saturday, September 24 | 5:30-6:30pm Saturday, September 24 | 2:30-4:00pm 31 Uncommon Magic 28 Pop-Culture Book Launch | Bellevue North Poetry (& Prose) Join the current members of the Ban Righ Writers Jeanette Lynes Group for readings to celebrate the launch of Martello Room Uncommon Magic, an anthology of writing from Novelist/poet Jeanette Lynes explores the chal- Kingston’s longest-running writing group. Light lenge of taking inspiration from popular culture. refreshments. A free event. If you were a pop-culture icon, who would you be, what would you want to tell the world, and what Saturday, September 24 | 7:00-8:30pm literary form would best convey your “message”? 32 Great Scots! Richard Gwyn, Vincent Lam, Ken McGoogan In Conversation | Bellevue South According to Ken McGoogan (How the Scots Invented Canada), there’s a Scot supporting every corner of Canada’s foundations. Renowned biographers Rich- ard Gwyn (Nation Maker on John A. Macdonald) and Vincent Lam (Tommy Douglas) exuberantly agree. Hear them make their case and wear your kilt!

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Sunday, September 25 | 11:00-11:45am 36 Dogs Don’t Eat Jam SARAH YI-MEI TSIANG Book Launch | Bellevue North Bring your kids and join local author Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang for a reading from her brand-new picture book, Dogs Don’t Eat Jam and Other Things Big Kids Know. A free event. Young children welcome!

Sunday, September 25 | 12:00-1:30pm 37 New Voices in Verse

SARAH YI-MEI TSIANG Amanda Jernigan, Michael Lista, Sandra Ridley, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Readings & Conversation | Islandview Room Saturday, September 24 | 9:00-11:00pm 33 Saturday Night SpeakEasy Meet four of Canada’s most important emerging Performance | Islandview Room poets—a group unified by their youth and by the ac- Bill Richardson hosts an evening of stories told complishment of their first books, yet differentiated within the original musical landscapes of jazz combo, by voice, language, and content. Celebrated poet Trio Without Words. Dave Bidini, Lorna Crozier, Lorna Crozier moderates. Amanda Jernigan, Jeanette Lynes, Andrew Pyper, Madeleine Thien, Merrily Weisbord, and Alexi So much of writing is Zentner perform. Cash bar. Doors open at 8:30 pm. similar to seduction— Sunday, September 25 | 10:00-10:45am a light touch goes a 34 Chicken, Pig, Cow Ruth Ohi long way. —MICHAEL LISTA Reading & Illustration | Islandview Room Author/illustrator Ruth Ohi introduces a new Sunday, September 25 | 1:30-3:00pm adventure for her barnyard buddies in Chicken, Pig, 38 Kingston Reads: Cow and the Class Pet. In a delightful session for Battle of the Books young children, she shows how stories are built from Debate | Bellevue South words and pictures. For ages 4-6. Children free when Local luminaries defend their favourites among the accompanied by an adult. No limit to the number of 10 books nominated for this year’s Ontario Library children per adult. Association’s prestigious Evergreen Award. Eric Friesen moderates. A free event. Sunday, September 25 | 11:00am-12:00 noon 35 Zorgamazoo Sunday, September 25 | 1:30-3:00pm Robert Paul Weston 39 Writing for Young Readers Reading | Bellevue South Robert Paul Weston In rollicking verse, Zorgamazoo tells the fantastic Martello Room story of Katrina Katrell, who flees her home to travel Robert Paul Weston guides you through the unique through hidden cities, all the way to the moon. Suit- challenges of writing for youth, with specific able for ages 7 to 70. Children admitted free when reference to various elements of fiction: narrative accompanied by an adult. No limit to the number of structure, characterization, suspense, and crafting children per adult. metaphorical language. KINGSTON WRITERSFEST 2011

Sunday, September 25 | 1:30-2:30pm Sunday, September 25 | 3:00-4:30pm 40 Hot Art 42 OneTwoThreeFour: Joshua Knelman Songwriting Illustrated Talk | Queen’s University, Agnes Dave Bidini Etherington Art Centre Martello Room Joshua Knelman spent four years immersed in the Dave Bidini, founder of the Rheostatics and author mysterious and burgeoning world of international of Writing Gordon Lightfoot, discusses what makes a art theft. Join him to discover who is behind the song famous or forgettable. Topics: chord structure, heists and why there is such demand for “hot” art. melodic choices, varying rhythms, arrangements, and musical honesty. For adults and youth aged 15 Sunday, September 25 | 3:00-5:00pm and older. 41 Afternoon Delight: Tea and Literary Treats Sunday, September 25 | 6:00-9:00pm Elizabeth Hay, Cynthia Holz, Helen 43 Readings in Honour Humphreys, Madeleine Thien of J.M. Coetzee Readings | Islandview Room Queen’s University, Biosciences Complex, Room 1101 Enjoy high tea with four of this year’s most notable authors. Treats and sweets for every taste. Tickets A unique opportunity to hear 10 writers from must be purchased by September 15. South Africa and Canada as they pay tribute to J.M. Coetzee. Professor Rosemary Jolly hosts. Tickets available at the door ONLY.

