Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival
July 19 - 22, 2012
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Join us on lovely Denman Island for the 10th Annual Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival featuring both emerging BC artists and well-known authors with world-wide reputations. This year poets, playwrights, novelists, short story writers, memoirists, an historian and even performing artists will be contributing to the festival.
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If you want to improve your writing skills you’re in luck because the festival offers a wide variety of Workshops taught by visiting authors. -
If you’re interested in hearing some of Canada’s most insightful and thought provoking writers, you’ll want to attend the Author Readings and the Panels
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If you’re interested in being entertained, don’t miss the Performances
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If you’re interested in opportunities for writers and readers to mingle, rub shoulders, share a drink or a meal, you’ll want to include the Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival in your plans this summer from July 19th to the 22nd.
The 2012 festival includes three writers’ panels, each promising to stimulate lively discussion and the opportunity for some interesting audience questions. The Friday evening and Sunday afternoon panels will be moderated by Des Kennedy and the Saturday evening moderator is Grant Lawrence.
Throughout the festival, each of our eleven visiting writers will spend an hour reading from their work, and sharing their thoughts with smaller audiences. These sessions are less formal than panels and offer the opportunity for free-wheeling discussion and interaction between author and audience.
This year we are fortunate to be joined by several writer/performers, two of whom will be performing at the festival. Both performances promise to be energetic and entertaining. The Sunday morning performance in particular is suitable for all ages.
The Denman Writers sessions provide opportunities for Denman writers to read for an audience, and for the community to appreciate and hear from its talented members. Friday morning and Saturday afternoon the adults take the stage, and on Sunday morning young writers are featured.
Five workshops, each taught by a visiting author, will be offered in a variety of genres and covering a wide range of possibilities.
International bestselling author and UBC assistant professor of Creative Writing, Steven Galloway provides twenty hours of classroom instruction and guidance in this year’s Writer-in-Residence Program.