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Kingston Writersfest Program 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
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