THE O’BRIENS FINALIST Peter Behrens The Writers’ Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize and Hardcover / $32.95 The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction

The highly anticipated follow-up to the Governor General’s “The Love Queen of Malabar is Literary Award-winning a fascinating conversation novel, The Law of Dreams. between two strong-minded women, a narrative set in two “Brimming with complex and nuanced characters . . .” countries and many cultures. It proves that none of us fit — Winnipeg Free Press under one label or one iden- tity, but are complex and contradictory and simply BLOOM stuck with the messiness of Michael Lista our lives.” Trade Paperback / $22.95 –The Globe and Mail

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All Writers Studio master classes take place in the THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 Martello Room on the 6th Floor of the Holiday Inn 2:30-4:00pm Writing the Future Kingston Waterfront. Each class is an hour and a with Robert J. Sawyer half. Enrolment is limited to 30 participants. Writers 15-19 welcome!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 1:00-2:30pm Writing Another’s Life 11am-12:30pm Creative Writing for Teens with Merrily Weisbord with Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang For writers 15-19 only! 2:30-4:00pm Writing the Future with Robert J. Sawyer SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 3:00-4:30pm OneTwoThreeFour: Songwriting FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 with Dave Bidini 10:00-11:30am What Do Publishers Want? Writers 15-19 welcome! with Sarah MacLachlan Sponsored by Freedom 55 Financial 1:00-2:30pm Writing Suspense with Andrew Pyper

3:00-4:30pm Writing Collage with Diane Schoemperlen

Interested in Self-publishing? For inside information on self-publishing, drop in to consult with printing expert Dan Graham, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday between 12:00 and 1:00pm in the Martello Room on the 6th floor of the Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront. Courtesy of Remarkable Books, a division of Allan Graphics Ltd., Kingston. outh

Festival Field Trips Young Writers Studio

Don’t miss these stimulating, thought- Master Classes open to teens aged 15 to provoking events specially designed for 19. Limited enrolment. students from Grades 9 to 12. Meet some of Canada’s top writers and thinkers. Share Thursday, September 22 ideas with the writers who shape your world. 2:30-4:00pm | Martello Room 8 Writing the Future THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 FROM 9:30am UNTIL 2:00pm Robert J. Sawyer For youth aged 15-19 and adults. 9:30-10:30am | Islandview Room 1 War and Peace Saturday, September 24 Noah Richler & Michael RiordOn 11:00am-12:30pm | Martello Room 24 Creative Writing for Teens 9:30-10:30am | Bellevue South Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang 2 Words Out Loud For youth aged 15-19 only. Lara Bozabalian Sunday, September 25 Refreshments during break 3:00-4:30pm | Martello Room 42 OneTwoThreeFour: 10:45-11:45am | Islandview Room Songwriting 3 Life Lessons Dave Bidini Adwoa Badoe & Y.S. Lee For youth aged 15-19 and adults.

10:45-11:45am | Bellevue South Sponsored by Freedom 55 Financial 4 Technology and Wonder Wayne Grady & Robert J. Sawyer

1:00-2:00pm | Islandview Room 5 Native Sons and Daughters James Bartleman & Daniel David Moses

If you teach English, World Issues, History, Environmental Science, Writer’s Craft, or Sociology and would like to organize a field trip for your students, contact Angela Saxe at [email protected].

Sponsored by TD and the Limestone and Algonquin & Lakeshore District School Boards YOUTH

See Events in this program or visit www. kingstonwritersfest.ca for more details.

Think You Can Write? Kids On Sunday Events

In May, high school students in the Kingston Children admitted free when accompanied area were invited to submit stories, essays, by an adult. No limit to the number of and poems to the Kingston WritersFest children per adult. writing contest. Sunday, September 25 The challenge? To write a 750-word piece 10:00-10:45am | Islandview Room that included the words luminous, melody, 34 Chicken, Pig, Cow dawn, ocean, inspire. Ruth Ohi Suitable for ages 4 to 6. Contest winners will be honoured at the International Marquee on September 22. Sunday, September 25 Prizes include $300 for the winning entry, 11:00am-12:00pm| Bellevue South $100 each for two finalists, and publica- 35 Zorgamazoo tion in Kingston This Week. Robert Paul Weston Suitable for ages 7 to 70. Sponsored by Freedom 55 Financial Sunday, September 25 11:00-11:45am | Bellevue North 36 Dogs Don’t Eat Jam Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Book launch. A free event. Book-making for very young authors.

Sponsored by Keystone Property Management Inc.

James Bartleman is a former lieutenant- governor of Ontario and the author of four best- Profiles selling works of nonfiction. His debut novel,As Long as the Rivers Flow, “casts an unflinching eye on the Visit www.kingstonwritersfest.ca for self-destruction that often befalls residential school full author and moderator profiles. survivors and their children.” Event 5 Paul Auster’s narrative voice is “as hypnotic as that of the Ancient Mariner.” Preoccupied with Peter Behrens’ first novel,The Law of Dreams, questions of identity and the search for meaning, was published to international acclaim and won the Paul’s astonishing oeuvre comprises collections of 2006 Governor General’s Award. His second novel, essays, criticism, poetry, and 16 novels, including The O’Briens, is a tragic, romantic, and ultimately Sunset Park. Event 10 | Author Patron: Embassy hopeful epic that follows the same family through of the United States of America the 20th century. Event 14 Barbara Bell is an award-winning actor, producer, and playwright whose one-woman play, Dreams and Desires, was staged at theatres and festivals across Canada. She co-produced and hosted TVCogeco’s Pageturners book club and is currently producer of Kingston WritersFest. Event 23

Dave Bidini—musician, writer, sports enthusi- ast—brings wild intelligence and wit to all his creative

ANITA RAU BADAMI pursuits. His most recent release, Writing Gordon Lightfoot, is both personal memoir and a brilliant riff on a Canadian folk-rock legend. Events 33 and 42 | Anita Rau Badami’s writing is described as “jewel-bright …weightless as a silk sari shaken out of Author Patron: Chez Piggy Restaurant & Bar its folds.” In her latest novel, Tell It to the Trees, she Giles Blunt’s crime novels have won the Macal- threads together a story of love, need, and chilling lan Silver Dagger Award and the Arthur Ellis Award. secrets. Events 19 and 25 | Author Patron: India- His latest, Crime Machine, is the fifth instalment in his Canada Association of Kingston John Cardinal series and revolves around the death Adwoa Badoe has published over 14 books for of Russian travellers at Algonquin Bay. Event 7 children. Her debut YA novel, Between Sisters, is a “captivating glimpse of life in Ghana and a universal Lara Bozabalian is a poet, slam artist, and picture of an adolescent in difficult circumstances teacher. A founding member of the Toronto Poetry Project, dedicated to social change and creative writ- trying to make her way.” Event 3 ing opportunities for youth, she is currently working Linwood Barclay is “Canada’s current thriller on a new collection called Night & Dei. Event 2 king.” After four comic thrillers, he turned to darker themes with No Time for Goodbye. His latest, The Yvette Christiansë is a South African-born Accident, tells the story of a contractor who discovers poet, novelist, and scholar, whose work explores that “the accident” wasn’t really accidental after all. issues of transnational migration. Her most recent Event 7 poetry collection is Imprendehora, which follows the tribulations of “liberated” slaves after abolition. Event 43 PROFILES

J.M. Coetzee is the author of 12 novels, including Lorna Goodison’s ear for the rhythms of The Life and Times of Michael K and Disgrace. In dialects have made her eight books of poetry part 2003, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, of the literary canon. Her memoir, From Harvey and he has won the Man Booker Prize twice. His River, was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize and three “fictional autobiographies” trace the roots of the Trillium Award and it won the B.C. Award for his spiritual affinity with the disenfranchised. South Canadian Non-Fiction. Her recent work is a story African born, he now lives in Adelaide, Australia. collection, By Love Possessed. Event 19 | Author Event 10 | Author Patrons: Michael & Elaine Patron: Geoff Smith Davies, The Davies Charitable Foundation David Gossage is an accomplished, versatile Lorna Crozier’s memoir, Small Beneath the musician, able to switch from flute to harmonica, Sky, won a 2010 B.C. Book Prize. Small Mechanics, guitar, or whistles with such ease that the music critic at her 16th collection of poetry, contemplates the the Gazette named him “Montreal’s secret weapon.” incremental failings of the body as it ages and the Gossage travels North America and Europe with the fine-tuning of what a life becomes as friends and band, Celtic Mindwarp. Event 27 family pass on. Events 17, 21, 33, and 37 | Author Patron: Chris James Wayne Grady is a former science editor of Equinox magazine and the winner of three Science LT.-GEN. Roméo Dallaire, SENATOR, is in Society Awards. As well as being an award- a candid and inspiring speaker who works tirelessly winning translator and anthologist, he has published for humanitarian causes and the non-proliferation of 15 works of nonfiction, most recently,Technology: nuclear weapons. His most recent book is They Fight A Groundwork Guide. Event 4 | Author Patron: Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Virginia Gordon Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers. Event 20 | Author Patron: Peter Milliken Richard Gwyn is one of Canada’s best-known and most highly regarded political columnists. The Trevor Ferguson is a critically acclaimed second volume of his biography of Sir John A. Mac- literary novelist and playwright. Writing as John donald, Nation Maker, is a triumph of meticulous Farrow, he is also the creator of Sergeant-Detective research and compelling narrative. Event 32 Emile Cinq-Mars, a Métis Dirty Harry who ruthlessly tracks down bad guys. Historic Montreal is the set- ting for the latest in the series, River City. Event 27 | Sponsored by Concordia University Part-Time Faculty Association

Eric Folsom, Kingston’s inaugural Poet Laureate, is the author of four diverse collections of poetry, “by turns tender, grim, and shocking.” He has read on Stuart McLean’s The Vinyl Café and has published widely in Canadian literary journals and anthologies. TREVOR FERGUSON Event 9 | Author Patron: The Queen's Inn Kenneth J. Harvey is the author of Blackstrap Eric Friesen has been called one of the most Hawco and The Town That Forgot How to Breathe and gifted broadcasters in Canada and has hosted many a winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, CBC flagship programs, includingAll in a Day, Radio the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, and Italy’s Noon, The Eric Friesen Show, In Performance, and Libro del Mare. His most recent book is Reinventing Studio Sparks. Events 7, 14, and 38 the Rose. Event 21 KINGSTON WRITERSFEST 2011

Elizabeth Hay won the Scotiabank Giller Rosemary Jolly is a Coetzee scholar and Prize for Late Nights on Air. Lauded for her deft author of Cultured Violence: South Africa’s Truth and characterizations and for the grace of her prose, she Reconciliation Commission—Trauma, Narrative and presents her eagerly awaited fourth novel, Alone in Social Imagination. She teaches in the South African the Classroom, an intricately woven tale of emotional Studies program of the Department of English at triangles. Event 41 | Author Patron: Anonymous Queen’s University. Event 43

Steven Heighton is a poet and novelist, author Josh Knelman is an award­-winning arts of Patient Frame and Every Lost Country. He has won journalist and editor. His book, Hot Art, is a major a number of awards, including four National Magazine work of investigative journalism and a globetrotting Awards, for his poems and short fiction. This year he mystery filled with eccentric detectives and cunning releases Workbook: memos & dispatches on writing, thieves. Event 40 a small book of fragmentary essays. Event 43 Antjie Krog is an accomplished South African poet, translator, and journalist. Her most recent work, Begging to Be Black, is the third in a trilogy that began with Country of My Skull, her renowned narrative of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Events 20 and 43 | Author Patron: Mary Ann Higgs

Vincent Lam won the Scotiabank Giller Prize,

ANTJIE KROG Canada’s richest fiction award, for his short-story collection, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures. His latest Cynthia Holz is the author of five novels and book, part of the Extraordinary Canadians series, is a collection of short fiction. Her latest book,Benevo- “a thoughtful, balanced, lucid assessment” of Tommy lence, is a spellbinding story that probes the notion Douglas. Event 32 | Author Patrons: Chris of altruism through what one critic called her “gift Knapper & Laurel Thom for ordinary trauma.” Event 41 | Author Patron: Anne Landsman’s writing “brings to mind the Yvonne Pelley parabolic prose of Alice Munro and the scarifying vision of J.M. Coetzee.” Born in South Africa, she Helen Humphreys’ lyrical prose hearkens back currently lives in New York. Her most recent novel is to her beginnings as a poet. Author of 10 books, she The Rowing Lesson. Event 43 based her latest, The Reinvention of Love, on the fascinating true story of Charles Sainte-Beuve, his lover Adèle, and her husband, Victor Hugo. I have always Event 41 | Author Patron: Altair Electronics

Frances Itani has published 12 critically ac- gone after what claimed and bestselling books. Her latest, Requiem, is a beautifully written and evocative novel about a I don’t know. family torn apart by the past and a man’s search for —FRANCES ITANI solace in the present. Event 14 Y.S. Lee draws on her PhD. in Victorian literature Amanda Jernigan writes poems that “make to create a rich historical backdrop for her lively, your brain fizz with their rhetorical flourish.” Her long- tightly wound young adult mystery series, The awaited first collection,Groundwork, is a series of Agency, shortlisted for the Agatha Award and the pure, linguistically elegant verses, deeply attentive Ontario Library Association’s Red Maple Award. to craft and form. Events 33 and 37 Event 3 | Author Patron: Shelley King PROFILES

Laurie Lewis is a book designer and writer Ben McNally Books, in 2007. He is famous for his whose work has been shortlisted for the CBC “45 books in 45 minutes” previews of upcoming Literary Awards. Her first book,Little Comrades, is a bestsellers, and he is a frequent moderator at the memoir of growing up Communist in the Canadian International Festival of Authors. Event 13 | Author West during the Depression. Events 11 and 23 | Patrons: Jan Walter & Steve Iscoe Author Patrons: Barbara Linds & Eric DePoe, The Waterfall Tea Room Daniel David Moses is “a coroner of the theatre who slices open the human heart to reveal Michael Lista’s writing has appeared in Cana- the fear, hatred and love that have eaten away at it.” dian literary journals, and his work was included in His acclaimed plays include Kyotopolis and Almighty the companion book to Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg. Voice and His Wife. Events 5 and 43 His debut poetry collection, Bloom, tells the story of Canadian physicist Louis Slotin, who died while Njabulo Ndebele is a scholar whose critical working on the Manhattan Project. Event 37 and creative writing, including The Cry of Winnie Mandela, tackles the effects of apartheid on black Jeanette Lynes has a passion for pop culture communities, the rhetoric of protest, democracy, that marries neatly with her nimble imagination and reconciliation, and the system of higher educa- and quirky humour. Her novel The Factory Voice tion in South Africa. Event 43 was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and podcast by CBC Radio’s Between the Covers. Ruth Ohi has illustrated more than 50 children’s Events 28 and 33 books, including a dozen of which she is also the author. Her newest book, Chicken, Pig, Cow and the Rozena Maart frequently writes on issues of Class Pet, features her characteristically appealing race, gender, and sexuality. Her novel, The Writing drawings and a delightful story. Event 34 Circle, uses rotating perspectives to reveal how women in a South African writing group react when one of KEN MCGOOGAN them is raped. Event 43

Sarah MacLachlan is the president and publisher of the legendary House of Anansi, where she has a hand in acquisitions and shares responsi- bility for buying and selling rights to Canadian and foreign works. Event 12

Lee Maracle is a poet, novelist, teacher, and I have always activist who consistently challenges racism, sexism, Susan Olding’s first book,Pathologies: A Life and white cultural domination. Her upcoming works in Essays, was the winner of the Creative Nonfiction gone after what include Memory Serves and Celia’s Song. Event 43 Collective’s Readers’ Choice Award for 2010. Her award-winning writing appears in numerous journals Ken McGoogan is best known for his quartet and anthologies. Event 3 I don’t know. of bestselling, “compulsively readable” books about —FRANCES ITANI the Northwest Passage. His latest book, How the Molly Peacock’s poetry, essays, and creative Scots Invented Canada, is filled with exuberant por- nonfiction have won her an enthusiastic critical traits of our most resourceful and visionary leaders. following. Her latest, The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Events 26 and 32 | Author Patron: MALT Begins Her Life’s Work at 72, is both biography and a meditation on later-life creativity. Events 17 and 22 | Ben McNally has been a Toronto bookseller for 40 years. He opened his own downtown store, Author Patron: Beth Pierce Robinson KINGSTON WRITERSFEST 2011

Bruce Philp is the marketer behind the ING Di- Sandra Ridley claims she is “always a wheat rect (“Save Your Money!”) branding triumph. His new farm girl,” but she has already garnered considerable book, Consumer Republic, dares you to consider this: notice as a poet of range and sophistication. In Post- The power to save the world lies with the consumer. Apothecary, she explores the themes of sickness, Event 16 | Author Patron: St. Lawrence College healing, isolation, and regeneration. Event 37 Student Association, Kingston Campus Michael Riordon is determined to give voice to those who have been silenced in mainstream media, Our job is not to including First Nations youth, Mozambican farmers, prison inmates, Guatemalan labour activists, and now, predict the future. . . in his latest book, Our Way to Fight, peace-workers on the Israel-Palestine border. Event 1 | Author it’s to suggest all the Patron: Brian Osborne possible futures. Robert J. Sawyer is the only Canadian to —ROBERT J. SAWYER win the world’s top three prizes for science fiction. In Wonder, the final installment in his WWW trilogy, he Andrew Pyper has been called the Canadian envisions what might happen should the World Wide Stephen King. His latest novel, The Guardians, is a Web gain sentience. Events 4, 8, and 21 | Author classic haunted-house story that probes the binding Patrons: Richard Henricksen & Judith Irwin power of secrets in male friendships. His award-win- ning writing is described as “blisteringly readable… Martha Schabas makes her fiction debut enriched by an unflinching literary conscientiousness.” while still a student at Queen’s University. Her Events 15, 29 and 33 | Author Patron: Jo-Ann novel, Various Positions, takes us inside the beauty Beyak-Lachapelle and brutality of professional ballet, and the young women striving to make their mark there. Event 23 | David Adams Richards’ novels explore the Author Patron: Reading Between the Wines on hard-won treasures that emerge from tragedy in his Amherst Book Club fictional Maritime landscape of the Miramichi. One of Canada’s most celebrated authors and winner of the Giller Prize and Governor General’s Awards for both fiction and non-fiction, David presentsIncidents in the Life of Markus Paul, a profound portrait of race relations at the heart of a mystery. Event 21 | Au- thor Patron: King's Crossing Fashion Outlets

Bill Richardson is among Canada’s most beloved broadcasters, as well as the author of several DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS books, most notably Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast, which won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Diane Schoemperlen has always explored Medal for Humour. Events 25 and 33 | Author the relationship of words to images, experimentation Patron: Read and Red Book Club that led to Forms of Devotion, her Governor General’s Noah Richler is hailed as “a rarity in the modern Award-winning collection of illustrated stories. She age: a true man of ideas.” In his latest book, What continues to test the boundaries of word/image col- We Talk About When We Talk About War, he argues lage in her latest work, as seen in The New Quarterly. that in the past decade, Canada has gone from be- Events 18 and 19 | Author Patrons: Queen’s ing a peacekeeping to a “warrior” nation. Events 1 University Archives and W.D. Jordan Special and 20 | Author Patron: Queen’s Quarterly Collections PROFILES

Merilyn Simonds is the author of 15 books, Ivan Vladislaviċ is the author of the novels including the creative nonfiction classicThe Convict The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, The Exploded Lover and a novel, The Holding, a New York Times View and Double Negative. His work has won many Editors’ Choice. Simond’s latest release is A New Leaf: awards, including the Sunday Times Fiction Prize Growing with my Garden. Events 17, 22, and 41 | and the Alan Paton Award for nonfiction.Event 43 Author Patrons: Helene Pratt & Catherine E. Carmichael Merrily Weisbord is a versatile writer, film- maker, and broadcaster. Praised as a tour de force Jonny Steinberg is the critically acclaimed that reads like a well-crafted novel, Weisbord’s memoir, author of Three Letter Plague, Midlands and The The Love Queen of Malabar, was a finalist for the Number. His latest is Little Liberia: An African Odys- Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize and for the Charles sey in New York City. Event 43 Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Events 6, 11, 17, and 33 | Author Patron: Ali Afzal, Curry Original Jamie Swift makes a specialty of in-depth analyses of social, political, and economic issues. He MADELEINE THIEN recently edited Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins, which tells the stories of people marginal- ized by joblessness, disability, poverty-level wages, and mental illness. Event 1

Timothy Taylor is the acclaimed author of Stanley Park. His latest book, The Blue Light Project, is an ambitious, engrossing novel about the clash of art and advertising, the cultish grip of celebrity, and the intense connections that form during crisis. Robert Paul Weston’s debut for middle Events 21 and 29 | Author Patron: Dr. Eva Toth readers, Zorgamazoo, won the 2010 Silver Birch Madeleine Thien’s career started early with Award. His new novel for young adults, Dust City, Simple Recipes and a picture book, The Chinese touches on issues of class, race, and addiction spun Violin, both published when she was 27. Dogs at the through an edgy and whimsical “cracked fairytale” Perimeter, Thien’s highly anticipated second novel, conceit. Events 35 and 39 | Author Patrons: has been praised for “its insight, compassion and Tim & Christine Everdell, Quarry Pharmacy quiet determination.” Events 33 and 41 | Author Alexi Zentner’s debut, Touch, is an elegiac Patrons: Ameena Jaffer & Lynne Kenny novel released this spring. His stories have garnered Trio Without Words, comprised of saxophonist enthusiastic acclaim, including the 2008 Narrative Jonathan Stewart, bassist Michael Perlin, and drummer Prize, inclusion in the prestigious O. Henry Prize Mike Cassells, invents a combination of lightly composed Stories collection, and several Pushcart nominations. pieces and improvised “soundscapes” played to readings Events 23 and 33 | Author Patrons: Martha from authors’ works. Event 33 | Author Patron: Bailey, Maureen Ball, Rosemary Euringer, Paul Fisher, Professional Investments Ameena Jaffer, Diane Kelly, Kathryn MacKay, Patti Peppin & Ann Hunnisett Rouget. Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang made her poetic debut this year with Sweet Devilry. Her latest children’s book, Dogs Don’t Eat Jam and Other Things Big Kids Know, is an older sibling’s take on what babies need to und- erstand. Events 24, 30, 36, and 37 | Author Patron: Mike Scrannage, Royal LePage Real Estate Well-known for its shopping, downtown Kingston offers everything from interesting boutiques and antique stores to the famous brands you recognize. Visitors Check out the organic fare at Tara Natural Foods (81 Princess Street, 613.546.4439) and Old Farm Fine Foods (204 Barrie Street, 613.546.3276), or Guide explore the delicious antipasti, olives and fabulous Fifth Town Artisan Cheeses at Pasta Genova (234 Welcome! Wellington Street, 613.542.6414). Part of the fun of coming to WritersFest is exploring Downtown Kingston retailers are vital supporters of beautiful downtown Kingston. While enjoying the Kingston WritersFest, and we welcome you to browse festival, take advantage of the unique pleasures the our list of Gifts-in-Kind Sponsors and Author Patrons city has to offer. Steps from the Holiday Inn Kingston for other great stops on your exploration of the city. Waterfront (2 Princess Street, 1.800.465.4329), You’ll recognize many downtown business names as enjoy brunch on the secluded patio at Pan Chancho supporters of the arts. (44 Princess Street, 613.544.7790), and dinner at the legendary Chez Piggy (68R Princess Street, Staying in Kingston 613.549.7673). For fine dining,Le Chien Noir For great getaway packages and a range of comfort- (69 Brock Street, 613.549.5635) offers an elegant able lodgings, from streamlined hotels with all ameni- atmosphere and sumptuous fare, or if you’re looking ties to historic and cozy bed & breakfasts, to family for something simpler, there are many amazing friendly motels, visit www.visitkingston.ca For more choices: Kingston Brewing Company (34 Clarence information on the city and its many attractions, visit Street, 613.542.4978), King Street Sizzle (285 King Kingston’s official visitors website:www.tourism. Street East, 613.544.4434), The Toucan (76 Princess kingstoncanada.com. Street, 613.544.1966), The Tango (331 King Street East, 613.531.0800), or the Geneva Crêpe Café Parking in Kingston (297 Princess Street, 613.507.0297), all within easy The Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront offers walking distance. parking to its overnight and other Festival guests. ($14 per night, per vehicle; $3 per hour, with In the mood for rustic Italian and Mediterranean a $14 maximum fee). Several parking lots and food? Try Olivea (39 Brock Street, 613.547.5483), garages within walking distance of the Holiday Inn a contemporary Italian trattoria, or Megalos (226 Kingston Waterfront also offer reasonable rates. The Princess Street, 613.531.9788), with its sophisticated Municipal Chown Memorial Parking Garage on atmosphere and updated Canadian/Mediterra- Brock Street connects directly to the Grand Theatre nean menu. If you’re just looking for coffee and a Courtyard. Many Kingston streets offer "Pay-and- quick bite to eat, Sipps Coffee and Dessert Bar Display" parking with free parking after 5:30pm and (33 Brock Street, 613.542.8868) offers delicious on Sundays. Some streets, just a few minutes' walk drinks, wraps, and desserts, or there’s The Mug from the downtown core, offer free parking (with & Truffle Chocolate Café (350 King Street East, some time restrictions). Visit www.cityofkingston. 613.549.0222). Right around the corner from ca/residents/transportation/parking for more the festival, enjoy authentic Indian cuisine on a details. Free parking is available at the Queen’s waterfront patio at Curry Original (253A Ontario University events: www.queensu.ca/campusmap/ Street, 613.531.9376). And of course, if you want to ?mapquery=parkinginfo. At St. Lawrence College, stay close to the festival action, there’s The DOX “Pay-and-Display” parking is available. Restaurant & Lounge on the main floor of the Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront. VISITORS GUIDE

Getting Around in Kingston by taxi. The Festival venue at St. Lawrence College Kingston offers convenient, affordable public is a one-hour walk or ten-minute drive along King transportation, and taxis are available throughout Street, one of the prettiest stretches of waterfront the city. Both offer services for clients with special Kingston has to offer. It is also accessible by public needs. Most of Kingston’s major attractions are with- transit and taxis will be available for hire at the in easy walking distance of the Holiday Inn Kingston Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront. Waterfront. Recent improvements to downtown sidewalks have made Kingston more accessible than Accessible Kingston ever. See www.cityofkingston.ca/residents/trans- Onstage and Writers Studio Events are wheelchair portation/index.asp for more information. accessible and every effort is made to accommodate festival-goers with special needs. Kingston offers Walking the Festival, accessible public transportation and taxis that Walking the City provide service for clients who use wheelchairs or Walking is a healthy and enjoyable alternative to have other needs. Most of Kingston’s city-owned motorized transportation. We invite you to make parking facilities are wheelchair accessible. There your way on foot to our offsite Festival events. The are two top-notch teaching hospitals within blocks Grand Theatre is mere minutes up Princess Street of the Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront. from the Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront, with great shopping along the way. Queen’s University More Information campus is a picturesque twenty-minute walk and can For more information about Kingston, please visit also be reached easily by public transportation or the City of Kingston online at www.cityofkingston.ca.

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What can you do? IT'S EASY • Patronize the local businesses, restaurants, and BEING GREEN food producers that support the Festival. We care about the planet and are reducing our • Ride your bike or take the bus or car pool with carbon footprint in the following ways: friends to Kingston WritersFest. • To reduce shipping, we source staging, lights, and • Enjoy water from our Festival carafes. sound equipment locally. • Hand in your program after your last event, so it • For our food events, we source local, organic can be reused or recycled. meats and produce where possible. • We serve local wine, beer, breads, and cheeses to COMMENTS? QUESTIONS? our authors in the hospitality suite. We welcome your comments and suggestions • We don't serve bottled water to authors or patrons. about specific events or the Festival in general. We encourage you to visit www.kingstonwritersfest.ca We’ve set the Festival downtown so guests can walk, to complete our online survey, or you can ask one of take public transportation, or ride their bicycles. our volunteers onsite for a comment card that you can fill out and leave with us. We do not share per- We put all our materials online in order to reduce paper sonal information or email addresses with anyone. use and favour E-campaigns over print promotions. Our programs are printed on paper only from forests Email us anytime with your thoughts at that practice Sustainable Management Practices, with [email protected]. 50% recycled content of which 50% is post-consum- er waste, using 100% vegetable-based inks. Our volunteers are happy to answer your questions or direct you to someone who can.

Sponsors, Volunteers, and Author Patrons

Hospitality-in-Kind Sponsors Beau’s All Natural Brewing Co. Gifts-in-Kind Sponsors Local Food Local Chefs Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront Chez Piggy Restaurant & Bar Geneva Crêpe Café Grand Theatre Dox Restaurant & Lounge Megalos Restaurant K-Rock Centre Kingston Brewing Company Metro Kingston Janet Hazlewood CA, Kenneth D. King Street Sizzle Mike Mundell's Surf and Turf Wollin Chartered Accountants Le Chien Noir Bistro Mug & Truffle Chocolate Café Tierney Simpson and Prytula Olivea Old Farm Fine Foods Professional Corporation Pan Chancho Bakery & Café Pasta Genova Hugh Barclay, Thee Hellbox Press The Tango Sipps Coffee & Dessert Bar Hotel Belvedere The Toucan Tara Natural Foods The Scoop Windmills Café Catering Waterfall Tea Room Australia High Commission Camera Kingston James Reid Furniture Bell Canada

And a Big Thank You to Our Enthusiastic, Devoted Volunteers! Hina Ahmed Mirielle Keeling Jacqueline Savoie Jen Atkinson Wilma Kenny Bobbi Shaw Sharon Barker Jane Kitchen Sharon Sommier-Mulligan Susan Bellefleur Danny Lalonde Sandra Steinhause Suzanne Bodner Francine LeBlanc Bob Story Susan Brooks Antoinette MacDonald Rebecca Szulhan Elspeth Christie Carol MacDonnell Teresa Tait Lyndsey Darling Patti Marko Barb Thomspons Margaret Dickson Brad Marko Sue Taylor Carla Douglas Diana Marques Barb Thompson Kat Evans Penny McConkey Mary VanDamme Gloria FitzPatrick Margaret Merkley Steph Vandermeulen Marilyn Freeman Karen Millson Laurie Vaughan-Evans Helen Goodall Helen Morgan Donna Vinkle Adam Gregory Anne O'Riordan Deborah Washington Gina Gushue Stephanie Paddey Judy Wearing Kristina Harrow Theresa Richard Barb Wilson Joan Heaton Sherrill Ritchie Diane Wilson Tarja Jaatinen Sheila Round Susan Wing Pam Jessop Sheelagh Ryan ...and many more who joined our Amy Kay Dawn Sadler ranks since this program was printed SPONSORS, VOLUNTEERS, AND AUTHOR PATRONS

BECOME AN AUTHOR PATRON! Every year we bring the most exciting, provocative As an Author Patron you will receive authors to Kingston to inspire and delight. We can’t • tickets to your author’s events do this alone: the support of local book lovers is • reserved front-row seating at your author’s events crucial. The Author Patron program makes your • a signed copy of your author’s book donation personal, helping to cover the travel and • an opportunity to meet your author accommodation of a writer you’d love to meet. • your name listed in the Festival program guide and on the Festival website Anyone can become a patron—individual book • a charitable donation receipt lovers, businesses, or groups such as book clubs, writing groups, or a collection of friends. If you’d like to become an Author Patron, email us at [email protected].

AUTHOR PATRONS 2011 We are grateful to the individuals, businesses, and book clubs who have become patrons of our 2011 authors:

Paul Auster...... Embassy of the United Bill Richardson...... Read and Red Book Club States of America Noah Richler...... Queen’s Quarterly Anita Rau Badami...The India-Canada Michael Riordon...... Brian Osborne Association of Kingston Robert J. Sawyer...... Richard Henriksen Dave Bidini...... Chez Piggy Restaurant & Bar & Judith Irwin J.M. Coetzee...... Michael & Elaine Davies, The Martha Schabas...... Reading Between the Wines Davies Charitable Foundation on Amherst Book Club Lorna Crozier...... Chris James D. Schoemperlen..... Queen’s University Archives Roméo Dallaire...... Peter Milliken & W.D. Jordan Special Eric Folsom...... The Queen’s Inn Collections Lorna Goodison...... Geoff Smith Merilyn Simonds...... Helene Pratt and Wayne Grady...... Virginia Gordon Catherine E. Carmichael Elizabeth Hay...... Anonymous Timothy Taylor...... Eva Toth Cynthia Holz...... Yvonne Pelley Madeleine Thien...... Ameena Jaffer Helen Humphreys... Altair Electronics & Lynne Kenny Antjie Krog...... Mary Ann Higgs Sarah Tsiang...... Mike Scrannage, Vincent Lam...... Chris Knapper & Laurel Thom Royal LePage Real Estate Y.S. Lee...... Shelley King Trio Without Words..Paul Fisher, Laurie Lewis...... Barbara Linds & Eric DePoe, Professional Investments The Waterfall Tea Room Merrily Weisbord..... Ali Afzal, Curry Original Ken McGoogan...... MALT R. Paul Weston...... Tim & Christine Everdell, Ben McNally...... Jan Walter & Steve Iscoe Quarry Medical Pharmacy Molly Peacock...... Beth Pierce Robinson Alexi Zentner...... Martha Bailey, Maureen Ball, Bruce Philp...... St. Lawrence College Rosemary Euringer, Ameena Student Association, Jaffer, Diane Kelly, Kathryn Kingston Campus MacKay, Patti Peppin, & Andrew Pyper...... Jo-Ann Beyak-Lachapelle Ann Hunnisett Rouget D. Adams Richards..King’s Crossing Fashion Outlets Special thanks to Friend of the Festival, Brenda South. Sponsors Kingston WritersFest gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following organizations, enterprises, and individuals, all of whom are instrumental in bringing this readers and writers festival to Kingston.

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Annick Press Goose Lane Editions McClelland & Stewart Biblioasis Groundwood Books McGill-Queen's University Press D & M Publishers HarperCollins Canada Penguin Group (Canada) Dundurn House of Anansi Press Random House of Canada